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A former music teacher from Orange County, California, has insisted that she did not have under-age sex with a 15-year-old student. Charged with sexual misconduct, Carlie Rose Attebury, 31, told jurors that she was not sexually interested in the boy. Miss Attebury said that she hugged the boy as she did any other 'band kid', but it was never sexual. Accused: Carlie Rose Attebury has been charged with sexual misconduct after allegedly sleeping with a 15-year-old boy who she was teaching Accused: Carlie Rose Attebury has been charged with sexual misconduct after allegedly sleeping with a 15-year-old boy who she...

A former San Bruno high school band teacher was sentenced today to a year in San Mateo County jail after pleading no contest to having sex with a 17-year-old female student. Adam Albrecht, 28, could have been sentenced to as much as 16 months in state prison under a plea deal reached with prosecutors last month. Judge John Grandsaert of San Mateo County Superior Court also sentenced Albrecht to three years' probation. Albrecht taught band, choir and orchestra at Capuchino High School before he resigned this summer once an investigation into his relationship with the student began. He apologized today...

University of Wisconsin marching band members routinely engaged in hazing involving alcohol and sexual behavior, the school said Thursday in explaining its decision to put the band on probation. UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said a band member was pressured into shaving his head in a hazing incident and other members danced seminude during the band's trip to the Sept. 23 University of Michigan football game. Wiley said those behaviors, the latest after several years of reported misconduct, prompted him to warn the band's 300 members to shape up or risk losing their travel and performance privileges. Other behaviors attributed to...

When I was growing up in Bellflower, Ca., I never, as a child with a good imagination, could have ever imagined that my life would take the peculiar turn that it has. I could not have foreseen giving birth to a child that would eventually be wrongfully and devastatingly killed in war or that I would be meeting with world leaders or be nominated for the Noble Peace Prize. Along with the Vice President of Spain, Foreign Minister of Ireland, Attorney General of Australia and countless parliamentarians from all over the globe, one of the world leaders that I have...