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Her husband took the stand during the punishment phase of the trial and asked the jury to give his wife probation for the sake of their children. He said he was very angry and hurt by his wife's actions, but admitted the two of them have had group sex with other consenting adults in the past. He also said people who call him an idiot for wanting to remain married to her just don't understand.

After a 2009 state recommendation that Duval County schools remove a teacher from vulnerable students, he was reassigned to another elementary school. Last week he was arrested on six sexual charges against a child. One of the problems: neither the state nor the school district defined “vulnerable student population.” And Monday, the state Department of Children and Families put the responsibility for defining the phrase squarely on the Duval County Public Schools. Christopher Robert Bacca, Windy Hill Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year, was charged with three counts of sexual battery against a child under 12 and one count...

They look like a picture-perfect young couple kissing in the park. The problem is, she’s his high-school teacher. Stunning global-studies instructor Julie Warning got a bit too worldly with a pupil in the middle of a Greenwich Village park after school — and the makeout session was caught on camera by one of her own stunned students.

A University of Georgia professor of German was arrested Thursday afternoon by Gwinnett County police after dressing up as a woman and agreeing to have sex with an undercover officer, according to Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Jake Smith. Max Roland Reinhart, 65, faces a charge of prostitution after agreeing to give the undercover officer 30 minutes of sexual service for $60. He also is charged with keeping a place of prostitution for renting a room at the Guest House Inn in Norcross, where he and the undercover officer met, Smith said. Contrary to what the charge of keeping a place...

The Brooklyn teacher who allegedly plied her 17-year-old student with cannabis and repeatedly had sex with him in her office was released on bail after she was charged with rape. Mother-of-one Erin Sayar, 36, is accused of seducing football player Kevin Eng, 16, while she was a teacher at Brooklyn's James Madison High School. Kevin is still a student there.

A series of sexually explicit e-mails sent by the superintendent of the Des Moines, Iowa public schools triggered her abrupt resignation last month, and subsequently cost the 57-year-old educator her new post atop the Omaha, Nebraska school system. The correspondence exchanged by Nancy Sebring and a man with whom she was having an extramarital affair were sent via her school e-mail account, a violation of the system's Internet-use guidelines. Many of Sebring’s racy e-mails were sent during the workday (and were sent/received on devices owned by the Des Moines school district).

A married history teacher has been arrested after he prompted girls to perform sex acts and send him lewd images in exchange for higher grades. Casey Hauff, 32, of Atoka, Oklahoma, faces 11 sexual abuse charges. Five alleged victims have come forward and authorities fear that there could be more. Hauff taught at Atoka High School until he resigned when the sexual abuse allegations were made. Police said the victims only came forward once a classmate told school authorities.

COVINGTON, Ohio – A Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader faces prison time after being indicted by a grand jury Thursday for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage student while teaching at an Ohio high school, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The Kenton County grand jury in Covington, just south of Cincinnati, indicted Sarah Jones on first-degree sexual abuse and unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited acts. Each charge carries up to five years in prison, if Jones is found guilty. Cheryl Jones, the cheerleader's mother, was indicted on a charge of...

HOUSTON - A fired Spring Branch ISD teacher accused of having sex with a student is out of jail but must wear an ankle monitoring bracelet. The judge also ordered Kathryn Camille Murray, 28, to stay away from the alleged victim. According to court documents, a faculty member told administrators at Memorial Middle School that Murray was having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old male student.

EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. -- A teacher in Eagle County was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse. Lauren Redfern, 25, is a physical education teacher at Basalt High School. Redfern is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old male student over a duration of 4 months, deputies said. She is being held without bond until she makes her first appearance before a judge.

A drama teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student after a school play. Alexandra McLean,28, who had recently joined Englewood High School in Denver faces two charges of sexually assaulting a child from a position of authority. A police report says the alleged consensual sexual encounter happened when the boy stayed late at school and McLean, who is reported to be engaged, offered to drop him home. When questioned, the student told police McLean would drive him home after play rehearsals for 'Lend me a Tenor' and that, eventually on November 18, he had sex...

A Bible school teacher is facing up to five years in jail after being accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Heather Daughdrill, 28, of Westlake, Louisiana, is alleged to have begun the affair with the teen after meeting him at a summer Bible school camp. She is alleged to have checked the boy out of school without parental permission and taken him to her home where they had sex. Investigators discovered several sexually explicit text messages that had been sent by Daughdrill to the boy. The alleged relationship went on from June until October of this year. Daughdrill,...

A Bible school teacher is facing up to five years in jail after being accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Heather Daughdrill, 28, of Westlake, Louisiana, is alleged to have begun the affair with the teen after meeting him at a summer Bible school camp. She is alleged to have checked the boy out of school without parental permission and taken him to her home where they had sex.

MORRISON – The state Board of Education is awaiting court paperwork before suspending the license of a former Fulton High School English teacher convicted this week of having sex with a 16-year-old boy. Nicole R. Letcher, 26, of Fulton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to 6 months in jail – half of which she’s already served – and 4 years of probation. She also must register as a sex offender. As part of her plea agreement, Whiteside County prosecutors dropped three other sexual abuse charges. By state law, an aggravated criminal...

MIAMI— A teacher accused with having sex with a 16-year-old student bonded out of jail Thursday following her arrest a day earlier. Waleska Velasquez, 29, a science teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High, is charged with three counts of having sex with a minor. Police say Velasquez has confessed to having sexual relations with the student starting in August of 2009 and continuing through 2010. The teen is now 17.

A former eighth-grade math teacher at Stevenson Middle School was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to improperly touching a female student in her classroom and to engaging in phone sex with the teen even after her initial arrest. Nora Lynn Martinez, 30, agreed to the sentences for online solicitation of a minor and indecency with a child by contact as part of a plea with prosecutors. In addition, she agreed to permanently surrender her teaching certificate and to have no more contact with the student. Martinez was arrested in January for the indecency charge after...

A substitute teacher for a special-education school in North St. Paul is accused of posting lewd photos of a student online and suggesting she make money in exchange for sexual favors. Tameshia Leeann Allen-Hodges, 22, of Oakdale has been charged with soliciting an individual to practice prostitution and engaging the sex trafficking of an individual. Her first court appearance will be Aug. 17. According to a criminal complaint, Allen-Hodges asked a 21-year-old female student with developmental disabilities if she wanted to make money by giving massages. She brought the student to her home, where she took photos of the student...

A biology teacher has been arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old boy in her classroom. Amy Renee Schilling is alleged to have developed a close relationship with the ninth grade pupil at the RL Turner High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, giving him rides home from school and slipping an iPhone in his backpack as a gift. The 33-year-old was caught after a cleaner walked in on her and the student lying on a couch together in her classroom, it is reported. The Texas teacher had been reprimanded by the school for sending inappropriate text messages to another student...

Ron Kraft walked into a Harbor Beach Community Schools classroom a couple of years ago and found a male teacher holding a male student in a headlock. The Harbor Beach superintendent said an investigation found that the teacher had been giving both male and female students kisses in class, with some of the students only reluctantly agreeing. Kraft said a male student confronted the teacher about the inappropriate behavior and that the teacher responded by putting the student in the headlock — just as Kraft entered the room. The teacher was not fired. Instead, he was one of four teachers...

FULL TITLE: Married teacher arrested for cyberstalking after 'she sent boy, 13, more than 200 texts begging him for a date' A married teacher has been arrested and suspended from her post after allegedly cyberstalking one of her 13-year-old students. Megan Mantooth, 26, allegedly bombarded the boy, a pupil at Burgaw Middle School in North Carolina, with more than 200 text messages, many of which were inappropriate. Elizabeth Graham, the boy's mother, told police Mantooth - who has a three-year-old daughter - was trying to arrange dates with her son. One message read: 'When I do finally get to see...