Posted on 05/21/2022 7:12:12 AM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON - At least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested so far this year on child sex-related crimes in the U.S., ranging from child pornography to raping students.
An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.
The analysis found that at least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested in 41 states between January 1 and May 13, which works out to about an arrest a day on average.
The vast majority of the arrested educators were men.
Of the 135 arrests, at least 102, or 76%, involved alleged crimes against students.
The 135 educators included 117 teachers, 11 teachers' aides and seven substitute teachers.
Many of the arrests involved especially heinous allegations.
On April 11, police in California charged Anthony James Phillips, a 61-year-old former teacher at Cupertino Middle School in Sunnyvale, withaggravated sexual assault of a child, forcible penetration with a foreign object, and forcible penetration with a foreign object upon a child.
Phillips is accused of raping a student in 2009 when he was still a teacher at Cupertino.
Anessa Paige Gower, a 35-year-old former biology teacher at Making Waves Academy in Richmond, California, was charged with 29 counts of child molestation on April 8.
Gower is accused of sexually abusing seven students between 2021-2022 when she was a teacher at Making Waves, with allegations including forcible sodomy of minors and sharing sexually graphic photos over online platforms. She is due back in court on June 2.
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The pipeline that feeds all of this is the university. One thing leads to another.
And throw in Biden’s education department.
Tip of the iceberg principal probably applies.
Have we really degraded this far in the past 50 years, or are we only hearing about it now because of the Internet?
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Grooming’s a myth, ain’t you ‘erd?
Do away with Dept of Education and teachers unions.
“Have we really degraded this far in the past 50 years, or are we only hearing about it now because of the Internet?”
that is a very good question.
I’m going to tell something here I have not talked about ever. Back in the early 90’s when I was a young woman and in college I was going to be a teacher. One time I was in the professor’s office and over heard two professors talking. It seems a woman who was doing student teaching had in some way sexually abused a special needs kid. All I know is someone walked in and the child was between her legs (at her crotch) even though she was wearing clothing. They told her she was out of the program and she tried to make an issue of it but they told her if she complained they would report her.
At the time being a young woman I had no idea the gravity of the situation now looking back I see how serious this was now the look on my professors face was that of like someone had died.
I never knew who that woman was or what became of her after she was kicked out.
Looking back, I wonder why she was not reported? I guess college professors are not mandated reporters.
see my post 10
I know of two — two — separate outside coach-raping-young-female-athlete situations, one from the '90s, the other from the 1970s.
One was a friend of my little sister, the other was the daughter of a high-school friend.
Both were talented girls who's parents got themselves convinced that they were Olympic-potential performers. They hired a special "coach" to help them get into big meets, compete at a higher level. Both got groomed and abused by those coaches, and consequently had their lives go completely off the rails.
I don't know if it goes back to the 1950s, but remember: (a) the media dynamic of athletic superstardom and big money for young people didn't really ramp up until the 1970s, and (b) the mass morality of our culture didn't take a dive until about that time either.
Then again, young people have been drawn to Hollywood since the 1930s, where most got used sexually on their way to stardom, which never came in 99% of the cases. Raymond Chandler wrote about it. That's what was going on in LA Confidential, if you recall.
So maybe what had been going on for years in Hollywood just got scaled out to a national scale during the '60s and '70s. Not new, just bigger.
Not catalyzed by the internet, catalyzed by mass media, of which the internet is just the latest incarnation.
Sorry, I addressed #12 to myself, should have been to you.
SPJNK.
This is not new. My dad was a teachers’ union rep for about 30 years and mentioned it to me as a serious issue back in 70s. The difference between then and now is the Union and the school administration weren’t covering it up and they certainly didn’t encourage it as they do today.
the net, they’re bolder, they have the L$M behind them and so with that, they get careless...
I remember when the Pedo-Priest scandal was running, someone pointed out that it was nothing compared to what was going on in Public Schools across the nation.
It has taken some years for there to be any interest in what Public School teachers/aides were doing inside those classrooms. I'm pretty sure that the powerful Teacher's Unions have kept this quiet for this long.
Also they can be tracked on the internet, their movements can be tracked using their cell phones, and there are incredible numbers of video cameras everywhere that can catch them doing this and doing that.
You ought to put what SPJNK means on your FR profile page, if you’re going to use it all the time.
I saw where you explained it once, but I forgot.
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