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A former USC professor was named Monday to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list after he was indicted for sex crimes against children abroad, FBI officials said. Walter Lee Williams, 64, became the 500th person named to the list, officials said. He faces charges of sexual exploitation of children, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Bureau officials said they had identified at least 10 alleged victims between the ages of 9 and 17. Many live in Third World countries, officials said, adding that Williams has traveled extensively...

(CBS) SEBASTIAN, Fla. - A Florida state attorney says the charges against Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school student who engaged in a same-sex relationship with a 14-year-old classmate, will not be dropped, despite petitions from the public, CBS affiliate WTSP reports. Hunt has been expelled from Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla. and is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years of age as a result of the relationship. The case began in February when Hunt was arrested and charged after the younger girl's parents notified authorities, reportedly when...

Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school student in Sebastian, Fla., is facing charges and has been expelled from school for having a same-sex relationship with a 15-year-old classmate, CBS Tampa Bay reports. PICTURES: Fla. teen charged over underage same-sex relationship Hunt is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years of age after the other girl's parents called authorities when Hunt, a senior at Sebastian River High School, turned 18, according to the station.

A southeast Oak Cliff charter school teacher faces sexual assault charges involving two male students at school in multiple incidents last year, according to Dallas police documents. Geogery Lynn Shelton, who taught at Children First Academy, was being held at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center on Friday. His bail was set at $75,000 after his arrest this week on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14 and a charge of continuous sexual assault of a child, police records said. [Snip] The crimes for which Shelton faces charges date to at least May and...

Cary, N.C. — A Cary firefighter who also worked as a substitute teacher in the Wake County Public School System is facing charges after police said he had sex with a minor in the restroom of a Greensboro area park in June. Christopher Angelo Manzo, 22, of the 600 block of Silverberry Drive in Pittsboro, is accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old boy during an arranged meeting at Bur-Mil Park, according to the Greensboro Police Department. Manzo, who was arrested Monday while at the Cary Police Department, was released to the custody of Greensboro police and charged...

AMBRIDGE -- An Ambridge man is facing multiple charges for serving alcohol to teenagers and then sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy, according to an Ambridge police report. Von Gene Barbee, 44, of 616 Olive Lane was charged with aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and endangering the welfare of a child for assaulting the boy, according to the criminal complaint. Barbee was charged with two counts each of corruption of minors and furnishing alcohol to minors for providing beer to the teens in his home. The victim said he and two teen girls were drinking beer in Barbee’s home on...

WINFIELD, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Winfield woman has been arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old boy. West Virginia State Police out of Winfield tell WSAZ.com Summer Lynn Burford, who is 34 years old, was arrested Saturday after confessing to having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old boy. Click here to find out more! Police say the father of the victim went to pick up his son Tuesday from Ms. Burford’s home. After a small child answered the door, the victim’s father found Ms. Burford and his son inside a locked bedroom. The victim later confessed to having sexual intercourse with...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The church school in Colorado Springs at the center of a sex abuse case is no longer in operation. The Hilltop Baptist School closed last year after enrollment dropped from about 200 to 130 students. A teacher at the former school, 32-year-old Terah Allyn Rawlings, is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy during the 2007-2008 school year and the following summer. She was indicted this week along with two pastors and a former principal who allegedly failed to report the abuse. One of the pastors is her father and the other is an...

Graham, N.C. — Burlington police arrested a 51-year-old Alamance County teacher and charged him with a sexual offense with a student. On Saturday, a female student told police that she had been involved in a sexual relationship with Denny Glenn Wall, a teacher and coach at Alamance Christian School in Graham, according to police. Officers arrested Wall, of 1929 Briar Lane, on Monday and placed him in the Alamance County Jail under a $50,000 bond. No other information was released.

By Ed Richter, Staff Writer Updated 8:30 PM Friday, February 4, 2011 MASON — A female Mason high school gym teacher is accused of having sexual misconduct with five students, most of them football players at the school. A Warren County grand jury on Friday indicted Stacy Schuler of Springboro on 16 counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony; and three misdemeanor counts of offenses involving underage persons. Schuler, who will turn 33 next week, allegedly had sexual contact with the students on five different occasions between August and December, according to officials with the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. She...

MASON, OHIO - A gym teacher has been charged with having sex with five of her underaged students. Stacy Shuler, a 32-year-old high school gym teacher at Mason High School, had sexual relations with five students over the same number of months from August to December. Most of them were football players at the school. Shuler, whose duties included working as an athletic trainer for the school's girls and boys sports teams, also bought them alcohol. A school spokesperson said that the teacher was placed under investigation after an anonymous tip to school officials. If convicted, Shuler could face up...

A teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students was caught having sex with a teenager in the back of her car. Courtney Bowles was found by a police officer naked lying on top of the boy, who was also completely naked, from her school in Colorado. A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352063/Teacher-advises-colleagues-avoid-affairs-students-caught-having-sex-16-year-old-boy-school.html#ixzz1CeQYN7O5

The Plainfield North High School physical education teacher accused of having sex with a student pleaded not guilty this morning in a Will County courtroom. Ashley M. Blumenshine, 27, of Lisle appeared in court this morning with her attorney, George Lenard, where she pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse. Blumenshine, who wore a long pink coat and black slacks, said nothing but stood by her attorney before Will County Judge Richard Schoenstedt. Her next court date is March 2. Blumenshine and two adults who came with her to court Wednesday declined comment after the hearing. Lenard...

The Catholic church on Friday said it would pay nearly a million dollars to a man allegedly sexually abused at age 16 by a priest...., who then tried to cover it up and hire a hit man to kill the victim. "This is a very sad thing and very painful for me, for the church, for the family," said Garcia-Siller, who was just appointed San Antonio Archbishop in November. Former priest John Fiala is charged with plying the unidentified boy in his parish in rural southwest Texas with booze and giving him a car in an attempt to 'groom' the...

A Southern California middle school teacher seduced and molested a 14-year-old student in a sexual affair that lasted several months, until the teacher's husband, a Los Angeles police officer, discovered the relationship and threatened to kill the boy, his family claims in a lawsuit. The suit, filed Tuesday, claims LAPD officer National Beck threatened to kill the teen and his family with his police department-issued weapon in retaliation for the affair. The incident allegedly occurred when Beck found his wife, Amy Beck, and the boy in his Burbank, Calif., home and she confessed to the relationship.

PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh-area woman got 18 months probation for molesting her son's 16-year-old friend after her then-14-year-old son reported the incident. Forty-three-year-old Cassandra Sproch, of Sewickley, was sentenced for indecent assault, corruption of minors and 12 other counts. She made dinner for her son and three friends while serving them wine and dressing seductively in December 2009. Her son and another boy later found her kissing and fondling the 16-year-old and pulled him from her bedroom. Sproch's attorney, Patrick Thomassey, says there no harm done in what he called a "rite of passage." Assistant District Attorney Laura Ditka says...

William Scott Ritter Jr., a former United Nations weapons inspector who gained renown for his criticism of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, contends his online sexual encounters with teenage girls were only fantasy. Nearly two years ago, Ritter, of Delmar, watched his computer screen reveal that an anonymous person who had been exchanging sexually charged messages with him for 80 minutes was not a 15-year-old girl. It was a cop from a small town in northeast Pennsylvania, alone in his station house and trolling the Internet for suspected child predators. Ryan Venneman, a detective for the Barrett Township...

Wiley Middle School teacher sentenced to 153 years in prison for sexually assaulting 14-year-old studentPat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer Updated: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 10:00 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 31-year-old junior high school teacher was sentenced to 153 years in prison Wednesday in Common Pleas Court for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student. Christopher Thomas of Eastlake taught at Wiley Middle School in University Heights, and prosecutors said between June 2008 and November 2009, he used his cell phone to send text messages of a sexual nature and nude photographs to two 14-year-old female students. **SNIP** A forensic analysis of...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In a murder-for-hire case worthy of a Dan Brown novel, a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse. Authorities said John Fiala first offered the job to a neighbor, who blew the whistle and helped police arrange a sting. They said Fiala got as far as negotiating a $5,000 price for the slaying before investigators moved in. The 52-year-old clergyman was arrested Nov. 18 at his suburban Dallas home and jailed on $700,000 bond. In April, he was...

ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP) -- Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev. Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St. John's School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions. Geier said when he told Murphy what was happening was wrong, the priest replied, "Oh, yes. God sent me. This is confession." Geier, now 59 and living in Madison....