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A counselor at a private school in South Carolina has been arrest after she allegedly told authorities that she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with an underage student. The relationship allegedly began in January, just five months after Prendergast started working at Spartanburg Day School, and ended several days before the relationship was reported to the police on March 25, investigators said. Spartanburg Day School is a private, co-ed independent school for students in pre-K to 12th grades where tuition can run up to $19,230 per year. The school “immediately” fired Prendergast after the police told them about the illicit...

A former Virginia high school sign language interpreter and mother was sentenced to prison Thursday for having sex with a 15-year-old student in a van specially equipped with a bed, officials said. Amanda Nasser, 32, who worked at Louisa County High School, was sentenced to 90 years in prison, but had all of the time except for seven years suspended, FOX5DC reported. She was convicted of 18 felony charges of indecent liberties with a minor and computer solicitation of a minor. “Ms. Nasser abandoned her duties at the school to prey on a young boy whom she met when she...

An Anchorage jury today found a former stripper turned soccer mom guilty of first-degree murder in the decade-old death of her fiance. Mechele Linehan, 35, was charged with conspiring with another fiance to kill Kent Leppink, who was shot three times in 1996 on an isolated trail 90 minutes outside Anchorage. There was no visible reaction from Linehan as the verdict was read. Judge Philip Volland allowed her husband, Colin, “one final embrace” before she was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. Outside the courtroom, Colin Linehan was visibly shaken and tight-lipped. He told reporters who asked how he felt:...