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A married teacher has been arrested over an alleged sexual relationship with a student after they were caught in 'states of undress' in a nature preserve. Jessica Sawicki, 37, from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, taught English at Hamilton High School West in Trenton, which is about a 20-minute drive from the preserve. She is accused of sexually assaulting the student - who has been described as 'at least 16 but not yet 18' - at the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area in Upper Freehold.

A female teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old male student at the same Arizona high school where another teacher had allegedly committed a similar crime seven months earlier. Alyssa Todd, 23, was arrested for 'inappropriate contact' between her and a student, making her the second teacher in seven months to be arrested for a sex crime at Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies High School in Buckeye. In mid-September, 42-year-old teacher Jessica Kramer was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old male student at the same school. And in October, a 23-year-old female teaching...

Megan Gaither, 31, an English teacher and varsity cheerleading coach at St. Clair High School, told the Post-Dispatch that she was put on leave Friday after her X-rated moonlighting job was revealed. “Teaching does not financially support a person. It’s really hard to stretch those paychecks during the summer. That’s why I did it,” she told the news outlet.

A female teacher allegedly sent nudes to a 16-year-old student and then invited him over for sex while her husband was out of town. Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 24, sent the explicit photos to the boy at St. James High School in Missouri - where Laughlin worked as a special education teacher, according to Maries County Sheriff Department. The married mother-of-one faces six felony charges for allegedly pursuing the 16-year-old, sending him pornographic images and soliciting photos from him.

A Pennsylvania javelin coach was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy she coached and told authorities she was romantically involved with, according to prosecutors.

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Police north of Toronto say a 28-year-old woman who worked as an occasional supply teacher is facing sexual assault charges. York regional police say they began investigating late last month after receiving information about a teacher who is alleged to have been involved in a sexual relationship with a male student between October and December of last year. They say Marianna Riossi has been working with the York Catholic District School Board since 2014. The 28-year-old woman from Vaughan, Ont., has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual exploitation.

A Texas high school anatomy teacher has been arrested for allegedly having an improper relationship with a student. The Lockhart Police Department said 27-year-old Sarah Fowlkes of Lockhart High School "engaged in sexual contact" with a 17-year-old male student earlier this month. Police told NBC Austin affiliate KXAN Fowlkes turned herself in on Monday and bonded out later that day. Fowlkes' attorney Jason Nassour said, "You've got a young lady who was arrested on the statement of a 17-year-old kid with no corroborating evidence." Nassour said his client is smiling in her mug shot because she is innocent. He added...

A 24-year-old former substitute teacher from Iowa who was arrested in July after admitting to a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student says he had swept her off her feet with love notes scribbled on Post-Its. Mary Beth Haglin, of Cedar Rapids, has been charged with misdemeanor sexual exploitation by a school employee in connection to her six-month tryst with a male student at Washington High School. On Wednesday, Haglin pleaded not guilty to the charge in writing, and her trial date has been set for November 14. If convicted, she could face up to two years in prison and...

The Ottawa teacher’s aide who sexually exploited a vulnerable high school student for two years was jailed on Tuesday for 14 months in what the judge called a significant breach of trust. Ontario Court Justice Celynne Dorval didn’t buy Katherine Kitts’s defence that it was just an awful lapse in judgment and noted the planning and duration of the sexual exploitation was anything but spontaneous. Kitts, 46, would sometimes furnish her minivan with an air mattress for planned sexual encounters in parking lots and parks near the boy’s home. “Had there been one or two sexual encounters before she ended...

GATINEAU — A former physical education teacher from Quebec has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for carrying on a two-year sexual relationship with a high school student. Despite her pleas in Gatineau court Friday to serve her sentence in the community, Tania Pontbriand received an 18-month sentence for two counts of sexual exploitation and a 20-month sentence for one count of sexual assault. She will serve the sentences concurrently. She was also sentenced to two years’ probation following her jail term. Pontbriand was convicted of the three offences in January for having a sexual relationship with her student...

A former student at Oakland University in the suburbs of Detroit is suing the school for over $2.2 million after he was kicked out in September 2011 for penning a salacious essay entitled “Hot for Teacher.” Joseph Corlett, 57, a builder who now resides in Florida, filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, reports the Detroit Free Press. He claims the public university violated his First Amendment right to freedom of expression. He says he also suffered mental anguish and humiliation when he was forced to leave the school. The suit names the school’s board of trustees...

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.

On Wednesday at 10:40 p.m. law enforcement officers from several agencies were working a detail in the area of Highway 84 and White and Parker Road in Stanfield. A white SUV pulled off of the roadway near where officers from the Gila River Police Department were working. Using night vision goggles from a distance, the officers observed two individuals in the vehicle appearing to have consensual sexual intercourse. Prior to the officers making contact, the male and female got out of the vehicle and began to argue. The officers later learned that the male subject was only 14 years old,...

An Oviedo High School teacher resigned Wednesday after admitting she gave alcohol and her sport-utility vehicle to a student later arrested in a drunken-driving crash, a Seminole County Public Schools spokeswoman said. Meredith Witt, a special education teacher, told the principal of Oviedo High she provided alcohol to "one or more" students at her home Monday, then handed over the keys to a student and let him drive off, according to a school district document. Dylan Ferguson, 18, an Oviedo High senior, was arrested Monday on counts of DUI with damaged property and leaving the scene of a crash. His...

(HELPER)—Two teachers at a small-town school are facing charges, accused of illegal sexual conduct with students. Both women had been working at Helper Junior High, until the Carbon School District learned of the cases at the end of July. Investigators say Melissa Andrini developed a sexual relationship this summer with a boy who may have been one of her students the previous year. Andrini has since resigned. Another teacher is accused of unlawful touching during the 2007-08 school year. Carbon School District Special Programs Director Robert Cox said she is currently on paid administrative leave, pending the investigation. Carbon County...

SEATTLE - The odyssey of Mary Kay Letourneau, which began years ago when she was a 34-year-old teacher who raped a sixth-grade student, has now evolved into "Hot for Teacher" night at a Pioneer Square bar. But the bar's owner says the event is all in fun, and he hopes people take it in the right spirit. Letourneau, who eventually served time for raping her former student then later married him after her release from prison, will be hosting the event Saturday at Fuel Sports Eats & Beats on Washington Street. Letourneau's former student, Vili Fualaau, will be there, too....

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A former Volusia County teacher was out of jail Thursday and facing charges of having a lengthy sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. ast week, the teacher at Warner Christian Academy resigned amid the accusations. She was arrested Wednesday. South Daytona police confirmed to Eyewitness News that they are back on the case and there may have been sexual incidents in the school, possibly at the teacher's home and said it has been happening since last school year. Warner Christian students told police they had seen text messages on the boy's phone from someone named "Madeline."...

RIPLEY, Tenn. - A former West Tennessee teacher accused of having sex with a student has been convicted of child abuse. Amy Elder, a 28-year-old former teacher and softball coach at Ripley High School, was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl. She went to trial charged with sexual battery and statutory rape by an authority figure but was convicted Wednesday night in Ripley on lesser charges of child abuse. Elder testified in her own defense and denied having sexual contact with the teenager.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 A former Blanco High School teacher pleaded guilty this month to having sex with a student. Kylie Neighbors, 24, is accused of having sex with a male Blanco High School student on Halloween last year, according to court documents. Reached at home Tuesday night, Neighbors declined to comment on the case. Hays County prosecutors and police in San Marcos, where Neighbors lives, handled the case. Under the terms of her plea bargain, Neighbors will be on probation for 10 years, pay a $1,500 fine, perform 250 hours of community service and surrender her teaching certificate. Neighbors...

A judge this morning granted a divorce to a Knox County man accused of killing his student-teacher wife's teenage lover. Fourth Circuit Court Judge Bill Swann actually spent little time deciding that Eric McLean was entitled to a divorce. Estranged wife Erin McLean didn't show up for court. Her whereabouts are unknown. However, Swann said he was "greatly concerned" about the welfare of the McLeans' two boys, ages 11 and 8. Eric McLean hasn't seen the boys since the day before he was accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Sean Powell outside the McLeans' Coker Avenue home in March. Testimony showed...