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SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A former California middle school teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison for having sex with three students less than half her age. Sarah Bench-Salorio, 29, whose husband once ran for the school board, apologized tearfully for her acts at a hearing Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. She taught at the Santiago Charter School in Orange. "I understand clearly what I've done, and it will stay in my conscience that I've been an instrument of so much pain to those I truly cared for," she said. The parents of the...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. - A teacher has been arrested on allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. Nadine Nunnelee, 40, of Garden City, was taken into custody Wednesday at Garden City High School, said police Capt. Mike Utz. She had not yet been charged Thursday, Finney County Attorney John Wheeler Jr. said. Utz said police working on an unrelated runaway case became aware of Nunnelee's alleged affair. She is accused of hosting the male student at her home between Dec. 17 and Dec. 25. Police said the relationship appeared to be consensual. The age of consent...

BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. (AP) - Kern County authorities arrested a teacher today on charges that she had a sexual relationship with one of her 12-year-old students. Authorities say Sherry Brians, a 41-year-old teacher at Buttonwillow School, had been under investigation since before Christmas. The 12-year-old boy's mother went to authorities after finding a letter in her son's backpack that indicated the two had a romantic and physical relationship at the school.

In a case that has attracted worldwide attention, Margaret De Barraicua, the McClatchy High intern teacher arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old special-education student, agreed to a plea bargain Wednesday that carries a punishment ranging from probation to 16 months in prison. "The plea bargain is a compromise between the two competing views of what ought to be a punishment in the case," said De Barraicua's lawyer, Philip Cozens. The 30-year-old woman, who appeared calm in court, declined to talk with reporters. The plea agreement was struck after Cozens and Deputy District Attorney Rochelle Hao met behind closed doors...

TAMPA - When a young Hillsborough County teacher was accused this summer of having a sexual affair with a 14-year-old student, many people's first reaction to the notorious case was, 'She's crazy.' Tuesday, Debra Lafave's attorney announced that his client would indeed be using an insanity defense. Lafave, 24, is facing charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, stemming from accusations that the former Greco Middle School teacher had sex with the student both at school and in a car driven by the student's cousin in Ocala. The case has garnered international attention, but since turning herself in to police in...