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A teacher at a private Christian school accused of sexually assaulting an eighth-grade student allegedly gifted him a gun for his 14th birthday before he ran away in a relative’s car. Tyesha Bolden, 34, and the boy met while she was teaching at Pilgrim Lutheran School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin last fall and exchanged over 2,200 text messages — some allegedly containing nude images and flirtatious language. Bolden was released on $2,500 bond this week on felony charges of second-degree child sex assault and giving a dangerous weapon to a child, Fox News Digital reported. In June, Bolden took the boy...

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Former Urbana teacher White sentenced to 48 yearsBy Mary Schenk Friday, April 4, 2008 3:33 PM CDT URBANA – A former Urbana grade school teacher was sentenced this afternoon to 48 years in prison for molesting female students. Champaign County Judge Harry Clem sentenced Jon White, 27, of Villa Grove for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving acts that occurred between August 2005 and December 2007 with 7- and 8-year-old girls who were students at Thomas Paine School in Urbana. White pleaded guilty in February to eight counts that accused him of deriving sexual gratification from having the blindfolded girls put...

1 DOWN, 11,999,999 TO GOAugust 22, 2007 Mickey Kaus has raised the intriguing possibility that, since Bush's amnesty plan went down to humiliating defeat once Americans got wind of what the elites had planned for us, the Bush administration might respond by intentionally targeting highly sympathetic illegal aliens for deportation "in as clumsy, heartless and lawsuit-inspiring a fashion as possible, in order to create the maximum number of negative headlines." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described anti-amnesty Americans as being satisfied with nothing less than "the death penalty" for illegal aliens and recently warned of "some unhappy consequences" unless illegal...

A 41-year-old Redding man charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl told investigators the child was his girlfriend and he loved her, court records show. [snip] After spending hours on the telephone wooing the girl, the relationship heated up around Christmas and Hakmiller arrived at the girl's home, police said. She introduced him to her parents, who apparently believed he was much younger, and on Christmas Eve he took her to an arcade and an Upland motel, the documents alleged. Hakmiller and the girl allegedly had sexual contact and he bought her makeup and lingerie for a second day together at...

Acclaimed geneticist William French Anderson was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for molesting an employee's daughter who took martial arts classes at his home. Before sentencing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor noted an extraordinary number of letters supporting Anderson, including one from a Nobel Prize winner. But the judge said Anderson had caused "incalculable" emotional damage to a victim he described as an insecure and trusting immigrant. "Because of intellectual arrogance, he persisted and he got away with as much as he could," the judge said. Anderson, 70, was convicted last July of one count...

She was 10 years old, a fourth-grader in the Northshore School District, when John Carl Leede began fondling her, according to court records. He was a teacher, but not hers. He would spy her in the school library, approach, turn her away from him and begin grabbing, rubbing her breasts. She'd try to break away, but he would yank her back and put her in a kind of headlock. The girl told her mother, and the mother called the principal, Ed Young. It all could have ended there — in the spring of 1996, years before Leede was finally convicted...

An Orange County businessman was sentenced to serve 50 years to life in prison for the videotaped molestation of a preschool girl during a two-year period. David Hwang, 35, agreed to plead guilty to all charges under a deal that Superior Court Judge Gary Paer said would spare the girl and her family from reliving "the nightmare." Hwang admitted to 60 counts of kidnapping for child molestation, lewd acts on a child under 14, oral copulation on a person under 14, anal or genital penetration with a foreign object of a child under 14, using a minor for sex acts...

A Roseville Area High School employee was arrested today on charges he molested two students while working as an after-school instructor in the South Washington County School District. Prosecutors claim Richard Parnell Rucker Sr., 42, of St. Anthony, had sexual contact over a two-year period with a Cottage Grove Junior High School student and with a student at Lake Junior High School in Woodbury. The contact occurred between 2003 and last August, according to a Washington County criminal complaint

A second female teacher has been accused of molesting a male student, Kern County Superior Court records show. Jennifer Lynn Sanchez, 31, a mathematics teacher at Buena Vista Continuation High School in Taft, was charged on Dec. 22 with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old student, and one count each of oral copulation and sodomy with the same student. She has resigned from her teaching job, school officials said Thursday. She has pleaded not guilty in the Taft division of Kern County Superior Court and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 26. Her bail initially...

A former Mercy General Hospital nursing employee who molested sedated male patients during pre-surgery preparation was sentenced Friday to 14 years in state prison. Devery Wilkerson, 41, was convicted by a Sacramento County Superior Court jury of sexually assaulting eight men - ranging from age 30 to 80. Wilkerson was assigned to shave the legs, chest and pubic areas of patients before surgery. One patient awoke to find Wilkerson performing oral sex and reported it to the nursing staff. Another patient reported being molested the same day and an investigation turned up six other victims. "Mr. Wilkerson, as a hospital...

Ronald J. Biller, a captain with the Bristol(indiana) Police Department, was arrested Saturday and charged with three counts of child molesting. He was released on a $50,000 bond the same day. Elkhart County Prosecuting Attorney Curtis T. Hill Jr. filed the charges Friday in Elkhart Superior Court No. 3. Biller is accused of fondling a 12-year-old child in Elkhart County on various dates between March and August 2004. The allegations were reported to the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department last month and recently turned over to Hill's office for review. Each count is a Class C felony punishable by up to...

Former Houston Rocket Calvin Murphy, 55, was charged today with sexually molesting five of his own children in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Harris County prosecutor said. Murphy, a Sugar Land resident and now color commentator for the team, was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of indecency with a child, said Lance Long, an assistant district attorney. Murphy had no comment when he surrendered to authorities. His attorney, Rusty Hardin, did not immediately return calls seeking comment The charges, that are alleged to have occurred from 1988-1991, involve five...