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Female teachers punished Utah sex-crimes cases highlight stereotypes By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News It seemed like a bad week for female educators in Utah — three of them appeared in court over charges of sexual misconduct with underage male students.

Supreme Court to hear teacher porn issue Madison - The state Supreme Court will decide whether pornographic images found on the school computer of a fired Cedarburg teacher should be made public, attorneys in the case said today. Robert Zellner, a Cedarburg High School teacher who was fired in January for viewing pornography on his computer, filed a court action to stop 1,500 "adult images" found on his computer from being released. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had requested the release under the state open records act. An Ozaukee County Circuit Court judge ruled that the images are a public record,...

Apparently, it’s getting easier to find pedophiles in the faculty lounges of colleges and universities than it is in Catholic churches. “Why would any self-respecting boy want to attend one of America’s increasingly feminized universities?,” economist George Gilder asked in a column. “Most of these institutions have flounced through the last forty years fashioning a fluffy pink playpen of feminist studies and agitprop ‘herstory,’ taught amid a green goo of eco-motherism and anti-industrial phobia.” “They routinely showcase such trendy trumperies as The Vagina Monologues, while sacrificing thousands of men’s athletic teams at the altar of Title IX.” There may be...

When a friend told coach Stu Gorski in 1995 that Mount Adams School District had hired "a phenomenal wrestling coach," Gorski froze. "Tell me you didn't hire Randy Deming," he pleaded. The district had. Gorski, a football and golf coach in Whatcom County, knew Deming for years as a rival coach at nearby Blaine High School. Gorski also knew of Deming's reputation as a groper of girls who had even been charged with child molestation. When Gorski learned Deming would also be teaching girls, he warned: "You're putting him back into the fire." GORDON KING / YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Randy Deming...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The state Board of Education stepped in Wednesday to defend a law that prohibits teachers from having sex with students. The board voted unanimously to ask state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to file a legal brief on its behalf opposing a court challenge by a New Haven teacher convicted of having sex with two students, ages 16 and 17. The case, which is before the state Supreme Court, questions the constitutionality of a state law that bans teachers from sexual contact with students even if they are older than the age of consent, which is 16. The...

(CBS) CHICAGO A Mt. Prospect teacher accused of attempting to meet up with a 13-year-old boy for sex has been arrested for Internet solicitation of a minor. Carmel, Ind. police caught the man, Chad Roby, in a sting operation. Roby has worked at River Trail Middle School for six years, according to Dr. Terry Barker of Mt. Prospect School District. He taught sixth grade English and Drama. Roby has been suspended with pay and the school district is waiting on the outcome of the investigation, Barker said. Roby was also a coach with the Glenview Youth Baseball Organization. He has...

McKeesport Area School District has reached a $58,000 settlement with a teacher who district investigators said had sex with another teacher in a classroom and a men's room during school hours. Under the settlement package, Patrick Collins, who has taught for 31 years in the district and was the teachers union president, will retire Nov. 9 after receiving 98 paid unused sick and personal days and a 24-day paid leave. The total comes to $48,260. In addition, he will receive health insurance worth $10,305. School board member David Donato, who voted against the package, said the settlement is better than...

SEVIERVILLE - His mother suspected something "weird" was going on when she caught her son on the computer at 1 a.m. chatting with his teacher. When asked what they were doing, the boy said he and Kristi Dance Oakes were "studying." During the summer of 2004, Oakes drove the boy to and from his job at a Pigeon Forge amusement park, where she also was employed, because his car had broken down, the mother said. On June 23, 2004, a police officer at 11:30 p.m. found a topless Oakes performing oral sex on the 16-year-old boy in her parked car...

I gave an exclusive post last weekend on my homepage for local news to the story that broke in the media last Thursday regarding a teacher accused of sex with one of her students. I had a lot of questions and I was concerned most about a coverup, but unlike another local school district, the Central York School District says it reported this to authorities. But I'm sure of one thing, the school district didn't tell the public, even though students were going home and telling their parents about this case weeks ago. They spoke of Robin Winkis being taken...