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A drama teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student after a school play. Alexandra McLean,28, who had recently joined Englewood High School in Denver faces two charges of sexually assaulting a child from a position of authority. A police report says the alleged consensual sexual encounter happened when the boy stayed late at school and McLean, who is reported to be engaged, offered to drop him home. When questioned, the student told police McLean would drive him home after play rehearsals for 'Lend me a Tenor' and that, eventually on November 18, he had sex...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY - A fifth-grade teacher lost her job this month when school administrators and parents were anonymously sent images of her engaged in sex acts and apparently smoking marijuana. In June, the Charlotte County School district office received two envelopes containing four still photographs and a thumb drive containing five videos of Natalie Santagata, a teacher at Kingsway Elementary School in Port Charlotte since 2002.

A female babysitter had sex with the 14-year-old she was hired to look after after plying him with alcohol, it has been reported. Loni Bouchard, from Clinton, Connecticut, was taken into custody after the young boy's family found out about the alleged affair. The 20-year-old now faces charges that she sexually assaulted the boy last month after illegally buying him alcohol. Authorities said they obtained a warrant after a complaint from a family member of the teenager. She then turned herself in to Southington police on Friday morning. Sergeant Lowell DePalma said the victim knew the babysitter before the alleged...

A biology teacher has been arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old boy in her classroom. Amy Renee Schilling is alleged to have developed a close relationship with the ninth grade pupil at the RL Turner High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, giving him rides home from school and slipping an iPhone in his backpack as a gift. The 33-year-old was caught after a cleaner walked in on her and the student lying on a couch together in her classroom, it is reported. The Texas teacher had been reprimanded by the school for sending inappropriate text messages to another student...

Full Title: Married teacher found partially naked in car with 17-year-old student avoids jail thanks to plea deal (but she can teach again in three years) (Plus bonus 25 past cases with head-shots at end of article) A married teacher, who was caught partially naked with a 17-year-old student, has pleaded guilty to the charges and escaped jail, it emerged today. Carrie Shafer, 39, a former biology teacher at duPont Manual High School, Kentucky, must instead serve three years of supervised probation after agreeing to a plea deal designed to get the case done and dusted quickly. Legally she can...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A suburban North Texas high school teacher has been accused of having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home and was released on bond Monday. Brittni Nicole Colleps, an English teacher at Kennedale High School, is charged with five counts of having an inappropriate relationship between a student and teacher -- a second-degree felony. It is a criminal offense for teachers to have sex with a primary or secondary school student, no matter the student's age. A conviction carries a penalty of anywhere from two years to 20 years in prison per count.

A 42-year-old San Francsico Bay Area woman is in jail charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sex with two boys under 15. Police say Christine Shreeve Hubbs of Livermore, about an hour east of San Francisco, has been having sex with the boys for a year and a half. Livermore Police say she sent photos of herself nude to the boys from her cell phone. Investigators say she would pick up the boys in her black Hummer and take them to various locations in Livermore to have sex with them. She regularly gave the boys Visa gift cards and...

The time has come for Melinda Dennehy to face the music. The ex-teacher from New Hampshire who we initially told you about back in March has pleaded guilty to e-mailing nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old male Londonderry High School student. Dennehy, 41, entered the plea on Monday to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure. Police say that she sent 'four sexy shots of herself,' with her 'genitals exposed,' to a 15-year-old male student, along with a detailed explanation of the sexual acts that she wanted to perform on him. She also reportedly kissed the boy on two separate...

DERRY, N.H. — A former high school teacher won’t be going to jail after pleading guilty Monday to a charge she e-mailed nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student at Londonderry High School. "I am truly sorry for my actions and poor judgment," Melinda Dennehy said in court after the judge agreed to her negotiated plea to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure. She originally faced a felony count.

Leavenworth, Kan. — A former Pleasant Ridge High School teacher has been charged with having sexual relations with a student, a prosecution official said. Shannon Young, 36, Lansing, has been charged with three counts of unlawful sexual relations. She was arrested on a warrant Tuesday, according to County Attorney Todd Thompson. Thompson said Young probably wouldn’t make her first court appearance until Wednesday morning. Young allegedly had consensual sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy. The crimes are alleged to have occurred between Aug. 1 and June 2.

Canandaigua (WSYR-TV) - A Canandaigua school teacher is facing charges, accused of performing oral sex on a 17-year-old student. 36-year-old Marla Gurecki-Haskins is also accused of "Sexting" two other students. Police say some of the incidents happened in her classroom during school hours. According to court paperwork, she's accused of "engaging in text messaging of a sexual nature that encouraged a sexual relationship between the defendant and two 16 year old male students." Haskins is charged with official misconduct, two counts endangering welfare of a child and disseminating indecent material to a minor. The third charge is a felony. Haskins...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - A former middle-school teacher who stunned police with her unsolicited confession that she'd had an affair with a 14-year-old former student pleaded no contest Thursday to charges of unlawful sex with a minor. Amy Victoria Beck was ordered to return to court May 7 for sentencing. Her attorney, Michael Williamson, said she is expected to receive two years in state prison. Beck, 33, pleaded no contest to one count each of unlawful sex with a minor and performing lewd acts on a minor. Originally charged with five counts of engaging in sex acts with a person...

LOS ANGELES — In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public schools walks into police headquarters and confesses to having an affair with a 14-year-old boy. With her attorney by her side, police say, Amy Victoria Beck told detectives the relationship with one of her former students began in March 2009 and continued until last December. She said it left her wracked with guilt. "I can't tell you that I remember anything like that ever happening before," Quesada said...

GERMANTOWN, Md. - A coach's assistant at a Montgomery County School is at the center of a sex scandal. The female volunteer helped out with the basketball team at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown.

Megan Fox is considered the hottest woman in the world and yet the sultry starlet suffers serious attacks when she catches a glimpse of herself on screen. "I never (look at myself), even in still photographs. I don't look at anything," Fox told Tarts. "I panic if there is a monitor in the room I immediately go into like an anxiety attack. I'm insecure, I think most actors are pretty insecure." And even though the 23-year-old seems to lead a low-key life as far from the limelight as possible, she does feel she’s becoming a victim of over-exposure.

GOODING, Idaho (AP) - A former Bliss High School teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student last fall, including once on school property, has pleaded guilty to felony sexual battery of a minor. Anna Bettencourt acknowledged she had improper sexual contact with the boy in 5th District Court on Monday as part of an agreement with prosecutors, who first charged the 39-year-old in February with two felony sexual battery charges.

Kristina Korsholm wants your swimsuit to do double-duty! Kristina Korsholm is the hottest Danish export to the U.S. since, well, danishes. The in-demand cover girl, author (she wrote a book called " Head Over High Heels") and actress (she just finished the film "Sedon's Rule") has also been editor-in-chief of two magazines. "My mind is wrapped around movies and fashion," she tells FOXNews.com. "I'm a style junkie."

Olivia Wilde is a princess in real life, and now she's a princess in the new movie "Year One." But her real-life title is waaaaay better than her movie one.

They have plenty in common. Well OK, then, they both shave their legs and both are worth a fortune. So it is perhaps not too surprising that departing Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo and socialite Paris Hilton are reportedly enjoying the first flushes of romance. The perma-tanned Portuguese winger has been celebrating news that he has been snapped up by Real Madrid for the eye-watering sum of £80 million by hitting the town in Los Angeles with the American party queen.

Most women wouldn't mind if they were constantly being compared to Angelina Jolie. But then, most women aren't Megan Fox. The 23-year-old Transformers star opens up in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly about the trials and tribulations of being equated to one of the most desirable women in the world. "It's a lack of creativity on the media's part," Fox complains. "Because I have tattoos and dark hair and I was in an action movie? That's as far as the similarities extend."