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<p>Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.</p> <p>The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said.</p>

The 13 year-old girl couldn't and wouldn't look at the defendant, her former middle school gym teacher. The teen kept her eyes focused on senior prosecutor Jeffrey Boyles as he questioned her during the trial of Edward Fullum III, who is accused of improperly touching four Hannah Penn Middle School girls, then ages 11 and 12, during classes in 2004. The girl, who pointed vaguely without looking in Fullum's direction at the defense table, said Fullum had pressed his groin against her back as she showed her how to use a field hockey stick............. She told Fullum's jury that he...

Now, this teacher in Orange, California accused of having sex with students appears in court. She's a middle school teacher. For those of you in Rio Linda -- I don't think there are schools in Rio Linda -- middle schools, junior high, which would be 7th and 8th grade, maybe 9th. This Orange middle school teacher accused of having sexual contact with two 13-year-old boys who were former students was arraigned yesterday. Her name is Sarah Suzanne Bench-Salorio. She's 28. Charged with 20 counts of lewd acts on a child under 14. She taught for two years at the Santiago...