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The mother of a 7-year-old Irving elementary school student says her son wet his pants in class after his teacher refused to let him use the restroom ... Cross' son, an honor roll student, needed to go to the bathroom, but he sat back down because he didn’t have any Boyd Bucks, his mother said. "He tried to hold it as much as he could, but he just couldn’t," Cross said. "He came home from school, and he was crying and really upset." "Really, that's just unhealthy," Cross said. "I think that she had no concern for the children." Cross...

CHULA VISTA — A South Bay teacher was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of more than 80 counts of sexual abuse stemming from a four-year relationship with her former student and godson that began when the boy was 11, police said. Carmina Erica Lopez, 32, a fifth-grade teacher at Sunnyslope Elementary School in Palm City, was taken into custody about 7:30 p.m. in front of her Mission Hills home, Chula Vista police Lt. Dan Linney said. Investigators believe that Lopez met and began having sex with the boy, who is now 15, when she was his sixth-grade teacher in 2004...

SEVIERVILLE - A former high school teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy had her request for judicial diversion turned down Monday in Sevier County Circuit Court. Kristi Dance Oakes, 32, had appealed a decision from the District Attorney General's Office refusing her request for diversion, which would have allowed the charges against her to be dropped provided she complied with court orders for a specific period of time. Oakes, who is free on bond, appeared in court Monday with an unidentified man and showed little emotion during the hearing, which lasted only a few minutes. She was...