Teacher Smackdown

In Arizona, Paradise Valley High School teacher and cheerleading coach Jennifer Diane Mally is accused of having sex 29 times with a 16-year-old student.

The parents of a student contacted the school about the affair. School officials then called police. The sex occured at her home, the student’s home, and in her car and began just after the school year started.

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Steven Mitchell, 32, of Pineville, Arkansas, faces 12 counts involving sexual misconduct with students. He pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he took students across state lines to engage in sexual acts.

Mitchell, an agricultural teacher at Melbourne High School from 2002 to 2004, took seven underage children to Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas. On these trips he either touched them or encouraged them to expose themselves.

Ewwwwwww….

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Teacher Andrew Joseph Barnes, 26, an English teacher and track coach pleaded guilty to one felony count of using a minor for a prohibited act and two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure.

The charges involved three 17-year-old female students from South Hills High School in West Covina, California.

Barnes was sentenced two-year state prison term and ordered to register as a sex offender. The felony charge involved using a minor in a photograph, while the misdemeanor charges involved photos that were found on his computer.

What always surprises me is that these guys don’t think they’ll get caught. For goodness sake, there’s hard evidence - photographs - on your computer. Duh!

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Akela J. Dillon, the Neuqua Valley High School teacher who slapped a 16-year-old black student for dating a white one, was found guilty of a misdemeanor battery charge. The incident was caught on video.

She’ll get a year of court supervision and was rdered to undergo anger-management counseling, pay $250 in fines and court fees, and avoid contact with the student.

Dillon, a first-year teacher at the high school, was immediately removed from the building following the incident. In March, she turned in a letter of resignation to be effective at the end of the school year, but was fired after her conviction.

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Police declined to file charges against two Copper Mountain ski area daycare workers after they determined that child abuse involving sexually explicit photographs were unfounded. The photographs weren’t sexually suggestive or taken for sexual gratification.

The workers at the Pumpkin Patch Day Care Center took photos of a naked infant’s bottom, another baby flipping the bird, and a baby pretending to smoke a cigarette.

Bottom line - acting stupid does not amount to criminal behavior.

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Berryville Elementary School teacher Betty Cox was put on the Arkansas Child Maltreatment Central Registry earlier this month for bullying students in her care. People are placed on the list if investigators find evidence of verbal or physical abuse.

The alleged abuse involved student Jerry Lou Schoe, 12. The boy’s father, Richard Schoe claims Cox berated his son’s intelligence, wouldn’t provide a book he needed for an assignment, and put him in a seat away from other students for six days in a row. Schoe claims his son considered committing suicide over these incidents, and they now homeschool their son.

The Schoes weren’t the only parents who had problems with Cox. Christi Armer said Cox constantly yelled at her 13-year-old son and once poked him in the chest. Another parent, Jo Butler, said her 13-year-old daughter was afraid to attend Cox’s class.

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The Pumpkin Patch Day Care Center, an employee child care center at the Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado, was temporarily closed to investigate allegations of the staff photographing babies in sexual poses.

Authorities are trying to figure out if the pictures were Photoshopped or if the babies were posed. The staff admitted to taking photographs of two babies fighting - which they emailed to others - and a naked baby in a sexually suggestive pose. Photographs include pictures of a baby shooting the bird, a cigarette in an infant’s mouth, and a baby bent forward to show his tush.

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In Salem, Oregon, teacher Matthew Gould, 45, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for 14 counts of first-degree sex abuse.

Over the years he molested 19 boys at Pratum Elementary School in Silverton. These are some of the more perverted things Gould did to get close to the boys:

Besides the 19 boys, police found out about 17 more victims. No charges were filed because they took place in another county or the statute of limitations had run out.

Police estimate there could be many more victims. I’m guessing we don’t know the half of it.

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Here’s a story about a teacher literally putting the smackdown on a student. In Naperville, Illinois, at Neuqua Valley High School, teacher Akela Dillion, 26, was put on administrative leave following allegations that she slapped a student.

Tiffany Stephens, whose son was smacked by Dillon, said she received a call from school administrators that her son struck Dillion. However, after talking with her son and reviewing a video tape of the incident, it was obvious that Dillion attacked the boy.

Stephens said her son told her he was standing at a row of lockers when Dillion approached him. Her son, who is black, said the teacher made derogatory remarks about him dating a white girl. Then she swung at the student twice, missing him the first time and hitting him the second time. The Naperville Police Department is investigating the incident and battery charges are pending.

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Sounds like the New York City school bus system - which transports 142,000 public and private school students daily - is in huge trouble.

Here are just a few examples:

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Carla Shinners, 63, a a substitute teacher at Creekside Elementary School in Boulder, Colo. hit a fifth grader in the head with a viola bow and pulled her hair.

Students - who nicknamed her “Mrs. Grumpy Lady” - also say the teacher used profanity when her class was interrupted with a phone call:

“These bastards are interrupting my class. I’m going to answer the phone and tell these fuckers to shut up.”

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UPDATE
Tommy Clay, 18, the student who had a sexual relationship with Brighton Charter High School teacher Carrie McCandless, appeared this morning on NBC’s The Today Show. You can see Matt Lauer interviewing the Clay family on MSNBC’s website.

The family’s attorney said the family went on the program as a part of the student’s healing process and to show how damaging the relationship of an older woman and a young boy was to Tommy, then 17. They also wanted to expose how Brighton Charter High School’s administors tried to cover up the sexual relationship.

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At Brighton Charter High School, all hell has been breaking loose. Teachers have been boozing it up - and molesting - students.

Former teacher Carrie McCandless, 29, was arrested last year and is facing felony charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Brighton Charter High School teacher - and wife of the principal - provided alcohol to students and engaged one of them in a sexual relationship during a late-October school field trip to Estes Park.

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