Teacher Smackdown

If you live in Oklahoma and have a child in daycare, you should check out this story:

Who fails checks? from NewsOK.com

Even if you don’t live in the O.K. state, you should be concerned. It’s probably the same - or worse - in your state.

In Port Charlotte, Florida, Crystal Maria Bashford, 21, was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Bashford has been charged with one count of lewd or lascivious battery.

Bashford is a “caretaker” at the Palm Christian Academy, a Chrisitian elementary school. The boy was not a student at the school.

Police say that the boy and Bashford were friends and had sex one time in November 2006 when he was 14 and Bashford was 20. The teen said Bashford invited him to her house to stay the night. He claims they were in her master bedroom, watching television, when she started to talk about having sex.

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In Phoenix, Arizona, Daniel Terelle Johnson, 20, was arrested on three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of child molestation. The victims were two pre-teenaged girls.

Johnson was a friend of the family and had been babysitting - and molesting them - for seven years. Yes, since he was a teenager himself! The girls finally reported the abuse and police were contacted.

Besides babysitting, Johnson also worked at a Phoenix childcare facility for at least the last six months. Police say he passed his background check, and that they couldn’t find evidence that he molested any of the daycare kids.

Police urge anyone with additional information on the actions of Johnson to contact the Phoenix Police Department’s Crimes Against Children Unit at (602) 534-3200 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.

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Paul Jesse Arriola, 31, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for sexual assault by a person in a position of trust. His victim was nine years old.

Arriola was the child care director of the Panther’s Den Child Care program at Eldorado Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He was fired by the school a month after school security staff reported a possible incident involving the boy.

Arriola is also required to be on sex offender list and be monitored for at least 20 years.

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In Tulsa, Oklahoma home daycare worker, Vicki Chiles, 42, was charged and arraigned on a felony child abuse and murder charges for abusing an eight-year-old boy in her care and killing two-year-old Joshua Minton.

Chiles was under child abuse investigation for hitting the older boy with a fly swatter 10 and 12 times while chasing him around the room. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services was on their way to shut down the home daycare facility when workers found Joshua with his mouth taped shut. Blood and vomit were found on the floor near the boy.

Chiles told police she bound his hands and taped over his mouth with masking tape because he wouldn’t be quiet during nap time. Joshua lost consciousness and later died at the hospital.

Oklahoma’s Department of Human Services is getting a lot of grief - deservedly so - that if they had followed up on the fly swatting complaint quicker, Joshua wouldn’t be dead. A day late, and one beautiful little boy lost to us all.

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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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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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An Adrian, Michigan daycare operator, Douglas Jay Clark, 52, was charged with 44 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving abuse of young children. He’s being held on a $5 million bond.

The charges are based on videotapes seized from Guardian Family Daycare at Clark’s home that contain images of child sexual abuse that the police chief said is the worse he’s seen. The video tapes do not show that anyone else was involved in the abuse.

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Blame Matt Lauer, but there seems to be an awful lot of stories in the news these days about older women having sex with young boys. The twist on this one? She had a daughter by her teenage victim.

Tani Firkins,32, will be serving six years for having a sexual relatioship with a 14-year-old boy. The teenage was enrolled in the afterschool program at the Good Neighbor Community Services Center, a Denver daycare center where she lived and worked. Prosecutors say the teen was assaulted between 50 and 100 times.

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This is every working parent’s nightmare. In Mesquite, Texas, Tamara Roberts went to pick up her son, Denarius. When she arrived at Stoneway Private School daycare, she learned that the child was not there and no one knew where the five-year-old was.

Teachers told her that Denarius disappeared after he got into a fight with another student and ran out of the classroom.

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