Teacher Smackdown

In Hartford, Connecticut, Matthew Glasser agreed to plead guilty to having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old Northwest Catholic High School student. Taking a plea means that the former music teacher will avoid serving prison time.

Glasser was convicted on charges of tampering with a witness. (Must be why the victim refused to testify in the case). He is also convicted four counts of sexual assault in the fourth-degree. He gets a seven-year suspended sentence and five years of probation.

Best of all, Glasser must register with the state as a sex offender. This means he won’t be working in any capacity with kids again. Good.

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In Middletown Connecticut, Rev. Verle Robinson, 55, was arrested on third-degree sexual assault and impairing the morals of a minor after trying to sexually assault the 13-year-old friend of one of his daughters during a sleepover.

Trying to rape one of his daughter’s friends while she slept in the same house? What a monster!

That night, Robinson came into the room where his daughter’s friend was sleeping alone. He pinned her down, exposed himself to her, and rubbed himself against her shorts. The girl said that Robinson asked her if she ever had sex before and that he wanted her to “stick it in.” She struggled to get Robinson off of her.

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In Westport, Connecticut, former Bedford Middle School art teacher, Paul Held, 69, is being sentenced in one of the most disturbing child porn cases the U.S. Attorney’s office has ever seen.

Held had a huge collection of 3 million to 4 million child porn images. Authorities say that some of the pictures were taken in Held’s home, and others were taken in school including “under skirt” photos of his unsuspecting students. He also confessed to collecting snuff films showing the rape and murder of children.

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In Connecticut, coach Michael J. Garvie III, 30, was charged with enticing a minor and risk of injury to a minor. He has resigned his position as the athletic director and varsity baseball coach at St. Bernard School, a private Catholic school. He also coached their girls’ basketball team.

He was arrested after having sexually explicit online conversations with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl. Instead he was chatting with an adult female detective who was working undercover and targeting online sexual predators. Ooops.

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The Connecticut Board of Education restored Orlando Hernandez, 37, teaching license even though he’s a convicted drug dealer. Hernandez was a math teacher at Fair Haven Middle School when he was arrested for selling cocaine to a woman at a bar who turned out to be an undercover police officer.

His teaching certificate was automatically revoked when he was convicted in 2004. Although his lawyers considered mounting an entrapment defense, Hernandez pleaded no contest was given a suspended sentence. Hernandez was never jailed and he completed his sentence after 18 months of probation.

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