Teacher Smackdown

Update to: Marshalls Arrest Fugitive Teacher Andrew L. Foster for Having Sex with Two Students - One is Pregnant

In Florida, Santaluces High School drama teacher Andrew Foster, 27, faces charges in connection to having sexual relationships with two of his female students. Both were 17. The charges include unlawful sexual activity with a minor, child abuse, and transmission of pornography by electronic device.

He used his office, the school’s auditorium, catwalks, the theater’s control room, restrooms, and closets to have sex with the two girls. He would also send them X-rated cell phone pictures. Finally, he impregnated one student twice and signed off on her abortion.

The real tragedy was that the girl (known as D.N.) was in love with him and recorded this in her diary. It was not until she looked at Foster’s cellphone and saw that he was text messaging another girl that she confronted him. He admitted he was having sex with the other girl. That is when D.N. went to the police.

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In Clewiston, Florida, teacher Jeffrey Scott Holsclaw, 49, was arrested for seeking sex from a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He faces charges of procuring prostitution of a minor, sex offenses on a victim between the ages of 12 to 15-years-old, and obscene communication on a computer to seduce or solicit a minor.

Via Craigslist, an undercover officer connected online with Holsclaw at 10:30 a.m. when Holsclaw was at work at Clewiston Middle School. The police report says that Holsclaw was looking for “GFE.” This is a code that mean a “girlfriend experience.” Holsclaw told the decoy he did not want to rush the session. He also wanted oral sex and agreed to pay $150, but then increased the amount to $250 so he would not have to wear a condom. (Geez, $100 more for a STD - no thanks!)

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In Tampa, Florida, ninth grade Middleton High School special ed teacher, Christina Butler, 33, has been charged with lewd and lascivious battery for having sex with a 15-year-old student.

The relationship was discovered when the victim and his friends were pulled over when driving Butler’s Jeep. Police called Butler to the scene. While they were waiting, one of the passengers told police that the teenage driver was in a sexual relationship with Butler. When she arrived, she told officers that the relationship was platonic. However, she later admitted it was sexual and ‘fessed up to having sex with the student no more than a dozen times.

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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 Immokee, Florida, U.S. Marshalls arrested drama teacher, Andrew L. Foster, 27, after a two week manhunt. He’d been on the run from Boynton Beach (Florida) and school board police for more than two weeks after being charged with having sex with two 17-year-old Santaluces High School students, one of whom became pregnant.

Foster was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, child abuse, transmission of harmful material to minors and transmission of pornography by electronic device for sending sexually explicit photos and videos over his cell phone to the two girls.

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In Pinellas Park, Florida, at Oak Park/CEP School a group of 14- and 15-year-old students started a commotion in a classroom. One of the students was harrassing teacher, Roslyn Holloway, 47. After leaving the classroom, teacher Bryant Alexander, 35, entered the classroom to restore order.

Holloway then returned with a two older students, one 16 and the other 17. Alexander let them shout profanities and bereate the younger students while he sat in the back of the room. Holloway stood at the door but did not enter.

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In Stuart, Florida at South Fork High School, a 16-year-old student said teacher Shawn Trotter, 35, coerced her into having sex with him three times in a school storage room. Trotter is facing three charges of sexual intercourse with a minor, and may face a minimum of more than 17 years in prison if he’s convicted .

Seems a possibility since there’s DNA evidence to prove the charges.

Police detectives sent samples of the storage room carpet in for analysis. Tests found Trotter’s seminal fluid mixed with the girl’s DNA and at least one other person’s. Sherrif’s dectectives are still trying to find the other victim.

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On a field trip to Washington, D.C., teacher Jesus Garcia got drunk, cursed at students, spanked them, and flung one on a bed. And now parents are outraged that no charges were filed against the soccer coach and ESL instructor for Immokalee Community School. Florida’s Department of Children and Families is investigating.

After a five-day field trip to Washington, D.C., five fifth graders were in their room at the Embassy Suites when Garcia told the group he was going downstairs and would return in 10 minutes. He returned an hour later drunk off his ass and smelling like booze.

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In Marianna, Florida, Marianna High School wrestling coach and teacher, Stuart Mahler, may be charged with two counts of child abuse. The sherrif’s office received complaints via the Department of Children and Families abuse hotline. Mahler, who taught physical education and driver’s education, was accused of threatening and causing injury to some students.

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At Glenallen Elementary in Sarasota County, Florida, teacher Anthony Presto was hired after administrators performed a routine background check. This consisted of a fingerprint search and talking to references. Yet Presto had been fired in Massachusetts for giving drugs and alcohol to his students, as well as touching several girls inappropriately.

The problem is that most Florida school districts rely on teaching job applicants to disclose past transgressions - and most sexual predators don’t fess up…duh.

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