Teacher Smackdown

Update to:

Teacher Kelsey Peterson Caught in Mexico After Kidnapping 13-Year-Old Student

Kelsey Peterson, the Nebraska schoolteacher accused of having sex with her 13-year-old male student Fernando Rodriguez and then fleeing with him to Mexico, is now in more legal trouble. Peterson is going through a custody battle for her eight-year-old daughter. She had left the girl with her her parents before escaping with the boy,

Now the girl’s father, William Alexander Long who lives in McKinney, Texas, has temporary custody of the girl.

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UPDATE to Teacher Kelsey Peterson Caught in Mexico After Kidnapping 13-Year-Old Student

Kelsey Peterson, 25, the Nebraska middle school teacher who fled to Mexico with her 13-year-old student, Fernando Rodriguez, has agreed to be returned from California to Nebraska. She faces federal charges that she fled to Mexico for the purpose of having sex with the boy.

It is expected that Peterson will be sent back to Nebraska to face federal charges of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. The offense is punishable by 10 years to life in prison. Peterson also faces several charges in state court including felony kidnapping and child abuse. Peterson will not be prosecuted in both federal and state court, but a decision on which court will handle the case has not yet been made. (I am hoping for federal court since she fled through several states into a foreign country.)

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Kelsey Peterson, a 25-year-old single mother and sixth grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School in Nebraska was having a sexual relationship with her former 13-year-old student. According to the boy’s family, the relationship began in 2006 when he was 12-years-old.

A police investigation found affectionate emails and love letters between the two on her school laptop computer. Now Peterson is now facing charges of kidnapping, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for kidnapping the boy after leaving Nebraska with him and taking the child to Mexico. If she is found guilty of the federal crime of taking a minor across state lines and over the U.S. border for the purpose of having sex with him, Peterson could get 10 years in prison.

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In Lincoln Nebraska, power-lifting coach and youth volunteer, James C. Hart, 48, is jailed on charges of possessing and creating a child pornography video.

Hart used a MySpace account to persuade underage girls to take nude pictures of themselves and send them to him. Using the screen name “J-C,” his profile said he was 18-years-old and had over 1,000 MySpace friends.

A mom who found sexually explicit images of her 16-year-old daughter on the family PC started the investigation. (Way to go mom!) She found out that Hart was coercing her daughter to send him more and more pictures via his MySpace account.

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In Omaha, Nebraska, Florence Elementary third-grade teacher Krista Crosby, 34, was arrested and will be fired for bringing heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia to school.

A paraprofessional that worked with Crosby found the bag of narcotics and brought it to school officials who contacted police. She was then arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance-heroin, possession of marijuana less than an ounce, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Her bond was set at $25,000.

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