Teacher Smackdown

In Barnwell, South Carolina, Steve Walling was served with six (!) warrants for counts of committing a lewd act on a child under 16. He was caught “improperly touching children” according to news reports.

Walling is a physical education teacher at Barnwell Elementary School. He also helps coach the middle school football team.

Police say the incidents involved a fourth grade girl and happened during the past two years. I am not sure that this means the sexual abuse started when she was in second grade - that means the girl was around seven-years-old folks! Still a fourth grader is only nine years old.

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In South Carolina, Dwight Lawing, 39, was arrested for having inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old student. Lawing is the band teacher at Wallace Elementary/Middle School. He is formally charged with criminal sexual misconduct with a minor, and with dissemination of a harmful material to a minor. (I am guessing that the “harmful material” is either porn, alcohol, or drugs.)

During the past year, the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office had received several complaints about the teacher. However, they could not move forward with an investigation or arrest since they had no factual information. They finally proceeded after the 15-year-old victim contacted police about what happened to him/her. (The identity of the victim is being hidden because of his/her age, and I don’t want to assume it is a girl. Boys get molested, too.)

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In South Carolina, two white female teachers were arrested for having sex with their black students - six boys in all ranging in age from 11 to 15. The arrest of Wendie Schweikert, 37 and Allenna Ward, 24, have sparked accusations of racism.

Wendie Schweikert was arrested after the mother of an 11-year-old boy accused her of having sex with the boy at school and in her car. Allenna Ward, a minister’s daughter, was charged with having sex with at least five boys at the Clinton, SC middle school where she taught. She had sex with the boys - ages 14 and 15 - at school, a motel, in a park, and behind a restaurant.

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