Teacher Smackdown

In Houston, Texas, history teacher Alison Mosbeck, 33, was charged with the sexual abuse of a child for having an intimate relationship with a 14-year-old male student.

Mosbeck is free on $80,000 bail and has been ordered not to have contact with children 17 and younger. She faces punishment ranging from probation to 20 years in prison if convicted. I am guessing since she is young, attractive and a strawberry blond, she’ll get a fairly light light conviction like Carrie McCandless even though the boy is pretty young.

I would bet the farm that she will get probation, lose her teaching license, get on the sex offender roles, and possibly serve a couple of months in jail - if that.

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In Houston, Texas, Smiley High School teacher and coach Donald Carpenter, 45, is charged with improper relationship with a minor student, which is a felony. Police arrested him after he was accused of having sex with one of his female special ed students.

His 17-year-old victim told police she met Carpenter when she was assigned to his special education class where she was taking courses for the TAKS test. She told investigators that she was alone with Carpenter and one other student most of the time even though other students were assigned to the class.

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In Rio Hondo, Texas, junior high school teacher Stephen Lucas was arrested in August and charged with three counts of deadly conduct, two counts of making terroristic threats, one count of unlawfully carrying of a weapon, and one count of evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

Busy guy, wow.

School board members have told the superintendent and school district’s attorney to begin the termination procedures. The board wants him to be out of contact with students, and will permit him to resign. Currently, Lucas is suspended with pay.

I’m guessing that Lucas is being let go because of some kind of “good behavior clause” in his contract. However, I’m always disturbed when school districts let abusive or trouble-making teachers resign.

I don’t know if a fear of lawsuits or the teacher’s union, but as a parent I would like bad teachers fired, like, immediately.

Stephen Lucas, deadly conduct, terroristic threats, unlawfully carrying of a weapon, evading arrest with a motor vehicle

In Plano Texas, former substitute teacher, Jason Joel Pearce, 33, was accused of groping and taking pictures of a topless 15-year-old Williams High School student. He was acquitted of sexually assaulting the girl, but convicted indecency and sexual performance of a child.

Sexual performance of a child is punishable by two to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Indecency with a child is a second- or third-degree felony, with a second-degree felonies punishable by two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

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Louis William Conradt Jr.’s shot and killed himself when TV producers from NBC’s Predator show and police showed up at his door. Conradt Jr., 57, an assistant county prosecutor, had been engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an adult posing as a 13-year-old boy.

Now his sister, Patricia Conradt, is suing NBC Universal Inc. for $105 million.

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