Teacher Smackdown

In the Paso Robles School District in California, Cora Marie Solorio, a teacher’s aide at Flamson Middle School, pleaded no contest to committing a lewd act on a child under age 14 and to two charges of having oral sex with a child under age 14. Solorio’s getting nine months in jail, five years of probation, and mandatory lifetime registration as a sex offender.

Think she’s getting off easy because she’s a young woman? I do.

A no-contest plea results in a conviction without the accused admitting guilt. Supposedly she has shown remorse and got depressed when she realized what she had done. Geez, I’d be depressed about getting caught doing the nasty with a 13-year-old, too. Especially if I was the mom of three-year-old twins, and a six-year-old boy.

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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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In Nevada, Christine Cameron Johnson, 28, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Johnson, a teacher at Squaw Valley Academy, was engaged in a sexual relationship with an underage male student and provided alcohol to him. She taught history and SAT classes at the private boarding school.

Toward the end of the school year, rumors had spread about Johnson’s innapropriate relationship with one particular student. However, most of the students didn’t know that Johnson was arrested, since it happened after school let out.

The victim’s name is not being disclosed by the sheriff’s department because he the underage victim of a sex crime. Johnson has pleaded not guilty to the charges and was ordered not to be in contact with the victim.

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Christine Cameron Johnson, Squaw Valley Academy, sexual abuse, unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor

Occasionally I get accused of not reporting postive outcomes about teachers who have been cleared of abuse charges. So here’s one for the record…

Sexual abuse charges against Sebastian Moore, a coach and physical education teacher with Russell County Middle School in Ohio, were dismissed as the judged ordered a directed verdict for acquittal. Moore had been indicted on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse alleging he inappropriately touched a 17-year-old special education student on school property.

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In Minnesota, Montgomery Middle School teacher Troy Michael Bernard, 35, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with a 15-year-old student.

Bernard began his sexual relationship with the student last summer when she was 14. He was her volleyball coach at the time. Bernard taught fifth grade and coached girls’ track and volleyball.

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Former Parma, Idaho middle school teacher Randy Eddy, 37, was convicted on two counts of sexual battery involving a 15-year-old female student. After serving serving six months of his original 10-year prison sentence he was granted parole after taking part in a “boot camp” and sexual offender treatment program.

Based on Eddy’s performance in the program, the judge decided he was ready for parole even though prosecuting attorney thought Eddy had not expressed remorse to the victim. (In court proceedings up to his sentence hearing, Eddy continually denied the charges of sexual abuse of the victim. However, he finally acknowledged that he had sexual relations with the victim and that he had lied to members of the community.)

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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 Philadelphia, Tohickon Middle School substitute teacher and swim coach Jeffrey Anderson, 23, is charged with sexually assaulting two ninth-grade girls, ages 14 and 15, in a classroom. He also used emails and his cell phone to arrange another meeting for sex at one of the girl’s homes.

Anderson is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and criminal use of communications devices.

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In Alabama, Victor LaBaron Payne, 36, was convicted on charges of second-degree rape, sexual abuse and enticing a minor for immoral purposes last month. However, new charges filed by a second victim include rape in the first and second degrees, sexual abuse in the first and second degrees, and enticement of a child for immoral purposes.

Payne already faces up to 31 years on the first case. Now he’s looking at life in prison if he’s convicted in the second one. Not only that, but there is a third case pending against the former Escambia County Middle School teacher and coach.

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Berryville Elementary School teacher Betty Cox was put on the Arkansas Child Maltreatment Central Registry earlier this month for bullying students in her care. People are placed on the list if investigators find evidence of verbal or physical abuse.

The alleged abuse involved student Jerry Lou Schoe, 12. The boy’s father, Richard Schoe claims Cox berated his son’s intelligence, wouldn’t provide a book he needed for an assignment, and put him in a seat away from other students for six days in a row. Schoe claims his son considered committing suicide over these incidents, and they now homeschool their son.

The Schoes weren’t the only parents who had problems with Cox. Christi Armer said Cox constantly yelled at her 13-year-old son and once poked him in the chest. Another parent, Jo Butler, said her 13-year-old daughter was afraid to attend Cox’s class.

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Sounds like the New York City school bus system - which transports 142,000 public and private school students daily - is in huge trouble.

Here are just a few examples:

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In Bethlehem, Pa., Nitschmann Middle School Principal John Acerra was arrested for selling crystal methamphetamine from his office after school and on weekends. There is no evidence that he sold drugs to students at the school.

After making a deal to sell a police informant meth, police found Accerra in his school office naked, watching gay pornography, with sex toys, meth and a glass drug pipe nearby.

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