Teacher Smackdown

In Las Vegas, special education teacher Mamie Hubbard-Washington,64, is accused of child abuse against her students. She beat her seven- and eight-year-old special education students at Doris Reed Elementary with a yard stick and grabbed them so hard that she left bruises. This wonderful example of a teacher is charged with five felony child abuse counts.

Hubbard-Washington was recently in court for her preliminary hearing. Her assistants, the school’s principal, and the children’s parents took the stand. They testified that the helpless special needs children - some of whom can not talk - were abused.

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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 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 Maryland, the Howard County Board of Education fired Joseph Samuel Ellis, 26, a Glenelg High School teacher accused of sexually abusing two female students. The board is also in the process of terminating two other teachers charged with sexual offenses - River Hill High School science teacher Alan Beier and Marriotts Ridge High School special education teacher Kirsten Kinley.

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In Lakewood, Colorado, teacher’s aide April T. Robertson, 32, was arrested on three charges of felony sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

A 15-year-old male student at Sobesky Academy, a day treatment program for special education students, told his family about the sexual contact. His parents informed the school of the sexual assault that allegedly occurred in December after the boy and Robertson met at a Denver area shopping mall. They left the mall in Robertson’s car and went to a nearby park to make out.

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