Elizabeth Livesay
11-18-08

Gilbert police on Monday arrested a Carson Junior High School teacher accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old.

Elizabeth Livesay was booked into jail on suspicion of 11 counts of sexual conduct with a minor, Lt. Eric Shuhandler said.

"There is no indication that the victim was a student of Elizabeth's or that the crimes were committed at the school," Shuhandler said. The crimes were alleged to have been committed in Gilbert.

A school counselor contacted police when the alleged sexual contact came to light, Shuhandler said. Livesay was arrested at the end of the school day at Carson Junior High.

"It's unfortunate when people make bad choices like this because it affects every educator in every school district," said Kathy Bareiss, a spokeswoman for Mesa Public Schools. "Our job is to protect every student."

Mesa teacher arrested in sex case involving teen (11/18/08)
Valley teacher arrested for sexual conduct with a minor (11/18/08)

Vincent Petti
11-03-08

Buckeye police have arrested a Verrado High School employee who allegedly showed an indecent photograph to three female students on school grounds.

Vincent Petti, 26, an Avondale resident, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail Wednesday on three felony counts of furnishing harmful materials to a minor.

The three female students told police that Petti showed the photograph to them on the school campus sometime within the last month.

School officials said Petti, an in-school suspension coordinator and an assistant boys football coach at Verrado High School, was suspended Monday morning after the allegations arose.  Agua Fria School District administration continues to review all allegations and will consider further disciplinary action.

Football coach arrested for allegedly showing indecent photo (11/03/08)

Tawni Wimberley
10-31-08

A former Flagstaff High School teacher will spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender. Tawni Wimberley pled guilty to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor involving two former male students. Wimberley entered the plea in late September.

In court on Thursday, she took responsibility for her actions. "I was the adult. And I have to hold myself accountable. I screwed up. It wasn't the victims' fault, it was no one else's fault. It was mine," Wimberley said.

Judge Dan Slayton suspended her six month jail sentence. "I am suspending that sentence based upon your continued attendance and completion of counseling," said Slayton.

Although she is not facing jail time, Wimberley will have to perform 100 hours of community service and be on supervised probation for the next three years. Judge Slayton also said she cannot have any contact with the victims. She is also not allowed to have unsupervised contact with non-immediate family children under the age of 18.

Former teacher sentenced for sexual misconduct (10/31/08)
Flagstaff high teacher guilty of sex with student (10/01/08)
Ex-teacher faces more sex charges (04/26/08)
Wimberley passed all background checks (03/26/08)
Former teacher indicted on teen sex charge (03/26/08

D. Ryan Jones
10-24-08

A middle school teacher in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler has been arrested on charges of child molestation.

D. Ryan Jones is accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl at his Tempe home last summer.

Police reports say he admitted to touching the girl's genitals on two separate occasions on June 6 and 7.

He is being held on suspicion of 3 counts of molestation of a child and one count of sexual conduct with a minor.

Jones taught social studies at Andersen Junior High. The school sent a letter to parents yesterday explaining the arrest and said the girl was not a student at the school.

New Chandler teacher accused of molestation (10/24/08)

Clyde Imhoff
10-21-08

Yuma police have arrested a teacher for investigation of one count of sexual exploitation of a minor.

Police said Clyde Imhoff, 49, was booked after a search warrant was served Tuesday evening on Imhoff's Yuma residence, where detectives seized a computer and other items.

Police said they began an investigation about two weeks ago after someone reported that Imhoff allegedly had pornographic images of children on his computer.

Investigators said additional sexual exploitation charges are likely against Imhoff, who has taught in the Yuma area for several years.

He currently is listed as a special education-SEI teacher at Mohawk Valley School in Roll.

Yuma teacher arrested in child porn case (10/21/08)
Yuma, Ariz., teacher arrested in child porn case (10/21/08)
Teacher Arrested on Child Porn Charges (10/21/08)

Bradley Jason Key
09-25-08

Bradley Jason Key, 28, a physical education teacher at the Toltec Middle School in Eloy, Arizona has been arrested on three counts of sexual conduct with a local 17-year-old girl.

The Toltec Elementary School District sent home a letter to parents last Tuesday informing them as to the situation with their former staff member. After investigations, they've assured parents that Key's conduct was in no way connected with students within the Toltec district.

"There haven't been any indications whatsoever that any of our students were involved," Superintendent Sylvia Mejia told the Enterprise.

According to the letter, the district has placed Key on administrative leave.

Key was a popular teacher with the students, and had been in the district for four years, having transferred to the middle school form Toltec Elementary three years ago. He had even been selected as teacher of the month in August.

"I was at that assembly, and when the principal called out his name as being selected, the kids were just so excited," Mejia said.

Toltec teacher arrested in sex crime against teen (09/25/08)

Gay Lyn Turley
08-19-08

A Former Mesa High School teacher and coach was sentenced to 10 years probation on Friday.

Gay Turley had earlier pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with a former student.

The student, now 20 years old, told police Turley took advantage of her when she was 16.

Detectives said Turley coerced the student, taking advantage of the girl's troubled history, and started a sexual affair that continued until 2007. The judge could have sentenced Turley to 1 year in prison. Judge Helene Abrams ruled Turley will also have to register as a sex offender.

Former Mesa teacher faces 10 years probation for sex contact (09/19/08)
Ex-coach pleads guilty to sexual conduct with minor (09/19/08)
Victim upset after coach changes plea in sex case (07/24/08)
Mesa High teacher pleads not guilty to having sex with student (1/17/08)
Student victim in sex scandal has criminal record (12/20/07)
Mesa High teacher and coach arrested in sex case (12/20/07)
Mesa Teacher Admits To Student Sex (12/19/07)
Mesa teacher admits to lesbian relationship with former student (12/19/07)

Terence Greenwood
08-24-08

A former volunteer Sunday school teacher pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts involving the sexual molestation of young children who were under his care during classes at a Chandler church, the Maricopa County Attorney's office said.

Police arrested Terence Greenwood, 63, last December in connection with the molestation of a 5-year-old girl.

The abuse occurred during church services in a classroom designated for children's Sunday school sessions at the Chandler United Methodist Church, which at the time was on Chandler Boulevard near Arizona Avenue. The abuse also happened at Greenwood's home.

Ex-Sunday school teacher facing prison in molestation case (08/24/08)

Tom Porras
08-17-08

The Arizona Court of Appeals has agreed to hear arguments over a Maricopa County Superior Court judge’s decision to dismiss a sexual misconduct case against former Scottsdale Saguaro High School assistant football coach Tom Porras.

Judge Helene Abrams ruled in February to grant defense attorney Amy Nguyen’s motion that Scottsdale police had violated Porras’ Fifth Amendment constitutional right to remain silent when he told officers three times during questioning that he wanted to talk to a lawyer.

 However, Porras, now 50, continued to answer questions from officers about an alleged “athletic massage” he gave to a 17-year-old girl at his home in April 2007, when she was wearing a bikini. Porras admitted to performing an inappropriate act over the girl after the former substitute teacher pulled down her bikini bottoms as she was resting over an exercise ball, according to court documents.

Court to hear arguments in dismissed sex case (08/17/08)
‘Athletic massage’ case back in the courts (08/11/08)
Sex-abuse case against Scottsdale teacher dismissed (2/27/08)
Confessions in Saguaro sex abuse case tossed (1/22/08)
Ruling due on coach's sex case confession (12/21/07)
Scottsdale teacher rejects deal in sex case (10/16/07)
Coach In Sex Abuse Case In Court
Saguaro High substitute teacher and coach arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse

Heather Chesser
08-06-08

A substitute teacher formerly in the Cumberland County school system has pleaded guilty to an information to the charge of statutory rape and will face a sentencing hearing in Criminal Court on Sept. 26.

Heather Michelle Chesser, 27, who at the time of her arrest in January listed a Griever's Chapel Rd. address, was originally indicted by the Cumberland County Grand Jury on two counts each of statutory rape by an authority figure and sexual battery by an authority figure.

In an information filed with the court by her attorney, Assistant Public Defender Cynthia Lyons, and accepted by Assistant District Attorney General Gary McKinzie and Judge Leon Burns, Chesser waived her right to grand jury action and pleaded guilty to the new charge.

Substitute teachers pleads to statutory rape (07/24/08)
Teacher asks for appointed attorney in sex case (1/28/08)
Substitute teacher to appear in court Jan. 25 on sex charges (1/14/08)
Cumberland Co. teacher accused of having sex with student (1/10/08)
Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Student (1/10/08)
E. Tenn female teacher charged with having sex with male student (1/10/08)

Herbert Allen
07-31-08

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) last week arrested 63-year-old Herbert “Herb” Allen on a charge of aggravated assault with sexual motivation involving a 13-year-old school student. Allen is employed as a custodian at the Model Creek School located on Hays Ranch Road in Peeples Valley. The 13-year-old student victim told her mom that during late June of, Allen requested her to meet him in a back room to talk. She complied and once inside the room with Allen, he gave her a hug.

Allen then allegedly followed the hug by kissing the 13-year-old on the lips for several seconds. The whole ordeal made the victim feel very uncomfortable and she eventually reported Allen’s actions to her mother. Deputies also learned that Allen had given the victim “special” hugs in the past, would hold her hands, and look her over when they were in the same area of the school. These actions by Allen caused the victim to remain uncomfortable whenever in his presence.

Custodian arrested on sex charge (07/30/08)

Jeremy Ross Calvert
06-27-08

County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced today that Jeremy Ross Calvert, 21 (DOB 9/2/86), has been sentenced to 2 years in prison and lifetime probation for charges related to sexual contact with a student at Higley High School.

Calvert, who worked at the Gilbert school as an aide to the band instructor, pled guilty on May 22, 2008 to two counts of Sexual Conduct with a Minor, class six felonies. The sentence was issued on June 27, 2008 in the courtroom of Judge David Udall.

According to a Gilbert Police probable cause statement, Calvert had sexual contact with a female student in a sound proof practice room. The victim was taking a private drum lesson from Calvert at the time. "Our schools cannot tolerate sexual predators to be among its students," said Thomas. "I am grateful that this defendant got the maximum prison sentence."

Former aide gets 2 years in prison for sexual contact with student (06/27/08)

Scott Zemojtel
06-13-08

The school board accepted the resignation of Scott Zemojtel, 32, at a meeting Thursday night. Zemojtel was escorted from class by school officials April 17, two days after the school became aware of the situation.

He was accused of having sex more than 20 times with a girl who was 17 years old when the alleged relationship began. Zemojtel will not face criminal charges. Police said that the victim, now 18, refused to assist them in the investigation. Zemojtel and the student met at the beginning of the school year when the girl started his class, police records show.

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Victor Scott McPeak Jr
06-11-08

Court documents show a former Surprise charter-school teacher has pleaded not guilty in three felony cases that charge he inappropriately touched female students and had child pornography on his personal computers.

Victor Scott McPeak Jr., 37, faces charges in U.S. District Court and Maricopa County Superior Court after he was caught up in three separate investigations earlier this year.

McPeak had taught fifth-graders at Arizona Charter Academy in Surprise for nearly 5½ years.

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Students Allege Teacher Abused Them (4/01/08)
Surprise teacher arrested for viewing child pornography (3/19/08)

Stephen Hume
05-07-08

Former Thatcher Art teacher Stephen Hume’s pleaded guilty to 6 counts of voyeurism and surreptitious photography, one for each victim. He was sentenced to spend one year in the Graham County Jail.

His crime was discovered after one of his victims found a camera/video recording device while she was changing into clothes for an art project. Hume would instruct the girls to change in a storage closet where he had crudely set up a surveillance system to record them in a state of undress.

Upon completion of his probation, his probation officer may recommend Hume be removed from the sex offender registration.

Hume sentenced to one year, probation (05/07/08)
Judge defers acceptance of Hume plea until sentencing (2/24/08)
Hume to take plea (2/05/08)

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Jennifer Mally
05-07-07

Paradise Valley High School teacher was arrested Wednesday and accused of sexual misconduct with a minor, authorities said.

Phoenix police said the parents of the victim -- a 16-year-old male student whose identity was not released -- contacted the school about a possible sexual relationship between their son and Jennifer Mally, an English teacher and cheerleading coach, that may have been going on since October 2006. School officials notified police and Mally, 26, was arrested at the school's administrative offices and immediately placed on administrative leave.

Mally was booked into the Maricopa County jail in downtown Phoenix on 29 counts of sexual conduct with a minor, police said.

Former PV teacher gets 6 months for student sex (05/09/08)
Former teacher gets 6 months for sex with student (05/09/08)
Former Paradise Valley H.S. teacher sentenced to 6 mo. in jail (05/09/08)
PV teacher pleads guilty to sex charges involving minor (3/14/08)
PV teacher pleads guilty to student sex (3/14/08)
Teacher accused of having sex with student changes plea (3/14/08)
Teacher Accused of Sex with Student Pleads Guilty (3/14/08)
Teacher pleads guilty to sexual conduct with student (3/14/08)
House arrest conditions eased in teacher sex case (12/04/07)
Trial of teacher accused in sex crime postponed (10/05/07)
Trial date set for PV teacher in sex case
Police tapes shine light on teacher sex allegation
Another student says he had sex with teacher indicted in student-sex case
Teacher Enters Plea In Sex Case
Prominent lawyer to defend PV teacher in sex case
Arizona Teacher Busted for Alleged Sex With Student
Teacher in sex case placed on house arrest
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Bobby Kennedy
03-19-08

Former Apache Junction teacher and youth pastor Bobby Kennedy was arrested by U.S. Marshals Tuesday in Lawton, Oklahoma after being on the run for more than two years.

Kennedy was originally arrested in early 2005 when he was accused of molesting several teenage students at Morningstar Academy, a small charter school in Apache Junction. He posted $150,000 bail, but failed to appear for a Pinal County Superior Court hearing.

According to the East Valley Tribune, the Apache Junction police placed him on their “most wanted” list after he disappeared sometime after August 23, 2005. Soon after that, his mother and the school’s principal, Carolyn Kennedy, pleaded no contest to charges of failing to report abuse of a minor.

Former Valley teacher accused of molesting students captured (3/18/08)
Ex-A.J. teacher wanted by police arrested in Oklahoma (3/18/08)
Valley teacher accused of molesting students arrested (3/18/08)

Angela Csader
02-15-08

For six months, teacher Angela Csader walked into her kindergarten classroom with a secret.

The 25-year-old Queen Creek woman was arrested in July on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old Gilbert boy - a boy who fathered her child.

Yet officials at Anthem Elementary School and the Florence Unified School District said they knew nothing about it. She continued to teach students during a half-year span when she appeared multiple times before a Maricopa County court and was on supervised release with a curfew.

"Because it was out of our county and jurisdiction, there were limited ways we could find out about it," district spokesman Larry Cline said. "We don't check the Web sites every day for this."

Ex-teacher who had sex with teen gets 3 months (04/30/08)
Teacher pleads to sexual conduct with minor (3/28/08)
Educator kept teaching after sex arrest (2/15/08)
Florence teacher worked for 6 months after teen-sex arrest (2/15/08)
Florence teacher worked for 6 months after teen-sex arrest (2/15/08)