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Gil Raimundo Cancel-Comas
09-07-08

A former Tallahassee high-school teacher and tutor was found guilty Friday of molesting a 13-year-old Texas girl a year and a half ago.

After a daylong trial, Gil Raimundo Cancel-Comas, 31, was convicted of lewd and lascivious conduct, lewd and lascivious molestation, attempted lewd and lascivious battery, interference with child custody and contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a minor, said Assistant State Attorney John Hutchins.

Defense attorney John Eagen said the jury returned the verdict about 8 p.m., after 40 minutes of deliberating. He said his client will likely file an appeal after sentencing, which is set for Oct. 15.

"Obviously, we're disappointed with the verdict, but this is a system of justice that we live in and practice in, and we have to abide by the jury's decision," Eagen said.

Cancel-Comas was arrested in February 2007 after driving to Big Springs, Texas, to pick up the girl and take her to Tallahassee, Leon County Sheriff's Office deputies said. Cancel-Comas was 29 when he began chatting with the girl on the Internet the year before.

"As they were chatting, the victim in the case told him she was 15, and he told her he was 21," Hutchins said in his opening statement. More


Adrienne LaFlamme
09-02-08

Adrienne LaFlammeThe attorney for the former Brevard County teacher charged with having sex with a student and his friend has accused prosecutors of filing charges at the last minute to keep her in jail.

Adrienne Laflamme, 60, was arrested June 25 on charges that she began having sex with a 17-year-old male student soon after his May release from the Juvenile Detention Center in Sharpes, where she taught science for about eight years.

Her bond was set at $225,500 on 15 felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor and one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report.

Lawyer Doug Beam said he believes prosecutors purposely waited until July 28 to file formal charges against Laflamme, among other contentions. Prosecutors deny they filed charges to keep Laflamme in jail.

Assistant State Attorney Julia Lynch said prosecutors couldn't make a filing decision until they had thoroughly reviewed the evidence, and the formal charges filed July 28 reflect the entirety of information culled during the course of their investigation.

Lawyer: Bond for ex-teacher in sex case too high (09/02/08)
60-Year-Old Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Teen Repeatedly
(06/26/08)
Female Teacher, 60, Had Sex With Boys, Police Say (06/26/08)
60-year-old female teacher faces charges of having sex with student (06/25/08)
Ex-Brevard teacher faces 25 felonies (07/31/08)
Brevard teacher accused of sex with minor faces judge (06/26/08)
60-year-old teacher faces 15 counts of sex violations with a minor (06/26/08)
Teacher, 60, Arrested for Sex With Teens (06/26/08)
Florida teacher, 60, had sex with teens (06/26/08)
Teacher, 60, Accused Of Sex With Boys (06/26/08)
60-Year-Old Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Teen Repeatedly (06/26/08)
Female Teacher, 60, Had Sex With Boys, Police Say (06/26/08)


Vincent Askew
08-19-08

Vincent AskewIf the name Vincent Askew sounds familiar, he played in the NBA from 1994-98.

He played for Seattle, Denver, Indiana, New Jersey, and Portland. He is now sitting in the county jail charged with three counts of sexual battery on a 16-year-old. The consensual sex allegedly took place in May at a Ramada hotel down the street from Dadeland Mall.

He allegedly told the victim that he was recruiting for Gulliver Prep girls' basketball team. She did not attend the school.

CBS4's David Sutta spoke with Gulliver staff, and they told him he supervised the pool at the middle school for a month. They were considering hiring him as a coach. He had even passed a criminal background check.

Detectives contacted the school three days ago when they couldn't find Askew. It turns out he was staying in a hotel in Doral. The school staged a meeting and when he showed up the cops arrested him.

Former NBA Player Accused Of Kendall Sex Assault (08/14/08)
Former NBA Player Arrested For Sex Crimes Against Miami Teen (08/14/08)


Ryan C. Wilborn
08-19-08

Ryan C. Wilborn

A volunteer assistant band coach for Palm Harbor University High School was arrested Monday on charges he inappropriately touched one band member and had sex with another on several occasions, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.

Ryan C. Wilborn, 22, of 2554 Splitwood Way, Clearwater, was charged with one count each of lewd and lascivious molestation and lewd and lascivious battery. He was released early today from Pinellas County Jail after posting $40,000 bail.

The victims are 16-year-old girls who were 15 at the time of the offenses, the sheriff's office said.

Wilborn is accused of having consensual sex with one of the girls at the Greater Palm Harbor Branch of the YMCA, in a Publix supermarket parking lot, at the girl's home and at Palm Harbor University High School, 1900 Omaha St., Sgt. Jim Bordner said.

Man Accused Of Soliciting Teens Was Arrested Before (08/19/08)
Deputies: Band coach arrested for sex with students
(04/08/08)
Pinellas band coach faces student sex charges (04/08/08)
Volunteer band coach accused of sex with students (04/08/08)


Werner Bloch
08-16-08

The former teacher, dormitory supervisor and tennis coach at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg had a secret habit: viewing and trading child pornography on the Internet.

Bloch, 41, was sentenced this morning to six years in federal prison, about 10 years less than provided in federal sentencing guidelines, after two defense experts testified he is unlikely to break the law again.

A former student, Brian Vogel, 24, told U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew he knew Bloch for seven years. He lived next to him in a dormitory for three to four years and went to the mall with him on weekends.

"I never would have imagined anything like this," said Vogel, who said he just graduated from college with a degree in criminology. Bloch, he said, "taught me values I still carry with me. … He has just always been an incredible person."

Bonnie Saxman said Bloch taught both her children and was a family friend. They traveled together to the U.S. Open, she said. "I've never seen anything improper at all, never heard anyone else even suggest there was a problem whatsoever."

But, as Bloch tells it, for eight or nine years, he was viewing child pornography on his computer. It was, he said, "my drug," the place he could escape his problems.

Ex-teacher sentenced for child porn (08/15/08)
Ex-St. Pete Teacher Gets 6 Years In Child Porn Case (08/15/08)
Former St. Pete teacher sentenced for kiddie porn (08/15/08)


Joel Matthew Cupp
08-15-08

A Trinity Oaks Elementary teacher was arrested Thursday on charges of soliciting sex from teenage girls on the Internet in a sting operation run by the state Attorney General's Office.

After his arrest, Joel Matthew Cupp, 29, resigned, Pasco County school officials said.

Cupp, of 5848 Thrush Drive, was arrested by New Port Richey police officers who are part of the attorney general's CyberCrime Unit.

Cupp thought he was talking online to three teenage girls, according to the Attorney General's Office. He was actually corresponding with undercover investigators, two with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office and one from the CyberCrime Unit.

The teacher also exposed himself to the "children" several times over a Web cam, the Attorney General's Office said.

Trinity Oaks Teacher Booked On Sex Charges (08/15/08)
Tampa CyberCrime Task Force Arrests Elementary School Teacher (08/14/08)
Pasco teacher arrested for online sex crimes (08/14/08)


Ronald Barche
08-08-08

Ronald BarcheNorth Port High School ROTC teacher Ronald Barche, 47, was arrested this morning for allegedly trying to seduce a 16-year-old girl via cell phone text messages.

According to North Port Police records, the girl said she and Barche had routinely exchanged text messages for an unspecified period and that on July 30, the messages turned sexual.

The girl reportedly sent naked photographs of herself to Barche using her cell phone and Barche propositioned her for sex in text messages.
The girl and her mother showed North Port police Barche’s text messages on Aug. 3.
Barche was arrested at his Rotonda West home in Charlotte County and taken to the Sarasota County Jail.

Teacher faces charges for texting student (08/07/08)
ROTC instructor sends teen girl sexual text messages (08/07/08)
North Port ROTC teacher sent sexual text messages to student, police say (08/07/08)


Stephanie Ragusa
08-07-08

Stephanie RagusaText messages between former Hillsborough County teacher Stephanie Ragusa and one of the students she is accused of having sex with were released today by the State Attorney's Office.

She told the boy she loved him, and they discussed dating and her giving him money, according to the messages, which were released in hundreds of pages of discovery documents. Also released was Ragusa's last will and testament, in which she addressed a student.

"Please finish school," she wrote in the will. "I cannot believe how lucky I was to have met you. Deep down, you are so warm + caring. Meet your potential, find love, happiness + a family of your own. U deserve no less." She also wrote that she wants to be cremated and have a teaspoon of her ashes thrown into the Gulf of Mexico and on the Forum in Rome.

In the text messages, she told a student about 12:30 p.m. March 2 that she needs to touch and kiss him.

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Stephanie Ragusa back in court (06/16/08)
Ragusa in court today (06/16/08)
Stephanie Ragusa back in court (06/12/08)
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Stephanie Ragusa Sends Letter To Nick Bollea (06/06/08)
Teacher accused in sex scandal writes to Nick Bollea (06/06/08)
Still smiling, Ragusa enters not-guilty plea (05/19/08)
State Files Formal Charges In Teacher-Students Sex Case (05/19/08)
Ragusa No Stranger To Turmoil (05/11/08)
Investigators: Ragusa had at least four victims (05/08/08)
Transcript Of Teacher-Student Conversation Released In Sex Case (05/08/08)
Stephanie Ragusa: “It will be all over the news” (05/08/08)
Bail Hearing Postponed Again In Teacher-Student Sex Case (05/02/08)
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Hillsborough teacher arrested for the third time (04/28/08)
New sex charges for Tampa teacher (04/28/08)
Hillsborough teacher suspected in sex crimes busted for third time (04/28/08)
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Teacher Charged For Sex With 2nd Student (04/16/08)
Teacher re-arrested on charge of sex with another student (04/15/08)
Hillsborough County Teacher arrested again (04/15/08)
Tampa teacher arrested, again! (04/15/08)
Teacher posts bail, placed on unpaid leave following sex charge (3/18/08)
Teacher Was Hired Despite Arrests (3/15/08)
Deputies: Teacher, boy had multiple sexual encounters (3/14/08)
Teacher arrested for having sex with student (3/13/08)
Teacher Accused Of Sex With Teen (3/13/08)

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AARON STEWART
07-31-08

AARON STEWARTInvestigators have arrested a Clearwater middle school teacher on charges that he had child pornography on his home computer.

Aaron J. Stewart, who teaches at Clearwater Intermediate Middle School, was arrested today by agents with the state Attorney General's CyberCrime Unit in Tampa.

Investigators tracked Stewart, 28, during an undercover Internet investigation that traced images of child pornography back to Stewart's computer, according to a news release from Attorney General Bill McCollum.

Pinellas teacher accused of swapping child porn (07/31/08)
Pinellas Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges (07/31/08)


Richard Carlsen
07-09-08

Richard CarlsenA Central Florida teacher's aide was arrested on suspicion of committing sex acts on two teen boys and helping them run away from home.

Marion County sheriff's deputies said Richard Carlsen, a Howard Middle School teacher, mentored two brothers, ages 15 and 17, for years and often took them on out-of-town trips.

Carlsen, 36, of Ocala, was charged with unlawful sex acts with a minor and interference with child custody.

Teacher’s Aide Accused Of Sex Acts On Boys (07/09/08)
Teacher’s aide charged with sex act with teen boy (07/09/08


Michael Tamayo
07-05-08

A former Tallahassee high school teacher will soon be headed to prison. The former Rickards High history teacher was arrested last spring and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old student.

"The plea of no contest is basically I don't deny and I don't agree to it, but my best interest is to take this plea deal and Mr. Tamayo wanted to move forward from this, that's why he accepted these terms," said attorney Tim Jansen.

According to the plea deal, Tamayo will spend four years in prison and another six years on sex offender probation.

Former Teacher Headed to Prison on Sex Charges (07/05/08)
Teacher Sentenced in Sex Case (07/16/08)
Former Teacher Headed to Prison on Sex Charges (07/03/08)
Former Rickards High teacher pleads no contest on sex charge (07/03/08)
Teacher resigns after sex accusation
Teacher Accused of Sex with Student Resigns (7/17/07)
Tallahassee Teacher Accused of Having Sex with Student
Local teacher faces sex charge


Adrienne LaFlamme
06-26-08

Adrienne LaFlammePalm Bay police arrested a 60-year-old Brevard County teacher late Wednesday night and charged her with 15 counts of unlawful sex with a 17-year-old male she taught days earlier.

Adrienne LaFlamme of Palm Bay is a long-time employee of Brevard County District Schools, and taught science at the Juvenile Detention Center located in Sharpes. It was there where LaFlamme taught the 17-year-old inmate. Police say a few days after the inmate's release, LaFlamme made contact with the boy.

60-Year-Old Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Teen Repeatedly (06/26/08)
Female Teacher, 60, Had Sex With Boys, Police Say (06/26/08)
60-year-old female teacher faces charges of having sex with student (06/25/08)
Ex-Brevard teacher faces 25 felonies (07/31/08)
Brevard teacher accused of sex with minor faces judge (06/26/08)
60-year-old teacher faces 15 counts of sex violations with a minor (06/26/08)
Teacher, 60, Arrested for Sex With Teens (06/26/08)
Florida teacher, 60, had sex with teens (06/26/08)
Teacher, 60, Accused Of Sex With Boys (06/26/08)
60-Year-Old Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Teen Repeatedly (06/26/08)
Female Teacher, 60, Had Sex With Boys, Police Say (06/26/08)


Natalie Fraxedas
06-16-08

Natalie FraxedasThis sexual predator is going to continue to teach. maybe your child will be her next victim.

The Palm Beach County Spanish teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with one of her students, plans to find another job teaching.

Natalie Fraxedas, 23, admitted to school district police that she had an affair with one of her students from Santaluces High. Because the student was 18 and there was not a six-year age difference, police said they had no grounds to arrest her.

Santaluces High Principal Kathy Orloff did not renew Fraxedas' contract in March after police began investigating her, but Fraxedas is apparently looking to teach in another school district.

Teacher, student had sex, cops say (06/16/08)


Guillermo Triana-Prieto
06-15-08

A Miami-Dade substitute teacher has been arrested after being accused of fondling two 10-year-old girls at Dante B. Fascell Elementary School, police said.

Guillermo Triana-Prieto, 44, was released from a Miami-Dade jail Friday after posting bond.

School police charged him with two counts of lewd and lascivious assault on a minor.

According to police, Triana-Prieto was helping the two fourth graders on May 23 with their math work at the school, 15625 SW 80th St. While the textbooks were propped on their laps, he began touching them inappropriately over their clothes, police said.

The same day, the girls reported the allegations to another teacher during an end-of-the-year awards ceremony. Triana-Prieto of Miami has been a substitute teacher since 2004, records show. He has no prior criminal record in Florida.

Substitute teacher accused of fondling two girls, age 10 (06/13/08)


Brian Michael Lane
06-10-08

Brian Michael LaneA preschool teacher arrested Thursday after deputies accused him of fondling a 4-year-old boy was arrested again today on a charge of capital sexual battery, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.

Brian Michael Lane, 29, of 7751 Deerfoot Drive, New Port Richey, has been accused by detectives of touching a 10-year-old boy in a sexual way at least 10 times between January and March of this year, Pasco sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said.When Lane was arrested tonight, he requested a lawyer and refused to talk to detectives, Doll said.

When he was arrested Thursday, Lane was booked on lewd and lascivious molestation charges. Detectives said a 4-year-old boy was fondled during nap time at the Sugar Plum Daycare in Hudson.

Preschool Teacher Arrested 2nd Time, Faces Sex Charge (06/09/08)
Hudson day care worker charged with molesting child during naptime (06/06/08)
Deputies: Hudson Preschool Teacher Fondled 4-Year-Old (06/06/08)


Andreal Johnson
06-09-08

Andreal JohnsonWhat would Florida be without sand, beaches and perverted teachers? It would certainly be much safer than it is now.

Andreal Johnson, 33, is accused of bold statements and aggressive touching both on and off campus. Bold statements? What does this mean? read on...

One filing says he slipped into a substitute teacher's hotel room during a school-sponsored trip to Washington while the teacher slept. Johnson ate crab legs in her room and then called her "pretty woman" before making sexual gestures at the foot of her bed, according to the lawsuit. Sneaking into a room and eating crab legs? This is getting very interesting. He forced himself onto her and didn't leave until she kicked him and they rolled onto the floor, the suit alleges. It also claims Johnson tried to push the woman down an airport escalator at the end of their trip.

The woman told school administration, including Principal Antoine Russell, but received no response, the filing says. By then, Johnson's criminal record included convictions on charges of domestic violence and fondling a child. By the time he was fired from Everglades Prep in October, it included cruelty toward a child, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and smuggling drugs into a county jail.

Principal let teacher harass girls, faculty for years, suits claim (06/09/08)


Alice Meyers
06-07-08

Alice MeyerAlice Meyer, who worked with teenage inmates at the Duval County Jail is accussed of teaching a bit more than language. It seems she was teaching the language of love to one of the teens in jail.

A police report states that beginning in January, "it was alleged that the subject (Meyer) engaged in sexual intercourse with the potential victim on several occasions." The report also claims that "while the class would watch a movie, the subject and potential victim would sit next to one another underneath a blanket."

Police were tipped off by a juvenile witness who said Meyer had been accepting collect phone calls to her house from students and after listening to jail recordings from the conversations taking place it appeared that Meyer and potential victim were carrying on an inappropriate relationship.

Teacher Accused Of Sexual Relations With Jailed Teen (06/07/08)


Christine Jouini
06-06-08

Christine Jouini

I guess you can't even pay for a good private education anymore. This private teacher had sex with one of her students several times? Why? Looks like she could do better than a pimple-faced teen.

A female teacher at a Coral Springs private school was arrested today after being accused of having had a year-long sexual relationship with a teenage male student, police said.

Christine Jouini, 38, who is employed at The Center Academy but lived in Margate during the alleged incident , has been charged with three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, authorities said.Margate detectives began investigating after the boy recently confided to another teacher that he had previously had a sexual relationship with Jouini, Kolenda said.

The student said he had sex with Jouini on multiple occasions, off campus and at her residence, Kolenda said.

Coral Springs teacher charged with fourth felony count following sexual relationship with student (07/17/08)
Coral Springs teacher ‘totally innocent’ of sex charges, lawyer says (06/10/08)
Teacher Accused Of Sex With Student Released On Bond (06/09/08)
Coral Springs private school teacher accused of sex with student (06/06/08)
Teacher Arrrested For Alleged Affair With Student (06/06/08)


Danielle Jones
06-05-08

Danielle JonesSixth-grade middle school teacher from Auburndale is facing charges after the Polk County sheriff said she had sex with four teenage boys.

Danielle Jones, 32, had been the teacher of two of the boys at Stambaugh Middle School during the 2005-06 school year, Sheriff Grady Judd said during a news conference early this afternoon. Jones contacted the two boys during the summer of 2007 through their MySpace accounts, Judd said. Jones was 31 at the time, and the two boys were 14 and 15, Judd said.

Jones told the former students she missed them and arranged to pick them up and bring them to her house, where she had sex with both of them, investigators said.

Jones had sex with one of the students again on another date and later had sex with both of the boys at her house, Judd said. On the third occasion, the boys stayed all night, investigators said.

Jones is accused of having sex with one of the boys and his cousin, who was 16, at her home on a fourth occasion and of having sex with the second former student and his cousin, also 16, on a fifth occasion.

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Accused teacher’s bond: $200,000 (06/06/08)
Polk Teacher accused of having sex with four students (06/05/08)
Polk teacher arrested on sex charges (06/05/08)
Auburndale Woman Arrested In Teacher-Student Sex Case (06/05/08)


Matthew Devin Mcgaffigan
06-03-08

Matthew Devin Mcgaffigan

Police on Tuesday arrested a teacher at Indian River Correctional Institution, which houses teen male offenders, after a 14-year-old boy accused him of touching him inappropriately and watching pornography in front of him, according to an arrest affidavit.

Matthew Devin Mcgaffigan, 26, of the 100 block of Virginia Park Boulevard, faces three felony charges in connection with the events that happened at his apartment.

Hired in April 2007, Mcgaffigan is an academic teacher at Indian River Correctional Institution in Vero Beach, said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. She said he passed a background test before being hired.

Teacher at Vero Beach juvenile detention center facing sex charges involving boy (06/03/08)
Teacher accused of improper conduct with Fort Pierce teen (06/03/08)


Dale Bowe
06-03-08

Dale Bowe

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office found a body with a gunshot wound to the head. WINK News now has confirmation that the body found is Dale Bowe. He was the former band director accused of sexually abusing young boys.

Monday night the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office and Crime Scene Investigators were at a home at Temple Avenue in Port Charlotte. According to the Charlotte County Property Appraiser Dale Bowe owned the home.

Earlier this year Bowe was arrested accused of sexually abusing two students while on a trip to Walt Disney World.

Dale Bowe found dead (06/03/08)
Former band instructor facing sex charges found dead (06/03/08)
Disturbing new sex assault accusations against a SWFL teacher (05/16/08)
Ex-band instructor faces more sex charges (4/01/08)
New sex assault charges against former High School Band Director (3/22/08)
UPDATE: Band director arrested after claims of sex abuse (1/14/08)
Teacher resigns following sexual allegations, arrest (1/13/08)
High school band director arrested on sex charge (1/13/08)
Neighbors react to teacher’s arrest (1/12/08)


Demetrius Busby
05-30-08

Demetrius BusbyA Junior ROTC instructor at Sarasota High School has been accused of having sex with one of his students.

Detectives with the Sarasota Police Department arrested 45 year-old Demetrius Busby at the Sleep Inn on University Parkway. Investigators say the victim, a 15 year old student, told police he was having an ongoing sexual relationship with Busby.

The victim told police he had sex with his teacher at least 10 times during the 06-07 school year in Busby's office, when he was a freshman, and Busby was his ROTC teacher.  Busby also showed him pornographic movies on a laptop, the victim alleged.

Busby and the victim also had sex at the teacher's home at 2330 Tamisola Street at least twice a month for the last year, the victim told police.

Busby was tipped to the investigation by the victim when the two saw each other in the school office, according to his arrest report.

When he found out Busby left his lunch in his office and immediately left school grounds without telling anyone where he was going, police said. He also did not teach his 1 o'clock class.

Third student accuses former JROTC teacher (07/17/08)
Sarasota High School ROTC instructor accused of having sex with one of his students (05/30/08)
Instructor had sex with student, police say (05/30/08)
ROTC instructor accused of sex with student (05/30/08)
ROTC instructor arrested for having sex with student (05/30/08)


Ray Totten
05-28-08

Ray TottenResidents in Fort Walton Beach are shocked and angry after a high school coach is accused of sexually abusing a male student.

Ray Totten is charged with 50 counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 16-years-old. Totten is the tennis and golf coach at Fort Walton Beach high school.

Investigators say the abuse happened in Totten’s school office, the school library and in Totten’s car in the school parking lot. Tuesday, investigators took Totten to the police department for an interview, but before that interview started, police say a security monitor caught Totten trying to destroy two computer flash drives.

Officers rushed in and took the devices. Police say they found dozens of images of the victim’s private area on those flash drives.

Fort Walton school teacher arrested for sex abuse of a student (05/28/08)
High school coach arrested (05/28/08)


Todd Proa
05-22-08

Todd ProaHere is a real loser! If you have any more information on this guy, please let us know.

Deputies have arrested a teacher who investigators say was having a sexual relationship with a student at his school.

Deputies arrested 38-year-old Todd Proa in Charlotte County. Investigators say the victim attended New Gate School at 11011 Clark Road in Sarasota, where Proa was a teacher.

Proa was arrested in Charlotte County for three counts of child abuse.

Sarasota teacher accused of sex with student (05/22/08)
Former teacher arrested for relationship with teen student (05/22/08)


Norman McMillan
05-21-08

Norman McMillanA middle-school social-studies teacher has been sentenced to 30 months in state prison for having child pornography on his home computer. Robert Howard Williams, 63, of Sanford pleaded no contest Thursday to eight counts of possessing child pornography, a felony. Circuit Judge Marlene Alva sentenced him to the 30 months followed by six months of house arrest and 10 years of probation.

Williams taught seventh-grade social studies at Millennium Middle School. The images did not include any of his students.

Student accuses ex-choir director (06/19/08)
Former choir director charged (05/21/08)
Former McCaskey choir leader charged in sex scandal (05/21/08)
School sex suspect had criminal past (05/21/08)


Charles Johnson
5-15-08

Charles JohnsonA St. Lucie County schoolteacher and coach was arrested Tuesday, accused of molesting two female students between the ages of 12 and 16.

Charles Edward Johnson Sr., 55, Fort Pierce Westwood High School math teacher and baseball coach was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation.

Johnson was the head baseball coach at Westwood for 24 years. Just how many more victimes are out there? We hope they all get counseling and recover from this sick man's rampage.

Students say coach at Fort Pierce Westwood performed lewd acts (05/15/08)
Father of former Marlin Charles Johnson accused of molesting 2 girls (05/14/08)


Darren Snieszko
4-30-08

Darren Snieszko

A Gibbs High School science teacher was arrested today on charges that he engaged in inappropriate behavior with a student, police said.

The official charge against Darren Snieszko, 25, of St. Petersburg, is interference with custody, a felony. According to an arrest affidavit, Snieszko encouraged a 16-year-old girl attending Gibbs High to go on what he called a field trip to Lowry Park Zoo, but there were no other students or teachers involved with the trip, the affidavit states.

Snieszko paid for the girl's admission with his Pinellas County teacher's discount card, said St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt.

The spokesman characterized the outing as a date. He also sent the 16-year-old girl a variety of romantic messages, using MySpace, cell phone text messages, and e-mail messages, Proffitt said

No charges for Gibbs High teacher over iffy behavior (07/26/08)
Police: Teacher Arrested After 2-Person Field Trip (04/30/08)
Gibbs High School teacher arrested (04/30/08)


Danny Lynn Parker
04-18-08

Danny Lynn Parker

A volunteer Sunday school teacher took photographs of young girls from a church and a youth camp in Polk County and put together an album containing their faces pasted on pornographic pictures of women's bodies, Polk County deputies say.

Deputies saw 90 images in the album containing photos of the faces of young girls between the ages of 5 and 15.

Danny Lynn Parker was charged with 90 counts of sexual performance by child, which related to the pornographic pictures. He also was charged with one count of possession of 1images of child pornography.

The case may be complicated by a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a federal law banning computer-generated child pornography that did not involve real children.

Man Put Girls' Faces On Adult Photos, Deputies Say (04/18/08)


Thomas Anderson
04-15-08

Thomas Anderson

A former Seminole High School teacher accused of getting a massage at his house from a 16-year-old female student was arrested Tuesday on a charge of interfering with child custody, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

The felony charge is tied to a Feb. 7 incident in which the girl told investigators that Thomas Anderson, 59, suggested she skip school and leave campus with him. Anderson picked her up off campus and took her to his house, where, she said, he took off his shirt and she gave him a massage in the bedroom.

Investigators said Thomas denied the accusation. He told school district officials that he left early that day to see a doctor. He told authorities he saw the girl walking off campus and knew she had personal problems, so he offered to take her to his house to talk.

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Charles Russell
04-11-08

Charles Russell

Deputy Edward Perez, a school resource officer at Pierce Middle School, saw something strange on a teacher's computer.

So he checked it out, and it turned out to be an image investigators say is child pornography.

Perez, who has spent nearly 16 years with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, discovered the pornography on a computer lent to him by teacher Charles Russell Young, Hillsborough deputies say.

While trying out the new operating system on Young's computer, Perez noticed a recently opened file with a title referring to oral sex with a 12-year-old, according to the sheriff's office.

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Debra Lafave
04-24-04

Debra Lafave

A reading teacher at Greco Middle School is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Debra Beasley Lafave, 23, of 6328 Osprey Lake Circle, Riverview, was arrested Monday and charged with committing lewd or lascivious battery on a person under age 16, Temple Terrace Police Chief A.L. Tony Velong said in a release.

According to police records, Lafave performed oral sex on the unnamed boy June 3 at a location withheld by police. Then on June 14, Lafave had sexual intercourse with the boy in a portable classroom at Greco Middle School, police reports said.

School district spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said Lafave was not teaching summer school and does not know why she was on campus the day of the incident. She said Lafave has been placed on administrative duty and will be considered for a suspension without pay at the July 13 school board meeting.

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