Lindsey H. Froehlich
01-03-09

A review of court records indicates that on 08/15/08 the case against Lindsey Froehlich was dismissed when the prosecution moved for “nolle prosequi”.

Typically, “nolle prosequi” indicates one of two things, either the state feels the accused is innocent of the charges or the state feels that there is insufficient evidence that either a crime was committed or that the accused committed the crime with which they were charged.

Bail set at $75,000 for teacher charged with sexual abuse of a minor (05/23/08)
Montgomery Teacher Charged With Sexually Abusing Student (05/22/08)
Teacher charged with sexual abuse of a minor (05/23/08)
Teacher Charged after Inappropriate Sexual Contact with Student (05/23/08)

Robert Douglas Johnston
12-31-08

A Mt. Hebron High School band teacher arrested last year for sexually abusing a 17-year-old female student had been the target of an in-school investigation in 2007, according to charging documents.

Robert Douglas Johnston, 61, of the 4400 block of Brittany Drive, in Ellicott City, was arrested Dec. 22 after turning himself into police. He is charged with sexual abuse of a minor, third- and fourth-degree sex offenses, and obscene telephone misuse, according to police.

Johnston was the school's instrumental music teacher and band director, said Patti Caplan, a school system spokeswoman. He has been employed by the Howard County Public School System since 1969, she said.

An in-school investigation of Johnston was done in February 2007, when the same girl he is charged with abusing was seen by a parent sitting on Johnston's lap in Johnston's office, according to charging documents.

The documents do not state the outcome of that investigation.

Caplan said she could not comment on a personnel matter, but that any suspicion of child abuse is immediately reported to child protective services, which conducts an investigation. Even if an incident does not rise to the level of child abuse, she said, if it is deemed inappropriate behavior the system takes "appropriate disciplinary action."

The police investigation began Dec. 6 when school Principal Scott Ruehl received an e-mail addressed to him, which included other e-mails between the girl and Johnston, according to charging documents. The e-mails indicated an extremely close personal relationship but contained no sexual statements, charging documents state.

Teacher charged with sex abuse subject of 2007 investigation (12/23/08)
Howard teacher charged with sexually abusing female student (12/23/08)

Brian Norman
12-21-08

A Harford County high school teacher who was arrested last month after being accused of slapping a 16-year-old female student on the buttocks was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home last night.

Brian Norman, 34, a history teacher at North Harford High School in Pylesville, was discovered in his home in the 1600 block of Denise Drive in Forest Hill shortly before 8 p.m. by friends concerned for his well-being, Harford County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Monica Worrell said. Norman was arrested Nov. 13 and charged with a fourth-degree sexual offense, second-degree assault and threatening school employees with bodily harm. Police said he slapped a student after a history class Oct. 24 and made death threats to unnamed school employees the same day.

Police said an investigation revealed that Norman had telephoned and text-messaged the student and, on several occasions, had driven her to the Harford Mall in Bel Air. He was placed on administrative leave and sent to a psychiatric facility, from which he was released. Norman was free on $25,000 bond after his arrest.

Before the shooting last night, Norman had expressed to friends that he was distressed, Worrell said. Police were investigating.

Harford teacher accused of abuse is found dead (12/20/08)
Teacher Charged With Assault, Sex Offense (10/31/08)

Joseph Robert Ballmann
12-11-08

A Montgomery County grand jury issued a new indictment Thursday for the middle school teacher charged with sexual abuse of a minor in May and arrested again last month on a second set of similar charges.

Joseph Robert Ballmann, 47, of Rockville, was originally indicted by a county grand jury June 14 on a set of charges filed against him in May.

Ballmann was arrested May 2 at his home in the 11100 block of Cedarwood Drive in Rockville and charged with sexually abusing one of his students from Robert Frost in Rockville on numerous occasions from spring 2004 to May 2005.

Police said Ballmann had been the boy’s seventh grade teacher at Frost and allege he had engaged in inappropriate sexual contact with the boy at Ballmann’s residence, not on school property. The student is now 15.

Ballmann was charged with sexual abuse of a minor, third-degree sexual offense and sexual solicitation of a minor.

Ballman was arrested again June 7, after police investigated allegations that Ballman had had inappropriate contact with a second boy. He was charged with child abuse and third-degree sexual offense.

Middle school teacher faces new indictment on sex abuse charges
Teacher Is Charged With Sex Abuse of a Second Student
Teacher Charged With Abuse of 12-Year-Old

Lee Holmes
10-31-08

A former Denton school teacher has been sentenced to nine years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Twenty-six-year-old Lee Holmes pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of second-degree sexual offense. He was sentenced Thursday.

According to court records, Holmes originally faced six charges.

Prosecutors say the sexual contact was discovered last January, after Holmes dropped the girl off at her home. The girl's mother followed Holmes' car and caught up with him when his car struck a tree in Queen Anne's County.

Ex-teacher sentenced in Denton teen sex case (10/31/08)
Ex-Teacher Pleads Guilty In Teen Sex Case (10/15/08)
Math Teacher Arrested On Child Abuse Charges (1/31/08)
Teacher charged with sex abuse (1/31/08)
Teacher Charged With Sex Abuse (1/31/08)

Freddie Lee Prince
10-17-08

A former Wicomico County substitute teacher pleaded guilty to a sexual abuse charge in Circuit Court on Thursday after having sex with a 13-year-old female student.

Freddie Lee Prince, a 23-year-old Salisbury man, was sentenced to serve two years in the Wicomico County Detention Center, and two-and-a-half years of probation.

The judge banned Prince from having unsupervised contact with underaged girls while he is on probation.

In May, a teenage girl contacted the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office and told a deputy she was having sex with Prince, according to court documents. The student also said she was communicating with him on MySpace.

She said she had sex with Prince in his home on two different occasions, according to court documents.

Teacher pleads guilty to sexual abuse (10/17/08)
Md. teacher pleads guilty to sexual abuse (10/17/08)

Autumn Leathers
10-08-08

Autumn Leathers was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Friday but the state’s attorney instead decided to take the case to the grand jury.

The Allegany County grand jury indicted Leathers on charges of sex abuse of a minor, custodial child abuse and sex offenses and a criminal summons was given to Leather’s attorney.

Leathers will be required to appear in court for an initial hearing but a court date has not been set. Leathers remains free on bond.

Allegany County teachers in court, to return in December (10/07/08)
Teacher formerly of Springdale indicted for having sex with student (09/18/08)
Teacher charged with sex offense posts bond (08/27/08)
Frostburg teacher accused of sex with student (08/21/08)
Mountain Ridge teacher charged for alleged sexual relations with student (08/21/08)

David Emile Guillemette
08-28-08

A Great Mills man was jailed Friday after he pleaded guilty to a third-degree sexual offense committed at his home last winter, an arrest that ended his work as a substitute teacher in St. Mary’s elementary schools.

David Emile Guillemette, now 55, was sentenced to five years in prison, suspended to an 18-month jail sentence and four years of supervised probation.

‘‘He has to register as a sex offender,” St. Mary’s Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Stanalonis said this week at his office in Leonardtown.

A 15-year-old girl visiting Guillemette’s family was sitting on a couch with him watching television on New Year’s Day when he put his hands inside the girl’s clothing and fondled her, according to charging papers filed by detective Thomas Hedderich of the St. Mary’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations. The visitor asked Guillemette to stop his actions, and pushed him away before running upstairs.

Ex-substitute teacher jailed for sex offense (08/27/08)
Substitute Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing Girl (4/03/08)

Joseph S. Ellis
08-14-08

A judge has denied a request by Joseph Samuel Ellis, the former Glenelg High School teacher convicted in January of sexually abusing a student, to have his sentence reviewed and possibly modified.

In a motion filed with the Howard County Circuit Court on July 24, Ellis' attorney, Andrew Levy, requested that the court hold a hearing one year after Ellis' conviction to allow Ellis "to make a showing as to his rehabilitation and why and how his sentence should be modified."

According to the motion, Ellis is currently in group therapy and tutors his fellow inmates who are working toward their GEDs.

Howard County Circuit Court Judge Richard Bernhardt denied Ellis' request Aug. 4.

On Jan. 9, a Howard County jury found Ellis, 27, of Elkridge, guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, indecent exposure and telephone misuse.

Ellis recently filed an appeal with the Court of Special Appeals to rescind the verdict. Hearing dates have not yet been set for the appeal.

Jail sentence review denied for ex-teacher (08/14/08)
Former teacher sentenced to 5 years for sex abuse (04/26/08)
Teacher Found Guilty Of Indecent Exposure, Sex Abuse (1/09/08)
Ex-Howard teacher pleads guilty to showing lewd content (1/07/08)
Teacher Faces Sex Offense Charges (1/08/07)

Aaron Burroughs
08-06-08

After striking a plea agreement with prosecutors, Metro bus driver and former Bowie High School football coach Aaron Burroughs was sentenced to 16 years in prison Monday for engaging in a sexual relationship with a minor and turning her to prostitution.

Burroughs was sentenced on three counts of sexual offense, one count of coersion and one count of sexual trafficking of a minor.

Burroughs was arrested August 2006 after a 15-year-old female, found performing a sex act with a man in Takoma Park earlier that night, named him as her pimp. While in custody, Burroughs admitted to Washington, D.C. police he had engaged in sex with her on two occasions and had brought the girl into D.C. on several occasions to work as a prostitute on the Rhode Island Avenue "track," where prostitution is commonplace.

Burroughs gets 16 years in sex case (08/05/08)
Crofton Man Gets Prison For Exploiting Girl, 14 (08/05/08)
Former coach gets 16 years for exploiting girl, 14 (08/05/08)
Girl Testifies In Capitol Police Officer Child Porn Trial (09/19/07)
Coach Indicted on Child Sex Trafficking Charges (10/21/06)

Timothy Rhodes
04-28-08

Police say an elementary school teacher forced a 12-year-old to perform a series of heinous acts in his Towson home for years.  Now, police are searching for more victims. 

Police say they believe there is a strong possibility there are more young victims out there and they are urging them to come forward.

Baltimore County Police are working to get the picture of 42-year-old Timothy Rhodes out to parents and students.  Rhodes is accused of sexually abusing and assaulting a 12-year-old girl dozens of times at his home over a two-year period while working as a physical education teacher at Pleasant Plains Elementary.

"It's disheartening.  I mean, you want to think your child is safe when they come to school," said Jennifer Schuh.

Teacher Arrested For Sexual Child Abuse (04/28/08)
Gym Teacher Arrested For Sexual Child Abuse (04/28/08)

Scott Thomas Strandberg Jr.
04-10-08

A St. Mary's County high school drumline coach has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a student.

Scott Thomas Strandberg Jr., 24, a coach at Leonardtown High School, was arrested Thursday on one count of child sexual abuse.

Detectives say they arrested Strandberg after learning of an inappropriate relationship he allegedly had with a 16-year-old female student.

Investigators say the investigation began after the girl told an officer at Leonardtown High School that she and Strandberg had sexual contact three times between September and November 2007. Police say the alleged sexual contact happened when Strandberg invited the girl to his home and on a school bus full of students traveling from a drum-line event.

Leonardtown HS Instructor Jailed for Child Sex Abuse (04/10/08)
Leonardtown Drumline Coach Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges (04/10/08)

Nathaniel Thomas
04-03-08

ABC 7 has learned that Prince George's County School Board member Nathaniel Thomas has resigned his position. Sources say the resignation was contained in a letter Thomas sent to the state Board of Education on Wednesday.

A Prince George's County grand jury indicted Thomas Tuesday on one charge of third-degree sex offense. Last month, the school board recommended that the Maryland Board of Education expel Thomas, who took a seat on the board seven months ago.

Teacher’s Sex Abuse Trial Ends Before it Begins (4/02/08)
Charge against former school board member dismissed (11/26/07)
Thomas resigns after indictment; hearing cancelled
Thomas indicted on sex offense charge
P.G. School Board Member Indicted On Sex Offense
Pr. George’s School Board Member Charged with Sex Offense
School Board Member Arrested