William H. Constable
10-02-08

William H. ConstableA Nantucket man who died two months after being sentenced to federal prison on child pornography charges died of natural causes, according to the office of the New York City Chief Medical Examiner.

William “Howe” Constable died from heart disease, Grace Burgess, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner, said yesterday.

Constable - who was sentenced in June to 25 years in federal prison - died August 13 while at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He was 55.

In March, Constable, a former assistant coach for the Nantucket High School sailing team, pleaded guilty to producing pornography and bringing it into the United States.

Court records indicate that, starting in the early 1990s, he made trips to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, where he photographed and videotaped himself having sex with young children.

He was arrested in October 2007 after leaving a camera behind in an Hyannis hotel. A hotel employee looked at images on the camera in hopes of identifying its owner and discovered photographs and videos of young girls being sexually assaulted, according to court records.

Child pornographer died of natural causes (10/02/008)
Cause of Constable’s death still unexplained (08/19/08)
Mass. man convicted of child porn dies in prison (08/15/08)
Nantucket Man Gets 25 Years For Child Porn (06/11/08)


Christopher P. Westfall
09-13-08

Christopher P. WestfallA former Sutton schoolteacher imprisoned in Rhode Island last year for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl pleaded guilty today to charges of molesting the same victim in Millbury and possessing child pornography on his computer.

Christopher P. Westfall, 31, formerly of Millbury and Sutton, was sentenced last May to 20 years’ imprisonment, with seven years to be served, after pleading no contest in Providence County Superior Court in Rhode Island to three counts of second-degree child molestation. The charges related to a sexual relationship prosecutors said Mr. Westfall, a former fifth-grade teacher in Sutton, had with a 13-year-old Barrington, R.I., girl between June 2004 and January 2005.

The balance of Mr. Westfall’s prison sentence in Rhode Island was suspended for 13 years with probation.

Today, Mr. Westfall pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court to two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child for molesting the 13-year-old on two occasions between July 1, 2004, and Aug. 31, 2004, in Millbury. He also pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer on March 30, 2005, in Sutton.

As recommended by Assistant District Attorney Joseph J. Reilly III and Mr. Westfall’s lawyer, Gary G. Pelletier, Judge Bruce R. Henry sentenced Mr. Westfall to 10 years’ probation, to run concurrently with the 13 years of probation he will be on in Rhode Island once he is released from prison there.

Westfall pleads guilty in child molestation case (09/12/08)
Ex-Sutton teacher sentenced (05/22/07)
Ex-teacher jailed for molestation (05/22/07)


Edgar Selavka
07-10-08

Edgar SelavkaFormer preschool teacher Edgar L. Selavka will spend one year in jail after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

Selavka, 50, of Easthampton, worked with young children at the People's Institute and the Center for Early Childhood Education at Smith College. He was also the director of Christian education at Edwards Church.

He pleaded guilty in April to 11 counts of possession of child pornography in Hampshire Superior Court. Selavka was sentenced today to 2½ years in the Hampshire County Correctional Center, with one year to be served and the rest suspended with seven years of probation.

Preschool teacher pleads guilty in child porn case (07/09/08)
Former teacher pleads guilty to child pornography charges (04/22/08)
Preschool teacher in Northampton faces child porn charges (01/19/07)
Church teacher faces porn counts (01/19/07)


Christopher French
07-01-08

Christopher M. French

A teacher’s assistant in the special education department at McCall Middle School was arrested over the weekend and charged with one count of child enticement.

Detectives from the Winchester Police Department arrested Christopher M. French, 27, of 23 Hollywood Road, Saturday, June 28, after receiving information that he allegedly tried to lure a 13-year-old female student into having sex with him, police said. French is the son of long-time McCall Middle School Principal Evander.

Principal’s son arrested on ‘child enticement’ charges (06/30/08)


Russell Goyette
06-05-08

Russell Goyette

A former Seekonk High School principal has been charged with possession of child pornography after authorities say they found thousands of sexually explicit images of children - some of them he allegedly viewed while still the school principal.

Russell Goyette, 61, principal from 1992 to 2001, was ordered held in jail on $10,000 cash bail after pleading innocent Thursday in Dedham Superior Court to 16 counts of possession of child pornography.

Goyette was also set to become a swimming instructor at an unnamed summer camp in Foxboro for children ages 5 to pre-teens but a court order by Judge Janet Sanders will prevent him from taking the job. At the request of prosecutors, Goyette was ordered to have no contact or employment with children, to stay away from parks and playgrounds and have no access to computers or the Internet should he post his bail.

Former Hull High principal arrested on child porn charge (06/05/08)
Former Seekonk High principal charged in child porn case (06/05/08)
Ex-Hull principal nabbed on child porn charges (06/05/08)
Former Hull High principal pleads innocent to child porn charges (06/05/08)
Former Hull principal faces child porn charges (06/05/08)


Norman J. Finizio
05-24-08

Norman J. FinizioA Quincy High School special education teacher from Halifax is being held without bail, charged with indecently assaulting a 9-year-old girl.

Norman J. Finizio II, 46, was at work late Thursday morning when police went to the high school with an arrest warrant charging him with indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

Finizio is alleged to have assaulted the girl, who is not a family member, in his home at 1 White Island Road on various dates about one year ago, said Bridgett Norton Middleton, spokeswoman for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.

Quincy teacher from Halifax accused of assaulting girl, 9 (05/23/08)
Quincy teacher from Halifax accused of assaulting 9-year-old girl (05/23/08)


Tyrone Forbes
04-03-08

Tyrone Forbes

Worcester police said they have arrested and charged an elementary school teacher and pastor at a local church with statutory rape. Police said he had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Authorities said they arrested Tyrone Forbes, 49, of 84 Chatham St., in Worcester, after a police officer on routine patrol spotted a pickup truck parked in the closed Bennett Field parking lot on Main Street about 1:30 a.m.

Thursday. The officer followed the truck and observed an older man with a teenage boy and stopped to question why they were at the field in the early-morning hours. During the interview, it was determined that the boy was 15 years old and had allegedly been involved in a sexual relationship with Forbes since late last year.

Forbes is an elementary school music teacher at the 7 Hills Charter School in Worcester, officials said. He is also a pastor at the Mount Sinia Church of God in Christ in Worcester, police said.

Charter school teacher indicted on sex charge (05/14/08)
Worcester teacher charged with statutory rape (04/03/08)
Worcester choir director charged with raping teenager (04/03/08)
Teacher-Pastor Charged With Statutory Rape (04/03/08)


Gregg Woodward
03-31-08

A Foxboro High School English teacher was arrested and charged today with possession of child pornography, following an FBI investigation.

Gregg Woodward, 44, of 31 Oliver St. in Milford, who is his 12th year teaching at Foxboro High, has been suspended without pay, Superintendent Chris Martes said Monday in a message to high school parents.

"At this time, we have no reason to believe that any school computers were used or that any inappropriate activity took place in Foxboro," Martes said in a message sent to the home phones of high school parents via the school district's new ConnectEd system.

The crisis team includes guidance counselors, psychologists, nurses and social workers who will be working with students and faculty. The youth crisis officer is also a member of the team.

Foxborough Teacher Arrested and Charged with Possession of Child Pornography (3/31/08)
Foxboro High teacher charged with possession of child porn (3/31/08)


John "Jack" Donovan Jr.
02-12-08

A former high school football coach and health care executive was sent to state prison for three years yesterday after pleading guilty to repeatedly sexually abusing a young female relative.

John "Jack" Donovan Jr., 61, of 18 Dix Road, Ipswich, pleaded guilty to child rape, unnatural acts with a child, and indecent assault and battery on a child during a hearing yesterday afternoon in Salem Superior Court, where his victim, now nearly 18, tearfully asked for an apology.

Donovan did not apologize. Donovan was the head football coach at Georgetown High School and a vice president for finance at a health care company when he was charged in 2003. The girl, then 13, told a friend, and then her mother, that Donovan had been molesting her for three years but that she had been afraid to tell, prosecutor Jessica Connors said.

Ex-coach pleads guilty in child rape, gets 3 years in prison (2/12/08)
Former Georgetown coach guilty of rape (2/12/08)


Scott Simoncini
01-22-08

Scott Simoncini A West Boylston teacher will be arraigned Tuesday in Worcester on charges that he "distributed material harmful to minors over the internet".

Scott Simoncini was arrested by Massachusetts State Police on Friday.

Simoncini is from Worcester, and has been a history teacher at West Boylston Middle/High School for the past five years. He had also been the school's Junior Varsity Baseball Coach until this year.

West Boylston School Superintendent Thomas J. Kane told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester that the charges do not involve any students at the school or other children in the town.

West Boylston teacher pleads guilty, gives up job in Internet case (3/20/08)
Catching sexual predators like ’shooting fish in a barrel (1/23/08)
Teacher accused of online explicit messages (1/23/08)
Teacher denies cybersex charges (1/23/08)
Port city police assist in arrest of online predator (1/23/08)
West Boylston teacher arraigned on Internet charges (1/22/08)
West Boylston Teacher Arrested For Internet Crime (1/22/08)
West Boylston teacher charged with Internet crime (1/21/08)


 

 

 

 

 

 
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