Keri Ann Brekne
10-10-08
 A former teacher, described in court as someone who spent months trying to "brainwash" a student to make her a sexual tool, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison today by a Northampton County judge who said it was the worst case of abuse she has seen.
The sentence against Keri Ann Brekne, 28, of Bethlehem came after the 15-year-old victim and her parents described Brekne as a cold, manipulative woman who used her position at a Warren County, N.J., middle school to win the girl's trust, ensnare her, isolate her and finally abuse her.
"In 20 years on the bench, I have not seen a case as heinous as this one," Judge Kimberly McFadden said in a courtroom packed by 85 supporters of the girl and her family and about 15 of Brekne.
Ex-teacher sentenced in sex assault of student (10/10/08)
Teacher to be Fired for Sex Assault of Student (08/13/08)
Teacher sent to prison after admitting sex with student (07/09/08)
Teacher rejects plea deal in sex abuse case (3/28/08)
Lawyer: Lopatcong teacher will plead guilty to having sex with student (2/29/08)
Bethlehem teacher to plead guilty to assaulting teen (2/29/08)
Instructor accused of assaulting girl is suspended with pay (2/21/08)
Teacher arraigned on sex assault charges (1/29/08)
Teacher charged with assaulting teenager (1/24/08)
Teacher accused of sexually assaulting teen (1/24/08)
Lopatcong teacher accused of having sex with 14-year-old student (1/24/08)
Matthew Engelson
09-29-08
A 31-year-old North Brunswick High School history teacher and girls' soccer coach is facing five years in prison after admitting he fondled a 17-year-old female student.
Matthew Engelson of Carver Place in Lawrenceville pleaded guilty Friday to a count of child endangerment, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan.
He said Engelson will be required to surrender his teaching certificate and must avoid any contact with the student.
Engelson was arrested and charged in December and remains free on $150,000 bail. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the Middlesex County Courthouse on Jan. 30 by Superior Court Judge Dennis Neives, the prosecutor said.
A resident of Lawrenceville, Engelson had been earning $42,272 annually, according to state pension records.
North Brunswick soccer coach pleads guilty (09/29/08)
N.B. teacher arrested for sexual assault (12/20/07)
Richard Koppenaal
09-15-08
A Sussex County Technical School math teacher pleaded not guilty today to a 13-count indictment charging him with having sex with one male student and sexual contact with another.
Richard Koppenaal, 38, of Frankford, who was arrested last November at the school in Sparta, allegedly had sex with a male student in the back of a classroom during a tutoring session, and in various spots in five towns, including an Andover motel and a Branchville park. Eleven of the 13 counts against Koppenaal relate to his alleged contact with this student. The remaining two indictments stem from allegations concerning a second teenager.
Koppenaal faces up to 62 years in prison and fines of $830,000 on all counts. Koppenaal, who is married and has three young children, has no prior criminal record and denied the allegations during his arraignment today in state Superior Court in Newton.
"We enter pleas of not guilty to all charges," said his defense attorney, Paul Selitto.
There are currently no plea bargain offers on the table, Sussex County Assistant Prosecutor Francis Koch told Judge N. Peter Conforti. An unspecified plea offer had been made by prosecutors but had been rejected by Koppenaal, Koch said.
Sussex County teacher denies student sex charges (09/15/08)
Sussex Tech suspends teacher (11/16/07)
Sussex vo-tech teacher accused of sexual contact (11/06/07)
Sussex Tech teacher accused of sexual abuse (11/06/07)
Cops: Sussex teacher had sex with pupils (11/05/07)
Sussex Tech teacher accused of sexual assault (11/05/07)
Demond Edwards
06-10-08
A substitute teacher in the Perth Amboy schools, who last fall served as an assistant high school football coach, was arrested today and charged with having a sexual relationship with a female student at the high school.
Demond Edwards, 25, of Fords, was charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, both second-degree offenses, after a joint inviestigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and the Perth Amboy Police Department revealed Edwards engaged in a sexual relationship with the student, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said.
The investigation also found evidence that Edwards, a permanent substitute teacher at the high school since October 2006, sent "inappropriate" text messages to a second female student at the high school, the prosecutor said.
Perth Amboy teacher pleads guilty to child endangerment (06/09/08)
Perth Amboy substitute teacher charged in student sex (06/09/08)
Perth Amboy substitute teacher charged with sexually assaulting student (06/09/08)
Robert DiLullo
08-15-08
Upper Township resident Robert DiLullo, a former substitute teacher at Ocean City High School, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to a single count of endangering the welfare of a child.
DiLullo, 24, told Superior Court Judge Raymond Batten that he gave a female student at the high school alcohol on multiple occasions between December 2006 and August 2007.
He also admitted that on Aug. 18, 2007 the two engaged in oral sex.
In exchange for his plea of guilt, DiLullo will be sentenced on Oct. 31 to five years of probation and 364 days in the Cape May County jail.
Upper Township man pleads guilty to endangering the welfare of a child (08/15/08)
OCHS Substitute Teacher Arrested on Sex Charges (05/14/08)
Ocean City Teacher Arrested (05/14/08)
Ocean City High school substitute teacher charged with having sex with student (05/13/08)
Cesar Rivero
08-11-08
 A 34-year-old schoolteacher from Paterson thought he was meeting a 14-year-old Bergen county girl for sex when he showed up at a planned meeting spot -- and was arrested by detectives.
Cesar J. Rivero had been instant messaging online with a minor -- who, in fact, was a detective. Eventually, a meeting was arranged and Rivero was arrested.
He is being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, with a court date set for this Wednesday. Rojas, who lives on East 35th Street in Paterson, is a substitute teacher in the Newark school system, said Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. He is charged with attempted endangering the welfare or a minor, luring, and and attempted sexual assault.
Teacher caught in online sex sting (08/11/08)
Daniel W. Kerekes
08-08-08
A former physical education teacher at South Brunswick High School pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, admitting to having sex with a 16-yearold female student.
Daniel Kerekes, 37, of South River, faces up to three years in prison for the offense. He has also agreed to give up his teaching certificate and cannot make contact with the victim.
According to Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Christie Bevacqua, the relationship between Kerekes and the student had been going on from November 2007 through April 2008, when the arrest took place. Kerekes admitted to sexual acts with the girl both in school and at his home.
Former S.B. gym teacher admits sex with underage student (08/00/08)
South Brunswick High School gym teacher admits sex with student, 16 (07/30/08)
SBHS teacher charged with sexual assault (04/28/08)
South Brunswick High teacher arrested for sex with underage student (04/28/08)
Coach at WW-P charged in sex assault (04/28/08)
Press Release From Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (04/28/08)
Robert Godfrey
08-01-08
The former Ewing High gym teacher accused of sending naked pictures of himself to a 17-year-old student whom he allegedly had sex with has been indicted on sexual assault charges, Mercer County Prosecutor Joe Bocchini announced yesterday.
Robert Godfrey, 24, of North Wales, Pa., allegedly engaged in a weeks-long intimate relationship with the female minor, prompting authorities to arrest him Feb. 27. On top of the allegations of distributing nude pics, prosecutors said Godfrey received naked photos of the 17-year-old girl.
A Mercer County grand jury indicted Godfrey Wednesday with charges of official misconduct, child abuse, distributing obscene materials to a minor and two counts of sexual assault, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
Indictment: Gym teacher had sex with girl, 17 (08/01/08)
Ewing teacher accused of sex with student (2/27/08)
Press Release From County Prosecutor’s Office (In PDF Format) (2/27/08)
James Leonarczyk
08-01-08
A Lebanon Borough resident who once worked as a teacher's aide at Phillipsburg Middle School has been indicted on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, authorities said.
James Leonarczyk, 40, was arrested in November by detectives from the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office Sex Crimes Unit after local authorities received unspecified information from the Rhode Island State Police.
UPDATE: Ex-teacher’s aide indicted on child porn charges (08/01/08)
Phillipsburg teacher’s faces child pornography charge (11/14/07)
Cops arrest local man on child-porn charge (11/14/07)
Phillipsburg teacher’s aide charged (11/14/07)
Gregg Decker
07-31-08
A former substitute teacher in the Southern Regional School District has been indicted on charges of aggravated sexual assault in connection with allegations by a middle school student in 2005, according to court documents.
Gregg D. Decker, free on $50,000 bail since being arrested more than three years ago, was named in a five-count indictment handed up by an Ocean County grand jury on Tuesday.
Decker, 28, of Anchor Avenue in Barnegat is charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, second-degree official misconduct, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact, court documents stated.
Former substitute teacher at Southern Regional indicted in sex assaults (08/02/08)
Ex-teacher indicted on sex charges (08/01/08)
 Charges against a former Monroe High School gym teacher accused having a sexual relationship with a female student have been reduced because the alleged victim has refused to cooperate with investigators, prosecutor said in court today.
Victoria Blevins, 23, of Robbinsville, was sentenced today to three years probation for a disorderly persons charge of harassment.
Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Christi Bevacqua said in court that the original charges of official misconduct and sexual assault were amended because of a lack of cooperation from the student and the difficulty in proving the allegations.
Sex charges against former Monroe High teacher reduced (07/18/08)
Ex-Monroe teacher pleads guilty to a lesser charge in sex assault trial (04/17/08)
Monroe High School coach pleads not guilty to sex with student (2/08/08)
Teacher held in sex case (10/12/07)
Gym teacher accused of having sex with female student (10/12/07)
Craig Yarnall
07-18-08
 A 37-year-old Woodbridge middle school gym teacher was sentenced to three years in prison today following his May guilty plea to official misconduct for having sex with a teenage girl.
But Craig Yarnall, a former teacher at Colonia Middle School and a former junior varsity girl's soccer coach at Colonia High School, may serve as little as 60 days in prison if he is accepted into a intensive parole supervision program, his attorney said.
Yarnall also must give up his teacher's license and can never hold a public job in New Jersey.
Woodbridge gym teacher, 37, gets 3 years for sex with teen (07/18/08)
Colonia gym teacher sentenced to three years for affair with 16-year-old (07/18/08)
Woodbridge teacher pleads guilty to official misconduct for having sex with student (05/22/08)
Colonia soccer coach held on $150K bail in student sex case (1/30/08)
Woodbridge middle-school teacher arraigned on teen-sex charges (1/30/08)
Colonia teacher, coach charged with having sex with student (1/29/08)
Woodbridge middle-school gym teacher charged with sexual assault (1/29/08)
Donna Goebel
06-12-08
 A 44-year-old Westampton woman was indicted today by a Burlington County grand jury for the alleged sexual assault of a teenager who attends a school where she worked as a teacher's aide, authorities said.
Donna Goebel of the first block of Church Street was charged with one count of sexual assault involving a 16-year-old boy, said Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi.
Police learned of the assault after Goebel's husband phoned them on Jan. 24 to report that he had found evidence - reportedly sexually explicit photos - that led him to suspect his wife was having "inappropriate relations" with a student.
Woman charged with sex assault of boy, 16 (06/12/08)
Sex Assault Case Against S. Jersey Schoolteacher Moves Forward (06/12/08)
Accused aide’s husband: Leave her in jail (02/08/08)
Husband Who Turned In Teacher’s Aide Says Family ‘Torn Apart’ (02/08/08)
Nude Pics Found By Husband Of Teacher Charged With Sex Assault (02/08/08)
Teacher’s aide suspect in sexual assault of student (02/08/08)
Press Release From he Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office (2/07/08)
Teacher’s aide suspect in sexual assault of student (2/07/08)
Husband Calls Police After Suspecting Wife Of Underage Sex (2/07/08)
Christopher Welch
05-30-08
 An athletic trainer and gym teacher working at both high schools in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District has been charged with multiple sex offenses for touching six female athletes at one of the schools, police said.
Christopher Welch, 38, of Newtown, Pa. was arrested Wednesday and charged with four counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact in connection with the investigation, which was launched on December 28, 2007 after a principal at High School North received information about the alleged incidents.
Mr. Welch was suspended with pay that day, soon after school officials received information about the incident, police said.
Gym teacher charged with sex abuse in West Windsor (05/30/08)
Teacher charged with groping 6 students (05/30/08)
WW-P instructor charged with sex crimes (05/30/08)
Charles Lessig
05-30-08
 WTF? Is this a man, woman or beast? We think "it" is simply a pervert. This guy went a bit too far when he was "tickling the ivorys". He has sick pervert written all over him.
A South Jersey piano teacher is charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. Charles Lessig, 64, turned himself in to authorities Thursday. He's accused of molesting the teen between March and May while giving piano lessons at the boy's home in Mount Laurel.
Lessig is being held on $30,000 bail.
Piano Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Boy (05/30/08 )
Paul Stanziale
05-28-08
A suspended Sussex Technical School teacher has avoided criminal prosecution on charges he placed his face on the chest of a female student, but will not return to work at the high school, attorneys said Tuesday.
Paul Stanziale, 51, will have a clean record if he completes 50 hours of community service and follows all rules during 12 months in Pre-Trial Intervention, a form of probation that diverts first-time offenders from actual prosecution.
Assistant Prosecutor Francis Koch said Stanziale — who did not enter a plea to the charges — must have no contact with the alleged victim or her family.
Stanziale will submit a letter of resignation to Sussex Tech, but he will not be barred from teaching elsewhere, attorneys said. The defense presented the letter to Judge N. Peter Conforti during the court hearing.
Accused teacher gets PTI (05/28/08)
Sussex Tech teacher arrested on sex charge (2/01/08)
Daily Record Report of Arrest (2/01/08)
Pamela Balogh
05-09-08
A teacher and coach convicted of sexually assaulting a girls basketball player she coached at Immaculata High School was sentenced today to seven years in prison. Pamela Balogh, 40, abused a 15-year-old girl starting in 2004 in the coach's office, her car, her home and at her sister's house.
After resigning from Immaculata in September 2005, Balogh was a teacher and coach at North Hunterdon High School -- her alma mater -- until her December 2006 arrest.
Balogh will serve concurrently a seven-year sentence for second-degree sexual assault, four years for third-degree criminal sexual contact and one year for fourth-degree criminal sexual contact.
Former basketball coach gets seven years for sexually assaulting player (05/09/08)
High school coach convicted of abusing former player (12/06/07)
Former coach admits trysts with student (12/05/07)
Former Immaculata coach rejects plea offer in sex assault case (7/27/07)
October trial for Somerville basketball coach (7/27/07)
Sex trial to begin for former coach (11/25/07)
Teacher accused of sexually assaulting student (12/15/06)
Coach Accused of Molesting Player in School (12/15/06)
Former College Hoops Star Accused Of Molesting N.J. Player (12/15/06)
James Darden
04-25-08
A once beloved Teaneck middle school teacher was sentenced Friday to 8½ years in prison and lifelong parole for sexually assaulting a former student.
“You realize what you have done to this child?” Morris County Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto said to James Darden. “You made her a woman well before her time in a very inappropriate way.”
Darden, 37, said he had no explanation for his deeds and apologized to his victim.
The victim, who is now in her 20s and is studying to be a teacher, said Darden, as someone who abused trust, is a “monster” who should be locked up for a long time.
She also denounced some teachers who were present at the sentencing to support Darden, and that her experience with “these poor examples of role models” is what prompted her to choose a career in teaching.
Ex-Teaneck teacher sentenced (04/25/08)
Teaneck teacher admits sex with teen (12/17/07)
Charges filed against Teaneck teacher
Teaneck teacher’s bail down slightly
Teaneck teacher James Darden accused by another former student
N.J. Teacher Accused Of Sex With Teen Student
Teaneck teacher held on $250,00 bail
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Press Release
Ralph E. Fraunfelter
03-13-08
A man who served as a volunteer football coach at Buckeye Trail High School last season has been arrested by the Licking County Sheriff's Office for allegedly soliciting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl for sex.
Ralph E. Fraunfelter, 34, of Piedmont, was arrested March 5 and charged with attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a fourth-degree felony.
Fraunfelter, whose bond was set at $20,000 in the Licking County Municipal Court, has since been suspended from all his duties with the East Guernsey Local School District.
"He was suspended immediately from all affiliation with East Guernsey schools," said Superintendent Dr. Richard Hall. "We have informed him that he is relieved of all duties associated with the school district."
According to minutes from a previous East Guernsey Board of Education meeting, Fraunfelter, who is not a teacher, was approved as a volunteer football coach for the 2007-08 school year.
Fraunfelter was reportedly in Mount Vernon on business for his employer at the time when he solicited Licking County Sheriff's Det. Chris Barbuto, who was posing as a 15-year-old Newark girl, via the Internet.
Former coach arrested in sex sting (3/13/08)
Joseph E. Macanga
03-13-08
FBI agents in New Jersey arrested a former priest Wednesday who is currently a teacher and coach at a Burlington County middle school on federal charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, law enforcement sources told WNBC.com. Joseph E. Macanga was arrested at his Lumberton home Wednesday.
He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Trenton, law enforcement sources told News 4 New York. According to court documents, investigators from the FBI's Innocent Images initiative, which targets individuals suspected of being involved in online sexual exploitation of children, identified Macanga as a participant in an Internet chatroom.
Child-porn case snares Lumberton teacher (04/24/08)
N.J. Teacher, Also An Ex-Priest, Arrested On Child Porn Charges (04/23/08)
Teacher charged with distributing child porn (04/23/08)
Alexis Anderson
04-19-08
A Monmouth County grand jury on Friday indicted a former Neptune Middle School teacher on charges of child endangerment. Alexis Anderson, 24, of Neptune, is accused having had sexually explicit telephone conversations with one of her eighth-grade science students.
Those conversations were with a 14-year-old middle school student and took place between January and July 2007, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. No sexual contact between the two was alleged, prosecutors said. Following the indictment, Anderson turned herself in to the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office, where she was photographed and fingerprinted and ultimately released on her own recognizance by Superior Court Judge Francis P. DeStefano. She faces up to 10 years in state prison if convicted of the offense, prosecutors said.
Neptune teacher indicted on child endangerment charges (04/19/08)
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