Maggie Laughlin
08-28-08
 A former substitute teacher has pleaded guilty to a sex crime involving a student. Julie Petty pleaded guilty Monday to sexual battery by an authority figure. In exchange for that plea, the state dismissed a statutory rape charge against her. A 14-year-old girl at William James Middle School in White Bluff said Petty touched her inappropriately last year.
Petty also coached softball at the school. She could face three to six years in prison when she is sentenced next month.
Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex Charge (08/27/08)
Female teacher arrested on rape charge
Tracy Hinson
08-27-08
A former Lake County High School teacher and cheerleader coach pleaded no contest to a single charge of aggravated statutory rape and received two years diversion in Circuit Court Tuesday morning.
In a brief hearing, Judge Lee Moore accepted the plea bargain outlined by Dyer/Lake attorney general Phil Bivens giving Tracy Hinson, 38, two years diversion and a no contact order with the victim in the case.
Hinson appeared in the courtroom with a small number of family and friends and stood before Judge Moore with her attorney Jason Creasy of Dyersburg. She answered each the Judge’s questions in a clear voice and then exited the courtroom when the hearing was over.
Former teacher pleads no contest; two year diversion granted (05/14/08)
Charge dismissed against teacher accused in Lake Co. sex case (05/14/08)
Teacher charged in student sex case (05/09/08)
Lake County teacher off the job after alleged sex with student (05/09/08)
Teacher Accused Of Sex With Student (05/09/08)
Jerry Angus
08-27-08
 After deliberating for nearly three days, a Nashville jury Tuesday found former Spring Hill High teacher Jerry Angus guilty of seven felony counts related to sex acts with a student.
Angus, 53, who was also a softball coach, was found guilty of three counts of official misconduct, one count of attempted sexual battery by an authority figure, one count of sexual battery by an authority figure and two counts of attempted statutory rape by an authority figure. He was found not guilty of one count of sexual battery by an authority figure and one count of rape.
A secretary for Judge Mark Fishburn, who presided over the case, said the state initially pursued 17 charges but dismissed eight of them. Angus is scheduled to appear in a Nashville court for sentencing Oct. 3.
Former SH teacher found guilty in student sex case (08/26/08)
Teacher Guilty Of Sex With Student (08/26/08)
Inmate testifies against teacher (08/24/08)
Michael Eugene Noel
08-19-08
A former Clinch School teacher and coach has pleaded guilty to federal child porn charges and faces a maximum of 20 years in prison when sentenced later this year.
Michael Eugene Noel, of Kingsport, appeared in U.S. District Court in Greeneville on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography and obstructing justice. The child porn charges carry a maximum sentence of five to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The obstruction charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
A federal grand jury indicted Noel in February on a three-count indictment. The remaining charge — possession of child pornography — will be dismissed at sentencing as per the plea agreement.
Ex-Hawkins Co. Coach Gets 26 Years In Child Pornography Case (08/19/08)
Hawkins County teacher sentenced on child pornography charges (08/18/08)
Former Hawkins County teacher/coach pleads guilty to child porn charges (04/16/08)
Ex-Clinch School teacher, coach faces federal child porn charges after Kingsport, FBI investigation (2/15/08)
Hawkins school board tells Clinch School teacher he has 30 days to appeal decision (7/13/07)
Hawkins County sheriff investigating Clinch coach
Clinch basketball coach faces sex charges
Teacher/ Coach Charged With Sex Crime
Timothy Byars
08-06-08
 Former Dyersburg High School volunteer track coach Timothy Byars was taken into custody in a Knoxville courtroom on Monday after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl before a track meet in November 2006. Timothy Byars Byars, 45, 838 Lattawoods, received a nine-year sentence. He will have to serve prison time totaling one day short of two years, said Knox County Assistant District Attorney Leslie Nassios.
The penalty combines the Knoxville rape charge with a second sexual battery charge from Nashville that occurred earlier that night against the rape victim's sister, who was a teenager at the time. Byars received a one-year sentence for the rape charge, which is a Class D Felony.
Guilty plea entered on second sex charge (07/27/08)
GUILTY: Byars sentenced to two years in prison (07/14/08)
Kenneth Thompson Anderson
08-04-08
 The trial of a former teacher charged with sleeping with high school students was postponed to Sept. 29.
Kenneth Anderson, a former Smyrna High School teacher, is charged with three counts of rape, 13 counts of statutory rape and 10 counts of sexual battery stemming from several incidents.
Anderson, 40, was slated to go to trial this morning. The continuation was allowed because some of the witnesses are high school students and staff and class is not in session yet. They may still be on vacation.
Anderson was found guilty of five counts of statutory rape and assault earlier this year for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Trial for teacher who faces rape charges delayed (08/04/08)
Ex-Teacher Gets Year In Jail For Sex Crimes (04/03/08)
Former Teacher Sentenced For Raping Teen Girl (1/31/08)
Former Smyrna teacher sentenced for sex with 14-year-old (1/30/08)
Former Smyrna High teacher found guilty on rape, assault charges (9/26/07)
Nashville Police Department Press Release (2/03/06)
Heather Thorsby
07-31-08
 A former art teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a female student has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Heather L. Thorsby, 35, was a teacher at Independence High School in Williamson County. She was arrested May 15, 2007, after the girl’s parents discovered nude photos of Thorsby on their daughter’s cell phone and reported it to school officials.
The victim, who is now 19, told police that she and Thorsby had sexual conduct three times in a darkroom at the school and “several times” at Thorsby’s home.
The Tennessean does not identify victims of rape. Thorsby pleaded guilty to four counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and was sentenced to prison on Monday. She is scheduled to begin her sentence on Aug. 20 and will remain free on $10,000 bond.
Thorsby owes $12,574 in court costs.
Thorsby and the student formed a friendship as the girl was looking at colleges, according to a written statement the girl gave to police.
Thorsby and the girl went to Memphis in November, 2006 and stayed in a two-bedroom hotel room, where their sexual relationship began.
Teacher sentenced to three years in prison for sexual relationship with student (07/31/08)
Plea bargain in sex case sends Tennessee art teacher to jail (07/31/08)
Plea bargain sends teacher to jail for 3 years (07/31/08)
Teacher indicted on student sex charges (11/13/07)
Franklin Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Student
Teacher in sex case has bond hearing today
Arrested teacher released from jail after posting bail
Jack Owens
07-26-08
 A former Whitwell High School teacher and coach has been arrested and charged with 18 total counts.
Nathan Powell, 28 of Whitwell, was charged with nine counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and nine counts of aggravated statutory rape, according to information from the Marion County Sheriff‘s Department.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Children’s services started investigating allegations about Powell in April.
Bond Reduced for School Trainer Accused of Sex Crimes (07/30/08)
Teacher Arrested for Alleged Encounter With 15 Year Old Student Athlete (07/25/08)
Natham Powell
06-17-08
 A former Whitwell High School teacher and coach has been arrested and charged with 18 total counts.
Nathan Powell, 28 of Whitwell, was charged with nine counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and nine counts of aggravated statutory rape, according to information from the Marion County Sheriff‘s Department.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Children’s services started investigating allegations about Powell in April.
Teacher Charged
Pamela Turner
06-11-08
 A former elementary school teacher and registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to having intercourse and oral sex with a 13-year-old student now has a new MySpace page in her name. The profile recently featured photos of nude women and the ex-physical education instructor doing a striptease on video.
The page says "Pamela" is a former teacher who is looking to make a new name for herself in the . When WND contacted a person claiming to be Pamela Rogers Turner through the profile, she spoke about pursuing her new career and pictures she had taken in provocative poses. "Well I have some sexy teacher photos of me that were done recently," the person said. "They are of me in lingerie by a desk with blackboard in back etc. I'm just real confused on where to go with all this."
Photos gets teacher 2 more years
Bryan Dale
06-10-08
 Bryan Dale Farmer, 32, a former teacher at Northeast High School was sentenced to two years on state probation and 120 days in the Montgomery County Jail for having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.
Farmer entered a no contest guilty plea in November 2007 and was convicted of three counts of statutory rape.
Judge John H. Gasaway III, handed down the written judgment this afternoon, following the lunch break.Farmer was sentenced to three years of probation and 60 days in jail at a hearing last year after being convicted of one count of sexual battery by an authority figure for fondling a student at Northeast High School.
Former Teacher Charged Sexual Battery Remains Free (07/10/08)
Former teacher sentenced to two years on probation for statutory rape, will serve 120 days in jail (06/10/08)
Farmer sentencing hearing pushed to June (2/29/08)
Farmer found guilty of statutory rape (11/26/07)
Former Teacher Pleads No Contest To Statutory Rape (11/26/07)
Convicted Sex Offender Out On Bond (8/09/07)
Farmer denied motion for new trial (7/30/07)
Former Teacher, Sex Offender Not Behind Bars (7/21/07)
Farmer’s request denied (7/12/07)
Farmer to serve 60 days (7/07/07)
Former Montgomery Co. Teacher Bryan Farmer Sentenced
Ex-teacher guilty of sex with minor
Amy Elder
06-05-08
Ripley High School teacher and softball coach was charged with sexual battery and statutory rape and arrested Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Police say Amy Elder, 28, had a sexual relationship with at least two girls at Ripley High School over the past two years.
Residents were shocked to hear of the accusations, but not all students.
"I heard she was messing with other students and having sexual intercourse. It's been going on for a while anyway," said Mercedes Norfork, a student at Ripley High School. According to the Lauderdale County indictment, Elder had a sexual relationship with a 17 year-old girl from September to October 2006. Police say there was another sexual encounter on Christmas Day of 2006. Documents also show Elder had another sexual relationship with a 15 year-old girl from March to June 2007. Police say there was another encounter on News Year's Eve 2007, and that the relationship continued between January and March of 2008.
Ripley, Tennessee Teacher Accused of Having Sex With Students (06/05/08)
Patty Jo Singleton
06-03-08
A Cloudland High School teacher's aide has surrendered to police after being accused of soliciting sex from a student. Carter County, Tennessee authorities say 36-year-old Patty Jo Singleton turned herself in yesterday. Sheriff Chris Mathes says there were some conversations and perhaps some text messages between the aide and the student, but said there was no indication of sexual contact.
Authorities wouldn't say whether the student is a boy or a girl. The inappropriate contact is said to have taken place in December. The county school system has suspended Singleton without pay. Cloudland High School is in Roan Mountain, Tennessee.
Ex-teacher’s aide pleads guilty, gets diversion on charge of solicitation (06/03/08)
Cedrick Lamont Holmes
05-17-08
Cedrick Lamont Holmes was charged Thursday with statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure.
Police say Kyle admitted to having sexual relations with a 17-year old Loudon County girl. A warrant alleges Holmes also kissed and touched a female student younger than 16 at Sweetwater High School multiple times. Another warrant alleges similar actions with another female student.
Holmes worked for Sweetwater High School for about one year, until this month, and oversaw students involved in the school's suspension program.
This is going to look bad on his review.
Former employee at school charged with sex abuse of students (05/17/08)
Former school worker charged with rape, battery of students (05/16/08)
Sweetwater High employee charged with rape of teen (05/16/08)
Corey DeHart
04-17-08
A suspended Halls High School teacher accused of having sex with a student at the school faces charges of statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure.
Corey DeHart, 43, faces six counts of multiple sex acts in a Knox County Grand Jury indictment.
The incidents occurred last year at the school, according to the indictment released this afternoon.
DeHart was arrested Wednesday. Knox County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested DeHart, who is married, on Wednesday.
The indictment doesn't specify the girl's age, saying she is between 13 and 18.
He remains free on $50,000 bond.
November trial set for Halls teacher accused of sex with student (05/13/08)
Halls teacher accused of sexual battery (04/17/08)
Halls High teacher charged with having sex with student (04/17/08
Montgomery "Monty" Koons
11-05-07
A longtime Oak Ridge schoolteacher pleaded guilty this afternoon to three counts of aggravated statutory rape stemming from his relationship with a 15-year-old girl who was a former student.
Prosector Sandra Donaghy said Montgomery "Monty" Koons, a Jefferson Middle School teacher at the time, had sex "almost every day" with the girl between June 24, 2006, and Sept. 11, 2006.
Koons was 50 years old at the time, Donaghy said, and all of the incidents occurred in his Oak Ridge house.
Koons received two, four-year sentences to his pleas to two counts of aggravated statutory rape. He received a six-year sentence for his plea to the third count, but he'll be placed on probation for that conviction.
Koons hearing continued to June 6 (3/17/08)
Oak Ridge teacher pleads guilty to statutory rape charges (11/05/07)
Oak Ridge teacher under investigation for student relationship (9/19/06)
Oak Ridge teacher accused of sex with student (12/07/06)
Willie Idlette Jr.
02-14-08
Willie Idlette Jr., a former coach at Baylor School, is facing seven counts of statutory rape by an authority figure.
Chattanooga Police said the indictment was brought after a Baylor student made several complaints against Idlette for sexual misconduct.
Idlette was a football star at Baylor and Wake Forest University.
After graduation, he returned to Chattanooga and was hired by Baylor School last fall as an assistant football coach and assistant track coach.
Idlette turned himself in to authorities accompanied by his lawyer, Lee Davis, after learning about the charges against him.
Idlette Indicted for Statutory Rape (2/14/08)
Idlette indicted by grand jury (2/14/08)
Former Baylor Teacher Arrested for Statutory Rape (2/14/08)
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