Salt Lake City police arrested a West High School teacher suspected of sexual activity with a student.
The teacher identified as 45-year-old Jose Bernaf Fanjul was arrested Tuesday afternoon.
The Salt Lake Police Department Special Victims Unit worked with a 17-year-old victim and her father to bring the teacher’s arrest.
Our detectives waited until after school to make sure as few students as possible were around, said Lara Jones, Salt Lake City police.
Students say Fanjul was one of the favorites at the school. He taught at West High for the past three years. They say he often helped kids after class and was never outwardly inappropriate.
Fanjul was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on multiple counts of forcible sexual abuse and forcible sodomy. He is on administrative leave while the investigation continues.
This is the second sex scandal involving West High staff to hit the school in recent days. Just last week former counselor Marco Herrera was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for having sex with a 14 year old girl.
A school teacher is facing serious charges for having sex with a teenage student. It's another case in what seems to be a disturbing trend.
Prosecutors in Box Elder County charged the 27-year-old teacher based on one incident that allegedly happened in her home. But people who know the teacher tell us she may have been in a relationship with this student for at least a year.
If convicted, Jami Lish could spend 15 years to life in prison. This week, prosecutors charged Lish with first-degree felony rape. Their investigation actually began late last year.
A former Washington County teacher, pastor and day care operator has admitted in 5th District Court that he kissed an 11-year-old girl and attempted to touch her chest and buttocks. Gabriel E. Carlin, 34, was initially charged with four counts of aggravated child sex abuse, first-degree felonies punishable by up to life in prison.
He has pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree felony attempted sexual abuse of a child. Carlin faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 3 by Judge Eric Ludlow. Police said the abuse occurred in March 2006, when Carlin, owner of the now-defunct East Harbor
A former junior-high-school teacher who was accused of having sexual relations with a 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to reduced charges on Monday.
Jennifer Candida Gonzales, 33, of Payson, entered guilty pleas in Provo's 4th District Court to two counts of attempted forcible sexual abuse, a third-degree felony. The charges were reduced from forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. "She just wants to get it behind her," said Mike Esplin, Gonzales's defense attorney.
She just wants to get it behind her," said Mike Esplin, Gonzales's defense attorney. "She's going to accept responsibility for her conduct and try to get on with her life, basically."
A sentencing hearing for Gonzales was scheduled for July 28. Attempted forcible sexual abuse carries a penalty of up to 5 years in prison.
Well, here we go. We're starting the week off with a real sicko.
Cache County elementary school teacher has been charged with child sex abuse. 33-year-old Scott Rogers taught at Thomas Edison Charter School South in Nibley. He faces two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and has now been suspended with one week of school left.
Rogers has been at the school for three years, first teaching fourth grade, then second grade. School officials say a pre-hire background check turned up nothing out of the ordinary.
Former Hurricane High teacher and track coach was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail for having sex with a 17-year-old male student.
"I want to apologize to all I have hurt, in my family and his [victim's family]," Cris Lynn Morris said in 5th District Court. "I know I made a terrible mistake and want to do what's needed now to move forward with our lives."
Judge G. Rand Beacham sentenced the 30-year-old woman - who had pleaded guilty to three third-degree felony counts of unlawful sexual misconduct as part of a deal with prosecutors - to three years' probation and 30 days in Washington County's Purgatory Correctional Facility.
He was once a popular coach and teacher at Piute High School.
Now, Lawson Sweat is an alleged rapist. Sweat resigned his position in October after police launched an investigation about sexual misconduct.
But that investigation is over and the Piute County attorney has filed formal charges against Sweat.
Sweat faces two counts of raping a sixteen year old girl that attended the school in 2005. According to an affidavit filed with the court, that’s when Sweat invited “two teens to his home”. Once there, investigators said, “Sweat provided both girls with beer and watched movies.” After one of the teens left, “Sweat began to kiss the alleged victim and started to remove her clothes.”
A popular drama teacher was arrested after a two-month police investigation revealed that computers he used at Roy High School and at home contained images of child pornography.
Kamron Klitgaard, 42, was booked and released from jail Friday on suspicion of sexual exploitation and distributing pornographic material. He faces two felony and 10 misdemeanor counts.
Klitgaard was put on unpaid leave after a district investigation Jan. 4, when students and parents were told he was absent because of an illness.
The Weber School District planned to fire Klitgaard on Feb. 1, after giving him 30 days' notice.
Roy Police Chief Greg Whinham said a forensics computer lab found pornographic images on two school computers that Klitgaard used and another at his home.
A 37-year-old Utah mother -- and former substitute teacher -- has admitted to engaging in illegal sexual acts with at least five teenage boys.
Leisa Ward, a mother of four, pleaded guilty on child sex-related charges in a deal that led prosecutors to drop the most serious counts against her. Ward agreed to plead guilty on charges of unlawful sexual conduct and, as a result will not be charged with anything else.
Ward was arrested in Nov. 2007 following reports that she engaged in sexual activities with at least five boys, whose ages were 16 or 17 at the time. Nephi Police said the allegations started as rumors that were eventually corroborated.
Ward, who formerly taught as a substitute teacher in the Juab County School District, will be sentenced on Feb. 28 but due to her plea deal she will avoid serious felony and misdemeanor child sex and lewdness charges. However, she still will face sentencing on 11 charges stemming from the illegal sex acts.
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A school teacher is facing serious charges for having sex with a teenage student. It's another case in what seems to be a disturbing trend. 
