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Mount Spurr Elementary School Teacher Sentenced for Molestation of Student  4

 July 11, 2015  

Screen Shot 2015-07-30 at 11.06.52 AMSchool: Mount Spurr Elementary School

County & State: Anchorage Borough

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : David Schwantes

Age of Teacher: 73

Month/Year of Arrest: November 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: July 2015

News Source: Alaska Dispatch News

 

In September 2014, Anchorage Police began investigating allegations after one of David Schwantes’ former students reported that Schwantes sexually abused him. The man told police he met Schwantes at the Mount Spurr school during the 1988-89 school year, when Schwantes was named Anchorage teacher of the year. Schwantes molested the boy during the 1990s at school and elsewhere, according to his account to police. Schwantes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years prison time with four years suspended. During the sentencing, Judge Michael Wolverton called sex abuse in Alaska “an epidemic.”

 Alaska, Anchorage Borough, Mount Spurr Elementary School ,

Central Florida Aerospace Academy Teacher Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison  1

 July 3, 2015  

jenniferfichterSchool: Central Florida Aerospace Academy

County & State: Polk County, Florida

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : Jennifer Fichter

Age of Teacher: 30

Month/Year of Arrest: April 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: July 2015

News Source: Q13Fox

 

Fichter was a teacher at Central Florida Aerospace Academy in Lakeland. She was arrested after at least three former students came forward to claim they had a sexual relationship with her when they were 17 years old. One of the encounters resulted in a pregnancy, which Fichter later aborted. She was fired from the school following her arrest in April 2014. In April 2015, she pleaded guilty to all 37 counts. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Fichter to 25 years in prison; the judge gave her 22 years instead.

 Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Florida, Polk County ,

Colonial Forge High School Teacher Sentenced to Three Years in Prison  6

 May 22, 2015  

ericalynnemesaSchool: Colonial Forge High School

County & State: Stafford County, Virginia

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : Erica Lynne Mesa

Age of Teacher: 28

Month/Year of Arrest: September 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: May 2015

News Source: wusa9.com, Huffington Post

 

Erica Lynne Mesa, 28, a math teacher and volleyball coach for five years at Colonial Forge High School, was the subject of a law enforcement investigation in 2014 after deputies received a tip from administration at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford County, VA. Investigators found a electronic trail linking Mesa to her victims, which included nude photos of herself that she’d sent to a 16-year-old student. Mesa was charged with the sex abuse of two boys, but admitted to police that she had sex with a total of four victims. Mesa said she had sex with the boys, one of whom was underage at the time, because it made her feel “attractive and wanted.” In May 2015, she was sentenced to 22 years behind bars, with all but three years suspended.

 Colonial Forge High School, Stafford County, Virginia ,

Wyoming Valley West High School Sentenced to Prison, Teaching Certificate Revoked  5

 April 30, 2015  

Screen Shot 2015-07-30 at 3.17.01 PMSchool: Wyoming Valley West High School

County & State: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : Lauren Harrington-Cooper

Age of Teacher: 32

Month/Year of Arrest: December 2013

Month/Year of Sentencing: September 2014

News Source: The Citizen’s Voice

 

Lauren Harrington-Cooper, 32, a former teacher at Wyoming Valley West High School, plead guilty in September 2014 to two felony counts of sexual contact with students and two counts of corrupting minors. She was immediately sentenced to nine to 23 months in prison. Harrington-Cooper was first arrested in December 2013 and charged with having sex with an 18-year-old student. The following month, she was charged with sending explicit text messages and performing oral sex with a 17-year-old student. Immediately after pleading guilty, she was sentenced to 23 months in prison. Her teaching certificate was revoked in April 2015.

 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Wyoming Valley West High School ,

Bullhead City Math Teacher Sentenced to Eight Months for Sexual Exploiting of Student  6

 April 17, 2015  

pagelSchool: Mohave High School

County & State: Mohave County, AZ

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator: Joseph Pagel

Age of Teacher:  33

Month/Year of Arrest:  March 2015

Month/Year of Sentencing: August 2015

News Source: Tuscon.com

 

Joseph Pagel, a 33-year-old track and field coach and math teacher at Mohave High School, was arrested in March 2015 after a student told authorities that Pagel sent her nude photos and sexually explicit text messages, and allegedly invited students to his home to smoke marijuana. In July, Pagel pleaded guilty to luring a minor for sexual exploitation and transferring marijuana (part of a plea deal). In August 2015, Pagel was sentenced to eight months in jail and five years probation. News Source: Tucson.com

 Arizona, Mohave County, Mohave High School ,

Stanhope Elmore High School Teacher Sentenced to Year in Prison  33

 March 21, 2015  

jeffreystantonSchool: Stanhope Elmore High School

County & State: Elmore County, Alabama

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : Jeffrey Stanton

Age of Teacher: 34

Month/Year of Arrest: February 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: March 2015

News Source: Montgomery Advertiser

 

A former teacher at track coach at Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, Alabama has been sentenced to one year in Elmore County Jail after having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19. Following his release, Elmore will have to register as a sex offender for life. Stanton was originally charged with rape in the first degree, a Class A felony. The grand jury indicted him on a lessor charge, a Class B felony. The judge handling the case, Ben Fuller, gave the jury a lessor charge to consider, a misdemeanor charge of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under 19.

 Alabama, Elmore County, Stanhope Elmore High School ,

Ledyard High School Sentenced to Prison for Sexual Assault of Female Student  6

 February 26, 2015  

Screen Shot 2015-07-30 at 2.21.20 PMSchool: Ledyard High School

County & State: New London County, Connecticut

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator : William C. Friskey

Age of Teacher: 36

Month/Year of Arrest: June 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: February 2015

News Source: NBC Connecticut

 

William C. Friskey, 36, was arrested in June 2014 after being accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student at Ledyard High School, where Friskey worked since August 2007. The victim was a student in Friskey’s English class her junior year. The relationship began after the two began emailing back and forth after school hours, and the two began meeting during lunch breaks her senior year and the two would perform sexual acts on one another in Friskey’s classroom, the warrant stated. According to the arrest warrant, the student broke off the relationship “because she wasn’t happy with their situation.” School administrators became aware of the relationship when the technology coordinator found a letter from Friskey to the student, apologizing for the sexual nature of their relationship and mourning the loss of their friendship. Friskey was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with the sentence suspended after two years served.

 Connecticut, Ledyard High School, New London County ,

Kent County Teacher Sentenced to Probation for Sex with 13-Year-Old  4

 December 14, 2014  

stephanieseaburySchool: Fred Fifer III Middle School

County & State: Kent County, DE

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator: Stephanie Seabury

Age of Teacher: 22

Month/Year of Arrest: April 2014

Month/Year of Sentencing: December 2014

News Source: delawareonline.com

 

Stephanie Seabury, an English teacher at Fred Fifer III Middle School in Camden, DE, turned herself into the Dover Police Department in April 2014 and was charged with one felony count of sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust or authority. The victim, a 13-year-old boy, told authorities in March that he had a sexual relationship with the teacher at her home and engaged in sexual intercourse with the teacher in February 2014. In December 2014, Seabury was sentenced to probation and required to register as a sex offender.

 Delaware, Fred Fifer III Middle School, Kent County ,

Widefield High School Teacher Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison For “Cup Checks”  2

 November 11, 2014  

Screen Shot 2015-07-30 at 1.28.42 PMSchool: Widefield High School

County & State: El Paso County, Colorado

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator :Lee Edward Riddle

Age of Teacher: 30

Month/Year of Arrest: November 2013

Month/Year of Sentencing: November 2014

News Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

 

Lee Edward Riddle, 30, a former teacher at Widefield High School in El Paso County, Colorado, was sentenced to eight years in prison for striking the genitals of young male students during a serious of what he called “cup checks”. A jury convicted him on five of the charges in August 2014. During sentencing, Judge Thomas Kennedy said Riddle “lacked understanding” about how serious his crimes were.

 

 Colorado, El Paso County, Widefield High School ,

Burbank Middle School Teacher Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Sex with 14-Year-Old  1

 June 24, 2014  

amybeckSchool:  David Starr Jordan Middle School

County & State:  Los Angeles, CA

Name of Teacher / Perpetrator: Amy Victoria Beck

Age of Teacher: 33

Month/Year of Arrest: March 2010

Month/Year of Sentencing: May 2010

News Source: CBS News, LA Times

 

Amy Beck, a married mother of three and wife of an LAPD officer, and a teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, walked into a police station in March 2010 and confessed to having sex and oral sex with a 14-year-old boy from March to September 2009. Beck pleaded no contest to two charges of unlawful sex with a minor. She served a two-year prison sentence and was released in March 2011. A confidential cibil settlement with Burbank Unified School District was reached in June 2014, the Daily News reported.

 California, David Starr Jordan Middle School, Los Angeles County ,
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