December 22, 2015

Texas Math Teacher Arrested for Sexual Relationship with Students

Haeli Noelle Wey, 28, a former Math teacher at Westlake High School in Austin, TX, was arrested this week for having an improper relationship with two of her students, CBS News reported. Wey had allegedy been communicating with one of the victims through social media since the beginning of the school year. The arrest...
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December 15, 2015

Georgia City Councilman and Teacher Accused of Child Molestation

COOK COUNTY, GEORGIA -- Destinn Chandler Hill, a teacher at Cook County Primary SChool and a Councilman for the city of Adel, was arrested last week on suspicion of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a female high school student, WFXL reported. Hill was taken to the Cook County jail. Anyone with information is...
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Sacramento Teacher Arrested for Molesting 14-Year-Old Student

SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA -- Mysti Moriah Lingenfelter, 35, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student during the 2011-2012 school year, the Sacramento Bee reported.  The victim was one of Lingenfelter’s students at Foothill Ranch Middle School. Lingenfelter has been on paid administrative leave since May, after Twin...
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December 8, 2015

Murrieta Valley High School Teacher Arrested on Suspicion of Sexual Relationship with Student

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA – Shannon Fosgett, 44, turned herself in to Murrieta Police Department on Friday and was arrested on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with an underage male student, KTLA News reported.  Fosgett resigned from her teaching position as an earth sciences teacher on Wednesday, after previously being placed on indefinite administrative...
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November 23, 2015

Sacramento School Worker Arrested On Suspicion of Sexually Assaulting Child

The Sacramento Bee reported that Joshua Vasquez, 31, who was formerly the program leader for a after-school program (part of the city of Sacramento’s START program), was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor. According to the news report, an investigation began on Tuesday at Mark Twain Elementary School, where Vasquez...
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Avenal Middle School Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Molesting Students

KINGS COUNTY, CA – Curt Meyer, a 70-year-old seventh-grade math and science teacher at Reef-Sunset Middle School, was arrested Friday at his home in east-central Fresno, and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts with a minor,felony child molestation, kidnapping, and a weapons charge, the Fresno Bee  and ABC 30 News reported. Meyer has...
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Army and Navy Academy Headmaster Partially Acquitted in Molestation Trial

The Jeffrey Scott Barton criminal trial came to an end last week, when the former Army and Navy Academy headmaster was acquitted on four of five felony charges that he molested two cadets on a 1997 ski trip. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the case rested heavily on the word of seven...
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New Mexico Teacher Charged with Having Sex with Student

A 23-year-old New Mexico teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a male student, KRQE News reported. The teacher, Kellie N. Hurst, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual penetration and one misdemeanor count of distribution of sexually oriented materials to minors. Hurst has also been charged...
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Southern California Lawsuit Alleges Foster Parent Sexual Abuse

A lawsuit was filed last week, on behalf of two minors who claim they were sexually abused by a foster parent operating under the license of Children's Way Foster Family Agency in San Bernardino County, CA. According to the Desert Dispatch report, the abuse took place between July 17, 2010 and about January 30,...
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October 21, 2015

English Teacher at Marlborough School Sentenced to Year in Jail and Probation For Luring Students into Sexual Relationship

Joseph Thomas Koetters, 48, of Santa Monica, a former English teacher at Marlborough School in Hancock Park, pleaded guilty to having sexual relationships with two students, one of whom got pregnant. Koetters was sentenced to one year in jail, five years probation, ordered to complete a 52-week sex offender therapy course and to register...
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