“ACEs” are adverse childhood experiences that harm developing children and have effects that show up throughout their lifetime. From many published research studies, we know ACEs are the root of much violence and being a victim of violence, and also the adult onset of chronic disease, depression and mental illness. Examples of ACES include:...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY – Scott Quisenberry was found guilty in July of raping a student when he was a sixth and seventh grade teacher at Bullitt Lick Middle School, Lex18.com reported. Yesterday, the judge followed the jury’s recommendation and handed down a 15-year sentence. Quisenberry will be eligible for parole in three years. He...

LUBBOCK COUNTY, TX – Robert Moore, 27, a teacher at Ralls High School, was arrested last week for soliciting sex with a minor online, multiple news outlets reported. The victim was a student at Smylie Wilson Middle School in Lubbock, where Moore previously worked as a coach. According to the warrant, Moore sent the...

TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS -- Damian Merrick, 48,former owner of the Grapevine Vollyeball Club, was arrested for the third time in this past year, the Dallas News Crime Blog reported. The first arrest, on May 7, was on a charge of delivering marijuana to a child. The second arrest was in July, when Merrick was...

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA -- Alvar Albert Gonzalez, 45, a teacher at Santa Ana High School, was taken into custody Friday, on suspicion of unlawful sex with a student, multiple news outlets reported. Gonzalez allegedly met the victim during her fresman year in high school and allegedly had sex with her at least nine times...

LOS ANGELES -  Richard Paul Daniels, 55, of Rancho Cucamonga, an Earth science instructor, chair of the science department at Arroyo High School, and a football coach,  was arrested Wednesday and charged with having a sexual relationship with a student, multiple news outlets reported. Daniels is being held on $1.75 million bail. According to...

ALBANY COUNTY, NY – Patrick Cannliff, a high school science teacher and baseball coach at Watervliet High School, was arrested and has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say he sent a 16-year-old female student a picture of himself in his underwear. According to WNYT news, Cannliff resigned on...

Christina Busby, 33, a former teacher at Faith Academy in Mobile County, Alabama, was arrested August 25th on two counts of being a school employee and engaging in a sexual act with a student under 19 years old. Both incidents occurred in March 2015. The victim was not Busby’s student at the time but...

MARION COUNTY, INDIANAPOLIS – Marvin Sharp, the owner of Sharp’s Gymnastics Academy in Indianapolis, was arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of child molestation. The Indianapolis Star reported that Marion County court documents indicated “Sharp took inappropriate photographs and inappropriately touched a girl on many occasions while he was her gymnastics coach. The girl,...

CHEYENNE, WYOMING – Anna Andersen,55,  a former sixth-grade teacher at Freedom Elementary, was sentenced August 17th to eight to 12 years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Andersen previously pleaded no contest to second and third degree sexual abuse of a minor. She was first arrested in March 2014, after investigators...