Lauren Hill, 26, of St. Joseph, and a teacher at St. Joseph High School, was ordered to 4-15 years in prison this month, after pleading guilty in May to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual assault. She will be eligible for parole in 4 years but will be required to register as a sex...

Earlier this month, Brianne Altice was sent to prison after being convicted of having sexual contact with three of her students. Altice, 35, was an English teacher at Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah, since 2012, and a district employee since 2004. Her sentence was for at least two years and up to 30...

Multiple news outlets reported that Christopher Bryan McKenzie, Costa Mesa resident and a volunteer Sunday school teacher at several Orange County churches, was convicted of sexually assaulting five boys and attempting to attack a sixth boy. According to the OC Weekly, McKenzie meet three victims through Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa, one through...

A Catholic priest who was also a high school chemistry teacher was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to transporting child pornography to Chicago, USA Today reported. Richard James Kurtz, 70, was dismissed from the University of Detroit Jusuit School in 2001 when a 16-year-old boy accused him of sexual...

GALT – Scot Sutton, the Galt Joint Union School District director of business services was arrested Monday on suspicion of child molestation, the Sacramento Bee reported. Sutton, 47, a resident of Placerville, had worked for the Galt district for eight months.  According to the newspaper report, Sutton was arrested after the victim went to...

In a criminal case, an individual must be at least 18 years old to be able to give legal consent to sex.  But last year in a civil case, a defense attorney for Los Angeles Unified School District argued that a 14-year-old girl could give consent to sex with a 28-year-old teacher. The 2014...

POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA – Jennifer Fichter, 30, a high school English teacher, was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with several of her students. Fichter was first accused of having inappropriate conduct with an eighth grade student in 2008. After admitting her feelings to another teacher, she resigned...

SAN DIEGO – Multiple news outlets reported that a 64-year-old Rancho Bernardo man was arrested last week on multiple counts of molestation and child pornography involving young children who were cared for at his ex-wife’s home day care. Abdulla Sediqi was first arrested after a woman shopping at Valley Thrift Store in Escondido noticed...

SAN JOSE – A $15 million settlement was reached Monday, June 15, 2015, between a South Bay school district and the families of four girls abused by their teacher, Craig Chandler, who was found guilty of molesting five students in 2012. Chandler, 36, was a second grade teacher at Whaley Elementary School in San...

NEWPORT BEACH – On Friday, two former Covina-Valley Unified School District teachers were sentenced following a cocaine and alcohol fueled beach camping trip made national headlines last year. Michelle Suzanne Lippert, 38, organized a camping trip to San Clemente State Beach from December 27, 2014 to December 29, 2014, that was not approved by...