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...

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...

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,...

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...

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - A settlement has been reached between one of the victims of Bart Mazer, a former math teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Allegany County. In June, Mazer was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of fourth-degree sex offense against two teenage girls. In her...

Scott Nichols, 42, formerly a teacher at West High School in Billings MT, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, KBZK news reported. On June 3, 2015, Nichols agrees to pleas guilty to two counts of coercion and enticement of a child, two counts of attempted...

TULARE COUNTY — James Magana, 20, a volunteer coach for Granite Hills High School was arrested Monday on multiple charges of sexual crimes against minors, including suspicion of oral copulation with a minor, communication with a minor with the intent to molest, sexual penetration by force, child endangerment, and assault with intent to commit...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA  -- A 5th-grade teacher at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Morgan Hill received a 40-year prison sentence Monday after pleading guilty in August to molesting his students. Teacher John Loyd’s four victims ranged in age from 9 to 11 years old. Three were molested at some point during a three-year...

In 2008, Matthew Cooper was employed by  a Utah company called Northeastern Services (NES), to work at a group home for mentally and behaviorally disabled adults in a residential family neighborhood. NES encouraged children in the neighborhood to interact with group home residents and employees. According to a lawsuit that was later filed, this...

VANCOUVER, WA -- Stephanie McCrea, 36, a former drama teacher at Evergreen High School was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday, KPTV.com and multiple news sources reported. McCrea was arrested in January and in July, pleaded guilty to four counts of child rape and tampering with a witness. According to the news reported,...