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...

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...

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA -- Alexander Kurtz, 22, of Castro Valley, a preschool teacher in Pleasanton, was arrested last week after being suspected of sexual battery on a teen girl. The victim, a 13-year-old, was a former student at Building Kidz Preschool, where Kurtz worked as a teacher. The alleged acts are believed to have...

LOUISVILLE, KY – Jessica Boyers, a former Jefferson County teacher, pleaded guilty in February to rape, sodomy and sexual abuse after having sex with a student. Boyers was sentenced to 10 years in prison, on day after she was sentenced to 12 years for the same crimes in Oldham County. Boyers was caught with...

TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING – Mike Chase, 51 a resident of Dalton, Wyoming and a history teacher at Thunkhannock Area High School, was sentenced to 30 days to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty in March to sending sexual text messages to a female student over a two-year period. Mr. Chase also allegedly provided the...

ALABAMA – Ashley Nelson Hall, 33, a 10th and 11th grade English Teacher at Opp High School in Covington County, AL, was arrested Friday and placed on administrative leave after being accused of having sex with two of her students. Hall was charged with two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex...

ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- The Orange County Register reported Ezequiel Christopher Barragan, 48, a Spanish teacher at Dana Hills High School, was arrested Monday night on child molestation and child pornography charges. Barragan had been the target of a United States Postal Service child pornography investigation. During the investigation, officials found that Barragan had...

Jeremiah Mazo, a 54-year-old music teacher at Hayden Elementary School in North Las Vegas, was arrested Friday and booked on 10 separate charges of lewdness with a child under 14, the Review Journal reported. The allegations reportedly stem from multiple incidents with an 8-year-old student beginning in August of 2014. Mazo has been an...