Teacher Has Sex With At Less 12 Of Her Students

A high school art teacher in Tucson is accused of having sex with four of her students.

KVOA reports that Melissa Dalton was initially booked on four counts of sexual conduct with a minor on April 30.

After she posted bail and was released, more students came forward with details about the 33-year-old wife and mother's other alleged sexual encounters. That prompted police to add eight more counts, including six of sex with a minor.

Police started the investigation after one of the alleged victims told his cousin he had sex with Dalton.

Police said Dalton initially denied the allegations and then admitted "things went too far" with one of her students, according to Tucson News Now.

"Like, I get the fact that they feel like I had been leading them on," Dalton said, according to a police report obtained by News Now.

Explorer News reports that some of the alleged sexual encounters took place in Dalton's classroom, in her car and at one victim's parents' house.

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Man Sews Son's Buttocks Shut

A northeast Illinois man who stood accused of using a needle and thread to sew his son's buttocks shut has accepted a plea agreement and will not spend any time in prison.

Randy Swopes, 52, of Waukegan, entered an Alford plea Friday to aggravated battery. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to possibly win a conviction. Swopes was sentenced to 24 months of probation and 250 hours of community service.

Swopes' son reportedly suffers from Crohn's Disease. According to WebMD, the condition is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes, "inflammation or ulceration of the digestive tract."

In January 2008, the disease caused Swopes' son, then 14, to develop a fistula. One Crohn's information website describes a fistula as, "an abnormal tunnel connecting two body cavities that are not usually connected, such as the rectum and the vagina. A fistula can also be a body cavity to the skin such as the rectum to the outside of the body."

Fistulas are typically treated with medication and sometimes surgery.

In the case of Swopes' son, the fistula was on the boy's buttocks. Rather than take the teen to the doctor for treatment, Swope opted to take care of the problem himself andsewed the fistula shut using a needle and thread, Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Danielle Pascucci told the Lake County News-Sun.

The home surgery did not work as intended and the wound became infected. The boy was hospitalized for about a month while he recovered.

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Teacher Has Sex With Student In Her Classroom Supply Closet.

Kacy Christine Wilson, a 28-year-old former teacher at Osceola High School in Kissimmee, Fla., is being accused of pulling a 16-year-old student out of class and thenleading him to a closet to have sex, WOFL-TV reports.

According to a police report obtained by WOFL, Wilson called the unnamed teenager's teacher to claim he had left something in her classroom. The incident allegedly occurred when he arrived at her room.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that detectives began investigating a possible relationship between Wilson and one of her students in October. At the time, she refuted the accusations, resigned from her position and then moved to Colorado.

But last month, the victim admitted to the relationship, leading to Wilson's arrest in Colorado, after which she was extradited back to Osceola Counting and is now held on $85,000 bond.

Back in April, 29-year-old Jeffrey R. Sears Jr. allegedly had sex with 15 and 16-year-old students in the classroom, in his car and at his home. He was also accused of having a "sexual encounter" with a student in a school stairwell.

The Baltimore Sun reported that the encounters -- for which prosecutors pursued a 10-year-sentence -- occurred over a two-year period.

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Mom Takes Nude Pictures Of her 13-year-old Daughter For Internet.

Authorities in Utah have arrested a woman for allegedly helping her 13-year-old daughter text nude photos to a 30-year-old man.

The young girl's mother, a 35-year-old woman from Duchesne County, has been charged in district court with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

According to the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office, the teenager told detectives she has an older boyfriend who lives in Oregon. She said he sent her a cellphone and asked her to send him naked photos of herself, police said.

The girl was unable to figure out how to work the cellphone, so her mother allegedly helped her take three nude photos with the device. The images were then texted to the Oregon boyfriend.

When questioned by police, the girl's mother, who is not being named to protect theidentity of her juvenile child, allegedly admitted helping her daughter with the cellphone. She also allegedly said she was aware the teen had planned to send the photos to the man.

Each of the second-degree felony charges is punishable with a maximum of eight years in jail and a $15,000 fine.

The sheriff's office has notified authorities in Oregon about the case and investigators there have launched an investigation into the teen's boyfriend.

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Principal Get Caught Making Out With His Assistant

The Scholars Academy Principal Steve McClenning and assistant Billie Madewell have both lost their jobs after the two were caught passionately making out on video,KTVK-TV reports.

According to the station, the video was taken on the cellphone of 16-year-old Myranda Garber at the Quartzsite, Ariz. school. A school board member also confirmed to KTVK that the principal resigned from his position, while the secretary was fired.

Local residents say thatMcClenning and Madewell are married to other people, but parents are mostly upset because the make-out and groping session took place on school grounds, during school hours, KNXV-TV reports.

The incident comes at a bad time for the school, which is not getting its charter status renewed. While the academy is appealing the decision to the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, many fear the town will not have a school next year, and many of the students feel betrayed.

“It’s just a smack in the face as far as I’m concerned,” student Joseph Hager told KNXV-TV.

This isn't the first time hidden cellphone video has gotten an educator in trouble. In February, New York City math teacher David Pecoraro was "reassigned to an administrative office" after cellphone video revealed him swatting at and spitting on a student.

According to Beach Channel High School junior Otina Rosario, the incident depicted in the video wasn't the first time Pecoraro acted inappropriately towards students.

"He’s always getting in kids’ faces and spitting all over them," Rosario told the New York Daily News. “It’s disgusting.”

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Teacher Tells Girl That Your Sexier Than Me.

Marco Inskip, a 40-year-old substitute teacher at Charles L. Spragg Elementary School in Egg Harbor City, N.J., has been accused of telling a 7-year-old girl she was dressed "too sexy for gym today," CBS New York reports.

Henry Wilson, the girl's father, told the station he filed a police complaint against the teacher, who has been suspended from the school district.

"You just don’t talk like that to children,” parent Debbie Maser told WGHP-TV. “You don’t use those kind of words in reference to them.”

The Press of Atlantic City reports the 7-year-old told a teacher that Inskip said a "bad word to her," but didn't want to use the word "sexy."

Wilson said he appreciates the school's action, but wants it to go further.

“The guidance counselor talked to her, and I’m happy with how the school responded," Wilson told the paper. “I just don’t want him to be able to go to another district and do the same thing."

According to the Cherry Hill Courier Post, the Egg Harbor City school board plans to visit the case against Inskip in May.

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Boy With Autism, Mic-Up To Catch A Teacher Verbal And Emotional Abuse.

When Stuart Chaifetz sent his 10-year-old son to New Jersey's Horace Mann Elementary School wearing a hidden audio recorder, he couldn't have predicted what he would uncover.

The move came in reaction to accusations from the school that his son Akian was having "violent outbursts," including hitting his teacher and teacher's aide -- claims that Chaifetz claims are against his son's "sweet and non-violent" nature.

Akian, who has Autism, returned with a tape containing hours of apparent verbal and emotional abuse from his classroom aide and teacher -- whom Chaifetz identifies as "Jodi" and "Kelly" -- a recording which his father later published on YouTube.

The Feb. 17 recording started with Akian's aide and the teacher, whom Collingswood Patch provides evidence may be Jodi Sgouros and Kelly Altenburg, respectively, based on a previously published online staff directory.
The two engage in inappropriate conversations, like joking about their alcohol abuse and sex lives in front of their students -- all of whom have behavioral conditions and, according to Chaifetz, communication difficulties that prevent them from relaying the conversations to their parents.

"You would never get away with talking about your alcohol abuse the night before if this was a mainstream class," Chaifetz says in the YouTube video. "And that's the point, isn't it? They knew none of those boys could go home and tell their parents that the person who ran that class was under the influence of alcohol and was throwing up."

As the tape continues, the teacher and teacher's aide's behavior turns from inappropriate to cruel.




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Kindergarten Made To Sit In own Diarrhea.

Lisa Skidmore, mother of a kindergarten student at Southwest School in Washburn, Mo., is outraged after her daughter's teacher forced her to wrap a trash bag around herself and sit in her own diarrhea, KY3-TV reports.
"They didn't even bother trying to clean her up or anything," Skidmore told the station. "She still had poop, diarrhea poop, coming out the back, up her front, down her legs."

The girl's father was almost too upset to talk about the incident, but said that he'd likely face criminal charges had he been the one to leave her sitting in her own mess like that.

According to the station, the class had been told to use the restroom before the testing period, so the teacher made the 6-year-old sit in the mess for the duration of the test and during the 20 minutes it took for her mother to drive to the school with a change of clothes.

With the girls' parents pushing to make sure this never happens at the school again, Superintendent Bob Walker told KY3 that district officials "regret what happened."

In March, Gonja Wolf, a high school art teacher in San Diego, was placed under investigation after a 14-year-old female student accused her of forcing her to urinate in a bucket inside the classroom instead of taking a bathroom break.

The girl filed a claim for damages to person or property, claiming the teacher made her do that in the presence of male classmates, and then empty the bucket in the classroom sink.

In January, a 7th grader at Klein ISD in Houston, Texas, claimed he was forced to urinate in a plastic bottle after his teacher refused to allow him to use the restroom.

Despite the student's testimony that he was denied a bathroom break, he still faced one month in "an alternative campus" as punishment, the Houston Chronicle reported.





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Man Lies To Missing Woman Family To Get Their Money.

A promising lead about the whereabouts of Phoenix Coldon turned out to be a cruel hoax, causing the missing Missouri woman's family additional pain, their entire life savings and their home.

"Unfortunately, we will now be losing our family home," the missing woman's mother, Goldia Coldon, told The Huffington Post. "We have tried to explain the situation to our mortgage company but they don't care."

A tip that led the family to Texas came from a man who claimed to know Coldon's whereabouts and provided her family with very convincing details, Goldia Coldon said. The family already had invested much of their money to search for Phoenix, she said, but spent the remainder of their savings on private investigators to follow up on the lead. It was not until after the family's money was gone that the man who provided the tip admitted he fabricated the story, Coldon said.

"They said he made it up to get attention," she said. "It cost us dearly and it led absolutely nowhere. It was just his idea of a joke."

"The authorities said there is nothing they can do to the man. In my opinion, he impeded the investigation. He took money, time and energy that we could have been using to follow other leads because he wanted to perpetrate a joke."

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Phoenix Coldon, 23, was last seen in the driveway of the family's St. Louis County home at about 3 p.m. Dec. 18. Her mother said she was sitting in her vehicle one minute and the next, she was gone.

Coldon said she initially thought her daughter had gone to the store but when she did not return that night, Coldon said she reported her daughter and her black 1998 Chevy Blazer missing to police the following morning.

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Tupac Back, Tupac Back....All I Can Say.

Well, that was uncomfortable. Despite supposedly having been dead for over 15 years, Tupac Shakur joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on the main stage at Coachella late Sunday night.

An all-too-realistic hologram of the late rapper rolled through "2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted" and other hits in the California desert. Even more unnervingly, he started his mini-set by shouting out "Coachella" by name.


Snoop and Dre were also joined by Eminem, who performed "I Need a Doctor" and "Forgot About Dre" with his mentor. He also ripped through "Till I Collapse." 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa and newcomer Kendrick Lamar also made appearances, as the night proved to be a celebration of rap's heavy hitters, old-school classics and almost-old school hits ("In Da Club," anyone?).







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