Karen Susan Patton, 42, of Wytheville, Virginia and a former Scott Memorial Middle School seventh-grade English teacher and cheerleading coach has been sentenced to three years and 11 months in prison.

Patton entered no contest pleas to the charges of non-forcible sodomy and carnal knowledge of a minor in March of this year. In exchange prosecutors dropped other charges.

Patton’s three felony convictions stem from sexual encounters with two then 13-year-old boys. The sexual encounters took place in Patton’s home during the years 2004 and 2006.

One of the young victims was a student at Scott Memorial Middle School. The other was a student at Woodlawn School in Carroll County, Virginia where Patton taught in 2004.

Update 8/10/07:

Anyone that doubts the harm done teen boys victimized by a female teacher/sexual predators is urged to read “Patton transcript released ” a report publish by “The Gazette” of Galax, VA.

Reference:

Patton receives prison time

Background:

Ex-teacher in Wythe Co. enters plea of no contest

Former teacher faces more sex charges

Wythe Co. teacher charged in sex case

Teacher Charged With Having Sexual Relations With Student

Jonathan Keith Spivey, 47, a choir teacher at Charlottesville High School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to one count of custodial indecent liberties. He also entered an Alford plea on three other charges, admitting prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of indecent conduct with those boys also although those charges were not actually prosecuted.

Spivey had previously come to the attention of authorities in 2001, for his conduct toward teen males. However the investigation was dropped when neither Spivey or the boy with whom he allegedly engaged in the inappropriate conduct would admit anything to investigators.

In September of last year a 17-year-old boy reported a “teacher hitting on me”. Spivey admitted he solicited oral sex with the boy and was placed on administrative leave.

In the wake of this case the boy involved in the earlier case admitted that he and Spivey had sexual contact an estimated 20 times, including incidents on a choir trip to Myrtle Beach and at the high school. Another boy 17-year-old boy reported having sex with Spivey eight or nine times when the boy was a junior.

Other boys came forward acknowledging that Spivey had either solicited them for sex or had sex with them over the years and that the incidents usually took place in Spivey’s office and in a choir robe chamber adjacent to his office.

Spivey, who was also music director at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, was initially charged with seven counts of custodial indecent liberties.

Spivey faces up to a maximum of 20 years in prison but prosecutors indicate that he will likely be sentenced in the one or two year range. He remains free on bond pending sentencing on September 27th.

References:

Former CHS choir director pleads guilty to sex charges

Teacher Charged In Student Molestation Pleads Guilty

Ex-choir man Spivey pleads guilty

Background:

Alleged Spivey Victim Speaks

CHS music teacher resigns after indictment

CHS teacher indicted on seven felonies

Jonathan Spivey Background

View All Bad Bad Teacher Coverage of the Case of: Jonathan Keith Spivey

Ronald Richard Taylor Jr., 39, of Grand Rapids, Michigan and a former music teacher at Martin Luther King Academy and Buchanan Elementary School has been convicted on 12 of 15 counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct against young boys.

At his trial over the past several days a parade of young boys testified about the alleged sexual abuse they experienced. The boys were between the ages of 5 and 10-years-old at the time of the alleged abuse.

The prosecution and witnesses contended that Taylor molested the boys at various places including at Buchanan Elementary School, Martin Luther King Learning Academy, Taylor’s home, a laser tag facility, while camping near Taylor’s parent’s home and even in church.

In addition to the children, other witnesses included a man facing murder charges who testified that Taylor talked openly about the alleged molestation after the two met earlier this year in a Bible study class at the Kent County Jail. The witness indicated “He said he’d like to do more things” and “He told me the kids wasn’t going to be believed because they were too young”.

Taylor himself took the witness stand last Friday and denied everything, contending that he did nothing wrong with any of the boys and basically said that they were all being untruthful in their accusations against him. Taylor on the witness stand portrayed himself as a mentor of kids who are having trouble and a person that helps them to become well-rounded men.

Defense attorney Fil Iorio said his client is the victim of overzealous school officials, media hype and hysterical family members. Additionally Iorio questioned the competency of the children who testified and their ability to tell truth from fiction and, in one case, even to identify their alleged assailant in the courtroom.

Taylor is being held without bond pending sentencing on August 16th.

References:

Taylor guilty of molesting students

Teacher’s fate in sex trial in jury’s hands

Former teacher denies molesting kids

Teacher testifies in own defense in sex trial

More tough testimony expected in teacher molestation trial

Fellow inmate says Taylor bragged of molestation

Grand Rapids teacher faces CSC charges

Timothy Zisa, a social studies teacher and track coach at Wayne Hills High School, in Wayne, New Jersey has entered a guilty plea to three counts of cruelty and neglect to a child after admitting to sexual misconduct with three former students.

Zisa admitted that he engaged in obscene communications with the three female students, kissed two of them while they were under 18-years-old and had sex with two of them after they turned 18.

As part of Zisa’s plea deal he will face up to five years of probation, be evaluated as a sex offender and have to perform 125 hours of community service. Zisa also is required to give up his teaching license and will be prohibited from ever working in a public job in the state of New Jersey.

Sentencing for Timothy Zisa is set for August 10th.

Reference:

Wayne teacher admits he had sex with students

Timothy Avery, 25, of Staten Island, New York and a teacher’s aide at Hunter College High School in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with third-degree rape for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Investigators say that Avery had sex with the girl four or five times between November, 2006 and January, 2007. He was also charged with criminal sex acts and endangering the welfare of a child

If convicted Avery faces up to four years in prison.

Reference:

Staten Island resident accused of rape