Larry Kennedy, 61, a retired math teacher who prior to retirement in 2005 taught at Southside High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas has pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old boy.

The sexual assault occurred in May of this year at a Fort Smith, AR fitness center where Kennedy groped the boy, who reported the incident to an employee of the center who called police.

Kennedy was originally charged with second-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony however the charged was reduced to fourth-degree sexual assault, a Class A misdemeanor on a motion by the prosecution.

Kennedy’s sentence includes being placed on an electronic monitoring system for four months, registering as a sex offender and completing a sex-offender counseling program. Additionally Kennedy also received a one-year suspended jail sentence.

Reference:

Ex-Teacher Enters Plea To Assault

Webmaster’s note: Normally we do not report cases such as this. Mr. Kennedy was not a school employee at the time of his offense. However, owing to the nature of the offense AND the age of the victim AND Kennedy’s retirement within the past two years we decided to publish this post on the possibility that providing this information on-line might encourage parents of former students of Mr. Kennedy to discuss the case with their children and insure Mr. Kennedy’s recent behavior is not a repeat of prior behavior while he was still teaching.

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

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