Archive for August, 2007

Michael P. Widger Arrested

Michael P. Widger, 36, of Erie, Pennsylvania a teacher at Grandview Elementary School has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography after police allegedly found 55 images on the computer he used at school.
Widger allegedly admitted to police that he would sometimes use the school computer for personal purposes.
Reportedly when police asked him why […]

Julie E. Petty Indicted

Julie E. Petty, 36, of White Bluff, Tennessee, a part-time substitute teacher and softball coach at William James Middle School has been indicted on charges of sexual battery by a person in authority and statutory rape by a person in authority.

The charges carry a punishment range of three to six years on each count upon […]

Renee Smith Sentenced

Renee Smith, 37, a former special education teacher at Springfield High School, in Springfield Township, Ohio who pleaded guilty last month to charges of sexual battery of one male student and furnishing drugs to him and another male student has been sentenced.

Smith has been sentenced to two years in prison and will be required to […]

Christine Johanson Sentenced

Originally published on 8/30/07
Updated: 8/31/07
Christine Marie Johanson, 36, a former teacher’s assistant at Hudson Park Elementary School has been sentenced in Cowlitz County, Washington for the third-degree rape of a 15-year-old male student at Rainier Junior/Senior High School in Rainier, Washington.

Johanson was sentenced to six months in jail on her guilty plea last […]

Charles L. Barton III Guilty

Charles L. Barton III, 62, a retired teacher who taught at the Groveland Elementary School, in Groveland, Florida for 32 years has pleaded guilty to molesting five girls.
All five victims were known to Barton from the school where he taught second and fourth-grade. Barton retired from the school in 2002.
All of the girls, who […]