Archive for January, 2009
(05/30/08 – Initial BBT Report)
Christopher Welch, 38, a health and physical education teacher and sports athletic trainer at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey has been arrested and charged with sex crimes.
It is alleged that Welch touched six female student-athletes in an inappropriate manner while employed as the athletic trainer at the school.
Welch has been charged with four counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact and two counts of criminal sexual contact.
Following his Wednesday arrest Welch was released on $50,000 bail.
01/30/09 – Sentencing
Christopher Welch, who in November pleaded guilty to six counts of child endangerment, was today sentenced five years probation.
Welch was also ordered to surrender his teaching license and athletic trainer certificate to the court.
Under the terms of his probation, Welch is prohibited unsupervised contact with girls under the age of 16, excluding his own children.
The judge also ordered Welch to undergo a psycho-sexual examination to determine if he is a threat to society.
References:
Former high school athletic trainer gets probation in groping case (01/30/09)
Gym teacher charged with sex abuse in West Windsor (05/30/08)
Teacher charged with groping 6 students (05/30/08)
WW-P instructor charged with sex crimes (05/30/08)
(6/23/07 – Initial BBT Report)
James C. Love, 37, of Bloomington, Illinois a substitute teacher for Bloomington and Normal, Illinois schools and a minister at Bloomington’s Mount Pisgah Baptist Church has been set for trial on July 16 on four counts of aggravated battery and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Love is alleged to have sedated and sexually abused four teenage boys at his home earlier this year.
Reportedly Love is married and has a 14-year-old son.
Love remains jailed in lieu of $40,000 bail and a pre-trial hearing is set for July 12th.
7/12/07 – Trial Delayed
The trial for James C. Love set for July 16th has been delayed owing to delays in obtaining necessary DNA testing results and production of evidence to the defense. There is no new trial date set at this time, although a status hearing is scheduled for August 21st.
Love remains in jail in lieu of paying the $40,000 bail.
11/21/07 – State Trial Delayed Till Feds Are Done
McLean County Circuit Court Judge Kevin Fitzgerald has granted a request for a delay in Jame Love’s trial on state charges until such time as the federal charges are settled.
The judge also authorized supervised visits between Love and his 14-year-old son.
2/08/08 – Federal Trial Delayed
The federal trial of James C. Love, scheduled for February 25th, has been delayed so that Love can be evaluated at a medical facility in the prison system.
07/18/08 – Competent For Trial
James Love has been found competent to stand trial on federal child pornography charges.
Love is scheduled to stand trial in October.
09/30/08 – Guilty Plea To Child Pornography
James Love pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to child pornography charges.
Love will serve 20 years in federal prison and be be on supervised release for life once he completes his prison sentence.
All other charges against Love were dropped as part of the plea deal.
The plea to the child pornography count was for taking explicit photos of boys after he drugged and molested them at his Bloomington home last year.
10/29/08 – Charges Dropped In McLean County
In light of James Love’s guilty plea and sentence in federal court state charges against him in McLean County have been dropped.
01/30/09 – Formal Sentencing
In keeping with the terms of his plea deal in October, James Love has been sentenced in a federal court to 20 years in federal prison for child pornography.
References:
Former Bloomington substitute teacher gets 20 years for child porn (01/30/09)
Bloomington Man Sentenced (01/30/09)
James Love sentenced to 20 years in prison (01/30/09)
Charges Dropped In McLean County Sex Case (10/29/08
Former substitute teacher pleads guilty to child porn (09/30/08)
Minister accused of sex abuse fit to stand trial (07/18/08)
Love trial on hold pending mental exam (2/08/08)
Delay granted in trial of minister accused of sex abuse (11/21/07)
Trial delayed for minister accused of sex abuse (7/12/07)
Date set for minister’s sex-abuse trial
Background:
Accused minister faces more sex charges (5/07/07)
Love’s bond raised to $300,000 on new charges (5/09/07)
Bloomington minister pleads not guilty in sex abuse case (5/18/07)
Bloomington teacher is accused; minister expresses support for him (5/19/07)
(01/30/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Erik Brandon Ross, 43, a former assistant coach of the boys’ basketball at Franklin High School in Highland Park, California has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old girl from another team.
According to Glendale Police, Ross was arrested Wednesday and booked on suspicion of four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and eight counts of oral copulation with a minor.
Reportedly Ross was a temporary employee hired in November as assistant coach of the boys’ basketball team at Franklin High School. In addition he also coached an independent girls’ club basketball team.
Reportedly the alleged victim is not a student at Franklin and was not on the girls’ club team Ross coached.
It is alleged that Ross met the girl while coaching an independent girl’s youth basketball team last summer.
It is further alleged that they exchanged phone numbers and began having a relationship, and that in December of 2008, Ross took the alleged victim to a motel in Glendale, provided alcohol and engaged her sexually over a period of time.
Reportedly Ross was being held in lieu of $480,000 bail.
(01/30/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
William “Randy” Sherman II, 36, former girls basketball coach at Carroll Senior High School in Keller, Texas has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting one of his players in 2006.
Sherman arrested in 2006 on a charge that he had sex with a then 16-year-old girl, who reportedly slit one of her wrists, shortly after the sexual assault.
Randy Sherman pleaded guilty this month to a charge of sexual assault of a child.
Sherman, who had been out on $5,000 bail, was taken into custody Thursday morning after state District Judge Everett Young sentenced him to prison.
Sherman must serve 2? 1/2 years before he will be eligible for parole
In addition to the prison sentence, Sherman is also required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
(12/06/07 – Initial BBT Report)
Ralph Kelly, 34, of Denver, a teacher at Brighton Collegiate High School in Brighton, Colorado has been arrested for investigation of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.
It is alleged that Kelly sexually assaulted an openly gay male student in a classroom at the school in early December.
Kelly who is Irish has taught social studies and German at the school since August posted $20,000 bond but remains in custody at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Brighton Collegiate High School is the new name of the charter school where Carrie McCandless taught and David Mundy, Jr. substitute taught.
McCandless was the wife of the principal when the school was named Brighton Charter Academy. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail last summer for providing alcohol to, and having unlawful sexual contact with a 17-year old student.
Mundy pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault on a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2005 for an incident in which he was partying with three girls, ages 14 to 16, at his apartment.
Mundy’s father, David Mundy Sr. who was the school board president pleaded guilty to failure to report child abuse in the McCandless case.
12/07/07 – ICE Lifts Hold
On Friday Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted the hold it had put on Ralph Kelly.
12/07/07 – Affidavit Released
The nature of the allegations against Kelly came to light today with the release of an affidavit in the case.
It is alleged that Kelly was an aggressive man demanding oral sex from a male high school student by telling him “if you cherish you’re grades you will do what I say”. An apparent implication that Kelly would punish the boys grades if he did not submit to oral sex.
Reportedly Kelly allegedly lured the student into a sexual relationship by pretending to interview him about his openly gay life in school.
12/20/07 – Allegations Arise About “Sex Study” At School
A second boy has come forward and school board President Ken Mitchell is reported as saying he had “heard rumors” of a sex survey.
3/31/08 – Ralph Kelly Going To Trial
A judge has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to try Kelly on a felony count of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.
Kelly could face a sentence of two to six years if convicted.
05/03/08 – Arraignment Hearing Continued
The arraignment hearing for Ralph Kelly has been continued to May 27th.
06/04/08 – Trial Scheduled
Ralph Kelly is scheduled to go on trial in September.
Kelly remains free on $1 million bond.
11/21/08 – Guilty Plea
Ralph Kelly has pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on student by one in a position of trust.
Kelly entered the guilty plea while appearing at a pre-trial conference.
Sentencing is set for January 30th.
01/30/09 – Sentencing
Ralph Kelly, facing a maximum sentence of six years in prison, was instead today sentenced to 90 days in the Adams County Jail.
Once his jail term is completed, Kelly will be deported to Ireland.
References:
Former teacher to be deported after attempted sex assault (01/30/09)
Teacher Pleads Guilty To Attempted Sex Assault (11/21/08)
Trial set for teacher accused of threatening to fail student over sex (06/04/08)
Kelly arraignment hearing continued (05/01/08)
Accused teacher to stand trial (3/31/08)
Teacher may have been doing sex study, says affidavit (12/20/07)
Affidavit: Teacher Lured Student into Sexual Relationship (12/07/07)
ICE lifts hold on teacher accused of sex assault (12/07/07)
Third teacher scandal rocks Brighton charter (12/07/07)
Third teacher in two years accused of sex crime at charter school (12/07/07)
Brighton Teacher Accused Of Student Sex Assault (12/06/07)
Brighton Teacher Accused Of Sex Assault On Student (12/06/07)
Another Brighton teacher arrested in sex assault (12/06/07)
(04/25/08 – Initial BBT Report)
Donna Lou Sanders, 46, a special education teacher at Magnolia Junior High School in Magnolia, Arkansas has been arrested on allegations that she rented motel rooms for a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl to have sex with others.
Sanders has been arrested on 12 counts of permitting abuse of a minor and 12 counts of accomplice to rape.
Following her arrest Sanders was being held in the Columbia County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
It is alleged that Sanders rented motel rooms in El Dorado for the girls, left them overnight, and returned the next day and picked them up.
It is further alleged that Sanders provided alcoholic beverages to the juveniles.
Police say that the incidents took place over a seven month period beginning in September.
Sanders resigned her job on the day of her arrest.
She has allegedly confessed to investigators.
KSLA is reporting that according to an affidavit in the case that Sanders would drive the 12 and 13 year old girls to either a hotel or deer camp and provide rooms for them to have sex with two underage boys and a 22 year old man they met on line through Facebook.
KSLA is also reporting the affidavit also says one of the alleged victims in this case was Donna Lou Sanders own teenage daughter and that Sanders sometimes just drove the teens around and permitted them to have sex in the back seat of the car as she drove.
04/28/08 – Additional Info
Sanders was released on $100,000 bond on Friday.
Her husband, Magnolia High School assistant principal Terry Sanders, has reportedly told investigators that he was unaware of his wife’s alleged illicit activities until two days before her arrest and that when he asked his wife, she admitted that the allegations were true.
Reportedly Donna Sanders is being treated at a private mental health facility.
04/29/08 – Official Charges
Donna Sanders has been official charged with two counts of accomplice to rape, four counts of third-degree sexual assault, and six counts of permitting abuse of a minor.
Two of the counts will be prosecuted in Columbia County. The remaining counts will be prosecuted in Union County.
01/29/09 – Guilty Plea and Sentencing
Donna Lou Sanders has pleaded guilty to five counts of permitting abuse of a minor.
Four counts were in Union County and one count was in Columbia County.
As a result of her guilty pleas, Sanders was sentenced to 10 years in prison on each count.
Reportedly under terms of her plea, Sanders will be eligible for parole after serving about eight years.
References:
Former teacher gets 50-year sentence on charges (01/29/09)
Former teacher get 50-year sentence on sex charges (01/29/09)
Former teacher formally charged with 12 felonies (04/29/08)
Motive Not Known of Special Education Teacher Accused of Taking Students to Motel for Sex (04/28/08)
Magnolia Teacher Arrested For Providing Sexual Opportunities For Students, Including Daughter (04/25/08)
Teacher accused of helping girls get motel room for sex (04/25/08)
Teacher accused of helping girls get motel room for sex (04/25/08)
Magnolia Teacher Accused Of Helping Girls Get Motel Room For Sex (04/25/08)