(3/19/08 - Initial BBT Report)

Quinton Mosley, 29, former band director at Brewbaker Junior High School in Montgomery, Alabama today pleaded guilty to two counts of sodomy on allegations that he had an improper relationship with a 13-year-old female student.

Few details of this case are available, except that Mosley was the band directory at Brewbaker Junior High from February 2005 until April of last year, he was arrested on the sodomy charges in July and indicted by a grand jury in October.

Mosley who is scheduled for sentencing next month faces between 2 and 20 years on each count.

He is currently free on $10,000 bond.

References:

Former Montgomery Band Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex Crime With Student (3/19/08)

A Picture of Quinton Mosley is available Here

Jonathan Townsend, 40, assistant principal at Opp High School in Opp, Alabama already facing charges of attempted sexual abuse in the first degree, solicitation to commit sexual abuse in the first degree and harassing communications has now been charged with three additional counts of first-degree attempted sexual abuse.

Apparently all of the allegations against Townsend are the result of alleged inappropriate behavior toward students.

Townsend first came to the attention of authorities by way of complaints from the parents of two students alleging improper behavior on Townsend’s part. Following the initial complaints against Townsend, the parent of yet another student came forward with similar allegations.

Townsend had previously be placed on administrative leave by the school system for undisclosed reasons.

References:

Assistant principal faces more sex charges (3/13/08)

OHS official faces sex charges

Opp assistant principal placed on leave

(1/15/08 - Initial BBT Report)

Marvin Brent Lusk Jr., 30, a former health and physical education teacher and head coach of the varsity boys basketball team at Smith Station High School, in Smiths Station, Alabama has been indicated by a grand jury on one count of sexual abuse in the second degree and one count of enticing a child for immoral purposes.

It is alleged that Lusk engaged in “inappropriate physical contact” with a 15-year-old female student during September of last year.

Lusk resigned from the school last fall.

He faces up to ten years in prison if convicted of the enticing charge was released on $8,000 bond.

References:

Former teacher indicted on sexual abuse charge (1/15/08)

Former Lee County Teacher Arrested for Sexual Abuse (1/14/08)

(10/25/07 - Initial BBT Report)

Sharon L. Rutherford, 32, an English teacher at Coffeeville High School in Coffeeville, Alabama has been found guilty in a jury trial on two counts of enticing a minor for immoral purposes. The victims were male sudents, 14 and 15-years-old at the time of the offenses.

Rutherford was arrested in April 2006 on allegations that she had sexual contact with at least four of her male students and solicited at least one of them to kill her husband, a gym teacher at the same school.

Authorities dropped rape and sexual abuse charges against her when it was determined that two boys were older than Alabama’s age of consent of 16.

No trial date has been set on the charge of soliciting the murder of Rutherford’s husband.

Sentencing on the enticement charges has been set for December 10. Rutherford faces up to ten years in prison on each count.

Rutherford who has two daughters, aged 2 and 11, has been released on house arrest to await sentencing.

12/10/07 - Sentencing

Sharon L. Rutherford has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years years probation. She must also pay a fine and stay away from the students involved.

Rutherford is also facing a solicitation for murder charge on allegations that she tried to get a student to kill her husband. That case is expected to be settled in March.

Rutherford has appealed her conviction and is currently free on bond.

References:

Sex Teacher Sentenced (12/10/07)

Jury finds former teacher guilty of enticing minors (10/24/07)

Teacher accused of enticing students found guilty by Clarke County jury (10/24/07)

2 former students claim they had sex with Clarke Co. teacher (10/24/07)

(11/01/07 - Initial BBT Report)

Calvin James Staten, 44, the former girls basketball coach at Butler High School, in Huntsville, Alabama has been sentenced following a plea deal in which Staten, facing felony charges of first-degree sexual abuse, pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of harassment.

As a result of the plea deal, Circuit Judge Karen K. Hall sentenced Staten to serve the maximum of 90 days on each charge to run consecutively, then suspended the sentence and placed Staten on two years probation. In exchange for the guilty plea prosecutors dropped the felony sexual abuse charges.

Also as part of the plea agreement, Staten agreed to permanently relinquish his Alabama teaching license.

Staten was indicted in April 2005 for sexually abusing four basketball players during the 2003-2004 season. His first trial ended in a mistrial when the jury reported that it was still deadlocked after three days of deliberations. During that trial the young women testified that Staten had fondled them or made sexually inappropriate remarks to them.

Assistant District Attorney Leann White said that the plea deal had the approval of the alleged victims and will keep Staten away from students.

Reportedly Staten is also facing trial on an unrelated charge of public lewdness on allegations that he engaged in a sex act with a woman at a car wash in Huntsville last December.

Reference:

Sex abuse case costs former Butler coach Staten his license (11/01/07)

Background:

Change of venue granted in Staten case (5/21/07)