(07/02/09 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Charles Fishburne Rhodes III, a teacher at First Baptist Church School in Charleston, South Carolina has reportedly been arrested on allegations of soliciting sex from a 12-year-old female student.

Rhodes is reportedly charged with criminal solicitation of a minor.

It is alleged that a few days after the end of the school year that Rhodes began sending text messages to the girl’s cell phone.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Rhodes and the girl had been exchanging text messages for two to three weeks when Rhodes wrote and asked her to “come over”.

It is further alleged that in one text message to the girl that Rhodes asked her to perform oral sex on him.

According to the affidavit, when questioned by Charleston County Sheriff’s, Rhodes waived his rights and admitted that he engaged in the sexual conversation with the girl.

(1/25/08 - Initial BBT Report)

Andrew Scot Bolsinger, 41, a former teacher and coach at the Willamette Valley Christian School in Brooks, Oregon has been arrested on allegations of rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and custodial interference in a case alleging a then 16-year-old female student as the victim in 2000.

Bolsinger was arrested on Friday.

He came to the attention of authorities as the result of the alleged victim coming forward.

1/31/08 - Freed On Bail

After the rape and sodomy charges against him were dropped and his bail amount reduced to $250,000, Andrew Bolsinger has been released on bail.

2/05/08 - Indicted and Fired

Andrew Bolsinger was indicted on four counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

He was fired from his job as the editor of a community newspaper.

3/15/08 - Not Guilty Plea

On Friday Andrew Scot Bolsinger entered a not guilty plea to four counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

Bolsinger was also served numerous subpoenas issued last week by a grand jury investigating his financial dealings unrelated to the sex case.

His next court appearance is set for April 9th.

05/28/08 - Court Looking for Andrew Bolsinger

Reportedly Andrew Bolsinger is missing.

Apparently the court has been unable to contact Bolsinger at any of the phone numbers or addresses listed in court records.

Bolsinger’s “disappearance”, while free on $25,000 bail on felony sex-abuse charges, could jeopardize his freedom.

At this stage Bolsinger is NOT being reported as having jumped bail, only that the court is trying to contact him and has been unable to do so.

The next court date in his case is currently set for June 18th.

04/16/09 - Guilty Plea

Andrew Scot Bolsinger has reportedly pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage girl he met while teaching at a private school in Salem nine years ago.

Prior to sentencing, set for May 21st, Bolsinger will undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation, which will include a polygraph test to help determine whether he has any other unidentified victims.

07/01/09 - Sentencing

Andrew Scot Bolsinger has been sentenced to to 20 months in prison.

Bolsinger’s attorney Larry Roloff unsuccessfully requested that Bolsinger would serve his sentence in California under house arrest by a private company.

References:

Former Marion County teacher sentenced to 20 months (06/30/09)

Ex-Ashland editor pleads guilty in sex case (04/16/09)

Court wants to know former editor’s whereabouts (05/28/08)

Theft investigation follows sex charge plea (3/15/08)

Ex-teacher pleads innocent in sex case (3/15/08)

Ashland Daily Tidings editor let go after rape accusation, publicity of troubled business dealings (2/05/08)

Editor Of Ashland Daily Tidings Faces Sex Charges (1/30/08)

Ex-Teacher Arrested On Rape Charges (1/25/08)

Former Teacher Jailed Over Sex Offenses Involving Student (1/25/08)

(06/30/09 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

In March, Salvatore Graci, a former sixth-grade teacher at St. Bernadette of Lourdes School in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia to possessing child pornography.

As a result of that guilty plea, Graci faced a possible sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and registration as a sex offender.

On June 29, 2009, Graci, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel who told Graci he was giving him a “huge break”.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ewald Zittlau asked for a sentence at the top of the advisory sentencing-guideline range of 51 to 63 months in federal prison.

Defense attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr. said Graci was not the typical child pornography consumer nor a predator. Peruto said that Graci had a history of “striking out” with women and subscribed to the child-porn Web sites in order to find a “virgin” and to learn how to have sex.

A psychiatrist testified that Graci he had an “infantile view of sex” but was not a pedophile.

Graci told the court, “I was just looking for a virgin. I did not know that what I was doing was criminally wrong, and if I did I would certainly not have done so.”

Judge Stengel sentenced Salvatore Graci to one day in prison to by followed by 10 years of supervised release.

Graci is required to register as a sex offender and is prohibited contact with school-age children and will have his computer monitored by the probation office.

Reportedly, Graci taught at Presentation BVM Parish Elementary School in Wynnewood from 1997-1999, Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion Station from 1999-2000 and St. Bernadette’s in Drexel Hill from 2000-2003 and was working as an instructional technology support specialist in the Souderton Area School District until his resignation in November, 2007.