(11/24/08 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Scott Eugene Dietlin, 34, a economics and history teacher at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, California has been arrested on charges that he sent electronic messages to a minor in an effort to seduce the teen.

According to the Burlingame Police Department, Dietlin was arrested Saturday morning on charges of sending harmful matter (via electronic e-mail) with the intent to seduce a minor, attempting to contact a minor with intent to commit a sexual offense and arranging to meet with a minor with intent to commit a sexual offense.

The arrest was made in in San Mateo and Dietlin was booked into San Mateo County Jail, where he reportedly remains in custody on $550,000 bail with arraignment set for this morning.

Dietlin came to the attention of authorities when two local teens established a profile on MySpace and posted a photo of a young woman as though it were her profile.

It is alleged that Dietlin started engaging in e-mails with them, and when the minors realized something wasn’t right, they came forward to police and a detective began posing as a teenage girl, struck up communication with Dietlin, who then allegedly arranged a time to meet with the “teen” in San Mateo for a potential sexual encounter.

12/10/08 – Arraignment

Scott Dietlin appeared in court for arraignment but delayed entering pleas to the charges.

Reportedly his defense attorney asked for more time to evaluate evidence.

Dietlin remains jailed in lieu of $700,000 bond.

12/23/08 – Court Appearance

Scott Eugene Dietlin appeared today in San Mateo County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Dietlin remains in custody in lieu of $700,000 bail.

02/06/09 – Preliminary Hearing Postponed

A preliminary hearing for Scott Dietlin, charged with three felony counts of sexually explicit communication with a minor, one count of attempted communication with a minor and two counts of arranging to meet with a minor, has been postponed until later this month.

Dietlin’s preliminary hearing, originally scheduled for Thursday, was reset to February 19th.

Dietlin remains in custody in lieu of $700,000 bail.

02/20/09 – Preliminary Hearing Waived

Scott Dietlin has waived his right to a preliminary.

Dietlin will appear in Superior Court on March 11 to enter a plea and set a date for a jury trial.

Dietlin remains in custody in lieu of $700,000 bail.

04/08/09 – No Contest Plea

Scott Dietlin has reportedly pleaded no contest to one count of arranging to meet with a minor for the purpose of engaging in a lewd act.

Under the terms of the plea deal, six other counts were dropped by prosecutors.

Also under terms of the plea deal, Dietlin agreed to spend up to two years in state prison.

Dietlin, who has been in custody since his arrest, will be formerly sentenced on June 2.

06/02/09 – Sentencing

Scott Dietlin has reportedly been sentenced to two years in state prison.

With credit for time served, Dietlin will serve a total of about 15 months in prison.

Dietlin is required to register as a sex offender.

(02/05/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Eric Charles Gladden, 34, a teacher at Futures High School, a charter school in North Highlands, California, has been arrested following an investigation involving inappropriate contact with five female students.

It is alleged that Gladden sent pictures of his genitalia to the female students who were 16 and 17 years-old with the alleged incidents taking place between March 2008 and January 2009. Gladden also is accused of supplying the students with alcohol at his home on more than one occasion.

Reportedly Gladden is facing 34 felony and misdemeanor charges involving distribution of lewd material to a minor, contributing to the delinquency of minors, child annoyance and falsifying documents to be used as evidence.

Investigators say there’s evidence that Gladden had inappropriate conduct with students, both in person and through cell phones.

Gladden was reportedly being held in custody at Sacramento County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.

Arrested along with Gladden was Monica Alarcon, 29, also a teacher at Futures High School.

Alarcon is reportedly facing one count of falsifying documents to be used in evidence.

Reportedly the investigation revealed that she allegedly helped Gladden forge and plant evidence in an attempt to clear him of the accusations

Bail for Alarcon was set at $50,000.

Both Gladden and Alarcon are scheduled for court appearances Friday.

Gladden teaches economics, history and leadership and is the advisor of the school’s video game club while Alarcon is a Spanish teacher and the yearbook advisor.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department is continuing the investigation and says there could be more victims and charges.

Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact sheriff’s detectives at (916) 874-5070, or Crime Alert at (916) 444-HELP.

06/01/09 – No Contest Plea

Last Thursday, Eric Charles Gladden pleaded no contest to charges related to inappropriate sexual contact with underage students. Sentencing is set for July 16th.

Monica Alarcon who previously entered a guilty plea to misdemeanor charges for falsifying documents to assist Gladden reportedly faces 90 days in county jail.

Thanks to “dj” whose comment brought the latest developments in this case to our attention.

(11/13/08 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Brad Goings, 31, an economics teacher and assistant football coach at Aberdeen High School in Aberdeen, Washington has been arrested and charged with one count of first degree sexual misconduct with a minor and three counts of communication with a minor for immoral purposes.

Reportedly Goings was disciplined by school officials in July of 2007 for sending text messages to students and was also warned to keep his door open when talking with female students. These actions reportedly came after the high school investigated rumors he was having an affair with a student.

Allegedly Goings began texting the alleged victims about school activities and eventually the texts became more personal and complimentary, then progressed to being overtly sexual in nature and in one case, the texting allegedly culminated in Goings having sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student. This incident is alleged to have occurred near the end of the last school year.

Most recently, Goings reportedly came to the attention of school administrators before the start of the current school year after a teacher the school Principal she had learned Goings had sent a large number of text messages, possibly to students.

The school began an investigation which over time resulted in the police becoming involved when students revealed the nature of some of the text messages allegedly from Goings and the 16-year-old revealed the alleged sexual contact with Goings.

Goings has been placed on administrative leave by the school system.