(Sweden) A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. The 41-year-old was led by police out of Helena school on Tuesday and was remanded in custody on Friday by Skaraborg district court. Link

(China) Chung Wing-kwok, 32, a Hong Kong teacher has been charged with having sex with a 13-year-old primary school pupil and keeping pictures of the encounters on his computer. Link

(U.S.) It’s been three years since former history teacher Danielle Walls pleaded guilty to four felony counts of having sex with one of her male students at Clairemont High School. Walls was 26 and the boy was 16. Walls served six and a half months in jail as part of her plea bargain. Now, she’s asking a judge to throw out those felonies. Link

(Australia) Michelle Lynn Dennis, 33, a music teacher who had sex with two students sobbed today as she was sentenced to more than four years jail. Dennis pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual penetration of a child under her care, supervision or authority and one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16. Link

(U.S.) Ronald Phillip Bae, 62, a professor of criminal justice at Troy University in Dothan, Alabama has reportedly been arrested on allegations of the sexual abuse of a 21-year-old woman. Police said the charge was the result of an investigation involving inappropriate sexual contact which allegedly happened at Bae’s business, Bae Polygraph & Hypnosis Center. Link

(Australia) Michelle Lynn Dennis, 33, a former teacher who had sexual liaisons with two students sent more than 1300 text messages to the boys, including naked photos of herself, a court was told yesterday. The County Court in Ballarat was told during a plea hearing that Dennis was teaching at Ballarat High School when she started sending sexual text messages to one of the boys in 2005. By the time of her arrest in October 2008, she had sent more than 1000 messages, some containing naked photographs of herself, to the boy, and more than 300 to the other boy. Link

(Canada) Former Prince George Secondary School teacher Michael R. Gardiner, 61, was convicted on Friday of the possession and distribution of child pornography. Gardiner was sentenced to nine months in jail and three years of probation for the charges. Link

(Australia) A teacher from the NSW central coast who was caught in bed with one of her pupils has pleaded guilty to having a lesbian affair with a minor. The woman was doing a practical teaching placement at a Lake Macquarie high school in 2006 when she began having sex with the 15-year-old pupil, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday. The teacher, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was aged 19 or 20 at the time and the affair continued after she left the school, the Newcastle Herald reports. Link

(U.K.) Brett Meeds, 28, who taught at Northgate High School, in Dereham, and the town’s sixth form college from 2005 to earlier this year is in ruins after he formed sexual relationships with three girls – one aged 15 and two aged 16. Meeds, a high school science teacher who “preyed on innocent girls for his own sexual gratification”, has been jailed for five years. Link 1 and Link 2

(Canada) Brian Douglas Nickel, a Spruce Grove teacher who admitted having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student last year had hidden a camera in his classroom desk to film female students, a Stony Plain court heard Tuesday. The camera captured images of the students’ leg and groin areas. The images do not constitute child pornography and Brian Douglas Nickel is not facing charges for them, but Crown prosecutor Craig Krieger said they demonstrate the “intensity” of Nickel’s interest in teenage girls. Link

(India) Rajesh Shukla, a eacher of a private school in an Uttar Pradesh village has been accused of forcibly stripping a 10-year-old girl student and photographing her on his mobile phone, police said Wednesday. Shukla Tuesday allegedly molested the Class 5 student of Swamy Harihar School in Mahmoodpur village of Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district, some 250 km from Lucknow. He was absconding. Link