(U.S.) Wilcox High Principal Tab Taber has been reassigned to perform “other administrative duties” until school district officials finish their investigation into allegations that school administrators were warned of inappropriate behavior by teacher Edward Slate before he was charged with having sex with a 17-year-old female student. Link
(U.K.) Brett Meeds, 28, was a “talented” teacher at Northgate High School in Dereham and the town’s sixth form centre between 2005 and 2009 but was guilty of a “grave breach of trust” by starting sexual relationships with three girls – one was 15 and two were 16. Link
(U.K.) Christopher Davey, 45, a Torbay teacher, who sexually abused a teenage boy over a two-week period and was also caught with child porn pictures on his computer, has been warned he could face up to 15 months behind bars after pleading guilty to molesting the boy. Link
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(Canada) Alexander Clachers, a former manufacturing teacher at Kenner Collegiate, was found guilty on all charges by the 12-person jury after they spent more than 20 hours deliberating his case. His charges were seven counts of sexual assault, seven counts of sexual exploitation, and one count of sexual interference. Link 1 and Link 2
(U.K.) David Wilson, 48, former headmaster of Auchmuty High School, Glenrothes, has pleaded guilty to possessing and downloading 3,000 images of child abuse. The case was directly linked to Operation Alegbra, the police investigation that led to a gang of eight paedophiles in central Scotland being jailed. Link 1 and Link 2
(U.S.) Richard Tuthill, 37, a former music teacher from Bay Shore, New York whose 2007 sex abuse conviction had been overturned was found guilty this week after a retrial, the Suffolk district attorney’s office said. Tuthill was convicted of second-degree sex abuse after less than two hours of deliberation on Wednesday, Clifford said. Tuthill is expected to be sentenced Nov. 30. The female victim was 13-years-old at the time of the sexual abuse. Link
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(U.S.) Former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can again have unsupervised contact with children, a judge ruled this morning. The change in restrictions was requested so LaFave could be around the children of family and friends. LaFave finished the sex offender therapy program she has been participating in since December 2005. Link 1, Link 2 and Link 3
(Canada) More than nine hours of deliberating brought no result for former Kenner Collegiate teacher Alexander Clachers, who is awaiting a verdict on 15 sex-related charges. Link
(Canada) Stephen Grant, 31, a teacher and also a former town councillor in Mirfield, who tricked boys into sending him indecent images of themselves by pretending to be a promiscuous teenage girl has been jailed for 18 months. Link
(U.K.) Marc Grim, a PE teacher as reportedly admitted in court to having an affair with a teenage pupil after romancing her after sports trips and arranging secret meetings during school holidays. Grim has stepped down from his job at the school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, and separated from his wife since details of the affair came to light, a court heard. Link
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