(06/23/09 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Joseph Eugene Council, 32, a former band and choir director at Pass Christian Middle School and Pass Christian High School in Pass Christian, Mississippi has reportedly been arrested on allegations of enticing a 14-year-old female student to send him sexually explicit pictures of herself.

Council is reportedly charged with computer luring of a minor for sexual purposes, enticing a child to produce a visual depiction of sexual conduct and possession of child pornography.

Council came to the attention of authorities when the alleged victim’s mother contacted police with her concerns regarding text messages and Internet messages.

Following his arrest, Council was held in the Harrison County jail in lieu of $75,000 bond.

A school spokesperson has indicated that Council resigned from the school in April and police have indicated that prior to working in Pass Christian schools that Council taught school at St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis in 2006 and 2007.

Police say that the investigation is on-going and ask that anyone with information that could help investigators with this case call the Long Beach Police Department at (228) 863-7292.

07/01/09 - Another Victim, Another Charge

Joseph Eugene Council is facing an additional charge of sexual battery of a victim under the age of 18 after allegedly confessing to a relationship with a second victim.

Allegedly Council confessed to investigators the incident with a then 17-year-old girl during the summer of 2007. Council was her instructor at band camp and the incident allegedly occurred at his home.

Council, who has been held in custody in lieu of $75,000 bail on the first charge, had his bail on the second charge set at $75,000 also.

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

Aaron M. Ringewold, 26, a substitute teacher at Mike O’Callaghan Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada has reportedly been arrested on allegations of of possessing child pornography.

Ringewold was arrested in Henderson on Friday and is reportedly charged with 17 counts of possession of child pornography.

Ringewold’s arrest came as the result of an investigation by detectives with the Henderson, Nevada Police Department.

Detectives said Ringewold was downloading child pornography onto his computer, but none of the images were of past or present students at O’Callaghan Middle School, where Ringewold was a “long term” substitute teacher.

Anyone with information that can help in the case is asked to call Henderson Police at 267-4750.

(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.