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(11/05/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Robert M. Fickenscher, 57, a chemistry teacher at Madison High School, in Madison, Ohio has reportedly been arrested on allegations of attempting to solicit sex from what he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.

Robert M. Fickenscher

Fickenscher was arrested during a teaching symposium at Harvey High School on a warrant from the Pennsylvania Attorney General Child Predator Unit.

It is alleged that Fickenscher and the undercover agent posting as the girl met in a chat room and were speaking between April and July and that Fickenscher and “the girl” planned to meet in the Erie area.

Fickenscher faces extradition to Pennsylvania to face a total of five charges, including attempted unlawful conduct with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility.

Fickenscher has reportedly been placed on paid administrative leave by the school system.

11/06/09 – Case Update

A press release from the office of Pensylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett reveals new information on the allegations and charges against Robert Fickenscher.

According to the press release, it is alleged that Fickenscher repeatedly expressed a desire to meet the girl for sex and described in graphic detail the sex acts he wished to perform. He is also accused of sending five webcam videos that showed him nude or semi-nude, including several in which Fickenscher was engaging in sexual activity in front of his computer along with others showing him wearing women’s undergarments and performing a striptease for the child.

Additionally, Fickenscher allegedly encouraged the girl to obtain a digital camera so that she could send him “revealing” photos of herself.

Fickenscher is charged with five counts of criminal attempted unlawful contact with a minor (related to obscene or sexually explicit material), along with one count of criminal use of a computer, all third-degree felonies which are each punishable by up to seven years in prison and $15,000 fines.

According to the press release, Fickenscher has waived extradition and will be transported from Ohio to Pennsylvania today.

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(12/17/08 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Balazs Toth, 36, a music teacher at St. Catherine of Siena School and also at Escuela de Guadalupe Catholic School, both on Denver, Colorado has been arrested on allegations that he attempted the Internet seduction of a detective who reportedly posed as a 14-year-old girl.

Balazs Toth

It is alleged that Toth set up a meeting with the detective posing as a child after propositioning her on an Internet chat room.

It is alleged that Toth started the Internet chat by asking if the fictitious girl was a virgin and he described a sex act he wanted to perform on on the girl. It is further alleged that Tothsent a picture of an erect penis to the girl.

Toth was arrested when he arrived at a location where he had arranged to meet the detective posing as the girl.

Reportedly Toth has resigned from both schools in the wake of his arrest.

Toth faces charges of Internet sexual exploitation of a child, Internet luring of a child as well as other felony counts.

Toth was released on $35,000 bond.

10/27/09 – Case Update

Earlier this year Balazs Toth pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit sexual assault on a child.

He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years of sex offender probation.

Today, his car, a 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse, was crushed by Denver Police. The car was adjudicated a public nuisance since it was used to attempt a sexual assault.

A Denver Police Department spokesperson was quoted as saying as to why the car was crushed rather than auctioned, “Because of the severity and type of crime, we felt it would be more important to crush the car and make sure the car is never used in a criminal offense again.”

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08/14/08 – Initial BBT Report)

Joel Matthew Cupp, 29, a teacher at Trinity Oaks Elementary School in New Port Richey, Florida has been arrested on allegations of solicitation on the Internet of someone he thought was a child.

Joel Matthew Cupp

It is alleged that Cupp thought that he was communicating online with three young teenage girls. It is further alleged that Cupp also exposed himself multiple times over a web cam to the “girls”. The “girls” were in reality two different undercover investigators with the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office and one with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit.

According to a press release by the office of the Florida Attorney General:

The investigation was initiated by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office which requested assistance from the CyberCrime Unit when the investigators determined Cupp, 29, was located in Pasco County.

The investigation was further coordinated once the investigators realized they were all chatting with the same suspect. A search warrant was executed at Cupp’s New Port Richey residence and Cupp was taken into custody by law enforcement with the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office and members of the Attorney General’s Tampa Bay CyberCrime Task Force, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Plant City Police Department and the New Port Richey Police Department.

Cupp is the second school teacher arrested by the CyberCrime Task Force this month.

Cupp is charged with three counts of online solicitation and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition, all third-degree felonies and if convicted of all charges, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

04/03/09 – No Contest Plea and Sentencing

Joel Cupp has reportedly pleaded no contest to three counts of using the Internet to lure children and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition by a person older than 18 years.

As a result of Cupp’s plea, he was sentenced to six years in prison to be followed by six years of probation.

Cupp will also be required to forfeit his teaching license and register as a sex offender.

10/26/09 – More Charges

Joel Cupp, convicted this year of soliciting teenagers over the Internet for sex is facing the same charges in another county.

Cupp was transferred from the state prison in Jackson County to face charges in Martin County, where it is alleged he engaged in lewd and lascivious behavior over the Internet in 2008.

It is alleged that Cupp showed his genitalia to a sheriff’s detective posing as a 14-year-old girl in an Internet chat room in July 2008.

References:

Ex-teacher faces sex charges (10/27/09)

Former Pasco County teacher Joel Cupp gets prison for soliciting child sex (04/04/09)

Tampa CyberCrime Task Force Arrests Elementary School Teacher (08/14/08)

Pasco teacher arrested for online sex crimes (08/14/08)

Trinity Oaks Teacher Charged With Online Soliciting (08/14/08)

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