Archive for the ‘ME-IS-FV’ Category
(09/03/10 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Jay T. Harvill, 35, a teacher and softball and volleyball coach at Mansfield High School in Mansfield, Texas has reportedly been arrested on allegations of online solicitation of a minor.
Reportedly, Harvill is charged with a third-degree felony count of online solicitation of a minor.
On Thursday, Texas Attorney General’s investigators and Mansfield Police arrested Harvill at his residence.
It is alleged that Harvill conducted sexually explicit online chats this summer with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, but who was in reality an undercover investigator with the Texas Attorney General’s Cyber Crimes Unit.
Reportedly, Harvill was placed on paid administrative leave by the school system prior to the beginning of the new school year.
Reportedly, Harvill was freed on $50,000 bond.
References:
Cops: Mansfield Coach Solicited Minor Online (09/03/10)
Mansfield HS Coach Charged With Soliciting Minor (09/03/10)
Mansfield teacher, coach accused of soliciting minor in online sting (09/03/10)
(09/03/10 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Thomas Calvin Vickers, 42, a history teacher at Moorhead Junior High in Conroe, Texas has reportedly been arrested on allegations of online solicitation of a minor.
Reportedly, Vickers is charged with two counts of enticing a child and one count of promotion of child pornography.
Investigators with the Harris County Precinct 4 High Tech Crime Division and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force allege that Vickers entered into an online chat with an undercover officer, who was posing as a 14-year-old girl.
It is further alleged that Vickers displayed lewd images of himself and solicited the officer for sex. Investigators said Vickers also displayed lewd images of what appeared to be juvenile females to the undercover officer.
(11/05/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Robert Mark 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.
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.
Howard Kaplan, 57, a former math teacher at Western Reserve Academy, in Hudson, Ohio has been charged with nine counts of importuning and 1 count of possession of criminal tools.
Kaplan was arrested and indicted as the result of an internet sex sting conducted by officers with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
It is alleged that Kaplan began chatting with the undercover agent posing as a 12-year-old girl in May and continued until August 21. On August 23 search warrants were executed on his home and office, located on the academy campus, and Kaplan was arrested following the search.
Reportedly, since his arrest Kaplan has been “released” by the school.
At last report Kaplan is in the Cuyahoga County jail and no mention of bail has been made.
He will be arraigned in September.
Update 9/01/07:
Reportedly Kaplan has been freed on $10,000 bail.
News reports indicate that Kaplan voluntarily left the employ of the academy after his arrest and that he and his wife have vacated campus housing.
Kaplan is scheduled for arraignment on September 12th.
(08/30/10 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Randall Pilon, 54, a social studies and special education teacher at at Salem Middle School in Virginia Beach, Virginia has reportedly been arrested on allegations that he engaged in improper online communications with a minor.
Reportedly, Pilon was snared in an Internet sting conducted by an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force affiliate agency in Kentucky.
Pilon was arrested at Salem Middle School on Friday on charges of attempted indecent liberties and use of a communications device to facilitate offenses against children.
Reportedly, the Kentucky agency contacted detectives with the Virginia Beach Police Department and reported that Pilon was communicating online with who he believed was a fourteen year old girl.
Virginia Beach officers arrested Pilon who was being initially held without bond in the Virginia Beach Correctional Facility.
Pilon has a bond hearing set for Tuesday.
Reportedly, Pilon, who has been with the school since 2000, has been suspended without pay.
References:
Va. Beach teacher charged with sex crimes (08/28/10)
Virginia Beach middle school teacher charged with sex crimes (08/27/10)
Bond hearing set for Beach teacher charged with Internet sex crimes (08/27/10)
VB teacher arrested at school (08/27/10)
Nicholas Kramer, 26, of Albany, New York, a substitute teacher in multiple school districts in the Capitol Area of upstate New York has reportedly been arrested on allegations of arranging to meet with two 14-year-old girls for sex.
Kramer was arrested after he allegedly tried to meet the young women at a predetermined location for the purpose of engaging in sexual conduct.
Reportedly, Kramer’s arrest is the result of an investigation by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the attorney general’s office and state police.
Kramer was charged with a felony count of attempted dissemination of indecent material to a minor and a misdemeanor count of attempted endangering the welfare of a child.
Following his arrest, Kramer was reportedly being held in the Albany County Jail on $25,000 cash bail.
Reportedly, State Police are contacting school administrators and agencies that have employed Cramer in an attempt to idenitfy any possible additional victims.
Subsequent reports indicate that Nicholas Cramer worked as a substitute teach in the Bethlehem, Guilderland, and South Colonie school districts.
Kramer’s next court appearance is set for August 26th.
References:
UPDATE: Cramer worked in 3 school districts (08/24/10)
Substitute teacher allegedly tried to lure teens (08/23/10)
Substitute teacher arrested after attempting to arrange for sex (08/23/10)