(11/18/08 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Josefat (Joe) Estrada, 35, a math teacher at Vintage High School in Napa, California has been arrested and charged with child molestation.

It is alleged that Estrada had a sexual relationship with a boy who is now 18, with the sexual abuse beginning when the boy was 14-years-old.

The alleged sexual activity is said to have continued for approximately two years.

A press release from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department indicates that Estrada was a trusted friend of the family of the alleged victimn.

Reportedly the boy was not a student at Vintage High School.

Estrada came to the attention of authorities when a family member of the boy reported the alleged crimes.

Following his weekend arrest Estrada was reportedly being held in the Sonoma County jail on $250,000 bail with arraignment set for this morning.

11/18/08 - Update

Josefat (Joe) Estrada has been arraigned in Sonoma County court on 10 felony charges alleging the sexual abuse of a teenage boy.

Estrada was formally charged with eight counts of oral sex with a minor, one count of lewd conduct with a minor at least 10 years younger than him and one count of oral sex while the boy was unconscious or incapable of resisting.

Estrada did not enter a plea during today’s court appearance but will likely do so at a court hearing on Monday where a possible bail reduction or supervised release from jail will be considered.

05/19/09 - Plea Deal Agreement

Josefat Estrada has reportedly agreed to a plea deal in which he entered no contest pleas to three charges, including one that alleges the boy was incapable of resisting during one instance.

Sentencing is set for July 1st and Estrada faces the possibility of up to 8 years in prison on the most serious charge.

Estrada remains jailed in lieu of $235,000 bail while awaiting sentencing.

Reportedly, Estrada will be required to register as a sex offender.

07/02/09 - Sentencing

Josefat Estrada has reportedly been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison.

The sentence follows Estrada’s earlier no contest plea to oral copulation with a victim incapable of resisting the act and two counts of oral copulation with a person under age 18.

(07/10/07 - Initial BBT Report)

Jack Russell Hubbard, 60, a former science teacher at Beaumont Junior High School in Fayette County, Kentucky has been arrested in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and charged with third-degree sodomy of a then 15-year-old male student and third-degree rape of a 15-year-old female student.

The alleged sexual abuse began in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s when Hubbard was a teacher at Beaumont Junior High School and the alleged victims were students there.

Also charged in the case is former arts teacher Roberta Walter, then known as Roberta Blackwell, who was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee and who is charged with third-degree sodomy and third-degree rape of a then 15-year-old female student.

The rape charges against Hubbard allege the rape of the 15-year-old female victim. The sodomy charges stem from alleged sexual abuse of Thomas “Beau” Goodman who told police he was sodomized by Hubbard 30 times between ages 14 and 15.

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(10/25/08 - Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

William Arthur Stevens, 22, a former substitute teacher in the Twin Falls School District and an eighth grade volleyball coach at Vera C. O’Leary Junior High School, both in Twin Falls, Idaho, has been arrested and charged on allegations of the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.

Stevens is charged with two felony counts of sex abuse of a child under 16, four felony counts of lewd conduct with a minor under 16 and a misdemeanor count of obscene material, a misdemeanor. The latter charge alleges that Stevens sent pictures of naked women to the boy’s cell phone.

It is alleged that in September Stevens asked the boy to hang out with him and that they drove around for a while and eventually end up at an the entrance to an RV park where numerous sex acts occurred between Stevens and the boy.

It is alleged that in a phone call between the boy and Stevens and which was recorded by police that Stevens made incriminating statements.

It is further alleged that Stevens admitted to police that he and the boy kissed, masturbated each other, and engaged in oral sex.

Stevens, who faces a maximum possible punishment of four life sentences plus 50 years, was being held in the Twin Falls County Jail on $101,000 bond with a preliminary hearing set for October 31st.

11/01/08 - Preliminary Hearing and Bond Reduction

On Friday a preliminary hearing was held for William Stevens.

At that hearing the judge lowered his bond from $100,000 to $20,000 on the felony charges.

The judge ordered Stevens to surrender his passport to the court if released on bond. If released on bond Stevens will be under house arrest at his parents’ residence.

01/07/09 - Preliminary Hearing Waived

William Stevens has waived his preliminary hearing and been bound over to 5th District Court on 2 felony counts of sex abuse of a child under 16, 4 felony counts of lewd conduct, and 1 misdemeanor charge of distribution of obscene material.

Reportedly Stevens is free on $20,000 bond.

04/10/09 - Guilty Plea In the Works

KMVT TV reports that William Arthur Stevens has requested to change his plea to guilty.

Stevens is set to appear before Fifth District Judge Randy Stoker on April 20th to change his plea to guilty.

04/20/09 - Plea Deal and Guilty Plea

William Arthur Stevens has reportedly pleaded guilty to one count of lewd conduct with a minor.

Prosecutors in turn dropped two counts of sexual abuse of a minor and three other counts of lewd conduct with a minor.

Under the terms of the plea deal, Stevens will be sentenced to 12 years in prison with six of those fixed, and six of them indeterminate.

Sentencing is set for June 15th.

06/29/09 - Sentencing Delayed

Sentencing for William Arthur Stevens, scheduled for today, has been delayed until July 13th.

References:

Former teacher makes deal for guilty plea (04/20/09)

Substitute teacher wants to change plea in sex abuse case (04/10/09)

Sex abuse case bound over to district court (01/06/09)

Former Twin Falls substitute’s bond reduced (11/01/08)

Former substitute charged with child sex crimes (10/25/08)