(07/08/08 - Initial BBT Report)

Jatten Heinen, 20, a former daycare worker in Fargo, North Dakota already facing five felony counts on allegations of molesting young girls in his care has been charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl at another daycare.

Heinen has been charged with gross sexual imposition on allegations that he touched the girl’s “private parts” with a child’s toy. The girl told her mother of the alleged abuse in March of this year. The improper touching is alleged to have occurred between September 2005 and December 2006.

Heinen is currently free on $50,000 bond on charges felony charges accusing him of inappropriately touching four young girls, ages 6 to 8-years-old at a YMCA daycare last year.

Reportedly an arrest warrant has been issued for Heinen and prosecutors who are seeking an additional bond on the new charge are hoping for Heinen’s voluntary surrender.

09/05/08 - Jatten Heinen Found Not Guilty

After about five hours of deliberation a jury has found Jatten Heinen not guilty on all five felony charges that he faced.

Heinen’s defense attorneys argued to jurors that verdicts of not guilty were the only ones that make sense while the prosecution told jurors that the children had no motive to lie.

Heinen still faces a separate charge of felony gross sexual imposition. It is alleged that he molested a young girl at a separate day care between September 2005 and December 2006. A preliminary hearing in that case is set for September 11th. Heinen is free on bond in that case.

References:

Jatten Heinen found not guilty on all five child molestation charges (09/05/08)

Molestation suspect cleared (09/05/08)

YMCA worker not guilty of molestation (09/05/08)

Man faces sex charge in day care sex assault (07/08/08)

Day Care Worker Faces New Assault Charge (07/07/08)

Day care worker faces new assault charge (07/07/08)

Former Fargo YMCA worker accused of molesting girls… (01/30/08)

Man accused of sex crime (10/26/07)

(05/26/07 - Initial BBT Report)

Kyle M. Hite, a 25-year-old teacher’s aide at Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona has been arrested on allegations of 12 counts of sexual abuse for touching the breasts of a 16-year-old female student on numerous occasions and without her consent.

The victim told police that she believed that the first time he brushed his hand across her breast was accidental and that when she complained to Hite the second time he touched her he told her to “knock off her attitude”. The victim claims that Hite touched her breasts practically every day from that point onward.

According to Mesa police, Hite admitted touching the girl’s breasts on numerous occasions and stated that he thought the victim found him attractive.

The girl reported Hite’s actions to an assistant principal, who immediately reported it to the school resource officer, who is a Mesa police officer.

Following his arrest Hite was released on his own recognizance after spending a night in jail.

06/05/07 - Grand Jury Indictment

Kyle M. Hite has been indicted by a Maricopa County grand jury on three counts of sexual abuse.

Hite was originally arrested on 12 allegations of sexual abuse for touching the breasts of a then 15-year-old female student on numerous occasions, however the grand jury saw fit to indict on just three of those original allegations.

According to Mesa police, Hite admitted touching the girl’s breasts on numerous occasions and stated that he thought the victim found him attractive.

Hite is free on his own recognizance.

08/26/08 - Not Guilty

Kyle M. Hite was found not guilty of three counts of sexual abuse Tuesday by a Maricopa County Superior Court jury.

Of the not guilty verdict, Hite’s attorney said “The key was the lack of evidence”.

References:

Ex-teacher’s aide not guilty in sex abuse case (08/26/08)

Teacher’s assistant found not guilty of sex abuse (08/26/08)

Teacher’s aide indicted on sex counts

Mesa police arrest teacher’s aide in sex abuse

The Long Beach Press-Telegram is reporting that Raul Olivas, 41, a math teacher and the head boys basketball coach at Millikan High School in Long Beach, California was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of secretly videotaping his 16-year-old stepdaughter.

Reportedly, the girl was searching for something when she came across the camera trained on a part of the room where she typically dressed. On it were images of her in states of undress

The Long Beach Police Department acknowledge that officers arrested a 41-year-old Long Beach man at his Eastside home Saturday on a charge of “secretly videotaping a juvenile member of his family for sexual gratification.” but police refused to release the suspect’s name.

Reportedly, the Long Beach School District has placed Olivas on administrative leave.

According to the Los Angles County Sheriff’s Office, Olivas was arrested by Long Beach Police on Saturday, booked on the misdemeanor charge and released on bond, which was listed at $25,000.

Olivas’ arraignment is scheduled for September 27th.

07/12/08 - Not Guilty Verdict

Raul Olivas was acquitted in a jury trial on June 24th.

News media reports indicate that Olivas and a forensic psychologist who testified in his defense, along with Olivas’s wife and his stepdaughter, the alleged victim, all testified that Olivas was suffering from alcoholism, gambling addiction and depression and that he planted the camera in an obvious place as an act of self-destruction and not for sexual gratification.

The alleged victim indicated that she did not want to be there (in court) and that she still loved her stepfather and wanted her family to remain intact and when questioned indicated that she wanted the charges dropped.

Prosecutor Tom Reeves said that his office made no notice of the trial at the request of the victim and her family. Olivas and his wife, who both insisted there was no request to keep an acquittal under wraps.

References:

Ex-coach cleared in secret taping (07/11/08)

Millikan coach arrested in alleged taping of teen (9/18/07)

(7/27/07 - Initial BBT Report)

Thomas Pagliaro, 32, the newly hired head football coach and special education teacher at Highland High School, in Highland, Illinois has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a teen girl and fleeing police.

It is alleged that Madison County sheriff’s deputy spotted Pagliaro’s car parked on the street near an empty home in Godfrey. When investigators approached the car it sped away with its lights off going 50 mph on 25mph streets. After a short chase the car crashed into a mailbox. Inside deputies found Pagliaro and a 16-year-old girl.

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David Janssen, 55, a former teacher and coach at Hortonville High School in Hortonville, WI, accused of sexual contact with two under-aged female students has received a delay of his previously schedule June 11 trial.

Janssen is charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff. The charges against Janssen are alleging two victims. One alleged victim was 13 and 14 years old in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 school years and the other alleged victim, now 24, attended Hortonville High School from 1998 to 2001.

Janssen’s attorney requested counseling records on one of the alleged victims and a postponement of the trial to allow for enough time to review those records.

Until Janssen resigned in the wake of the sex abuse allegations he was the Hortonville High girls basketball coach and the physical education teacher at the middle school.

Janssen is currently free on $10,000 bond.

Update 7/21/07:

The trial for David Janssen has been set for October 15th.

05/16/08 - David Janssen Acquitted On All Charges

Thanks to a reader whose comment appears below we are now aware that David Janssen was acquitted of all charges on 18 October, 2007.

Janssen was found not guilty of three counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault by a school staff member.

Reference:

Former Hortonville coach acquitted (10/19/07)

Trial date set in Hortonville teacher sex case (7/21/07)

Trial postponed in Hortonville teacher sex abuse case

Judge postpones trial in Janssen sex abuse case

Background:

Accuser Faces Former Coach on Sex Assault Charge

Hortonville Coach Faces More Sex Assault Charges