(11/12/08 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Jennifer Dawn Liskey, 38, a substitute teacher in Topeka Unified School District 501 in Topeka, Kansas who reportedly worked under the name of Jennifer Savage has been arrested on allegations of the sexual abuse of a student.

Liskey was reportedly arrested on charges of unlawful sexual relations by a teacher with a student, criminal sodomy with a child 14 to 16 years old, and indecent liberties with a child 14 to 16 years old.

The alleged incidents are said to have taken place while Liskey was working as a para-professional at Robinson Middle School where the boy was a student.

Following her arrest Liskey was reportedly being held in the Shawnee County Jail in lieu of a $25,000 cash or professional surety bond.

11/22/08 – Case Update

On Friday, Jennifer Liskey was reportedly still being held in the Shawnee County Jail in lieu of a $75,000 cash or professional surety bond.

Liskey is currently charged with one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child 14 to 16 years old.

Liskey’s next court appearance is set for December 4th at which time a preliminary hearing will likely be scheduled.

01/21/09 – Guilty Plea

Jennifer Dawn Liskey pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts involving the incidents including criminal sodomy and indecent liberties with a child.

A fourth count was dismissed by the court Tuesday morning.

Sentencing is set for March 13th.

03/25/09 – Sentencing Postponed

Jennifer Dawn Liskey appeared in court for sentencing today however legal questions about her sentencing forced postponement of the hearing shortly after it started.

Sentencing was postponed to April 16 at 9:15 a.m.

06/12/09 – Additional Hearings Prior to Sentencing

The case of Jennifer Dawn Liskey will reportedly require three more hearings before the sentence is imposed.

A docket hearing was held yesterday. It will be followed on Tuesday by a hearing where prosecution and defense attorneys will argue constitutional questions tied to the case.

The judge will then set a sentencing date.

On July 8, witnesses will be called to testify in conjunction with the sentencing of Liskey who faces a sentence of 109 to 123 months for the sodomy conviction and 55 to 61 months for each indecent liberties conviction.

09/21/09 – Liskey Receives Probation

Earlier this month, Jennifer Dawn Liskey was sentenced to three terms of 30 months each, but the judge suspended the sentences and placed Liskey on three years of intensive supervised probation and ordered Kiskey to undergo therapy.

Liskey pleaded no contest on January 23rd to two counts of aggravated indecent liberties and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy in a case involving a then 13-year-old male victim.

The Shawnee County D.A. says he’s disappointed and is appealing the judge’s sentence.

11/09/09 – Indicted In New Mexico

Jennifer Dawn Liskey has reportedly been indicted in New Mexico on allegations of the sexual abuse of the same 15-year-old boy as in the Kansas case.

Reportedly, Liskey was indicted in New Mexico in October on one count of felony criminal sexual penetration of a child.

It is alleged that after leaving Kansas for a career with the Army National Guard, Liskey was stationed in Las Cruces, New Mexico and that in 2007, Liskey met up with the boy, then 15, while he was visiting Las Cruces with his parents. They met at the Fairfield Inn, according to court documents.

Liskey, who is reportedly being held in Kansas has been ordered to be transported to Las Cruces for arraignment in District Court.

(12/24/07 – Initial BBT Report)

Jesus Vega Barcenas, 26, a substitute teacher at Adams Elementary School in Wapato, Washington has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 12 year old student.

Reportedly Barcenas taught fifth-grade at the school for several years and this year is working as a substitute at the same school.

Police allege that the suspect met the victim at Adams Elementary when she was 11-years-old, had sex with her at least five times over the course of a year including once in his classroom, began dating her mother and ultimately moved into their home. He came to the attention of authorities when the girl informed her mother of the alleged sexual abuse and the mother called police.

12/26/07 – Barcenas Officially Charged

Jesus Barcenas has been charged in Yakima County Superior Court on two counts of first-degree child rape and three counts of second-degree child rape.

Court documents indicate that the alleged victim told police that Barcenas “brainwashed” her into engaging in sex acts with him in his classroom and at her home for more than a year. Reportedly she also told police that he continued having sex with her after he began dating her mother and moved into their home this summer.

Reportedly the girl has told investigators that Barcenas once had sex with her in her mother’s bedroom.

Bail for Jesus Barcenas was set at $200,000 with trial reportedly set for February 11th.

10/28/09 – Trial Underway

Jurors are hearing opening arguments this morning in the trial of Jesus Barcenas accused of having sex with a pre-teen student.

Barcenas facing two counts of first-degree child rape and three counts of second-degree child rape.

The trial scheduled to last through next week.

11/05/09 – Split Verdict

A jury has found Jesus Vega Barcenas guilty on two counts of second-degree rape of a girl, now 14, whom he first met in a third-grade after-school program.

The jury found him not guilty of two counts of first-degree child molestation and one count of second-degree rape.

A sentencing date for Vega Barcenas has not been set.

References:

Former Wapato teacher found guilty on lesser charges of child rape (11/05/09)

Trial begins for ex-teacher accused of having sex with fifth-grader (10/28/09)

Wapato Elementary Teacher Charged with Child Rape (12/26/07)

Wapato Teacher Charged With Child Rape & Molestation (12/24/07)

12-year-old says teacher ‘brainwashed’ her into sex (12/24/07)

Wapato teacher arrested for having sex with student (12/22/07)

Substitute teacher in Wapato faces sex charges (12/22/07)

Yakima Police arrest substitute teacher suspected of child rape (12/22/07)

(11/05/08 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Christopher Ben Page, 19, reportedly a substitute teacher and sweeper in Granite School District in Utah has been arrested, jailed and charged with sexually abusing a child.

It is alleged that Sandy, Utah Police found Page in a car with a 13-year-old girl, and both had their shirts off.

It is further alleged that Page told officers that he kissed the girl and that she offered to perform oral sex upon him.

Page was arrested on suspicion of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County jail.

Reportedly Page is a substitute teacher in the school district in which the alleged victim attends school at Churchill Junior High and they had been communicating via text messages.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that a shortage of substitute teachers has forced most local school districts to hire substitutes with only high school diplomas and that substitutes are only required to pass a background check and undergo 4 hours of training before teaching.

11/11/08 – Whoopsy!

KSL TV reports that the Granite School District says that Christopher Page was an “emergency substitute” and is not even qualified to be a substitute teacher.

Supposedly, the district’s regular substitutes are required to have at least 48 semester hours of college.

11/14/08 – Christopher Page Freed

Today a judge ordered Christopher Page released from jail to the supervision of Pre-trial Services, which monitors defendants deemed not to be a risk to flee or re-offend.

Pages’ release was conditioned upon an 8 p.m. curfew, no contact with the victim or anyone under the age of 18, and his not teaching any classes.

08/26/09 – Guilty Plea

Christopher Benjamin Page has reportedly, in a plea deal with prosecutors, pleaded guilty to two class A misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a forcible sexual abuse charge.

Under the plea deal, prosecutors will recommend treatment rather than jail time.

Treatment was the course of action recommended after a psycho-sexual exam revealed Page has no violent or aberrant sexual tendencies and he is considered a low risk to re-offend. Furthermore, the victim and her family indicated that wanted Page to receive treatment rather than jail time and sex offender registration.

10/28/09 – Sentencing

Christopher Benjamin Page has been sentenced to perform 500 hours of community service, undergo a sex offender evaluation and fined $1,000.

Reportedly, a psycho-sexual exam revealed Page has no violent or aberrant sexual tendencies, and he is considered a low risk to re-offend.