(09/02/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Joseph A. Chimenti, a former assistant football coach at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish, Washington has reportedly been arrested on allegations of groping and fondling a 17-year-old female student while vacationing with the girl and her parents.

Chimenti was arrested on the latest allegations on July 21st.

At that time it was discovered that Chimenti had been convicted in Virginia in 2008 on a charge of sexual assault for fondling his daughter’s best friend and had in fact served time for that offense.

A spokesperson for Eastside Catholic High School said that the school had a third-party investigating corporation conduct a background check of Chimenti in October 2008 and that the firm’s report on Chimenti came back clean.

Reportedly, Chimenti is no longer associated with Eastside Catholic High School.

Chimenti’s trial on the most recent allegations is set for next month.

10/22/09 – Guilty Plea and Sentencing

In September, Joseph A. Chimenti reportedly pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation.

Chimenti was sentenced to 364 days in jail and fined $5,000 with 304 days of that sentence and $4,500 of the fine suspended.

Chimenti was ordered to serve 2 years of probation, is prohibited from contacting the victim, prohibited unsupervised contact with minors under the age of 18, except for his children and is prohibited from leaving the state of Washington without permission from his probation officer.

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

Richard Gail Parrett, 42, a former teacher and athletic director at Vancouver Christian High School in Vancouver, Washington has reportedly pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct charges.

As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped two of the four sexual misconduct counts against Parrett.

The victim was a then 16-year-old female student who told investigators that Parrett and her had sexual intercourse four times with two of the incidents occurring inside Parrett’s SUV and the other two occurring in the bedroom of the student’s home.

Sentencing is set for October 16th and prosecutors are recommending a 15-month prison sentence.

10/17/09 – Sentencing

At the sentencing hearing for Richard Parrett, Clark County Superior Court Judge Roger Bennett told Parrett, “We send our children to school to learn. We do not send them to school to be molested.”.

Bennett sentenced Parrett to 17½ months in prison.

Prosecutors had recommend a 15-month sentence.

(02/20/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)

Thomas G. Henry, 24, reportedly a para-educator in the video production department at South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Washington has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor for a relationship police say he had with a 17-year-old female student.

Henry came to the attention of authorities when school officials learned of Henry’s potential relationship with the student on Tuesday after another student reported it to a teacher.

It is alleged that when police questioned Henry about the allegations he admitted to having a sexual relationship with the girl but said it only happened after she dropped out of school.

Police allege that the girl said she and the teacher had only kissed and had agreed not to have sex until she turned 18. However police say that she later admitted that the two had sex at least 30 times between December and January, including while she was still enrolled at the school.

Henry was arrested by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and booked into Kitsap County Jail Thursday night on $200,000 bail.

On Friday Henry was arraigned and his attorney sought a bail reduction to $10,000. The prosecution requested bail be maintained at $200,000. The judge ruled that bail for Henry would be set in the amount of $25,000.

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

His trial is scheduled for April 13th.

10/08/09 – Case Update

Earlier this year, prosecutors re-filed misdemeanor second-degree sexual misconduct charges against Thomas G. Henry, effectively dropping the felony counts.

As a result, Henry and prosecutors struck a deal under which Thomas Henry entered into a diversion agreement with county prosecutors.

Under the terms of that agreement, if Henry remains crime-free for a period of two years, prosecutors will drop all charges.

In making the deal, prosecutors referred to “inconsistencies with the evidence” and said they couldn’t ascertain clearly “what exactly transpired” between the accused and alleged victim.