Carrie McCandless, a former social studies teacher and cheerleading coach at Brighton Charter High School in Brighton, Colorado who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail last year on a misdemeanor count of unlawful sexual contact with a minor is back in jail.

Last year, immediately following her guilty plea McCandless was taken straight from the court to serve her 45 days in jail.

This past Friday, McCandless reportedly turned herself in at the Larimer County Detention Center to serve 30 days, for what is uncertain at this time.

As part of McCandless sentence last year she also must serve 5 years of supervised probation, get treatment in an intensive sex offender program, register as a sex offender for 10 years and she will no longer be allowed to work as a teacher. Although it is uncertain at this point why she is back in jail the possibility exists that McCandless may have violated the conditions imposed upon her previously.

More details as they surface.

04/01/08 – Additional Information

The jailing of Carrie McCandless is the result of her admitting she violated her probation by drinking and having unauthorized sexual contact with another parolee.

A Weld County probation officer found McCandless, who is still married, in bed at the apartment of another parolee March 6.

The sentence McCandless received last year included five years of intensive supervision and a requirement for permission from parole officers before she sought sexual contact with others.

03/06/09 – McCandless Transferred To Regular Probation

A judge has ruled that Carrie McCandless has done well enough while on sex offender intensive supervised probation to be moved to regular probation.

The judge also approved a possible transfer to the Georgia probation department, helping clear the way for McCandless to move to Georgia if the state agrees to take her.

References:

Schoolteacher transferred to regular probation, may move to Georgia (03/06/09)

Ex-teacher who had sex with student back in jail (04/01/08)

Brighton teacher McCandless turns herself into jail; serving 30 days following sex-assault conviction (3/31/08)

(12/06/07 – Initial BBT Report)

Ralph Kelly, 34, of Denver, a teacher at Brighton Collegiate High School in Brighton, Colorado has been arrested for investigation of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.

It is alleged that Kelly sexually assaulted an openly gay male student in a classroom at the school in early December.

Kelly who is Irish has taught social studies and German at the school since August posted $20,000 bond but remains in custody at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Brighton Collegiate High School is the new name of the charter school where Carrie McCandless taught and David Mundy, Jr. substitute taught.

McCandless was the wife of the principal when the school was named Brighton Charter Academy. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail last summer for providing alcohol to, and having unlawful sexual contact with a 17-year old student.

Mundy pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault on a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2005 for an incident in which he was partying with three girls, ages 14 to 16, at his apartment.

Mundy’s father, David Mundy Sr. who was the school board president pleaded guilty to failure to report child abuse in the McCandless case.

12/07/07 – ICE Lifts Hold

On Friday Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted the hold it had put on Ralph Kelly.

12/07/07 – Affidavit Released

The nature of the allegations against Kelly came to light today with the release of an affidavit in the case.

It is alleged that Kelly was an aggressive man demanding oral sex from a male high school student by telling him “if you cherish you’re grades you will do what I say”. An apparent implication that Kelly would punish the boys grades if he did not submit to oral sex.

Reportedly Kelly allegedly lured the student into a sexual relationship by pretending to interview him about his openly gay life in school.

12/20/07 – Allegations Arise About “Sex Study” At School

A second boy has come forward and school board President Ken Mitchell is reported as saying he had “heard rumors” of a sex survey.

3/31/08 – Ralph Kelly Going To Trial

A judge has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to try Kelly on a felony count of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

Kelly could face a sentence of two to six years if convicted.

05/03/08 – Arraignment Hearing Continued

The arraignment hearing for Ralph Kelly has been continued to May 27th.

06/04/08 – Trial Scheduled

Ralph Kelly is scheduled to go on trial in September.

Kelly remains free on $1 million bond.

11/21/08 – Guilty Plea

Ralph Kelly has pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on student by one in a position of trust.

Kelly entered the guilty plea while appearing at a pre-trial conference.

Sentencing is set for January 30th.

01/30/09 – Sentencing

Ralph Kelly, facing a maximum sentence of six years in prison, was instead today sentenced to 90 days in the Adams County Jail.

Once his jail term is completed, Kelly will be deported to Ireland.

References:

Former teacher to be deported after attempted sex assault (01/30/09)

Teacher Pleads Guilty To Attempted Sex Assault (11/21/08)

Trial set for teacher accused of threatening to fail student over sex (06/04/08)

Kelly arraignment hearing continued (05/01/08)

Accused teacher to stand trial (3/31/08)

Teacher may have been doing sex study, says affidavit (12/20/07)

Affidavit: Teacher Lured Student into Sexual Relationship (12/07/07)

ICE lifts hold on teacher accused of sex assault (12/07/07)

Third teacher scandal rocks Brighton charter (12/07/07)

Third teacher in two years accused of sex crime at charter school (12/07/07)

Brighton Teacher Accused Of Student Sex Assault (12/06/07)

Brighton Teacher Accused Of Sex Assault On Student (12/06/07)

Another Brighton teacher arrested in sex assault (12/06/07)

David Wayne Mundy, Sr., 53, former school board president of Brighton Charter School in Brighton, Colorado made famous by the Carrie McCandless sex scandal has pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to report child abuse.

Dave Mundy Sr. was accused of having knowledge of McCandless sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student in late October, 2006 and not reporting the incident to police until the following month.

In exchange for Mundy Sr.’s guilty plea three counts of witness tampering were dropped.

Immediately after Mundy Sr. entered his guilty plea, Adams County District Court Judge Thomas Ensor sentenced Mundy to probation and a $500 fine in an apparent effort to bring to an end a scandal which placed both the school and the town of Brighton, Colorado in the national limelight.

Mundy Sr. resigned his position as President of the Brighton Charter School Board in November in the wake of the Carrie McCandless scandal coupled with the conviction of his son Dave Mundy Jr., a substitute teacher at the school, on charges of sexual assault on a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor while partying with three girls, ages 14-to-16, at his apartment last year. One of the underaged girls was a student at Brighton Charter School.

Reference:

Former charter board president pleads guilty (7/25/07)

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