More teachers having sex with students

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Lisa Robyn Marinelli
Lisa Robyn Marinelli, 40, a substitute teacher at Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida was arrested and charged with unlawful sex with a minor in March 2008.

Lisa Marinelli pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in April 2009.

In a deal between defense and prosecution, both sides agreed to a stringent probationary sentence that includes a year of house arrest, four years of sex offender probation and no contact with children under 18 without supervision.

In addition, Marinelli will have to register as a sex offender, undergo testing for sexually transmitted diseases and complete sex offender treatment.



Marinelli was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. It is further alleged that the boy?s father told investigators that he saw his son ?holding his pants together and putting them back in place? after exiting Marinelli?s vehicle in february 2008.

Reportedly investigators have evidence of numerous text messages and phone calls between the two including one in which Marinelli text messaged the boy , ?How about a quickie tomorrow afternoon?? and , ?real men only need 20 minutes?.

Documents released by the Pasco County Sheriff?s Office indicate that Lisa Marinelli was initially interested in having the 17-year-old boy with who she allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship date her 15-year-old daughter. Marinelli allegedly told him he was ?on the list? of potential suitors for her daughter.

Marinelli was fired nearly a month ago when Pasco County School District officials first learned of the accusations against her.

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Lindsay Massaro, Franfort, New Jersey

Lindsay Massaro, 23-year-old 8th grade student teacher at Frankford Elementary School in Frankford, N.J. was jailed Monday on charges of having sex with a middle school student.

Massaro engaged in a sexual relationship with a middle student beginning March 21st. Massaro reportedly admitted to having sexual encounters multiple times with the boy in her car and bedroom. She admitted to performing sex acts on the boy and that on her request boy performed oral sex on her while in her vehicle. On another occassion, March 27, Massaro picked the boy up and drove him to her home where admitted having sex with the boy "several times" in her bedroom

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Toni Warren, Missouri

Toni R. Warren, 35-year-old teacher at Truman Elementary School has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old boy. Warren faces charges of statutory sodomy, second-degree child molestation and providing pornography to a minor. The pornography charge stems from three e-mailed photographs of her genitalia that Warren allegedly sent to the boy.

The teen boy, who is a student at different school, first met Warren in last September when he stopped at Truman Elementary School after his classes to catch a ride to basketball practice. They exchanged cell phone numbers and began calling and sending text messages to each other. Sexual-themed mesages and photos that Warren send to boy eventually led to an agreement to meet at boys relative?s house. After engaging multiple times in intimate sex acts, Warren allegedly told the boy not to tell anyone because she could lose her job.

The boy said he quit talking to Warren when he began getting more serious with a girlfriend ?his own age,? according to court records.

An internal investigation by the school found no other students intimately involved with Warren

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Jennifer Collier, Florida

Jennifer Collier, 34-year-old science teacher at James Weldon Johnson Middle School, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.

Police say Collier had sex with the boy on Friday at Walmart parking lot after agreeing to take him home following a school field trip. Collier performed sex acts on boy before having vaginal sex with him.
The report says the boy showed police several e-mails from Collier to the victim that demonstrated their inappropriate relationship.

The victim told police that Collier is a 5th period science teacher at James Weldon Johnson Middle School, and that he has had several sexual encounters with the suspect on and off school grounds.

When arrested, investigators said Collier claimed to have a "mother-type relationship" with the boy who had come to her to talk about problems he was having in his home life. She then requested an attorney.
Collier faces charges of sexual battery on a victim under 18, lewd battery and lewd and lascivious conduct.

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Gina Watring, North Carolina

Gina Marie Watring, 40-year-old teacher's assistant at Creekside Elementary has been arrested on allegations of having sex with a male student, who is reportedly 10-years-old.

Investigators say Gina Marie Watring had intercourse with the child on at least two occasions in April, first time three weeks ago and a second last Tuesday. Durham officials will not comment about where the incidents happened.

Watring faces two counts of first-degree sex offense with a student.

Watring started working at Creekside in November 2006. She is no longer working for the school as of Tuesday.

Watring taught dance and drama at the school, located at 5321 Ephesus Church Road, according to the school?s Web site.

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Lindsey Froehlich, Maryland

Lindsey H. Froehlich, 27, of the 13100 block of Shadyside Lane in Germantown, was arrested and charged in May 2008 with sexually abusing a 16-year-old male student/resident of the school which focuses on emotionally challenged children.

It was alleged that Froehlich had established a personal relationship between herself and the student that escalated into inappropriate touching initiated by Froehlich. The incidents allegedly occurred during school hours and on school property.

Froehlich came to the attention of authorities on May 19th by way of the school administration contacting Child Protective Services with allegations of improper touching occurring that day.

In April 2009 Froelich pleaded guilty to a sexual offense involving her 16-year-old male student. She was sentenced to three years probation including six months in a pre-release center on April 16.

Froehlich was not required to register on a national or state registry for sexual offenders, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eric M. Johnson ruled during the sentencing hearing. Johnson also gave Froehlich probation before judgment, meaning the case would be expunged from Froehlich's record if she does not violate the terms of her probation.

Prosecutors said that Froehlich, a third-year teacher at RICA, touched the 16-year-old through his clothing and that he sexually touched her as they sat behind a desk in a classroom during school hours. She was the teenager's computer applications software teacher.

Assistant State's Attorney Keith Jacobson said that Froehlich had a 3-month friendship with the teenager that "raised eyebrows" as she walked him across campus to his dormitory.

He said the teen had sent Froehlich a sexually explicit and suggestive e-mail prior to the May 19 incident.

"This isn't some young boy's fantasy," said Jacobson, who added that the teenager's psychologist at RICA had described the boy as emotionally disturbed. Froehlich said that her friendship with the teen had lasted closer to six weeks.

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Janet Hughes, Florida

Janet Lea Hughes, 34-year-old former teacher at Jackson Middle School, was arrested in August 2007 and charged with one count of sexual battery on a child and attempted sexual battery after police caught her just partially clothed in a van in a church parking lot with the 16-year-old male student. According to documents two were found lying on a blanket in the back of the van and ?about to engage in a sexual activity?.

Hughes admitted to detectives kissing the boy in the van just before being arrested and to having sex with the same boy in the past.

In May 2009 Janet Hughes pleaded guilty to engaging in sex with a 16-year-old boy in accordance with an agreement with the prosecution and she will be sentenced to prison for a term of from one to six years and a lifetime of being labeled as a sexual predator. Once her prison sentence is completed she will be required to serve 10 years of sex offender probation, during which time she must wear a GPS monitoring bracelet.

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Loren Leoni, , Illinois

Loren Leoni has sentenced to 48 months of probation for having sex with a 15-year-old student in December 2007 by Judge Joe McGraw at the Winnebago County Courthouse. She will undergo mandatory counseling and will register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

The punishment will prevent Leoni from ever teaching again. When she has children, she won?t be able to drop her kids off at school or coach her kid?s Little League team, said Leoni?s attorney, Michael Fleming, during closing arguments before McGraw?s decision.

Prosecutor Kate Kurtz had requested a prison sentence.

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Sandra Curtis, Tennessee

Sandra K. Curtis, 36-year-old teacher was arrested in last April on allegations of having sex with a 16-year-old male student. Curtis was then charged with three counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and three counts of aggravated statutory rape.

According to local Shereiff, Curtis and the boy met three times after school hours and had sex on three occasions. It is alleged that the sexual activity took place once in a car, at a home and at another undisclosed location. The sheriff also indicated that the student helped in the investigation, providing calls and text messages as evidence.

Yesterday Sandra Kay Curtis was arrested again, this time on allegations that she approached another teen male student with intentions of having a sexual relationship with him.

Curtis is reportedly charged with solicitation of a minor in this latest alleged incident.

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Heather Zeo, Pennsylvania

Heather Lynne Zeo, 36-year-old teacher at North Penn High School, has been arrested for having inappropriate sexual relations with a teen male student.

Zoe faces charges of endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of minors.

The student told police the relationship began in April and included sexual conversations on the phone and on the popular social networking Web site Facebook. Authorities say Zeo allegedly performed sex acts on the boy in her classroom and they had sex off school grounds.

Alleged victim told police Zeo contacted him through Facebook the last week of April, according to the criminal complaint He said he entered her classroom six or seven times during her "prep" times when no other students were around and the pair would "make out."



When Zeo decided they should be more cautious, they met one night during the second week of May at a shopping center parking lot in Montgomery Township, the complaint said. Exiting his mother's car and getting into Zeo's minivan, he sat with Zeo on the rear bench seat where the pair kissed and fondled one another for about a half hour before the student went home, the complaint said.

Talking to one another on Facebook about the sexual things they wanted to do, they made arrangements to meet again several days later at the same parking lot at the same time, according to the complaint.

It was during this meeting that the relationship escalated to intercourse, the complaint said. Prior to having intercourse, Zeo provided the student with a condom and, afterwards, had him return it to her, the complaint said


Through further investigation, police said they discovered Zeo was allegedly involved in an inappropriate internet relationship with another student in the school.

Zeo and this student would contact each other once or twice a week although, according to the student, only about five of those contacts were of a sexual nature.

At one point, he told authorities, Zeo told him she would probably have sex with him if they were alone in a room and then she allegedly invited him to her classroom at a time when she would be alone, according to the complaint. The student never took her up on the offer, the complaint said.

Zeo, a mother of three, has been charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child and Corruption of Minors. She was released on bail Thursday afternoon and is back home with her family.



North Penn School District Released the following statement: "The North Penn School District is disappointed to hear about pending charges against a North Penn School District Employee. NPSD is cooperatively working with the Towamencin Township Police Department and the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office in relation to this matter. Student safety is a top priority of the North Penn School District. The individual was immediately suspended upon investigation. The individual has been a NPHS math teacher since 2001, and had the appropriate clearances per state regulations."

According to students at North Penn High School, rumors had been circulating for at least a couple of weeks about Zeo's alleged liaisons with their peers.

In addition to her job as a teacher, Zeo lists herself as a singer/songwriter on both her MySpace and Facebook pages.

Zeo, who uses the stage name "Heather Lynne," in 2003 released a debut album of spiritual songs that were designed for every individual to share in "that freedom attainable only through complete submission to God's perfect peace." Zeo also released a "Musically Math" educational CD geared towards secondary level math with a bonus cut about state capitals