More teachers having sex with students

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Cathleen Crowley, New Hampshire

Cathleen Crowley, 31-year-old counselor for troubled youth was charged with two counts of felonious sexual assault for allegedly engaging in sex with a student in November 2008. Prosecutors say Crowley had at least two sexual encounters with the boy.

In June 2009 Crowley pleaded guilty to bargained-down charges of misdemeanor sexual assault and misdemeanor providing alcohol to a minor.

As a result of a re-negotiated deal, she was sentenced by Superior Court Judge John P. Arnold to 30 days in the Cheshire County Jail.

Crowley's original plea bargain was deemed unworkable by Judge Brian T. Tucker because it included no jail time even though she admitted to liquoring up and engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy she had authority over. Tucker said Crowley deserved to spend time in jail because of the boy?s age at the time of the alleged sexual assaults and the position of authority she held over him as his counselor.

The boy?s mother said previously in court that her son was 14 when Crowley became his counselor at a residential treatment program for troubled teens in the state.

?I can?t understand how you live with yourself,? the mother said. ?I can?t understand how you could use your job to access young boys.?

Arnold sentenced Crowley to a year in jail with 11 months suspended on the conviction for endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

She received a consecutive, suspended one-year jail sentence on the conviction for providing alcohol to a minor, also a misdemeanor.

Both suspended sentences could be imposed if Crowley is caught breaking the law in the next five years.

Crowley was placed on probation for two years, ordered to undergo a psychosexual evaluation for sexual offenders and barred from contacting the student.

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Jamie Hale, Wyoming

Jamie Nicole Hale, 32-year-old choir teacher at Star Valley High School, was charged on May 19 with having sexual contact with a teen boy in January and February. She faced charges of third-degree sexual abuse of a minor and fourth-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

Hale entered no contest pleas to a misdemeanor count of sexual battery and a felony count of sexual abuse of a minor in the fourth degree and was sentenced to a year in jail with six months suspended.

Hale allegedly engaged in "sexual intrusion" with the youth in January and allegedly engaged in sexual contact with the teenager during February, according to court documents.

Prosecutors noted the victim was at least four years younger than the defendant and that Hale occupied a position of authority in relation to the victim.

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Melissa Stephens, Oregon

Melissa Stephens, 55-year-old director for a children?s arts and academics program in Tualatin, Oregon, has been arrested for the rape of a 10-year-old boy. She is suspected of engaging in sex acts with the boy for a period of more than a year, beginning about five years ago.

Stephens was arrested on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and first-degree sex abuse.

Stephens is founder and director of Willow Cottage Arts and Academics Program, a private arts program offering alternative education opportunities for children. It caters to students from kindergarten to the eighth grade. The private school also conducts a summer arts program at Brown's Ferry Park in Tualatin. According to the school web site, the summer program has been in existence since 1987.

Investigators did not say how Stephens knew the boy, whether he was a student at the school or if they believe there may be other victims.

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Susan Alderson, Oregon

Susan C. Alderson, 46-year-old Silver Falls School District teacher is accused of sexually abusing a boy for four years, starting when the alleged victim was 13-years-old. Alderson was was arraigned in Marion County Circuit Court last week on two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and two counts second-degree sexual abuse.

The alleged sexual abuse was reprted to Salem Police on May 28 by the victim, who is now 21-year-old.

The alleged sex acts included inappropriate touching and frequent sexual intercourse. The acts occurred between June 2000 and June 2004, according to court documents.

The victim said Alderson used back rubs as foreplay to initiate sex, which took place three to four times per week, according to the legal document. Anderson also wanted watch pornographic movies and images and also wanted to use sex toys during the sex acts.

Once she also brought the victim to the Silverton school where she teaches and the two had sex in a craft room.

The statement also said Alderson asked the victim to drop the charges, asking to "reconcile" the situation. Department of Human Services workers removed another boy from Alderson's home because of the investigation

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Heidi Mullinix, Brown County, Ohio

Heidi Mullinix, a Brown County special education teacher and girls? junior varsety basketball coach, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery, after admitting she had sex with a male student. The sex reportedly occurred between February and March of 2004.

The 17 year-old victim, while a student at the high school was not one of Mullinnix's students, and none of the encounters happened on school property.

The case was headed to a Brown County Grand Jury today, but instead, Mullinnix pleaded guilty to what's called a bill of particulars, where she agrees the facts in the case are true.

Mullinix was sentenced to one year in prison in the beginning of July 2009. She appeared before Common Pleas Judge Scott Gusweiler and agreed to bypass the indictment system by filing a bill of information. As a part of the plea deal, Brown County Prosecutor Jessica Little recommended that Mullinix be sentenced to five years of community control instead of the maximum sentence of five years in prison.

At the sentencing on July 1, Gusweiler sentenced Mullinix to one year in prison, as well as five years of community control. Additionally, Mullinix must register as a tier three sex offender for the rest of her life.

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Not a teacher but still had something to do with a student.


Tricia Mallernee, Indiana

Tricia D. Mallernee was arrested in May 2009 and charged with four felony counts of child seduction for allegedly having sex with a teen foreign exchange student more than 50 times from August 2008 through April 2009.

In July 2009 Judge Fredrick Spencer gave Mallernee a three-year suspended sentence on each of four counts of child solicitation. The judge gave Mallernee a one-year suspended sentence for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor.

All of the sentences will be served at the same and she must register as a sex offender. Mallernee, 32, now of La Fontaine in Wabash County, had pleaded guilty in Madison Circuit Court to four counts of child seduction, all Class D felonies carrying a standard four-year prison terms.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Mallernee will be on probation for three years.

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Emily Housley, Texas

Emily Elizabeth Housley, 29-year-old teacher at North High School, was caught by Fort Worth police with a 16-year-old boy in a public park after curfew. After police started to investigate teacher-student relationship, the boy's mother alerted police to the fact that her son had admitted to engaging in sex with Housley. Last week Housley was arrested for alleged sexual assault of a child and booked into custody.

Housley, who is married and has two children, and the student student had started flirting and exchanging text messages early this year when he was still 15, according to investigators. By April, after the boy had turned 16, the relationship evolved into sexual encounters ? the first occurring inside Housley?s classroom after school hours. During the school year Housley performed oral sex on boy multiple instances at the school and they had full sexual intercourses in many different places - in Housley?s car, at her mother?s home, and at Housley?s Saginaw home when her husband and children were away.

After school year ended Housley went to a teacher conference that was near the boys home, and she visited him daily on her lunch breaks and had sex with him.

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Elizabeth Livesay, Arizona

Elizabeth Livesay, 26-year-old teacher at Carson Junior High School,was arrested in November 2008 for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old girl. Livesay was charged with 11 counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

In the beginning of April 2009 Claire Elizabeth Livesay pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court to three counts of sexual conduct with a minor. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop five similar charges.

Elizabeth Livesay was sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court in July 2009 to four months in a Maricopa County jail and 14 years of supervised probation in connection to sexual-related offenses with a 16-year-old girl she met through church. She also has to register as sex offender.

Police learned of the crime in late October 2008 by a counselor. No information has been released where the numerous sexual acts took place or the exact nature of the conduct, bu the incidents did not happen on school grounds.

Livesay was placed on administrative leave by the Mesa Public School system pending the outcome of an investigation.

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Ellen Hunt, Texas

Ellen Marie Hunt, 46-year-old teacher formerly at Samuell High School, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in an improper relationship with a student. She faces a felony charge of having an improper relationship with a student.

She and the student, a 17-year-old who just finished the 11th grade at the school, were found having sex in the student's car after police received a complaint on June 8.

The student told investigators that he and Hunt exchanged phone numbers during a 2008 Christmas party for the class. Later, they arranged to meet at what he called their first date one Saturday afternoon at White Rock Lake. They spent several hours together and kissed goodbye before departing. Two weeks later they met on another Saturday evening at a movie theater

Student and Ellen Hunt performed sex acts on each othet and had sex twice at Motel 6's, once in March and again in April. Investigators verified that Hunt rented rooms at an Addison Motel 6 on March 7 and at a Garland Motel 6 on April 18, police say.

Police obtained a warrant for Hunt's arrest last week, and she was arrested on Saturday. She left jail yesterday on $10,000 bail. Under Texas law, it's a felony for a teacher at a primary or secondary school to have sex with a student at that school.

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Connie Klewer, Virginia

Connie Beth Klewer, 37-year-old science teacher at Lebanon Middle School, has been arrested for allegedly taking indecent liberties with a boy younger than 15 years old.

She is charged with single counts of using a communications device to solicit a minor, buying alcohol for a minor, indecent liberties with a child while in a supervisory relationship, indecent liberties with a child, abuse and neglect of a child while being responsible for the care of a child, and possession of child pornography.
A search warrant filed in Russell County this week said Klewer sent the photos via telephone and computer and that they were found on the boy's cell phone July 9