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Our view: When a child is sexually assaulted
Last week, a Lowndes County jury found Columbus businessman Benny Shelton guilty of sexual assault of a minor. The details of the case are -- quite naturally -- disturbing. And so was the conduct
Read More »Former Houston County Teacher Charged with Sexual Assault
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A former Houston County school teacher is officially out of a job following allegations that he had sex with a student. On Monday night, the Colquitt County Board of Education
Read More »Parents Blame School for Sexual Assault
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Parents claim in court that their 14-year-old autistic son was sexually assaulted in a public school bathroom by a 20-year-old handicapped student. Parents T.S. and C.S.
Read More »Kaitaia school warned about sex teacher
A crackdown on schools has been ordered in the wake of a Northland school failing to act on police warnings its deputy principal was a sexual predator. James Parker, deputy principal of Pamapuria School, yesterday
Read More »Ex-teacher, 76, charged with sex assaults on boy 50 years ago
A 76-year-old former teacher will face court next week charged with molesting a student almost 50 years ago. NSW Police say the charges relate to alleged sexual assaults of a boy, then aged 12, between
Read More »Parents: Do your own teacher background check
Duval County Public schools start up again on Monday. Many kids will have new teachers. According to the District, all 8500 of those teachers are given strict background checks. But with
Read More »US teacher held for sexual relation with student
London, August 12 (IANS) A special needs schoolteacher in the US has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a former student half her age. Kelly McKenzy Watson, 34, met the boy, 17, as a
Read More »Court: Bloomington-Normal teacher abuse case can go forward
School administrators in McLean County can be sued for failing to warn a neighboring district that it was about to hire a teacher who has a record of sexual misconduct with students, a divided
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