Tuesday night (5/19), The Dr. Phil Show will air an interview by Dr. Phil McGraw of Jennifer Caswell, a 29-year-old former Oklahoma teacher who is charged “with three counts of second-degree rape, two counts of enticing a child, and one count of forcible sodomy.” Earlier today, I defended Louis C.K.’s unequivocal right under the First…
A 22-year-old young woman named Robyn Lynn Ruiz filed a federal lawsuit against the Rio Hondo Independent School District in Rio Hondo, Texas on March 19, 2015. [A copy of the Complaint can be viewed at the bottom of this post.] In her Complaint, Ruiz alleges that the school district failed to protect her from…
A 28-year-old former 5th grade teacher at the Graham & Parks School in Cambridge, Mass. was convicted last Wednesday of possessing child pornography, but was acquitted of a more serious production charge. Josh Wairi, who previously taught in the Somerville School District at the high school and the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, was arrested…
What did the staff and administrators in the Jefferson County Public Schools know, and when did they know it? That’s the essence of a lawsuit filed by the father of a 13-year-old boy who was assaulted by a 26-year-old middle school teacher named Jessica Boyer over a 3-month period, from February to April 2013. The…
Scott Schermerhorn, 31, a physical education teacher and boys’ golf coach at Clarksville High School in Indiana was arrested and suspended on April 16, when police accused him of soliciting nude photos from underage students at the school. In February, a 15 or 16-year-old girl (accounts differ) told a trusted adult friend that she had…
[Updated] A judge in the Auckland District Court will soon decide the fate of a New Zealand teacher accused of watching pornography on a school-issued computer and masturbating in an empty classroom. The report of the teacher’s alleged misbehavior came from a student who said that he had stopped by the classroom to discuss his…
An arrest nearly two years ago of a man in New South Wales for allegedly using his cellphone to record so-called “upskirt” videos of women on a train platform wound up rocking the halls of one of Sydney’s oldest schools. After the arrest was made, police identified the suspect as Robert Emmett, a 36-year-old teacher…
Just in case anyone had any doubts, it turns out that 15-year-olds are pretty much the same around the globe. When students at the Primary School in Česká Lípa, a small city in the northern part of the Czech Republic, stumbled across a porn video featuring one of their teachers, it rapidly made the rounds of…
Jeff Minh Ha, a 42-year-old teacher at the Columbia School in El Monte, California, was arrested on Friday, April 17, on charges of “exhibiting harmful matter in the presence of a minor.” The charge is a felony under California law. Ha is a 6th grade teacher at the El Monte school. He allegedly showed the…
A 37-year-old Ontario teacher of special needs students at the Ashley Oakes public school is facing 21 charges of voyeurism after a hidden camera was discovered in a backpack in a staff changing room. Charges were levied against Jamie Gardiner after London, Ontario police examined the discovered video equipment and found videos of two female…
