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UT Teacher Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography, Reveals Disturbing Fantasies

By Child Pornography, Cybertraps for Educators, Digital Investigations, Educators, Masturbation, Possession, Teacher Misconduct, , , ,

Over the past six months, the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted an investigation into the online activities of Jeffrey Thomas Patterson, a seventh-grade science teacher at the West Hills Middle School in West Jordan, Utah (a suburb of Salt Lake City). On Wednesday, November 4, law enforcement officials executed a search warrant…

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PA Middle School Teacher Fired and Jailed for Texts to 12-year-old

By Corruption of a Minor, Teacher Misconduct, , , ,

The parents of a 12-year-old girl at the South Allegheny Middle School in McKeesport, PA discovered a series of disturbing texts on their daughter’s cell phone. The sender turned out to be 23-year-old Cole McLaughlin, a first-year social studies teacher at the school. According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, McLaughlin wrote to…

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