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Direct Headline: At least 181 K-12 educators charged with child sex crimes in first half of 2022
140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged sex crimes against students
By Jessica Chasmar July 20, 2022 2:03am
At least 181 K-12 educators, including four principals, were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first six months of 2022, ranging from child pornography to raping students. An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of principals, teachers, substitute teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.
The analysis found that at least 181 have been arrested between January 1 and June 30, which works out to exactly an arrest a day on average. The 181 educators included four principals, 153 teachers, 12 teachers' aides and 12 substitute teachers. At least 140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged crimes against students. Men also made up the vast majority – 78% – of the arrests.
Many of the arrests involved especially heinous allegations.
Roger Weaver Freed, the 34-year-old former principal at Williamsport Area High School in Pennsylvania, was arrested in June and charged with sexual contact with a student, corruption of a minor, furnishing liquor to a minor, sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault without consent. Freed is accused of having a years-long sexual relationship with a male student.
Shannon Hall, a 31-year-old former teacher at Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in New York City, was arrested in June and charged with forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated harassment. Hall is accused of grabbing a 14-year-old female student's breast inside his classroom and of sending texts to a 16-year-old student that said he wanted to have sex with her and threatening to kill her if she told anyone.
Norman Merrill, a 45-year-old former teacher at Green Mountain Union High School in Vermont, was arrested in May and charged with production of child sexual abuse material and possession of child sexual abuse material. Merrill is accused of secretly video recording female students walking past him at school and of producing videos showing nude children.
Anessa Paige Gower, a 35-year-old former biology teacher at Making Waves Academy in Richmond, California, was charged with 29 counts of child molestation on April 8. Gower is accused of sexually abusing seven students between 2021-2022 when she was a teacher at Making Waves, with allegations including forcible sodomy of minors and sharing sexually graphic photos over online platforms.
John Doty, a 35-year-old former biology teacher at Career Academy South Bend in Indiana, was charged with two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and six counts of child seduction on Feb. 9. Doty is accused of repeatedly raping a 16-year-old female student and threatening to kill her. He is scheduled to stand trial in January 2023.
The analysis comes after the U.S. Department of Education released a report last month, titled, "Study of State Policies to Prohibit Aiding and Abetting Sexual Misconduct in Schools," which analyzed state policies prohibiting "passing the trash," or allowing suspected sexual abusers to quietly leave their jobs to possibly offend again in a different school district. A bipartisan provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which was originally proposed by Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, requires all states receiving federal education funding to enact law prohibiting the practice of "passing the trash."
The Education Department’s report, however, found that laws against the practice are varied across the states, and that while all states require prospective employers to conduct criminal background checks on educators, and most states – 46 – require fingerprinting, only 19 states require employers to request information from an applicants’ current and former employers. Moreover, only 14 states require employers to check an applicant’s eligibility for employment or certification, and 11 require applicants to disclose information regarding investigations or disciplinary actions related to sexual abuse or misconduct.
Toomey, who pressured the Education Department to release its report for months, said he’s "deeply concerned" by the findings. "....I am deeply concerned with these findings," Toomey said in a June statement. "Any educator who engaged in sexual misconduct with a child should be barred from ever teaching in a classroom again, yet too many states do not have policies to ensure that is the case. Releasing this report is only the first step—the department must hold states accountable and use the tools at its disposal to enforce the law."
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, called for a new national study on child sex abuse in schools. "This is a scandal that the political Left is doing everything in its power to suppress....The basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teachers unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn't happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns....."
The Department of Education last released a report on the topic in 2004, which claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/181-k-12-educators-charged-child-sex-crimes-2022
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Direct Headline: So far this year roughly one teacher or teacher's aide per DAY has been arrested for child sex crimes in the U.S. What is going on?
Not The Bee May 20, 2022
Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that the issue of teacher sex crimes against students needs to be more thoroughly examined by the federal government. She cited the Department of Education's 2004 report, which claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.
"Educator sexual abuse is a major problem that largely gets ignored because it's so uncomfortable to talk about," Sanzi said in a statement. "While a very small fraction of educators and school employees prey on the children in their care, one bad actor can do damage to many students....The last federally commissioned study on the issue was in 2004, pre-smart phone and those who study the issue closely say that the problem has been exacerbated by the ease of communication that a smart phone provides," she continued. "We need to get much more honest about the problem, study it again and ensure that we have policies and laws in place that protect children..."
https://notthebee.com/article/so-fa...er-day-has-been-arrested-for-child-sex-crimes
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"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future." - John F. Kennedy
One per day.
In this country, one adult, usually a teacher in a public school, is arrested for some kind of sex crime against a minor. Against children. From a position of public trust, usually paid for with our tax dollars. And these are just the ones being caught.
As Pat Toomey points out, many teachers and educators with a history of this kind of heinous and despicable and criminal behavior are simply shuffled off into other school districts. They move around in a system that wants to ignore that the problem exists and refuses to acknowledge the heightened risks in the information age and the commonality of the smart phone era, where predators can find new hunting grounds and track down innocent children to be violated and abused. In effect, our children have been subjected to a bureaucracy that leaves them out like prey to be massacred at the altar of woke and identity politics. Because it's Team Blue's hard push to hold onto the woke vote and the radical vote that enables this kind of psychotic madness. Trying to force in books that show graphic sexual acts, allowing teachers to talk about their gory personal sex lives, enabling teachers to hide and become deceitful in what parents should be informed about, having children be taken to 'drag shows' where adults are pole dancing, stripping, twerking and make overt sexual gestures in front of kids.
The common argument against a position like mine is that the numbers and frequency is not "statistically significant enough" to merit a more harsh and directed response.
SO JUST HOW MANY INNOCENT CHILDREN NEED TO BE RAPED, MOLESTED, SODOMIZED, FILMED, ABUSED AND MASSACRED TO BE CONSIDERED "STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH" TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
In terms of pure political strategy, being the "woke" identity politics driven party associated with this is absolute poison. This is how Team Blue will lose and keep losing, by openly declaring war on children and their parents.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged sex crimes against students
By Jessica Chasmar July 20, 2022 2:03am
At least 181 K-12 educators, including four principals, were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first six months of 2022, ranging from child pornography to raping students. An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of principals, teachers, substitute teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.
The analysis found that at least 181 have been arrested between January 1 and June 30, which works out to exactly an arrest a day on average. The 181 educators included four principals, 153 teachers, 12 teachers' aides and 12 substitute teachers. At least 140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged crimes against students. Men also made up the vast majority – 78% – of the arrests.
Many of the arrests involved especially heinous allegations.
Roger Weaver Freed, the 34-year-old former principal at Williamsport Area High School in Pennsylvania, was arrested in June and charged with sexual contact with a student, corruption of a minor, furnishing liquor to a minor, sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault without consent. Freed is accused of having a years-long sexual relationship with a male student.
Shannon Hall, a 31-year-old former teacher at Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in New York City, was arrested in June and charged with forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated harassment. Hall is accused of grabbing a 14-year-old female student's breast inside his classroom and of sending texts to a 16-year-old student that said he wanted to have sex with her and threatening to kill her if she told anyone.
Norman Merrill, a 45-year-old former teacher at Green Mountain Union High School in Vermont, was arrested in May and charged with production of child sexual abuse material and possession of child sexual abuse material. Merrill is accused of secretly video recording female students walking past him at school and of producing videos showing nude children.
Anessa Paige Gower, a 35-year-old former biology teacher at Making Waves Academy in Richmond, California, was charged with 29 counts of child molestation on April 8. Gower is accused of sexually abusing seven students between 2021-2022 when she was a teacher at Making Waves, with allegations including forcible sodomy of minors and sharing sexually graphic photos over online platforms.
John Doty, a 35-year-old former biology teacher at Career Academy South Bend in Indiana, was charged with two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and six counts of child seduction on Feb. 9. Doty is accused of repeatedly raping a 16-year-old female student and threatening to kill her. He is scheduled to stand trial in January 2023.
The analysis comes after the U.S. Department of Education released a report last month, titled, "Study of State Policies to Prohibit Aiding and Abetting Sexual Misconduct in Schools," which analyzed state policies prohibiting "passing the trash," or allowing suspected sexual abusers to quietly leave their jobs to possibly offend again in a different school district. A bipartisan provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which was originally proposed by Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, requires all states receiving federal education funding to enact law prohibiting the practice of "passing the trash."
The Education Department’s report, however, found that laws against the practice are varied across the states, and that while all states require prospective employers to conduct criminal background checks on educators, and most states – 46 – require fingerprinting, only 19 states require employers to request information from an applicants’ current and former employers. Moreover, only 14 states require employers to check an applicant’s eligibility for employment or certification, and 11 require applicants to disclose information regarding investigations or disciplinary actions related to sexual abuse or misconduct.
Toomey, who pressured the Education Department to release its report for months, said he’s "deeply concerned" by the findings. "....I am deeply concerned with these findings," Toomey said in a June statement. "Any educator who engaged in sexual misconduct with a child should be barred from ever teaching in a classroom again, yet too many states do not have policies to ensure that is the case. Releasing this report is only the first step—the department must hold states accountable and use the tools at its disposal to enforce the law."
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, called for a new national study on child sex abuse in schools. "This is a scandal that the political Left is doing everything in its power to suppress....The basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teachers unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn't happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns....."
The Department of Education last released a report on the topic in 2004, which claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/181-k-12-educators-charged-child-sex-crimes-2022
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Direct Headline: So far this year roughly one teacher or teacher's aide per DAY has been arrested for child sex crimes in the U.S. What is going on?
Not The Bee May 20, 2022
Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that the issue of teacher sex crimes against students needs to be more thoroughly examined by the federal government. She cited the Department of Education's 2004 report, which claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.
"Educator sexual abuse is a major problem that largely gets ignored because it's so uncomfortable to talk about," Sanzi said in a statement. "While a very small fraction of educators and school employees prey on the children in their care, one bad actor can do damage to many students....The last federally commissioned study on the issue was in 2004, pre-smart phone and those who study the issue closely say that the problem has been exacerbated by the ease of communication that a smart phone provides," she continued. "We need to get much more honest about the problem, study it again and ensure that we have policies and laws in place that protect children..."
https://notthebee.com/article/so-fa...er-day-has-been-arrested-for-child-sex-crimes
*********
"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future." - John F. Kennedy
One per day.
In this country, one adult, usually a teacher in a public school, is arrested for some kind of sex crime against a minor. Against children. From a position of public trust, usually paid for with our tax dollars. And these are just the ones being caught.
As Pat Toomey points out, many teachers and educators with a history of this kind of heinous and despicable and criminal behavior are simply shuffled off into other school districts. They move around in a system that wants to ignore that the problem exists and refuses to acknowledge the heightened risks in the information age and the commonality of the smart phone era, where predators can find new hunting grounds and track down innocent children to be violated and abused. In effect, our children have been subjected to a bureaucracy that leaves them out like prey to be massacred at the altar of woke and identity politics. Because it's Team Blue's hard push to hold onto the woke vote and the radical vote that enables this kind of psychotic madness. Trying to force in books that show graphic sexual acts, allowing teachers to talk about their gory personal sex lives, enabling teachers to hide and become deceitful in what parents should be informed about, having children be taken to 'drag shows' where adults are pole dancing, stripping, twerking and make overt sexual gestures in front of kids.
The common argument against a position like mine is that the numbers and frequency is not "statistically significant enough" to merit a more harsh and directed response.
SO JUST HOW MANY INNOCENT CHILDREN NEED TO BE RAPED, MOLESTED, SODOMIZED, FILMED, ABUSED AND MASSACRED TO BE CONSIDERED "STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH" TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
In terms of pure political strategy, being the "woke" identity politics driven party associated with this is absolute poison. This is how Team Blue will lose and keep losing, by openly declaring war on children and their parents.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
