Female Teacher, 40, Accused of Affair With 15-Year-Old Boy While She Lived With Family - Anastasia B. Pappas

According to police, Anastasia B. Pappas, 40 met her young friend when she was his fifth grade teacher but, of course, she allegedly waited until he was 15 before she started having an affair with him. According to his family, this happened after they befriended Ms. Pappas and invited her to live with them while she was having money problems. Mistake? Here's more from the Daily Herald:

A former fifth-grader’s teacher is accused of molesting him years later in Glendale Heights after she was befriended by his family.
Prosecutors charged Anastasia B. Pappas, 40, with criminal sexual assault in February 2006. The indictment was sealed from public view to protect the teen’s identity.
DuPage Circuit Judge Perry Thompson unsealed the file Wednesday as the criminal case moves closer to trial. Pappas is free on a $100,000 bond.
She is accused of having a one-year sexual relationship with the 15-year-old boy until Jan. 31, 2006, while living with his family. They met in 2001 when Pappas was his teacher at Black Hawk Middle School in Glendale Heights.
“The allegations have nothing to do with her employment,” defense attorney Michelle Moore said. “She was a great teacher and has a lot of great references.
“She’s a wonderful woman. It’s a tragic allegation.”
Authorities said Pappas became friends with the teen’s parents while teaching their son and, later, while she was having money problems, moved in to their home. She lived there about five years until the allegations arose.

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Dad Pulled Over With Cocaine, Claims it Was Son's Graduation Present

Another "Father of the Year" Finalist: This guy was pulled over by cops for speeding and during the traffic stop they found cocaine in his car. His excuse? The cocaine was a present for his son who was graduating from high school. But wait, there's more! Omar Cruz Garza apparently also stole the car he was driving to get to the graduation, wrote bad checks to pay for the trip, and had also taken someone else's identification. Here's more from the Victoria Advance:

A Mission man arrested Saturday night after a routine traffic stop in Goliad told deputies that the cocaine found in his vehicle was a graduation present for his son in Houston.
"I have no idea what he was thinking," said Sgt. Danny Madrigal, investigator with the Goliad Sheriff's Department. "We've never had anybody saying, 'I'm taking this to give to my son. He's graduating.'" However, Madrigal said, "The following day I spoke to him, and he told me it was for personal use."
Goliad County deputies Sgt. Gary Cowley and K9 Officer Martha Martinez pulled over Omar Cruz Garza, 35, for speeding within city limits.
The deputies suspected something was up when they saw items including a DVD player, a safe, power tools and camera inside the vehicle, Madrigal said, and searched the 2006 Dodge pickup.
"He just had a lot of things that you wouldn't normally carry if you were going to visit somebody," he said.
When deputies asked for Garza's license, he handed over a fictitious I.D., Madrigal said - likely because Garza is on parole until Friday.
"He probably thought he'd run into some troubles there with the parole board," Madrigal said. "But he had his name tattooed on his back, which was an indicator that he wasn't the guy he reported to be at first. We found another I.D. that turned out to be him."
Paperwork inside the safe contained the same name as the fraudulent I.D., he said. When officials contacted the Mission cardholder, they found he'd reported property taken in a residential burglary.
"Some of the loot was recovered," Madrigal said. "There's still other property in the vehicle we feel was taken in another residential burglary. Those investigations are being turned over to the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department."
But wait, there's more.
Investigation showed the truck was reported stolen 12 hours earlier from a Mission used car lot.
"I've contacted the owner of the car lot, and he's expressed that he's going to file charges on it - for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Any time someone steals a motor vehicle, any county he passed can file charges. We'll be filing in Goliad County."
Thus far Garza has accumulated charges for unauthorized use of a vehicle, possession of a controlled substance and failure to identify, among traffic misdemeanors, Madrigal said. The possession charge carries a bond of $20,000 and $1,000 for failure to identify.

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Apprentice UK Katie Hopkins Caught in Topless Sex Romp in Field

Well, I suppose if you're going to have an affair with a married man and you're already on national television, you might as well have sex with him in a parked car in public, right? More from the National Ledger:

'The Apprentice' contestant Katie Hopkins is again involved in a sex scandal according to reports. She was recently caught in an embarrassing romp in a field with a married former colleague, Mark Cross, according to the UK Daily Mail. The pair met last year when Hopkins began work at Devon's Met Office.
According to the report and the photos, it appears that the pair were involved in a passionate embrace in a grassy paddock after visiting a local pub, and it appears that the woman is topless. The rather indiscreet couple opted for an al fresco romp, the paper reports.

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DD Update: Plea Deal Expected For Woman In Teen Sex Case - Jeni Dinkel

Remember the story of the wife of a former Cincinnati Bengal Tom Dinkel, who allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old friend of her son's? Apparently a plea deal has been reached for Jeni Dinkel. Here's more from WLWT:

Jeni Dinkel, the wife of a former Cincinnati Bengal Tom Dinkel, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in court to third-degree rape charges.
Her attorney said Dinkel’s plea is likely to change Thursday, when she is scheduled to face a judge again.
Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders said the 15-year-old victim’s family has expressed support for a plea deal.
Sanders said the case has been a difficult one to prosecute because of what he saw as a double standard.
"The fact that some people don't think this is a crime because the victim is a male and the defendant is a female, (and) I obviously disagree with that view of the cases,” Sanders said.
Dinkel, whose husband accompanied her to court, faces up to five years in prison.

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Teacher Arrested for Fondling Student's Breast, Claimed He Thought "Victim Found Him Attractive" - Kyle M. Hite

When Kyle M. Hite brushed up against the breast of a high school girl in math class the first time should thought it was accidentaly. Then, allegedly, it happened again and again. Now police are involved. Here's more from AZ Central:

A 25-year-old special education instructional aide at Westwood High School was arrested by Mesa police on suspicion of fondling a female student's breast in class.
The aide, identified by police as Kyle M. Hite, admitted he touched the victim's breast numerous times without her consent, saying "he thought the victim found him attractive," according to a Mesa police report.
Police are recommending that prosecutors charge Hite, who began work at the school since Feb. 21, with sexual abuse, the report said. Hite was arrested on Thursday, the last day of school. advertisement
At first, the student thought it was an accident when Hite's hand "brushed" her breast, but knew it was intentional when it happened again.
She said she complained to the teacher, but "he told her to knock off the attitude. The victim reports that the defendant touched her breast nearly every day after that," the report said.

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"Regular Customers"Brawl at Waffle House Over $34 Bill

$34, for waffles? Apparently two ladies in Key West, Florida thought that seemed a bit steep as well and decided to take their anger out on the cashier AND another customer. Here's more from CBS4:

It’s one thing to be upset about the food or service at a restaurant, but in Key West two customers turned their anger into a fistfight, berating a cashier, beating a woman who came to her aid, over a $34 breakfast tab.
Police in Key West say the women became upset when they were handed the tab at the 24-hour eatery on Roosevelt Avenue, and told the cashier they wouldn’t pay. When a bystander tried to speak up for the cashier, police say the two women attacked the helpful customer, pummeling her with their fists.
Witnesses told police the women ran off, stiffing the cashier for the tab. Police are looking for the pair, who Waffle House workers told police are often seen in the restaurant.
There was no word over what made the diners so upset that they were willing to beat someone up over their bill.

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Mom Arrested Snorting Cocaine in Wal-Mart With 3-Year-Old in Cart

Another "Mother of the Year" nominee? This lady was caught on a security camera allegedly snorting cocaine with a straw while pushing her toddler around the store in a cart. Here's more from NY Daily News:

A Long Island mother was arrested at a Wal-Mart after she was spotted snorting heroin as she pushed her 3-year-old son in a shopping cart, police said yesterday.
Stacy Roe, 35, allegedly inhaled the powdered drug through a straw near the garden center of the Centereach store, police said.
Guards saw her on a surveillance camera and called cops.
"Security at Wal-Mart was viewing a surveillance video, and they surveyed her doing this, with the straw in her hand," said Sgt. Todd Barone of the Suffolk County Police Department.
Two plainclothes officers approached Roe about 6:20 p.m. on Saturday as she continued her shopping, officials said.

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Pictures of Lindsay Lohan Passed Out, Vomiting, Day After DUI Arrest

Will the slow motion train wreck never stop? The website X17Online.com claims to have new pictures of trouble young actress Lindsay Lohan, just over 24 hours after she allegedly ran her car into a curb while under the influence of . . . something, allegedly passed out in someone else's car and vomiting at the side of the rode. Classy! And why hasn't the Academy considered her for an Oscar before this? Their loss! Read the story and see the pics here.

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Lindsay Lohan Allegedly Arrested for DUI: "Usable Amount" of Cocaine Found in Car

Looks like someone's fallen off the wagon! Here's more from Forbes.com:

Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday after her convertible struck a curb, and investigators found what they believe is cocaine at the scene, police said.
Lohan, 20, and two other people were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it crashed on Sunset Boulevard around 5:30 a.m., Sgt. Mike Foxen said. It appeared Lohan was speeding, Lt. Mitch McCann said at an afternoon news conference.
Officers at the scene found a "usable amount" of a drug tentatively identified as cocaine, McCann said. He declined to say where the drug was found other than to say Lohan was not carrying it.
Lohan, who spent time at a rehabilitation center earlier this year, was driven in another car to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, McCann said. The two other people in her car were not hurt.
Officers received a 911 call about the accident and arrested Lohan at the hospital for investigation of misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, McCann said.
She was released from custody because she was admitted to the hospital, police said.

The website X17Online.com broke the story and has pictures of the car and LL being released from the hospital.

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Man Claims He Was Sleepwalking When He Molested 16-Year-Old BabySitter - Scott Axleburg

Is it possible to be asleep and committ a crime? Or are you innocent until proven awake? Here's more from WSB-TV:

A jury found a Paulding County man who claimed he was sleepwalking guilty of aggravated sexual battery Thursday.
Scott Axleburg faces a minimum sentence of 10 years without parole and a maximum sentence of 20 years. Sentencing will take place June 8.
Axleburg claimed he was walking in his sleep when he fondled a 16-year-old babysitter.
The victim described a night three years ago when she was babysitting overnight so the defendant and his family could get an early start to his son’s baseball tournament and she would be there with his toddlers.
As she slept on the couch, she said Axelburg woke her up with his hand in her pants. She said that she jumped.
"He got up off his knees and he buttoned both buttons on his shorts and zipped up his pants and walked into his bedroom," said the girl.
When a detective questioned Axelburg on videotape, he denied anything happened at first.
"I didn’t do that. I didn’t do anything," said Axelburg.

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Father of American Idol's Kellie Pickler Arrested For Selling Abandoned Cars? - Clyde "Bo" Pickler Jr

Wow, that takes some guts. Selling cars that don't belong to you to scrap yards(allegedly) is one thing, doing it after your daughter was made a star on American Idol is a whole 'nother deal. Take it from Kellie Pickler's dad, Clyde "Bo" Pickler Jr. Here's more from CMT:

Kellie Pickler's father is scheduled to appear in court on July 9 in Albemarle, N.C., after being arrested Friday (May 18) on a felony count of obtaining property under false pretense and three felony counts of larceny of a motor vehicle. Clyde "Bo" Pickler Jr., 42, is accused of stealing abandoned and disabled vehicles and illegally selling them to scrap yards. Bond was set at $26,000. The singer's father also faces two other court dates -- Thursday (May 24) for a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle without a license and June 12 for a separate misdemeanor larceny charge. Last year, he completed a three-year prison term in Florida for stabbing a man. After being abandoned by her mother at age 2, Kellie Pickler lived mostly with her paternal grandparents. A contestant during the 2006 season of American Idol, the singer reconciled with her father last year.

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Female "Teacher of the Year" Accused of Affair With Female Student - Kanesa Hopkins, Goose Creek

Nothing like being named "Teacher of the Year" by your peers, then having them find out you had an affair with one of your students . . . whom you also taught in Sunday School! Here's more from the First Coast News:

Berkeley County's Teacher of The Year Kanesa Hopkins went from in front of a seventh grade classroom to behind bars.
The 31-year-old middle school teacher is accused of sexual misconduct with a former student.
Hopkins is accused of sexual misconduct with a then 14 year old female student.
According to court documents the girl was a seventh grade student at Westview Middle.
Investigators say the student and the teacher began writing letters to each other in 2001 and became close.
Hopkins was also the girl's Sunday School teacher.
Police say church officials questioned the amount of time the two spent together in December of 2002.

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Teacher Accused of Forcing Kindergartner to Eat . . . Barbecue Sauce?

There has to be more to this story or this teacher must have been having a really bad day. Here's more from the Quad-Cities Online:

A Metro East teacher has been charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly forcing a kindergartner to finish the barbecue sauce he had served himself at lunch, according to a report published on Saturday.

The 5-year-old boy's mother made the complaint to police on April 26, Bethalto Police Chief Alan Winslow told The (Alton) Telegraph. The mother told police her child gagged when forced to eat the sauce the previous day.

The complaint led to a misdemeanor charge filed April 30 against Parkside Elementary School teacher Deborah Lamere, 59, of Bethalto. A telephone message left for Lamere over the weekend by The Associated Press was not returned.

The newspaper obtained information about the case from police through a Freedom of Information Act request after hearing from parents. The parents said the boy was forced to eat sauce he'd squirted on his tray with a spoon in front of the teacher, The Telegraph reported.

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Male Teacher Accused of Sex With Boy at School - Kirk Hellwig, Columbia High School

At school, during school hours? That takes some guts, if true. Apparently rumors started and then came an investigation. Here's more from Capital News 9 - link includes video clip:

Kirk Hellwig, a 37-year-old social studies teacher at Columbia, was arrested by East Greenbush Police Monday morning. Hellwig is charged with engaging in a sexual act with a 16-year-old male student on school grounds and during school hours.

"Anytime we have a situation of this nature where our educational community is dismayed by a personal act, it causes all of us to have some pain," said Brewer.

Students reported rumors of the relationship to the principal on Thursday. Hellwig has worked for the school district since 1999 as an American history and government teacher with no prior complaints.

"When it hits home, and it's so close to us, it's kind of scary. And my kids are young. They're not in school yet, but it makes me think. Should I homeschool my children?" said Kendra Durivage, an East Greenbush resident who lives close to the school.

The school district is sending home a letter to parents. One father we spoke to said he was sexually abused when he was a student at Columbia High School, and he said he's not surprised it's happening once again.

"We are very aware of sexual predators in high schools, especially this high school," said Robert Reese.

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Students Pass Around Picture of Topless Teacher - El Reno, Oklahoma

She had the picture on her cell phone. Then one of the students in her class got a hold of the phone. Now the pictures are being passed around like a bad cold and parents want the teacher fired. But for what? Here's more from WLTX:

A racy picture of a teacher in Oklahoma somehow fell into the hands of students. Now parents are calling for the teacher's resignation.
From one student to another, the pictures spread like gossip: the rumors of a topless teacher, parents say should not be covered up.
"All the students have her picture on their cell phones," says Ray Coat, a concerned parent. "She should be held to a higher standard because she's around all these young people, and she's very influential to these children. There's no reason she should be around these kids."
But it's the kids, police say, who took the photo from the woman's phone.
"A student at school got a hold of the picture and has blue-toothed that over to other students."
Police say the teacher took the picture at home but parents say having the pictures in class should make her absent from school forever.

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Avril Lavigne Appears Topless on Cover of Blender Magazine - Hell Yeah I'm Hot!

It's the latest sign of the Apocalypse: former punk pop princess Avril Lavigne appears topless on the cover of Blender magazine, despite protesting in the past that should wouldn't do so. Here's more from the San Francisco Gate:

Pop star Avril Lavigne has peeled off to pose topless on the cover of a men's magazine.
The singer's modesty is only covered by a quote from the star, reading "hell yeah, I'm hot" and pictures inside Blender's June edition show the 22-year-old covered only by an open leather jacket, short skirt and fishnet stockings.
The pictures follows Lavigne's criticism of chart rival Britney Spears for using her looks and sexuality to sell music. Lavigne said, "I'm more about a performance, she's more about entertainment and sex, being a sex symbol and trying to look like she's having sex."

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Former 'Married With Children' Star 'Bud Bundy' Arrested - Actor David Faustino

Bud Busted with Buds . . . of marijuana, that is. Here's more from the Orlando Sentinel (at right, David Faustino's buzzed mug shot):

The man who once played Bud Bundy on TV's 'Married... With Children' has been arrested on charges of marijuana possession and disorderly intoxication, New Smyrna Beach police said.
David Anthony Faustino, 33, also known as his character, Bud Bundy, was arrested in New Smyrna Beach over the weekend after an officer saw him arguing in the middle of the street with his ex-wife, police said.
The couple, who told police they'd been drinking, was arguing in a silver car on Flagler Avenue at almost 2 a.m. on Saturday, police said. Their fight didn't get physical, but officers later found a clear bag in Faustino's pocket that carried about a gram of marijuana, police said.
The 5-foot-3, blue-eyed brunette known for his TV role as a son in a dysfunctional family was arrested early Saturday morning and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail. He was released that same day, jail officials said.
The actor best known for his role as a dysfunctional son Bud Bundy on TV's "Married...With Children" has since made a few appearances on marijuana-promoting films.
Faustino has starred in films such as "Puff, Puff, Pass" in 2006 and "High Hopes" in 2005, according to the Internet Movie Database.

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Happy Mother's Day! Mom in Restaurant Brawl Claims Child Was Threatened

What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than to get into a fight with other women over a crying child. Here's more from the Toledo Blade:

The 24-year-old woman at the center of a Mother's Day brawl at the Golden Corral Restaurant in Toledo said she was threatened with a knife by the family sitting next to her and did what any mother would have done to protect her 1-year-old daughter.
Little did Sylvia Harris know that her alleged defense of her child would lead to a restaurant-clearing melee in West Toledo in which she and four others would be arrested.
Ms. Harris of 1224 Indiana Ave. asked Toledo Municipal Court Judge Lynn Schaefer yesterday for more time to hire an attorney and did not enter a plea to misdemeanor assault, rioting, and inducing panic charges. The judge rescheduled her arraignment for 9 a.m. on May 29.
Ms. Harris is accused of hitting Christine Lewandowski, 56, of 1125 Slater St. after Ms. Lewandowski repeatedly complained about Ms. Harris' noisy 1-year-old, eventually screaming at the child to "shut up."
The confrontation in the crowded buffet-style family restaurant ignited a melee that involved as many as 15 people at the restaurant on 5730 Opportunity Drive, off West Alexis Road.

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Teacher Arrested for Taking Boy's Picture in Bathroom at Mall - Carlos Dwight Arnold

Photography can be a nice, calm hobby. Unless, of course, you're taking pictures inside a bathroom of other people. More from WMGT:

Police in Macon have arrested a high school teacher and charged him with child molestation and being a peeping Tom.
Twenty-seven-year-old Carlos Dwight Arnold was arrested Saturday at a mall after being accused of photographing a boy in a bathroom.
Arnold is a ninth-grade teacher at Central High School.
Macon police spokeswoman Sergeant Melanie Hofmann says the nine-year-old boy told his mother that a man had taken his picture in the bathroom. They contacted mall security, who detained Arnold until police arrived.
Hofmann says the boy did not know Arnold.

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"Flip This House" Episodes Faked in Atlanta?

Ever seen the cable TV Show "Flip This House?" It made quickly buying and selling houses look easy. But was it real? Here's more from My Fox Atlanta:

What if you found out an American Idol contestant was lip-synching? What if the Bachelor was really married? How real is reality TV? The FOX 5 I-Team answers that question with one of America's favorite reality shows: Flip This House. Senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell found one Atlanta developer on the show, Sam Leccima, wasn't telling the truth about his renovations. Click video for more information.

Watch the video for this story here.

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Mother of the Year Candidate Takes 14-Year-Old Daughter to Bar, Back to Man's Motel Room

Then, as they say, things got weird. According to Eugenia Garrison of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, it was a mistake to take her 14-year-old daughter to a bar late Monday night. And it probably wasn't a good idea either for the two of them to go back to the motel room of an out-of-town businessman until 3 o'clock in the morning. But, that doesn't mean that cops shouldn't believe her when she and her daughter claim the guy wanted them both naked. Here's more from WTMJ 4 (link includes video clip:

Eugenia Garrison and her 14-year-old daughter were arrested for robbing a man and threatening to falsely accuse him of rape. But in an exclusive interview with TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Michael George, she said she and her daughter are the real victims.
Garrison said she and her teenage daughter were at a local bar late on Monday night. They met a businessman from Texas, and he brought them back to his hotel room. At about 3:30 a.m., she claims things turned ugly.
"He said, 'Get naked.' He said that to both of us, and I said 'No,' and that’s how the whole thing started," said Garrison.
The man and police have a different story. The businessman told investigators the 14-year old grabbed $350 from him and ran for the door. When he tried to stop her, she allegedly claimed she would "cry rape." But Garrison said the man really did try to assault them.
Garrison said it was a mistake to bring her daughter to the bar, but she said the man at the bar is the real criminal.
Sheboygan police said Wednesday that they investigated the sexual assault and found no evidence of a crime. The businessman is not being investigated.

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