Girl 17, Admits Posing Topless in Classroom for Teacher - Jason Joel Pearce

Jason Joel Pearce, a former Texas substitute teacher at Plano's Bowman Middle School and later at Williams High School, is on trial, accused of sexual performance of a child and sexual assault of a child. This week one of his victims testified that the two were more like friends and that it wasn't unusual for him to ask her for favors . . . like posing topless in his classroom for pictures. Here's more from the Dallas Morning News:

The girl, who remained on the witness stand all day, testified that in May 2005, just after her 15th birthday, she went to Mr. Pearce's classroom during his off-period. There, he gave her a gift, a bottle of lubricant.
Then, she said, he asked to photograph her. She agreed and posed. Afterwards, she said, he asked her to put on a bikini top that she had brought to school. She did, and he took more pictures.
"He told me to take the bathing suit top off so he could get some pictures topless," the girl testified.
Prosecutor Jessie Allen asked the girl why she did what he asked.
"Because I can't say no," she said, adding that she had had an abusive boyfriend and was hit whenever she told him no.
She said Mr. Pearce touched her breasts and then stuck his hand down the front of her pants and touched her genitals.
During a search, police found photographs in Mr. Pearce's backpack of the girl posing in sexual positions.
She and Mr. Pearce even swapped photographs, the girl said. She gave him her school picture in exchange for the black-and-white head shot he used for acting auditions. On his picture, Mr. Pearce wrote: "You're my bestest student ever." And in a note that police found at the girl's house, he referred to himself as her "first husband."

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Woman, 19, Suspected of Statutory Rape of Boy, 14: “I’ll Rape Him If He Doesn’t Have Sex With Me!” - Tiffany K. King

A 19-year-old young woman is in police custody after she had sex in her car with a 14-year-old boy. Here's more from the Journal Star:

According to court records, on July 22 the alleged victim and two other boys were riding around with Tiffany K. King, 5130 W. Elba St., in her purple 1997 Plymouth Neon.
When King stopped the car so the alleged victim could get a bag he had left behind, she allegedly told the other boys, “I’ll rape him if he doesn’t have sex with me,” according to the arrest affidavit.
Around 9:50 p.m. they allegedly drove to a park in Air Park, where the two other boys allegedly got out of the car to go skateboarding and King allegedly had sex with the 14-year-old boy. One of the other boys allegedly saw them having sex.
King and the boy allegedly had sex again the next day around 11 p.m. in the Arnold Elementary School parking lot.

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Woman Arrested in Fudge Robbery After False Sex Assault Claim - Catherine Anne Delgado, Video Clip

This has to be one of the stranger stories of the year. A woman walks into the Maryland House Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland and tells the clerk there she's been sexually assaulted. When the cops arrive the quickly find out that the alleged victim, Catherine Anne Delgado, really wasn't attacked, and then notice she has packages of fudge sticking our of her pockets and fudge stains on her blouse. That led one officer to check on the nearby Fudge Kitchen and there found that the front door was unsecured and a large amount of product was missing. By the time officers got back to the hotel, they found that Delgado had then tried to flush the evidence down a hotel toilet . . . unsuccessfully, we might ad. The story might end there, but today a surveillance video from the fudge shop was released and it would be sad if it wasn't so funny. (Washington Post)

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Flight Attendant Kicked Off Plane for Being Drunk, Tells Pilot, "You're Dead" - Sarah Mills, Delta

Usually it's the passengers--or even the pilots--we hear about getting drunk on airplanes . . . but flight attendants? Yep. According to police, Sarah Mills, 26, had to be removed from a flight the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, KY and will now have to answer charges she was drinking alcohol on the job and threatened a captain. Here's more from CBS 46 in Atlanta:

Public safety officers at Blue Grass Airport reported Sarah Mills, 26, told the Delta captain "You're dead" as she was removed from the plane Sunday afternoon. Court documents said she smelled heavily of alcohol and admitted drinking whiskey onboard.
Mills' driver's license lists her residence as Union, Mo., though she told officers she now lives in Atlanta. She was being held Monday at Fayette County Detention Center on a $350 bond following her arraignment on terroristic threatening and public alcohol intoxication. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.Court records say a breath test found her blood alcohol level was .032 -- lower than Kentucky's legal limit of .08 to operate a motor vehicle. She refused blood and urine tests, the records said.
Besides the criminal charges, Mills faces a civil review by the Federal Aviation Administration on charges of being a crew member of an airplane while drunk. Kathleen Bergen, public affairs manager for the FAA's Southern region, said she could not be jailed on that charge but that the agency is reviewing the matter.

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Male Band Teacher Gets 90 Days in Jail for Sex With Girl, 17 - Joseph Arne Tucker, Como Park High School

Having the reputation as being "a young and fun teacher" may not be a good thing, especially when you're allegedly into young girls and the fun part involves oral sex. Here's more from Twin Cities.com:

Joseph Arne Tucker, 28, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. He faces 90 days in jail, according to the Ramsey County attorney's office.
According to the criminal complaint, Tucker, a band teacher, became close to his victim during a school production of "Cinderella." Another student reported seeing the pair kissing at the high school. Alarmed, the girl's friends told an assistant principal.
The assistant principal spoke to the girl, who said she and Tucker sent cell-phone text messages to each other and hung out together after school hours.
Tucker gave her rides home, and "every now and then they would kiss," the girl said, according to the complaint. She described it as a "really close relationship."
The assistant principal examined the girl's cell phone and found more than 20 text messages from Tucker, as well as photographs of the two. In the girl's purse, authorities found a letter from Tucker "in which he describes performing very specific sex acts on her," the complaint stated.
Police arrested Tucker in May after a student saw him picking up the girl at school.
Tucker told police he brought the girl to his St. Paul house, and they had oral sex two or three times a month, the complaint stated.

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Teacher Gets 12 Years in Jail After Pleading Guilty to 17 Sex-related Felony Charges - Phillip Sutliff

Well, once again the male teachers caught having sex with an underage student gets a stiff sentence, while their female counterparts get probation and community service. The latest revolves around a former English teacher at Arcadia High School who pleaded guilty last week to committing multiple sex crimes involving a 16-year-old female student in his class. Here's more from KNBC:

Phillip Sutliff, 34, pleaded guilty to 17 sex-related felony charges, including sexual intercourse with a person under 18, oral copulation of a person under 18, sodomy of a person under 18, penetration with a foreign object of a person under 18, and sending harmful matter over the internet to seduce a minor, said Deputy District Attorney Philip Wojdak.
Sutliff is expected to be sentenced to 12 years and 8 months in prison Sept. 27. "Our offer in this case is so high because of the severe breach of trust involved in preying on students he was supposed to be protecting and also because of the hundreds of pages of instant messages show a pattern of manipulation and grooming of her," the prosecutor said.
The charges stem from a relationship Sutliff had with one of his students at the high school from 2004 to 2005. A friend of the girl's family found out about it and notified school officials, who in turn told police, Wojdak said.

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