Cops Find Weed, Sex Toys, Women's Clothes in Car of School Superintendent - Christopher Gregory, Washtucna School District

You know, if you're going to get pulled over in your car by the cops and the least of your problems is a pipe and a bag of weed in the back seat . . . you've got some bigger problems. And that bigger problem would be a bag that contained a mixture of sex toys, condoms, creams, leather whips, female clothing, . . . and a shock collar? That seems to be the case for Christopher Gregory, who used to be the Superintendent for the Washtucna School District. We say "used to be" because, since this report came out, Gregory has resigned his post. Here's more on this bizarre story from KXLT:

Gregory, 60, was arrested on August 23rd after a traffic stop on Lovell Valley Road near Plummer, Idaho. Deputies reported that Gregory's SUV was swerving into the westbound lane while heading eastbound on Lovell Valley Road.
During the stop the deputy noticed Gregory was nervous and being very methodical in his answers to the deputy's questions, particularly in pausing for several moments after being asked if he had any drugs in his vehicle.
Gregory then admitted that he was the superintendent for the Washtucna School District and had some marijuana and a pipe that he had confiscated from a student's locker in his SUV. He then showed deputies a large leather bag in the back of his SUV that contained a Ziploc bag filled with marijuana and a pipe that had marijuana inside of it.
Deputies handcuffed Gregory then and placed him in the back of a patrol car before continuing a more detailed search of his SUV, where they found "leather whips, female clothing, assorted sex toys, condoms, creams and a shock collar" inside the bag they found the marijuana in. En route to the Benewah County Jail Gregory told deputies that in addition to being a school superintendent he was also a former Marine.

Drunk Teacher Arrested After Grenade Launcher Found in Basement - Benjamin Terril, Buchtel High School

The worse thing my high school science teacher ever did was give me a C on a project that really was probably deserved an F. Actually, that was probably a good thing, now that I think about it, but either way it's much better than what we learned about Benjamin Terril, a science teacher at Buchtel High School. Cops found a lot of interesting things when they raided his home, including drugs, guns and--for some reason--a grenade launcher. Likely he was saving up for the Nerf grenades that go with it. Here's more from NewsNet5:

Benjamin Terril, a science teacher at Buchtel High School, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, weapons under disability, possession of dangerous ordnance, drug paraphernalia and drug abuse marijuana. Police went to Terril's home on Iona Avenue at about 7:30 p.m. after getting a call about a suspicious person with a gun.
When officers arrived on scene, they found the 50-year-old with a 9 mm semi-automatic loaded handgun in his pants pocket.
Police said he was heavily intoxicated. During a consent search of his house, officers found at least 26 guns, including machine guns and a grenade launcher. The police report said there was an AR-15 with magazines that hold more than 31 bullets, a Ruger .22 handgun with silencer, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, unknown powders and a lockpick kit. The guns were found in the basement along with a stash of food. Lt. Rick Edwards termed Terril a "survivalist."

Hong Kong Reporter Loses Job After Being Arrested Masturbating on City Bus

Well, look at it this way: at least it wasn't a SCHOOL bus he was on at the time, right? Here's more on the story from AFP:

A Hong Kong television reporter who quit his job after he was arrested for masturbating naked on a bus said he was only trying to "ease his stress", reports said Friday. Chiu Yu-kit, a former journalist at Asia Television (ATV), admitted in court to the act while he was alone on the top tier of a double-decker bus on July 31, The Standard and other newspapers reported.

An off-duty officer made the arrest after he jogged past the bus and saw Chiu standing on a seat naked and facing a window, the court was told. Chiu, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of indecency in public, but added that he committed the offence only to release his stress.

Female Teacher, Out on Bond for Sex With Boy, Caught Letting Same 15-Year-Old Unlicensed Lover Drive Her SUV - Jeannie Michelle Hodges

If it's Thursday, it must be time for another female teacher sex scandal. And if this sounds like a repeat, well, it sorta is. Remember Stephanie Ragusa? She's the Florida teacher arrested four different times over a period of a few months for having sex with underage boys . . . sometimes the same underage boy twice! Well, now we have another lady teacher who can't stay away from the young boys: Jeannie Michelle Hodges.
Hodges, who taught at Hobbton Middle School in North Carolina, was arrested back in July on charges of statutory rape, sexual offense with a student and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She bonded out on the charges and stayed out of trouble until this weekend when police set up a driver's license check point. They stopped a Ford Explorer with a young male driver at the wheel. Not only did he not have a license, the adult female in the passenger seat (Hint: it was Ms. Hodges) claimed she didn't have one either and had left it at home. They pulled her out of the car and--surprise!--found not only her license, but also a bail bond business card, which lead cops to discover that the passenger had been arrested for having sex with the same young male that she was now illegally letting drive her car! At right, Jeannie Michelle Hodges original mug shot . . . or is that her second one?
Here's more form the Sampson Independent:

When the Ford Explorer approached the checkpoint, police officers stopped it and asked the teenage driver for his driver’s license. He replied that he did not have one. Officers then asked the boy’s age, to which he answered 15, before asking if passenger Hodges had her license. Hodges told officers that she had a license, but not with her, reports state.
Both were asked to exit the Explorer and officers received consent to search it. A search was conducted of both the vehicle and Hodges’ purse. Inside the purse, officers found Hodges’ driver’s license as well as a business card for a local bail bonding service, according to reports.
When officers questioned Hodges about the card, she stated that she recently bonded out of jail on charges of statutory rape. Officers asked if it was the 15-year-old driver, to which she replied yes, authorities said.
Sheriff’s investigators have said that Hodges engaged in an affair with the 15 year old during the end of the 2007-08 school year, throughout which the juvenile was a student of hers. The student stayed overnight at Hodges’ residence “on multiple occasions” during that time, investigators said.

Man Arrested for Drunk Driving With Infant in Back Seat - And Much More!

If this was just a simple case of a drunk parent driving with the kids in the car, this may not have made it on The Dumbass Daily. I mean, really: how often do we hear about these idiots? Once or twice a week anymore? But Amilcar Lopez, 21, of Lynn, MA went above and beyond with his latest arrest. And we do mean "latest" since it appears this has happened a couple of times in the past. Let's see if we can break it down for you in bullet points:

- Passed several cars waiting at a stop light, turned left against same light right in front of cops
- Pulled over for OUI (operating under the influence) at 3:45 in the afternoon
- Not wearing seatbelt
- Infant daughter in the back seat, in a car seat, but NOT buckled in.
- Told cops he had a valid drivers license when he didn't
- Almost fell out of car when cops asked him to get out
- Urinated on himself while sitting in the back of a police car
- Cops find 12 empty bottles of Heineken in his car and another partially full
- And to top things off, the license plates on his Honda matched to a different vehicle, a 1998 Ford Explorer, recently purchased by someone else

In the end, young Mr. Lopez was charged with: operating under the influence (second offense), OUI with a child in the car, unlicensed operation of a vehicle, two counts of a red light violation, improper passing, drinking alcohol from a container while driving, driving an unregistered car and driving an uninsured car. And yes, somehow his kid was okay through all of this. (The Daily Item of Lynn)

Teacher Arrested for Being Drunk in Class, Blew Twice the Legal Limit BAC to Drive - Schallenberger Elementary School in San Jose

The little monsters have only been back in the classroom a couple of weeks and the teachers are already hitting the booze--and HARD! How hard? They're showing up at school drunk.
Apparently at Schallenberger Elementary School in San Jose some teachers became concerned about one of their as-yet-unnamed co-worker who appeared to be inebriated (for those of you in Muncie, that would be drunk, plastered, or smashed). So, they contacted the administration, who called the cops, who showed up only to confirm what everyone already seemed to know: this lady teacher was drunk! According to the cops, more than twice the legal limit to drive of .08% BAC or around .16% . . . which is some pretty good drinking! You don't get that by having a single Bloody Mary before work or a can of beer in the car at lunch.
Regardless of how she got her liquor, this female teacher was charged with a misdemeanor because it's against the law to be under the influence of any intoxicating liquor, drug or controlled substance in a condition that leaves someone unable to exercise care for his or her own safety or the safety of others. (San Jose Mercury News)

Male Teacher Arrested for Sending Porn to Student - Thomas Price, Lincoln High School

Are high school kids that lazy these days that they need to have a teacher actually send porn to them? Why, I remember in the old days when kids had to find their own porn or find a copy of National Geographic. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but it just seems that no matter how easy we make things for kids these days (haven't they ever heard of the Internet for free porn?) they're just whining for more.
Here's more from The Charleston Gazette:

A Harrison County fine arts teacher has been arrested for allegedly sending sexually explicit material to a minor. Thomas Price, 42, of Shinnston was arrested at Lincoln High School on Thursday and charged with two counts of displaying and distributing obscene matter to a minor. State Police Senior Trooper B.W. Claypool wouldn't give the victim's age, or say whether he's a student at the school. Claypool says Price allegedly had sent the boy links to pornographic Web sites and sexually charged text messages since January. The investigation was prompted by a complaint from the victim's family.

President of Iowa Community College Caught Boozing on Boat With Bikini Babes - Robert Paxton, 52

SHOCKING UPDATE: ICCC Board Asks Partying Prez Robert Paxton to Resign, Gives Him 400,000 Reasons Not to Let the Door Hit Him on the Backside on the Way Out - Can you believe this? The guy lies about a party on his boat, then admits it, then gets nearly half a million dollars NOT to work for a couple of years. Where does the line form for that job? More at the Des Moines Register
EARLIER REPORT: Over at our other site, BadJocks.com, we always wondered why college presidents never seemed to take a stand when we published pictures of underage college kids boozing it up during team initiations & hazings, despite school rules against such behavior. Well, now we know . . . at least at Iowa Central Community College, where President Robert "Animal House" Paxton appears in several pictures to be pouring beer down the throat of a young woman in a bikini. Not bad work, if you can get it, but probably not the way most parents want to think of the man at the head of the higher learning institution their children are attending. (In his defense, the tuition at ICCC is ridiculously low!)
Still, some people are not happy with the pictures and Paxton's lame attempts to dismiss the pictures is not earning him any points with the general public. How bad are they? Pres. Paxton--who initially denied the charges when approached by a reporter--now claims the keg in the photo was not even able to dispensed beer adding, "If you want to know the truth, the thing was broken. I never opened the tap on any keg." Asked what he was doing with the keg suspended over the woman's open mouth, Paxton said: "Nothing. The thing didn't work. I was laughing at them. You know, if I was doing anything, I was grabbing it and trying to put it back down." Here's more from The Des Moines Register:

A photograph showing Iowa Central Community College President Robert Paxton appearing to pour beer down the throat of a young woman has been circulating in the Fort Dodge area. Paxton, 52, and a group of young people are shown on a boat. Paxton and a young woman are holding a small keg of Coors Light above the head of another young woman, who appears to be drinking from the spigot held open by Paxton.
Paxton and an Iowa Central trustee said that Paxton had done nothing wrong and that the actions were in his private life, not his college work. But an academic ethics official said the photo shows a lack of good judgment that is expected from a person in Paxton's position as a college president.
When asked Friday about the photo, which also shows a passenger on the boat pouring vodka into the mouth of another person, Paxton initially told a Des Moines Register reporter, "I have no idea what you're talking about." Asked whether he had recently been aboard a boat with a group of young people, Paxton replied, "No, not recently I haven't."
In a separate conversation later in the day, Paxton acknowledged that he was aware of the photo. Asked why he initially denied knowledge of the picture, he said, "I was told not to speak." He declined to elaborate, however. Paxton said the photo was made on July 4 at West Okoboji Lake. He said his 19-year-old son, John, who was a student at Iowa Central last school year, is the younger man in the photo.
He said his son was not drinking on the boat. However, Iowa court records show that a day after the photo was made, John Paxton was arrested and charged with second-offense drunken driving in Dickinson County, where Okoboji is located. The younger Paxton has pleaded not guilty.

Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old Drunk Driver in Stolen Car

Wow! There's a whole lotta stupid to go around here! Then again, this did happen in Australia where underage drinking is as common as a fight breaking out during a hockey game . . . or is it a hockey game breaking out during a fight? Either way, the teens caught in this Northern Territory adventure decided to let the youngest--a 12-year-old--and likely drunkest of them drive. And not just any car, but a STOLEN car that cops saw as it was turning into, of all places, a church parking lot. Here's more from The Australian:

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has been arrested for allegedly driving a stolen car while drunk in the Northern Territory. A police patrol noticed the girl behind the wheel of a sedan turning into the Uniting Church on the corner of Tilston Avenue at the satellite city of Palmerston outside of Darwin about 1.30am (CST) today.
Police said six youths fled from the car into the Palmerston High School when officers approached them. After a short foot chase, four females - aged 12, 14, 15 and 20 - were caught on the school oval. Two others managed to escape, police said.
A 12-year-old girl was identified as the driver of the car and she returned a positive reading when police gave her a roadside breath test. All four were taken to the local police station, where the driver allegedly returned an official blood alcohol content of 0.065 per cent.

Man, 24, Arrested for Asking 12-Year-Old Girl for Hickey to Make Ex-Wife Jealous

Want to make your ex-wife jealous? Probably not the best idea to ask a 12-year-old girl to give you a hickey. Likely it won't work, and if the cops find out, you'll end up in jail . . . which is exactly what happened to Jesus Martinez. He and a Mesa, Arizona girl were found kissing by the girl's mother after the pre-teen left her home without permission to meet up with this genius. At right, Jesus Martinez' mug shot picture.
Here's more from AZ Central:

The girl told her mother that Martinez kissed her lips, face and breast area, left a hickey and asked the girl to leave hickeys on him for his ex-wife to see, according to the Sheriff's Office. The girl said she tried to leave several times by telling Martinez she was too young for him, according to the report. Martinez was booked on suspicion of one count of child molestation and four counts of sexual abuse.

Carnie Accused of Making Sexual Comments to Teenaged Girls, Inappropriately Touching One of Them

Hey wait, what about the infamous Carnie Code?
Seriously, does this really come as a shock to any one? Should it even be a news story? The cops were probably stunned. Stunned, I tell ya!
Here's more (what little there is) from the Deseret News:

A worker at a traveling carnival has been arrested on suspicion that he made sexual comments to teenage girls and fondled one of them.
Millard County Sheriff's deputies said the carnival was operating at Fillmore's fairgrounds on Friday. Deputies responded to a complaint that the suspect, 45-year-old Jeffery John Thomas, of Cottonwood, Ariz., had made inappropriate sexual comments toward a group of teenage girls. A 14-year-old girl claimed to have been inappropriately touched, deputies said. Thomas was booked into the Millard County Jail on investigation of forcible sex abuse of a child, a second-degree felony, and class A misdemeanor lewdness involving a child.

Teacher Autumn Leathers Accused of Sex With Boy, 16 - Mountain Ride High School in Frostburg, Maryland

UPDATE: Autumn Leathers Heading to Jail! - Details on the Dumbass Daily Main Page.

EARLIER:The one thing I really like about this story is the "before" and "after" pictures of the accused teacher, Autumn Leathers (what a great stripper name, too, eh?). At right Leather's mug shot, and below must be from the school yearbook. Quite a difference, don't you think?
Anyway, the important thing is to know that Ms. Leathers, 24 an English teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Maryland, was arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her 16-year-old students and now faces numerous charges, including child abuse, child sexual abuse, and sex offenses. Here's more from Your4State.com:

Officers say they were contacted by a resident, who noticed the student at Leathers’ home several times in the late evening. When he was interviewed by officers, the student told them he and Leathers had a sexual relationship that started in May of this year and continued throughout the summer. Authorities believe all of the sexual activity occurred at Leathers’ home, not in the school. A search warrant was executed at Leathers’ home on Braddock Street in Frostburg Wednesday evening, where police found other evidence that has become part of the investigation.

Female Teacher at Christian School Arrested for Sex With Boy, 14 - Holly Michelle Barnes

Small town.
Private Christian school.
Female teacher caught having sex with an underage boy?
Why, that can't happen here! At right, the oddly captivating mug shot picture of Holly Michelle Barnes, 24. Here's more on the story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

A former teacher at a Powder Springs Christian school has been charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy, Paulding County authorities said Wednesday. Holly Michelle Barnes, 24, was charged Tuesday night with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of child molestation, said Cpl. Brandon Gurley, a spokesman for the county sheriff’s office. He declined to say whether the alleged incidents occurred at the church or school and whether the boy was a student or a member of the congregation.

Drunk Man Tasered by Cops for . . . Stabbing a Tree?

And you wonder why cops go a little nuts sometimes when they arrest a bad guy? How about it if you were called to take care of a neighborhood disturbance, only to find a crazy man--who had already thrown a large rock at a garage door--standing there with a booze bottle in one hand and a 10 inch knife in the other . . . and he was using it to stab a tree? Seems to me that tasering is an appropriate response to that kind of stupidity. Here's more from Redding.com:

Redding police officers used a stun gun today to subdue a 46-year-old Sacramento man after he allegedly brandished a large knife at passing motorists, threw a large rock at a nearby home’s garage door and ended up stabbing a tree. Steven Hill was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and possession of a concealed deadly weapon and booked into Shasta County jail, a police spokesman said.
Officers said when they arrived in the area of Keswick Dam Road and Lake Boulevard they found Hill stabbing a tree with a knife in one hand and holding a bottle of liquor in the other. Hill refused to drop the knife and officers used the stun gun to apprehend him, the police spokesman said.

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Teacher Allanah Benton-Wells, 42, Accused of Sex With 6th Grader - Williams Elementary School - Flint, Michigan

Ever wonder what's wrong with our public schools? Here's a good example: Allanah Benton-Wells, 42, was suspended from her job--with pay--teaching 6th grade at Williams Elementary School in Flint, Michigan back in November of 2007, while the district and cops investigated allegations that she had sex with a student. That's nine months of paid vacation, AFTER the boy's mother made a complaint to police. That came after the mom intercepted a phone call between the two that made her think Benton-Wells (pictured right in court) was having sex with the 12-year-old. Cops think on at least two occasions around Halloween that Benton-Wells picked up the boy to take him to her home for tutoring and instead had sex with him.
In January, Benton-Wells husband divorced her because he suspected something was going on when he came home at 2:30 in the morning and found the boy on the couch, with his wife, with his shirt off. Another time, the her ex-husband claims he came home to find the pair on the couch with his wife wearing a nightgown and no bra. Not if that means she was sleeping with the boy, but it does seem kinda strange when she was supposed to be turoring him. But still, it took ALL this time for charges to be filed and the school district to finally fire Benton-Wells.
Here's more on the story from NBC 25:

In November of last year investigators started looking into allegations, 42-year-old Allanah Benton-Wells had sex with the 12-year-old in October.
"Both times she was to pick the child up and take him back to her house for tutoring, help with homework,” said Genesee County Prosecutor, David Leyton. “We believe that's not what occurred. We believe in both instances resulted in sexual intercourse."
Investigators say the boy's mother found out about the sexual relationship, when she listened in on a call between her son and Benton-Wells. “The mother then went to the school, the principal, of the school then informed Flint Police."
Benton-Wells is a Flint native a mother of 19 month old twin boys, and two grown sons. Now she faces two charges of criminal sexual assault, each crime carries a sentence of 25 years to life behind bars. “She is entering a plea of not guilty," said Michael Haley, Benton-Wells’ attorney. “He was a student and she was helping him."

Chicago Couple Tasered at Wedding Reception in Michigan - Andy Somora and Anna Pastuszwska

We have to admit, this isn't the first wedding reception that we've heard about where cops had to be called and at least one member of the wedding party had to be tasered . . . usually the groom or best man. But zapping both the groom AND the bride, getting pictures of it, AND finding out that they got tasered AGAIN two days later? That has to be some kind of record for stupidity, even if they were drunk, which--according to police--is very likely at the center of this incident. At right, a picture of bride Anna Pastuszwska shortly after police tasered her husband.
Here's more on the story from the Chicago Sun Times:

Andy Somora and Anna Pastuszwska's July 19 wedding reception in tiny Lakeside, Mich., is still the talk of the town after officers from 14 police departments swarmed the art gallery to quell a melee. The groom's father, uncle, aunt and cousin -- several of whom hail from Villa Park and La Grange Park -- also got arrested.

The short version of the story is they didn't want to quit their partying," said Mike Sepic, Berrien County, Mich., chief assistant prosecutor. "If you put this in the class of wedding receptions gone bad, I guess this would take the cake."

And the story didn't end after the reception. Two nights later, the bride and groom were again arrested in Michigan -- and again shocked by a stun gun -- after struggling with police investigating a noise complaint, Sepic said. The groom was charged with pushing his new wife down during that incident, but the charge was later dropped as part of a plea bargain, Sepic said. Wedding photographer Kacper Skowron, a friend of the bride, said the party was "civilized" and "top-notch," with guests from around the country.

Gallery co-owner Tom Burnison, however, said that, fueled by alcohol, it got out of control and potentially dangerous, including when a guest heaved a metal lamp into a plate glass window. "Calling the police was a last resort," Burnison said. When the only local police officer on duty that night arrived, Burnison and his wife asked him to help break up the party because it had gotten "out of hand," with booze, water and broken glass on the floor, Chikaming Township police said. One guest was seen drinking straight out of a vodka bottle, Sepic said.

The officer called for backup and told everyone the party was over. Many guests left, but some refused and began cursing at officers, police said. "Andy got angry and started yelling, 'What are you doing? This is my wedding! You're making my wife cry!' " Skowron said.

"The crowd was trying to hold back the groom from mouthing off more, but finally he broke free, and they had to take him down," Sepic said of police. "He was heading for the officers. . . . Then the bride moved in and tried to interfere." As the newlyweds struggled on the ground, a police officer used a Taser on Somora, 29, police said. Pastuszwska, 28, was holding her new husband tight, and was shocked as well, Skowron and authorities said.

"Role Model" Teacher Laurie Anne Lewis Arrested for Prostution - Cleveland High School

UPDATE: We Have Teacher Laurie Anne Lewis's Mug Shot Along With Addition Details of Her Arrest: Cop Says "I Don't Know That She Was a Career Prostitute!" - Here's more from Click2Houston:

A Cleveland High School teacher was charged with prostitution after meeting a man in an online chat room and soliciting him in a downtown Houston hotel, police told KPRC Local 2 Monday. Police said Laurie Ann Lewis, 38, was arrested Tuesday at the Four Seasons, 1300 Lamar, in an undercover sting.
Investigators said Lewis agreed to meet her client at the hotel as an escort. She was arrested after asking for $300 to perform a sexual act, police said. We opened up a discussion with her in the chat room. She agreed at some point in that discussion for sex for money," said Capt. Bruce Williams of the Houston Police Department. "When she entered the room, the deal was done."
Police would not elaborate on the prostitution sting or on Lewis' alleged role as a prostitute. "I don't know to what extent she did this job. As far as I'm concerned, she's a teacher that got arrested for prostitution. I don't know that she was a career prostitute," Williams said.

EARLIER POST: Well, at least she wasn't caught having sex with a student . . . at least, not for free, anyways. At right, the only picture we could find of Laurie Anne Lewis. Here's more on the story from KHOU:

Cleveland High School theatre teacher and Student Council sponsor Laurie Anne Lewis was arrested on Tuesday on charges of prostitution in downtown Houston. According to the Houston Police Department, 38-year-old Lewis was arrested in an ongoing undercover operation. Since Lewis' arrest was part of a continuing investigation, the offense report regarding her arrest has not been made public. But Kerry Cowart, the superintendent of Cleveland ISD said he spoke to Lewis on Friday afternoon and confirmed the allegations. Cowart said that when he asked if she was arrested for prostitution, Lewis admitted it was true.

Lewis was immediately placed on paid administrative leave pending resolution of the charges. One teen on the student council describe Lewis as an excellent teacher and that this news surprised everyone. "She was role model to me and I really didn't expect her to do that because she was always on to us and I just thought that she would be different," said Kala Patton, a Junior at Cleveland High School.

High School Teacher, Accused of Sex With Boy 16, Allowed to Keep Working at School Because Mom Was Superintendent - Carrie O'Connor, Dale Clark

Apparently in Georgia it's okay to continue to work as a guidance counselor at Montgomery High School even if you are being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student. Well, at least if your mom's the superintend ant. At least, that appears to be the case for Carrie O'Conner who may still be on the payroll at MHS despite being under investigation since March and under a cloud of rumors about an alleged affair since January. What did the school do when they got a hold of these allegations? They transferred the boy, 16, to another school, of course! Here's more from WTOC:

An investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ended with 34-year-old Carrie O'Connor being arrested and indicted on sexual assault charges involving a 16-year-old student. The arrest happened Monday night, but the investigation started back in March.
Rumors of an affair between the teenage boy and the guidance counselor have been swirling for most of the year and the GBI was called into investigate. Now, some are questioning how the school district has handled the case.
Rumors about the alleged sexual misconduct started to swirl back in January. In March, calls came to WTOC, so we contacted the GBI who said they were investigating and would have something in a week. Four months passed and an arrest happened yesterday. "All we were after was the truth," Posey said.
Posey and many other concerned parents are raising questions since O'Connor is still working at the school. Some think she should have been put on paid leave until the issue is resolved. Instead, according to a letter from principal Smith to the parents of the 16-year-old boy, the student was dismissed from the high school and assigned to a different school to prevent any and all contact between the boy and O'Connor as requested by the GBI.
The parents refused and their lawyers sent a letter back to the principal demanding he be re-instated, which he was the next day. But there's more. The guidance counselor's mother is also the Montgomery County School District superintendent Dale Clark. "Bear in mind the mother-daughter relationship," Posey said. "She cannot come to a just decision on that."

Teacher Caught in "Operation Jail Bait" Used Web Cam to Expose Genitals - Joel Cupps

Teachers just seem to be draw to these online sting operations like a moth to a flame, don't they? You'd think after a while some of them would at least SUSPECT that the 13-year-old girl at the other end of the chat was really a 50-year-old, fat, male cop . . . but no. Here's more on the latest one from Tampa Bay's 10:

Pasco County teacher is behind bars charged with two counts of soliciting sex acts from a minor. The statewide sting called "Operation Jail Bait" used undercover detectives posing as teenagers. According to police, 29-year-old Joel Cupps, who taught third, fourth and fifth grades at Trinity Oaks Elementary School, was caught using a web cam to expose his private parts to a person he believed was a minor.
"We're very shocked and saddened. It was quite a difficult surprise to swallow," said Allison Hoskins, Principal at Trinity Oaks Elementary School. The teacher has since resigned. He taught at the school for two years. He was also a teacher at Chasco Elementary from 2005 - 2006, and Dr. Mary Giella Elementary in 2005.
"He made a full admission to the acts and admitting to communicating to what he believed were children over the internet," said Lt. Mike Baute from the Attorney General's Office.
Citrus and Pasco County detectives worked on the sting after they realized they were investigating the same person. "They just surrounded the house, came from the back and front, pulled up in a garbage truck and everything. There were just officers everywhere," said neighbor Isaac Rios, who witnessed police raiding Cupp's New Port Ritchey home on Thursday morning.

Teacher Maggie Laughlin, 23, Arrested for Alleged Sexual Relationship With 9th Grade Boy

UPDATE: Maggie Laughlin pleaded guilty on August 13 to having illegal sexual conduct with a student this year and faces up to 18 months in prison when she is sentenced later this month. (Cleveland.com)
EARLIER STORY: The school year can't end soon enough for some principals, can it? According to police the last two weeks of school at Shore Junior High School in Mentor, Ohio were pretty special for one 15-year-old boy in first year teacher Maggie Laughlin's math class. Authorities claim sex acts between the two took place each morning--8 to 10 times during the last two weeks of class--in her room before school started just before school got out in early June. Who blew the whistle? Sounds like the mother of the victim's ex-girlfriend. Hell hath no fury like a 9th grade girl scorned. Oh, and Laughlin might have gotten away with it because she wasn't coming back next year to Shore: she was moving to Michigan this summer with her fiancé to take a new job and plan a July wedding. Oops. That's likely going to be postponed 5-6 years.
At right, Maggie Laughlin's mug shot picture. Here's more from WKYC - link includes video clip!

Maggie Laughlin, 23, entered no plea at her arraignment in Mentor Municipal Court and was taken to the Lake County Jail. She faces one count of sexual battery and one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

Bond was set at $200,000 or $100,000 for each count. Laughlin will have to post 10 percent. If convicted, she could face up to six and a half years in prison.

School officials say Laughlin resigned her position with the district on June 6 after spending less than a year in the school system. Mentor Police Chief Dan Llewellyn said that, when arrested at her Willowick home Wednesday night, Laughlin admitted to some of the details of the charges against her.

Laughlin had accepted a new teaching position in Michigan where she planned to move with her fiancé after a planned July wedding.

Female Teacher, 39, Accused of Sex With Boy, 17 - Kelly Bartz, Rocky Mount High School

School's out for summer, but that doesn't keep the cops from investigating all the alleged teacher/student hook-ups during the past academic year. In fact, the police are probably glad to have the extra time to work on the backlog of complaints. This time we have a rather attractive 39-year-old, Kelly Bartz, an English teacher at Rocky Mount High School. She's been arrested on charges of sexual activity with a student by a teacher. (Could you have "sexual activity with a student by another student?) Most interesting part of the story appears to be that the "victim" in question here reportedly told his mother back on December of 2007 that he was dating a teacher but she brushed it off as a joke. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, that makes sense to everyone, doesn't it? At right, Kelly Bartz' mug shot picture.
Here's more on the story from The Rocky Mountain Telegram:

The mother of the Rocky Mount High student said she believes the relationship between Bartz and her son began early in the school year when her son was still 17. The mother said her son mentioned around December that he was seeing a teacher, but she brushed it off as a joke. Then she began to notice changes in her son's grades and sports, she said.
"I feel that because of (Bartz's) actions it has caused him to fall back, and he didn't pass his grades," the mother said, adding she didn't know if her son would enroll at Rocky Mount High during the upcoming school year. "This has caused a tremendous amount of stress on the whole entire family, and I feel like his downfall is because of this whole situation."
The mother said she approached Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services Tommy Finch about the situation in May or June. The central office told her they would take action after Bartz was charged, the mother said.