Neiman Marcus Employees, Fired for Having Sex on the Job, Sue Because Security Video of Them "In the Act" Violated Their Privacy

It takes some balls to have sex at work with another employee, especially when the two of you are supposed to be on security detail at a major department store. It takes ones the size of grapefruit to turn around and sue your employer for videotaping you "in the act." Why? Well, it invades your privacy (do you really have any of that where you work) and besides, the manager who set up the hidden camera shared the videotape with several other people AND on a nationwide online forum for security personnel. Okay, I can see where that last part might piss you off JUST a little bit. Which is why Neiman Marcus is getting their asses sued. Here's more from the Dallas Morning News:

Two former security employees at the Neiman Marcus department store in Northbrook, Ill., who were fired last year for engaging in sex at work filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging they were illegally videotaped. Steven Chalem and Veronica Miranda, identified in the lawsuit as residents of Evanston, Ill., allege they were secretly videotaped by a manager while employed as loss prevention investigators at the store in 2007. They describe themselves as "close friends" who worked together for several years.
The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that the manager installed a hidden camera in the office and began recording them and other employees. Chalem and Miranda were fired last October "for engaging in sexual activity with each other in the loss prevention office" on two separate occasions, the suit said. Both Chalem and Miranda have been unable to find jobs in the retail loss prevention industry since their firings, the suit said. The plaintiffs asked for damages for violation of Illinois' eavesdropping statute, infliction of emotional distress and other complaints.

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Male Teacher Caught Leering at Schoolgirls While Using Homemade Electrical Sex Toy in Car

Yes, you read that headline correct. Who ever said that all those "shop classes" wouldn't pay off some day, eh?
The good news? It didn't happen in the United States, although this might, uh, "inspire" some of our fine male teachers here to take up the challenge and invent their own homemade electrical sex toys. That's the kind of "can do" spirit this country is known for.
Let's see if we have the details correct: Guy Milford has taught in Clydebank area schools (Scotland) for more than 10 years. Police found him in his car near Clydebank High as hew watched (they use the term leered) as students walked into school. So far, he's just annoying. Then police say they also found a “bizarre” electrical sex toy plugged into his car’s cigarette lighter. And to top things off Milford had his pants down around his hips and his hands on his lap and, okay, I don't need to draw you a picture, do I?
Here's more from the Clydebank Post:

Married dad, Guy Milford — who had worked in schools in the area for 10 years — had the “bizarre” electrical sex toy plugged into his car’s cigarette lighter as he watched pupils going into Clydebank High.

The weirdo 34-year-old was due to be working at Clydemuir Primary, in Dalmuir, on the day of the sickening incident. Cops rumbled Milford near the high school gates at around 8.30am as pupils arrived for classes. Milford later told Dumbarton Sheriff Court he was on his way to work, but the high school is more than a mile away from Clydemuir and he would have had to have taken a significant detour to be there.

Cops were stunned when they discovered the vibrating device on the teacher’s lap as he sat in his clapped out Volkswagon Polo. WPC Alana Innes, 24, a police officer for four years, told Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday: “I had never dealt with anything like this before and I was quite shocked. I could not believe it had happened right next to a high school.”
Arresting officer PC Christopher Holmes said: “The car was [initially] directly across the road from the school gates, no more than twenty yards from the entrance.

"When I went to speak to him I could see he was nervous because he was shaking and there were beads of sweat on his forehead.

“He was in the driver’s seat with both hands on his lap, which was unusual, but more unusual was I could see lots of red and green wires poking through his hand and the device was attached to the cigarette lighter.

“His trousers had been pulled down around his hips.”

Milford admitted he had used the device earlier on his journey, whilst driving through the Clyde Tunnel, but insisted he had not been using it outside the school.

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Say What? Teacher at School for the Deaf Accused of Having Sex With Boy, 15 - Julie Denno, American School for the Deaf

Now that's what some people might call a "hands on" education.
Up until recently, Julie Denno, 27, was a teacher at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT. That is, until the adminstration found evidence that she was engaging in a relationship that included "inappropriate physical contact" and sexually charged text messages with a 15-year-old boy over a period of several months. Of course, that lead to her dismissal and then the cops got involved. At right, the only photo of Julie Denno we could find. Yeah, we know it sucks. If you find a better one, let us know.
Here's more from the Bristol Press:

A former teacher at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford was charged Friday morning with sexually assaulting a student in the woman's former North Pond Street home, police said.
Denno was arrested on a warrant and turned herself into authorities Friday morning, where she was initially held on $75,000 bail. Judge Bernard D. Gaffney lowered that amount to $5,000 later in the day.
Police said the assault happened over a two-month period in Denno's former home.
They were made aware of her behavior in February, when the boy's mother contacted police about Denno's alleged conduct, which took place between December 2007 and January 2008.
It also wasn't clear Friday how long Denno was employed at the school or what her daily responsibilities were, but an administrator there said Denno was suspended without pay and subsequently fired months ago as the investigation unfolded.
"When we became aware of the situation, we cooperated fully with authorities, and the teacher was suspended without pay and ultimately fired in a very timely fashion," said Marilyn Rettig, the school's director of institutional advancement.
Police spokesman Lt. Edward Spyros said officials have no indication that Denno engaged in similar behavior with other juveniles.

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Teacher Accused of Assaulting 10-Year-Old Girl by Putting Bucket on Her Head?

Teachers are caught doing a lot of strange things these days to student, many of which have nothing to do with sleeping with them. Take, for example, the case of Ann Lavery, a fifth grade teacher at Richford Elementary school in Vermont. She, apparently, had a misbehaving student in her class so she did what most teachers would do: she put a plastic bucket on the students head, and then hit the top of it. Yes, I thought it was kind of strange myself, but then again I don't have my teaching certificate. Here's more from Fox 44:

Vermont State Police said a mother told them Ann Lavery injured her daughter twice. Lavery a Fifth grade teacher, is accused of grabbing a 10 year old girl by the back of the neck and hurting her. The girl's mother told police it happened because the girl was in an area of the school where she was not supposed to be.
Lavery is also said to have put a plastic bucket on the same students head, and then hit the top of it. The girl reportedly was injured and her glasses damaged. Lavery, 54 has been a teacher for 32 years. Police say there have been other complaints made about Lavery.
"She has had prior complaints, and she was dealt with through the school on that and we are also looking into one other complaint that we have on her," said Sgt. Roger Langevin of the Vermont State Police.

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