Female Teacher, 29, Accused of Sending Sexual Texts to Boy, 14

Good idea or bad idea for you to send these kinds of text messages to an underage boy if you're a female teacher?

"I want to rip all of your clothes off and have sex with you to the point of ecstasy"
"I want to kiss you all over"
"I want to have sex with you."

Probably NOT a good idea, but that's what Geneva Henry, 29, a former teacher at Jupiter Christian School in Florida and stands accused of. Her defense lawyer now claims that Henry is bi-polar, which explains her alleged electronic lust for a high school boy.
At right, Geneva Henry's mug shot picture. Not sure who should play her in the likely Lifetime Movie of the Week about this incident, but a few years ago I would have suggest Meg Ryan. But today . . . not so sure? Post your suggestions for an actress to play Mrs. Henry below.

Attorney: mental disorder led teacher to send sexual messages to 14-year-old student [CBS-12]

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Pregnant Mom Punches Kindergarten Teacher in Face

Don't mess with a pregnant woman! If she says you choked her 5-year-old in class, you'd better admit it and then hope you can outrun her.

Gabriela Dominguez Ugarte said that her 5-year-old son, Vincent Anthony Ugarte, told her last week that his teacher, David M. Svetlecic, had choked him. Ugarte went to the East Austin school to file a complaint against Svetlecic at 8 a.m. on Friday, and Principal Freda C. Mills met with Ugarte and Svetlecic in her office, according to the affidavit. Svetlecic denied choking Ugarte’s son several times, the affidavit said. (Svetlecic could not be immediately reached today by phone for comment.)

“Suddenly, without provocation, Svetlecic says Ugarte punched him in the left side of his head with a closed right fist one time,” the affidavit said. The attack left Svetlecic with several scratches to his left ear and redness on the left side of his neck. Ugarte, who is two months pregnant, was charged with assault of a public servant, a felony. She was released from jail on bond.

Reached by phone this afternoon, Ugarte said that she had lost her job as a caregiver when news of the incident spread. She said Svetlecic denied choking her son but admitted to shaking him. She said hitting Svetlecic at that point was a “mother’s instinct.” “All of this could have been prevented if the principal had done something,” Ugarte said. “This guy choked my son. My baby could have died.”

Mom arrested after assaulting Sims Elementary teacher [Statesman]

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Dad Arrested for Giving Son Gang Tatoo

It used to be that parents would have to warn their kids about going to school and becoming part of a gang. Now, it looks like the schools will have to warn their kids about their parents getting them into gangs.

A Califorina man was arrested on charges of suspicion of child abuse, mayhem, battery with gang enhancements, false imprisonment, participating in criminal street gang activity and committing a crime for the benefit of a gang, after the found him, his girlfriend and the man's 7-year-old son at a motel. The man, Enrique Gonzalez, 26, and a friend allegedly held the boy down and put a paw print (Awww!) tatoo on his right hip as part of some weird gang thing. The boy's mother (who Gonzalez is not currently married to) was not happy with that and called cops.

Investigators saw Ramirez leaving the room and asked her whether Gonzalez was inside. She confirmed he was there. Following a brief escape attempt through a rear window of the room, Gonzalez surrendered.

After his arrest, police discovered a photograph of Gonzalez, his son and a third child. The two children had gang graffiti on their bodies, police said.

Police first learned of the incident three weeks ago when, they said, Gonzalez held down his son while another gang member tattooed a gang insignia -- a dog paw -- on the boy's right hip.

The man alleged to have tattooed the boy, Travis Dewayne Gorman, 20, of Fresno, was arrested April 21. His bail is listed as $700,000, according to Fresno County Jail records. Gorman is not a licensed tattoo artist but does tattoos for Bulldog gang members. It is illegal in California for a child younger than 18 to get a tattoo, officials said.

Tattooed boy's father arrested [Fresno Bee]

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College Students Set Off Smoke Alarms, Tie Emergency Doors Shut as Part of "Prank"

How stupid are college students these days, anyway? What makes you think ANYONE would think it was funny that you purposely tied the fire exit doors shut and then overcooked microwave popcorn so it smoked and made people in your dorm think there was a fire? Especially at 3 o'clock in the morning!

Three Connecticut college athletes were arrested for allegedly setting off a smoke alarm after they tied shut the doors of several dorm rooms, police told The Herald newspaper.

Christopher Scifo, Matthew Dortch and Patrick Robinson were charged with reckless endangerment, burning and mischief, among other offenses for what they said was a prank pulled at Central Connecticut State University. When campus police at the school responded to an early-morning fire alarm, they found a "quad" of dorm rooms full of smoke and two full bags of charred popcorn in a microwave, according to The Herald of New Britain, Conn.

The incident happened at 3:14 a.m. Monday on the third floor of the Vance Hall dorm. A resident assistant there told firefighters that two doors on the fifth floor were tied shut with heavy fishing line. Several other doors on the fourth floor were also bound. Residents were forced to struggle through a small opening in the doors to get out, police told The Herald. “I didn’t intend to hurt anyone, just get a few laughs,” Scifo, 19, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., told police.

Yeah, well let's see if you find it funny when you're bunking with Bubba in jail and he decides you look a lot like his ex-girlfriend. He probably just wants a few laughs, too.

College Athletes Set Off Smoke Alarms, Tie Dorm Doors Shut, Police Say [FOX News]

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Middle School Science Teacher Accused of Throwing Bullets Down Hallway at School

From our "What the Hell?" Department: A middle school science teacher, apparently conducting some kind of bizarre experiment, was arrested for throwing bullets down the hallway at the school where he worked. Must not have been able to afford a gun

A Madras science teacher has bailed out of jail and is on paid administrative leave after police say he's the man seen on surveillance tape, tossing live bullets down the halls of Jefferson County Middle School.

Timothy Wojtusik, 47, has taught science to seventh- and eighth-graders at the middle school for 11 years. School officials say they were shocked to hear he's been charged with menacing and disorderly conduct after staff was finding strange things in the hallways last week.

Last Wednesday morning, around 8 a.m., staff and a student walking the halls at the middle school came upon what police are only describing as "several" .22-caliber live bullets strewn on the floor. Madras police detectives immediately went to the school's surveillance tape and, they say, clearly found their man. "The surveillance video is really clear," said Det. Tanner Stanfill. "It shows him walking down the hallway, tossing bullets on the floor."

Madras teacher jailed for tossing bullets down halls [KTVZ]

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