Teacher To Student: "You Were Good"

Cops: Mississippi woman had sex with boy, 15, in her white Jaguar

JANUARY 30--A Mississippi teacher admitted to cops that she had sex with a 15-year-old male student to whom she sent explicit text messages and trysted with in her Jaguar, which bore the license plate "GRRRRR." Those are just some of the sleazy details in a Biloxi Police Department report detailing Rebecca Dawn Bogard's alleged sexual assault of the boy, who the 27-year-old educator taught at the Biloxi Alternative School (which is described in the January 18 report, which you'll find below, as a school for troubled teens). According to the document, Bogard referred to the teenager as "her little 'sex fiend'" in one text message. Investigators were contacted by the boy's mother after she discovered raunchy messages on the boy's phone, including one from a "Dawn" who wrote, "I love you, yeah it was the best, which night was the best 4 you, I'm sensitive but not sore, you were good..." Bogard, pictured in the mug shot at right, is facing felony sexual battery charges. She has been suspended with pay and is free on $50,000 bail.

Former Teacher's Aide Faces Sex Charges

A former teacher's aide in Polk County faces criminal charges for having sex with a student.

Investigators say 39-year-old Brenda Baillargeon worked at the Amery High School. That's where the 16 year-old boy she's accused of assaulting went to school.

Baillargeon now faces 3 counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff and 2 counts of child enticement with sexual contact.

Court documents show she and the 16 year-old boy had sex ten times and were engaged to be married. Court records show the teen's mother got a restraining order against Baillargeon, but the relationship continued.

The Amery School Administrator tells us she resigned September 27th and hasn't been back to school since. He says while no one is happy about this situation, he wants parents to know they have a safe school.

Stephen Schiell says, "our schools are safe, have always been safe. Our number one concern is our kids, our students learning, and that's what we've been doing in Amery for many, many years and we will continue to do that for many years, and we're always worried about our kids."

The Polk County Sheriff says as of Thursday evening Baillargeon was still in jail on $10,000 dollars bond. She will make her initial court appearance Friday morning.

To read the probable cause statement, click on the "related link" below this news story.

Brampton teacher charged with four sex offences

A Brampton teacher is facing several sex-related offences in connection with alleged inappropriate conduct involving one of her 16-year-old male students.

Peel police say the 35-year-old Notre Dame Secondary School teacher and the teen were engaged in explicit messages sent over the Internet.

The notes were sent from their homes, not at school, Det.-Sgt. Greg Knapton, of the special victims unit, told CTV.ca.

Knapton said one count of sexual assault was been laid with respect to an alleged incident at school.

"There was contact -- it was basically a touching," said Knapton, who wouldn't elaborate.

Knapton said the alleged acts are criminal because the teacher is in a position of trust and the boy cannot legally consent because he is not 18 years old.

The special education teacher has been suspended with pay, said Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board spokesperson Bruce Campbell.

"The allegations are very disturbing and the alleged behaviour is very inappropriate," Campbell told CTV News.

Dina Calautti was arrested at her Mississauga home on Tuesday. She is charged with:

• Two counts of sexual exploitation
• Sexual assault
• Internet luring of a child

Calautti is to appear in court on Dec. 17.

Teacher Avoids Jail Time After Sex Accusations

A former Salpointe High School english teacher accused of having sex with a 17- year-old student won't be spending any time in jail.

Rebecca Kelley pleaded guilty to four counts, and was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation and a six month suspended jail sentence for each of them.

Those included failure to report the offense, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Kelley resigned last spring when the allegations came out in the open.

Teacher indicted on student sex charges

A Williamson County grand jury has indicted former Independence High School teacher Heather Thorsby on seven counts related to an alleged inappropriate relationship with a student.

Thorsby, 34, is charged with three counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and two counts of exploitation of a minor by electronic means. Prosecutors presented the case to a grand jury on Nov. 5.

A report by Williamson County Detective Grant Benedict accused the former art teacher of having had sexual contact with a student “at various times at her school and home” between Nov. 11, 2006 and March 30, 2007.

Thorsby was arrested on May 15 and charged then with sexual battery by an authority figure. School officials suspended Thorsby without pay on May 11, after she admitted to displaying conduct unbecoming of a teacher.

In May, Williamson County Sheriff Ricky Headley said Thorsby told school officials she’d been having an inappropriate relationship with a female student. Headley said the relationship began as a friendship but turned sexual.

The girl turned 18 in March. Her parents uncovered the relationship after finding a message in her room, Headley said. The parents went to school officials.

Thorsby remains free on $10,000 bail. She is living in Columbia, according to court documents.

Case sent to DA after former teacher accused of sex assault

The District Attorney's office will now decide whether to file formal charges against a former teacher at an exclusive private school accused of sexually assaulting a student.
Denver Police say 40-year-old Meredith Hollen had inappropriate contact with a student who, at the time, attended Graland Country Day School.

Hollen has not been teaching at the school this year, according to police, and the alleged assault happened before the school year.

Police say they were only recently notified of the incident and do not know where the alleged encounter took place.

All documents in the case were sealed on Tuesday.

Records with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show that Hollen was arrested on November 2 and booked into the Denver County Jail. She was released after posting a $50,000 bond. She faces two counts of sexual assault on a child and another count of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

"We are in the midst of investigating a former teacher at Graland Country Day for having an inappropriate relationship with a student. She is currently being investigated for sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust," said Sonny Jackson, spokesperson for the Denver Police Department. "I believe the school has notified parents in the area so we've taken appropriate measures. At this point in time, we're in the middle of our investigation."

The Denver DA's office was given the case this week.

Graland is a kindergarten through 9th grade school with 638 students, according to the school's Web site. It has been a prestigious college preparatory school for 83 years.

Police will not say what grade the victim was in at the time of the alleged incident, but did say he is no longer a student at the school.

Parents told 9NEWS they were notified of the allegations in a recent newsletter sent home to parents.

The school released a statement to 9NEWS on Monday night: "We are surprised and saddened by the allegations of impropriety involving a former Graland faculty member. The school has not been contacted by any law enforcement agency. We will cooperate in any investigation. The safety of our students continues to be our first concern."

Hollen is scheduled to be in court on Friday.

New Visa May Aid Boy in Teacher Sex Case

A 13-year-old illegal immigrant who fled to his native Mexico amid a sex scandal with his schoolteacher could be eligible to return to the United States under a new visa the government started granting the week before he disappeared.

The visa helps illegal immigrants who are victims of sex crimes. If the boy, who spent most of his life in Lexington, Neb., qualifies, he could stay legally in the United States for four years and eventually apply for permanent residency. It also would extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18, if they applied for it.

"It's a win-win," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Marilu Cabrera said of the so-called "U" visa. "It helps us and law enforcement be able to solve a crime, and it certainly helps the individual who is a victim of a crime."

The boy and middle school teacher Kelsey Peterson were found in a mall parking lot in the border town of Mexicali, Mexico, 1,500 miles from where the pair disappeared on Oct. 26. Authorities searched for them for one week.

Peterson, 25, remains in federal custody in El Centro, Calif. A judge denied bail for her Wednesday, and she was expected to be sent back to Nebraska to face federal charges of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor, which is punishable by 10 years to life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Associated Press had previously named the boy but later removed his name from stories because the most recent charges allege he was the victim of a sex crime.

The boy told the AP earlier this week that he would be willing to return to the United States to testify against Peterson.

"That's something that we would have to consider as circumstances came up," said Joe Stecher, the U.S. attorney for Nebraska. "There are various methods that we could secure his presence here for testimony purposes, and we'll just deal with the circumstances as they come up."

Dawson County Attorney Elizabeth Waterman did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Cabrera said a conviction would not be necessary for the boy to qualify for the visa.

"It doesn't matter what the outcome of the case is as long as they cooperate," she said.

A law enforcement agency, prosecutor or judge in the Peterson case would have to vouch for the boy and say he helped in investigating or prosecuting Peterson in order for the boy to qualify.

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 established "U" visas to encourage illegal immigrants to report crimes against them. Cabrera said reviews of the rules by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice delayed issuing the visas until this year.

County's 3rd Female Teacher This Year To Face Sex Charges

For the third time this year, another female Laurens County teacher has been charged with sex crimes against children.

Karen Robbins, 49, was an elementary special education teacher for the private Thornwell Home for Children when the alleged incidents occurred. She was previously a teacher at Bell Street Middle School.

Robbins is facing multiple charges, including criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act upon a child, officials said.

Arrest warrants state the sex occurred with a 15-year-old in her car as well as twice at Robbins home. Police said the alleged abuse took place between September and November of 2005.
They said the incidents took place inside Robbins' car, in the Mill Pond Road area and at her home in Clinton.

Police believe the teen attended Thornwell, but was not a student of Robbins.

Robbins is being held at the Laurens County Detention Center.

She is the third Laurens County teacher to face sex charges involving minors this year.
Former Bell Street Middle School teacher Allena Ward was indicted in march on five counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

In June, former teacher Wendie Schweikert was ordered to serve ten years of a 20-year sentence after admitting having sex with an 11-year-old boy at school.

Clinton Public Safety Department Director John Thomas said, "It's one of those things that obviously keeps coming across law enforcement's desk. We want to make sure to ensure that our juveniles are taken care of."

"We're just making sure we're doing the right things and hopefully if they are out there and they need to be reported, we're going to look into them," Thomas said.