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Teacher Danielle Watkins Threatened To Fail Student Who

Wouldn't Have Sex With Her: Cops

These two Louisiana teachers at Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish were accused in
September, 2014 of having group sex with a student.

Brianne Altice, 34, was arrested in October 2013 after one of her former students approached Utah
police and told them that he had a sexual relationship with the English teacher beginning when he
was 15 years old. He was able to describe tattoos on the teacher's body, and told police that they
had sex at least seven times, including once in a public park.

As a substitute teacher in L.A.'s second-largest school district, George Hernandez was investigated
three times for sexual misconduct with students. Hernandez fled to Mexico when officially charged
when police found video evidence of him molesting a second-grade girl. He remains at large and
wanted by the Huntington Park Police Department.

Summer Michelle Hansen, 31, was charged in August with sex crimes involving 5 students at the
California high school where she taught special education. Hansen allegedly sent sexually suggestive
texts to at least one student, who claimed she had sex with him as a "prize" for doing well in a
baseball game.

This undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former
Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after
photos surfaced. Berndt been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to
10. Berndt pleaded not guilty on Feb. 21. AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department)

Diana Leigh Farnell, 28, turned herself in to North Carolina police on Sept. 12 following accusations
that she'd had sex with one student at the high school where she taught English. One student told
WCCB that he noticed flirting between Farnell and certain students in his English class.

Rachelle Gendron, 27, was charged with five counts of rape stemming from her alleged affair with a
14-year-old student. The former sexual education teacher allegedly sent the boy photos of herself in
"various stages of undress, with breasts and genitals exposed," according to an indictment.

Kelly Ann Garcia, an English teacher in Texas, is accused of carrying on sexual relations with a 16year-old female student. The Houston-area educator, who allegedly took the teen to a sex shop
during their romance, faces charges of sex assault of a child and indecency with a child.

According to the Daily Herald:


Police arrested a teacher at a private school in Pleasant Grove for allegedly having sexual relations
with two students.
According to Pleasant Grove detective Ryan Armitstead, 27-year-old Broch DeGraff was arrested in
2012 after two victims were identified. DeGraff taught at the Liahona Preparatory Academy, which
Armitstead described as an LDS-themed private school that serves students from kindergarten
through 12th grade. Armitstead said the alleged victims were teenage girls. Authorities learned of
the incidents after one of the girls reported the alleged abuse.

Culp is accused of having sex multiple times with a student at Northbrook High School in Houston.
She allegedly told the school's principal about the relationship after the student threatened to make
their relationship public unless she paid him.

Former middle school teacher Debra Lafave is shown in this file photo as she looks at a reporter
after pleading guilty on Nov. 22, 2005 to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery. Lafave, now 31,
whose sexual liaisons with a 14-year-old middle school student made tabloid headlines, avoided
prison as part of a plea agreement. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara/FILE)

This booking photo shows Debra Lafave, who was arrested Tuesday Dec. 4, 2007 for violating the
terms of her probation. Lafave was originally arrested on June 21, 2004 and charged with two counts
of lewd and lascivious battery on a person under 16 years old. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Jail)

Carrie McCandless is taken into custody after her sentencing hearing at Larimer County Justice
Center for an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student at Brighton Charter High School,
where she was a teacher, Friday, June 8, 2007, in Fort Collins, Colorado. McCandless was sentenced
to 45 days in jail, five years on probation and a four-year deferred sentence. McCandless was
arrested in May of 2011 for a parole violation after she tested positive for morphine. She served a
60-day sentence for the violation. (AP Photo/Sherri Barber, Pool)

Former Virginia Beach teacher Michael Shanklin has been indicted on a charge of possession of
child pornography. He recently pled guilty to spanking a student during a tutoring session at the
school. He claims he felt the student needed to be punished for not finishing an assignment and was
charged with misdemeanor sexual battery in the case.

Carrie McCandless listens during her sentencing hearing at Larimer County Justice Center for an
inappropriate sexual relationship with a student at Brighton Charter High School, where she was a
teacher, Friday, June 8, 2007, in Fort Collins, Colorado. McCandless was taken to custody by a
Larimer County sheriff's deputy after being sentenced to 45 days in jail, five years on probation and
a four-year deferred sentence. In May of 2011, McCandless was sentenced to 60 days in jail for a
parole violation after she tested positive for morphine. (AP Photo/Sherri Barber, Pool)

Undated booking photo of Carrie McCandless from the Jefferson County Jail.

Erin Thorne, 28, is accused of sending one of her students sexually explicit text messages before he
turned 18. The relationship turned sexual after the student turned 18, cops said.

Carmean, who worked as a teacher's aid at Seaford Middle School in Delaware is accused of having
sex with a 14-year-old boy at least '40 times' over a ten month period. She was arrested in February,
2012.

According to the Chicago Tribune:


A former substitute teacher and basketball coach at an Orland Park high school received 15 days in
jail in 2012 after admitting to sexually abusing a female student, according to DuPage County
prosecutors.
Steven E. Reynolds, 27, was sentenced to 15 days of periodic imprisonment in the county jail and 30
months of sex offender probation by Judge George Bakalis after pleading guilty to criminal sexual
abuse of a 17-year-old Sandburg High School student.

Elyse Cromwell, a 27-year-old New Jersey teacher, is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old
student multiple times. She was reportedly the male student's English and homeroom teacher.

Leah Shipman was arrested in 2009 for having an alleged sexual affair with a 15-year-old student in
North Carolina. But prosecutors were forced to drop the case in 2011 when Shipman and the then17-year-old got married. Under North Carolina law, a husband cannot be forced to testify against his
wife.

Vili Fualaau testified Wednesday, April 3, 2002, in his and his mother's civil lawsuit against the City
of Des Moines and the Highline School District at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, Wash.
Fualaau, then 18, and his mother, Soona Vili, are seeking $1 million from the city claiming police

and school officials should have kept Fualaau from having sex with his teacher Mary Kay
Letourneau. (AP Photo/Matt Brashears, Pool)

Ngum, who taught exceptional students at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, is accused of
having sex with a student. Her husband denied the charges, but said Ngum is "too overcaring."

Fletcher is accused of having sex with two 16-year-old students, including during class breaks.

According to NBC New York:


Stephen Malusa, a 47-year-old science teacher at Ward Melville High School, is accused of sexually
abusing a female student in May 2013.
It's not clear when the alleged victim came forward with the complaint.
Malusa, of Selden, was arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip on charges of third-degree
sexual abuse and child endangerment.

Sotelo, a 35-year-old married woman, was a substitute teacher who had a months-long affair with a
14-year-old boy, police in Texas said. She learned she was pregnant, allegedly with his child, during
a visit to the emergency room in September 2012. Police charged her with indecency with a child,
but she claims that she and the boy are in love.

Arrest photo of Lynne Freeman from Weld County Sheriff's Office. Freeman, a 38-year-old mother
and parent volunteer at University Schools, was arrested Wednesday for the alleged sexual assault
of a 14-year-old teenage boy -- a friend of her daughter's -- in her home.

Colorado school board member Stefanie Dickinson was charged with Internet luring of a child in
September after she was caught sexting a 14-year-old boy. The boy reportedly told police he became
uncomfortable after she would show up at his football games and tell him how sexy his smile was.
She was arrested in October for sexual assault on another minor, also a student.

Photo courtesy of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

In June, 2012, Khan was accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student on multiple occasions

including in her car and home and at various hotels.

Colorado high school physical education teacher and basketball coach Lauren Redfern was charged
with sexual assault on a child by a person of a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse after
suspicions arose that she was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student
over the course of 4 months. Though initial interviews with the victim indicate that their relationship
was consensual, it will not deter the Sheriff's Office from pressing charges against Redfern.

Photo courtesy of the Eagle County Sheriff's Office.

Andrea Ebert, a 30-year-old special education teacher at Rice Lake Middle School in Wisconsin, was
jailed in February 2012 after she allegedly had sex with two 17-year-old students.

None of several encounters between her and the students were reported to be on campus.

North Dakota school teacher Jennifer Schultz is charged with sexually assaulting two of her students
after a group of students arrived at her home and asked if she would like to drink vodka with them.
Authorities say that after a few drinks, two of the boys went up to Schultz's room, where the teacher
allegedly had sex with one boy while the other watched.

Kelly K. Miller, 32, a science teacher in the Chicago suburbs, was charged with sexual exploitation of
a child on Sept. 27 after allegedly sending explicit photos of herself to a 15-year-old student.

Photo courtesy of the Aurora Police Department.

This April 26, 2006 booking mug shot shows Pamela Rogers Turner after her arrest. Turner, now 34,
a former teacher who served time in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old boy, is currently serving a
prison sentence for sending inappropriate photos and videos of herself to that same boy after she
served out her original sentence. (AP Photo/Warren County Sheriff, HO)

This July 14, 2006 photo shows Pamela Joan Turner, right, being escorted into circuit court in
McMinnville, Tenn. The Tennessee Supreme Court said that it will not hear the appeal. Turner was
convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old student at the Warren County school where she taught
and then again convicted of sending that same student inappropriate photos and videos of herself.
(AP Photo/Mark Humhrey)

Shepherd Hill Regional High School teacher Amber S. Jennings is arraigned in Worcester Superior
Court in this file photo taken Feb. 24, 2005, in Worcester, Mass. Jennings pleaded guilty to
"disseminating harmful materials to a minor." She was sentenced to two years' probation. A
spokesman for Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte said the allegations involved a 16-year-old
student. (AP Photo/ Pool)

Mary Kay Letourneau is shown in this undated photo taken in conjunction with her required
registration at the King County courthouse in Washington as a level-two sex offender following her
Aug. 4, 2004, release from prison. Letourneau completed a 7 1/2-year term for child rape in
connection with a relationship she had with her former sixth-grade pupil Vili Fualaau, with whom
she had two children. (AP Photo/Coutesy Washington State Sex Offender Information Center)

In this Feb. 6, 1998 file photo, Mary Kay LeTourneau listens to testimony during her court hearing
Friday. Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student, the father of her two youngest children, are
hosting a "Hot for Teacher" night at a Seattle nightclub. (AP Photo/Alan Berner, Pool)

This Feb. 24, 2006 booking photo shows Wendie A. Schweikert, 36, of Belton, South Carolina.
Schweikert, an elementary school teacher, was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal
sexual conduct with a minor, Laurens police said. The former fifth-grade teacher accused of having
sex with her 11-year-old student was ordered held on $100,000 (84,060) bond. She was sentenced to
10 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2007. (AP Photo/Laurens, S.C Police Dept, File)

In this Aug. 5, 2011 photo released by the Nassau County Police Department in Garden City, N.Y.,
New York City English teacher Tara Driscoll is shown. Driscoll, 33, pleaded guilty to having sex with
a student who attended the high school where she worked. She was sentenced to six years
probation. (AP Photo/Nassau County Police Department)

Rachel L. Holt, a science teacher at Claymont Elementary School, was arrested early Tuesday, April
4, 2006. The sixth-grade science teacher was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student and
was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday March 16, 2007. Prosecutors had wanted Scott to
sentence Holt to the maximum of 25 years. (AP Photo/New Castle County Police Department)

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