A South Bay school district agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle claims that a teacher impregnated a 15-year-old student at Leigh High School during a long-running illegal sexual relationship, and then forced her to have an abortion. The Campbell Union High School District's payout comes nearly two years after the allegations surfaced against Shawn Thomas, a physical education and social science teacher who also worked as a football and track coach at Los Gatos High School.
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My daughter "Kayla" started sixth grade this year. She almost immediately complained about her English teacher, whom she said hated her for no reason and was grading her intentionally poorly. She was getting lower grades on her assignments than she was in other classes, but I had thought this was more projection than anything else and didn't do much except encourage her to work harder on this class if she was behind on it.
A Long Island elementary school teacher is under investigation after he was busted allegedly admitting on camera to sexting a 13-year-old girl and asking for sexually explicit photos. The Wading River Elementary School teacher, who hasn't been identified publicly by cops, was immediately suspended Wednesday after the allegations surfaced. The teacher allegedly made the confession during an undercover sting spearheaded by the Predator Poachers Long Island vigilante group.
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Ryan McCaffery, a former Long Island teacher, was charged with multiple counts of child pornography and soliciting explicit images from minors on social media.
According to the Charlton police report, the alleged incidents happened between February and March. They included three incidents of unwanted grabbing and touching of the buttocks and lower back of a student without consent.