Huffington Post: Why Student-Teacher Relationships Are Never OK Education Week: Bill would allow swift action against teachers Sex abuse, female perps: Jennifer Hawk Elebash, Spanish teacher at Central High School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, "multiple sex charges involving a student", 16 Jennifer Hawk Elebash, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (arrested Apr 2012) Sex abuse, male perps: Thomas Aaron Berry, auto technology instructor at South Side High School, Jackson, Tennessee, innapropriately touching 15-year-old female student Note: Charges against Thomas Berry were dismissed in late June. http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/2...ed-charged-sexual-battery-by-authority-figure http://www.wnws.com/news/17022-south-side-high-school-teacher-for-inappropriately-touching-student http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20120420/NEWS01/304200004/Teacher-faces-sex-charge http://www.wdef.com/news/state/stor...cused-of-touching/5gzkqxAiOECEG5zMieNoGg.cspx http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/2...ch-student?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE http://www.wbbjtv.com/news/local/Ca...-of-Touching-Student-Dismissed-160915175.html http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20120629/NEWS01/306290011 Other sex stuff: Stephen Demeo, ex social studies teacher & varsity girls soccer coach at North Smithfield High School, North Smithfield, Rhode Island, pleads guilty to child porn charges http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/blackstone/fmr-high-school-teacher-sentenced Study abroad: Bruce Roth, math teacher at Wellington College, Berkshire, England, UK, "to face trial by jury for 17 alleged offences of sexually abusing five boys" http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2112150_maths_teacher_faces_sex_abuse_trial Gregory Hamelin, ex teacher at Oakridge School, St. Catharines, Ontario, "sentenced to 12 months in jail for sending sexually explicit text messages to five young female students" http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1339207--former-teacher-jailed-for-explicit-messages Updates: Update: Amanda Leigh Cooney http://www.newsherald.com/news/having-102079-pleads-sex.html Update: Mark Allen Griffin http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/lake_news/041912-teachers-aide-arrested Update: James Christopher Hooker http://content.usatoday.com/communi...h-teen-lover-accused-of-98-sex-crime/1?csp=ip http://content.usatoday.com/communi...04/modesto-student-ex-teacher-back-together/1 http://www.onenewsnow.com/AP/Search/US/Default.aspx?id=1580552 http://www.masoncountydailynews.com...sial-student-teacher-reportedly-back-together