Examiner: South Carolina English teacher arrested for alleged sex with a student (Jan 7 2013) Kinsley Wentzky, 34, a married, South Carolina high school English teacher was arrested on Friday, January 4 for allegedly having sex with a student several times at her home, according to police reports released by the “Huffington Post” today, January 7. Police within the city of Columbia, South Carolina charged Kinsley Wentzky with sexual battery after the 17-year-old anonymous student submitted a sworn, detailed report of the relationship.
JD Journal: South Carolina High School Teacher Arrested for Sex with Student (Jan 8 2013) The teacher has been identified as Kinsley Wentzky, 34, of Forest Acres and she was taken into custody on Friday with a charge of sexual battery with a student who is of 16 or 17 years of age with no aggravated force or coercion. The information was released in a statement by the Columbia Police Department. Wentzky was released on $5,000 personal recognizance bond and faces five years in prison if convicted. In a statement to Forest Acres Police, Wentzky admitted to having sex with a student, according to the arrest warrant. The student also provided a sworn statement that detailed the “intimate interaction.”
Fox Charlotte: Police: S.C. Teacher Arrested For Having Sex With Students (Jan 8 2013) A married South Carolina high school teacher has been charged with having sex with at least two students. Police in Forest Acres, near Columbia, say 34-year-old Kinsley Wentzky had sex with a 17-year-old boy at her home. Columbia Police arrested her on Friday. Investigators say both boys consented.
Charlotte Observer: S.C. teacher charged with sexual battery (Jan 9 2013) In the Forest Acres case, [Kinsley] Wentzky is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old Dreher student on or about Dec. 20 in her Forest Acres home, the warrant said. Wentzky and the victim provided sworn statements about the relationship, the warrant said. Wentzky, who has taught at Dreher for seven years, also was arrested Friday by the Columbia Police Department on the same charge. The arrest warrant on that case said she had a sexual relationship with a student in a Columbia home on more than one occasion. The arrest warrant in that case has been amended to say the alleged relationship happened in May 2011.
UK Daily Mail: 'Happily married' teacher and mother of two who admitted sex with one of her male students charged over tryst with a second (Jan 10 2013) According to police, the veteran Dreher High School teacher had sexual relations of a 17-year-old boy on or around December 20 in her home on Fernwood Road in Forest Acres, The Statereported. Wentzky’s arrest warrant stated that both she and the alleged victim provided sworn statements about their illicit relationship. The new allegations come on the heels of Wetnzky's previous arrest on Friday by Columbia police on a charge of sexual battery involving a different student. According to the warrant in that case, the English honors teacher, who has taught at Dreher high School for seven years, had several sexual encounters with the teen in his Columbia home in May 2011.
The State: Dreher teacher one of 18 SC educators accused of having sex with students in past two years: Wentzky first teacher charged in Columbia under 2010 sexual battery law (Jan 13 2013) When the State Board of Education suspended Dreher High School teacher Kinsley Wentzky’s teaching certificate, she became the 18th S.C. teacher in two years to be disciplined over allegations of having sex with students ... She was the first S.C. teacher to have a certificate suspended this year and the first to be charged by Columbia police for having felony sex with a student 16 or older under a 2010 law....Sexual battery with a student became a crime in June 2010 after educators asked lawmakers to make it illegal for teachers to have sex with their students no matter the student’s age. No figures were immediately available for how many teachers have been charged under that law. But Wentzky’s arrest was the first time Columbia police have arrested someone on that charge, said Jennifer Timmons, the department’s spokeswoman.
WMBF News: Dreher High School teacher fired after arrests on sex charges (Jan 24 2013) The Dreher High School honors English teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with two of her students has been fired from the school district. Kinsley Wentzky, 34, was let go from her position Tuesday night as the Richland School District One board voted to void her contract. The board's decision came on the heels of a January 9 State Department of Education action which suspended Wentzky's teaching certificate, according to a spokesperson with the district.
NBC 26: South Carolina Teacher Fired After Arrest on Sex Charges (Jan 24 2013) Kinsley Wentzky, 34, was let go from her position Tuesday night as the Richland School District One board voted to void her contract. The board's decision came on the heels of a January 9 State Department of Education action which suspended Wentzky's teaching certificate, according to a spokesperson with the district. Wentzky had been arrested twice and hit with sexual battery charges by the Columbia Police Department and the Forest Acres Police Department at the beginning of January.
Charlotte Observer: SC teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013) A Columbia high school honors teacher accused of having sex with two students has been fired. The Richland District 1 school board voted earlier this week to fire 34-year-old Kinsley Wentzky from her position as an English teacher at Dreher High School. Myrtle Beach Online: SC teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013) WNCT: SC teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013) Herald Online: SC teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013) WRDW: Columbia teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013) Go Upstate: Columbia teacher fired for sex charge with students (Jan 25 2013)
UK Daily Mail: 'Happily married' teacher and mother-of-two fired for 'having sex with two of her 17-year-old students' (Jan 28 2013) A high school honors teacher accused of and charged with having sex with two students, aged 17, has been fired. The Richland District 1 school board voted earlier this week to fire 34-year-old Kinsley Wentzky, of South Carolina, from her position as an English teacher at Dreher High School ... Wentzky’s arrest warrant stated that both she and the alleged victim provided sworn statements about their illicit relationship. The new allegations come on the heels of Wentzky's previous arrest on Friday by Columbia police on a charge of sexual battery involving a different student. According to the warrant in that case, the teacher, who has taught at Dreher high School for seven years, had several sexual encounters with the teen in his Columbia home in May 2011.
Scallywag and Vagabond: Happily married honors teacher fired for having sex with two 17 year old students (Nov 28 2013) Happily married Kinsley Wentzky of South Carolina is no longer happily married ... 34 year old Kinsley Wentzky has received her marching orders after it was disclosed that the English teacher had sexual relations with two 17 year old students at Richland District of South Carolina high school Dreher High school. Her ouster comes after she was arrested earlier this month by police in Columbia and Forest Acres on charges of sexual battery with two 17-year-old male students. Until her firing Wentzky had been on administrative leave with pay as the district conducted its own investigation into the accusations. ince the charges were brought against her, Wentzky has had her teaching certificate suspended by the state education department as of January 9 ... Interestingly Wentzky has taken down a notice on a class web page where she describes herself as a happily married mother of two young children. Can anyone guess why?
Huffington Post: Kinsley Wentzky Fired, Accused Of Sex With 2 Of Her 17-Year-Old Students In South Carolina (Jan 28 2013) The "happily married" South Carolina teacher arrested earlier this month for allegedly having sex with two 17-year-old students was fired from her job at Dreher High School. The Richmond District 1 school board voted this week to fire 34-year-old English teacher Kinsley Wentzky, who has been charged with sexual battery, the Daily Mail reported. The pink slip came after she allegedly brought at least one of the underage males home and had sex with him several times in May 2011 ... On her class webpage -- which was featured on the school's website but taken down after the allegations -- she identified herself as "happily married" with two children. Her husband, Charlie, is the A.C. Flora High School athletic director.
Opposing Views: Video: Teacher Kinsley Wentzky Arrested for Sex with Students, Fired by School (Jan 28 2013) English teacher Kinsley Wentzky, who was accused of and charged with having sex with two 17-year-old students, has been fired from her job at Dreher High School in Columbia, South Carolina. The Richland District 1 School Board recently voted to fire 34-year-old teacher, reports the Daily Mail ... According to police, Wentsky had sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy on or around December 20, 2012 in her home, reports The State. Wentzky and the alleged victim reportedly provided sworn statements about their sexual relationship, which came to light when the parents of the teen called the school principal on December 27, 2012. Wetnzky was also arrested last Friday for having several sexual encounters with another teen in his Columbia, South Carolina home in May 2011.
CBS News: Kinsley Wentzky, S.C. teacher, fired after accusations of sex with students (Jan 29 2013) Married South Carolina teacher Kinsley Wentzky was fired last week after being accused of having sex with two 17-year-old students, CBS affiliate WLTX reports. The 34-year-old, who is charged with sexual battery, was fired from her teaching position after Richland School District One's board voted last Tuesday, Jan. 22, to terminate her contract.
Hard to believe that her involvement was with just two students. I'm also not sure what I think is appropriate punishment in a case like this -- when the age of consent is only 16 and the relationships were consensual. Seems to me losing her job and her teaching certificate -- not to mention her reputation -- is punishment fitting the crimes. I'm not sure I'd support tax dollars going to housing her in a jail. She'll suffer for this the rest of her life regardless. Or am I being too lenient?
I'm not sure. It's kind of a lose-lose situation. I almost want to see her sit in jail just for her stupidity in thinking that her having sex with kids would be kept secret. Our tax dollars will just be (expletive deleted) away some other way anyways, and the less stupid people on the streets the better. For common sense purposes ladies, if you are that attracted to high-school aged kids, don't become a high-school teacher, or involved in education in any way. Find something else to do. Pissing your entire education, training, reputation and career away over some underage sex is mind-boggling. There must be more mentally ill women out there than we think. Support mental health funding people.
It hasn't quite been two months since she was arrested. These cases typically take 1.5 - 2 years to work their way through the courts.
Former Dreher H.S. Teacher Sentenced In Sexual Battery Case A judge sentenced 34 year old Kinsley Wentzky to three years probation. Wentzky was arrested last January for having a sexual relationship with one of her students. Wentzky has also been placed on a central registsry of child abuse and neglect. Continue reading... http://www.abccolumbia.com/news/local/Dreher-HS-Teacher-287597811.html