“Another Nigger fried. No big deal.”
-- April 16, 2011, Statement by New York City Police Officer Michael Daragjati, boasting of his false arrest of another African-American male.
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35 Years!
35 Years!
Fairfax County, Va. -- A jury recommended a 35 year sentence for a grandmother who threw a 2-year-old off an elevated pedestrian bridge in November 2010.
Starburst!
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 03:15:16 PM PST
WHITE PLAINS, NY – A 49-year-old married father from Fishkill Tuesday pled guilty in Westchester County Court to attempted rape in the first degree, a felony, for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 10-year-old virgin. Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Robert Viggiano (pictured left) an electrical contractor, told a prostitute that he wanted to have sex with a 10-year-old virgin, asking whether or not she could arrange it. The prostitute reported the request to Yonkers Police, who along with the Westchester DA’s office began an undercover investigation.Over a period of a few weeks, Viggiano had several conversations with an undercover police officer posing as the mother of the 10-year-old-girl regarding arrangements and the price. They agreed on the transaction occurring at her apartment for $400 and to bring candy for the victim. On February 8, 2011, Viggiano was arrested by Yonkers Police when he arrived at the location with $400 in his pocket along with Starburst candy and a lollipop, thinking he was going to have sex with the girl.
Viggiano was remanded to the Westchester County Jail pending sentencing in March when he faces up to 15 years in state prison and up to 15 years of parole as well as a requirement to register as a sex offender.
Cradle-Grave Robbers!
Posted: Thurs. 4:30 p.m. CST, January 5, 2012 - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 - 9:12 AM PST
MILWAUKEE, WI (WCJB) - Tim Russell, a former aide to Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker was charged with fraud on Thursday, accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from a fund for families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another man, Kevin Kavanaugh, also faces fraud and embezzlement charges linked to the case, while Russell's domestic partner, Brian Pierick, faces charges of child enticement that prosecutors said came to light in the investigation. Pierick, a staffer at the state Department of Public Instruction, was charged with child enticement and causing a child to expose his genitals. The Milwaukee County district attorney said the crimes were uncovered during the embezzlement investigation. Pierick works as an office operations assistant for education for homeless youth at DPI, according to the agency's website.
Russell (pictured above, center) who served as Walker's deputy chief of staff and then housing director of the Milwaukee County's Department of Health and Human Services, faces two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of embezzlement. Kavanaugh, who served on the Milwaukee County Veteran Service Commission, was charged with four counts of fraudulent writings and one count of embezzlement.
A criminal complaint alleges that Kavanaugh (pictured left) and Russell misappropriated funds from 2006 to 2009 from Operation Freedom, a military appreciation event held each year at the Milwaukee County Zoo. The complaint alleges Russell, who worked closely with Walker when he was Milwaukee County Executive, diverted more than $21,000 intended for Operation Freedom to his personal bank account and using some of the money to go on Hawaiian and Caribbean vacations. The criminal complaint also alleges other funds were used by Russell to attend a weekend political strategy session in December 2010 with Herman Cain and his chief of staff, Mark Block, to discuss Cain's now-defunct presidential campaign. Kavanaugh is alleged to have embezzled more than $42,000 from the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a charity involved in Operation Freedom.Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm declined to comment on the charges or the ongoing probe, which began in 2010.
Schoolyard Predators!
Part XI - 2012
Part XI - 2012
Vile!
Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - Updated: Monday, February 6, 2012 12:47:06 PM PST
LOS ANGELES, CA -- The superintendent of schools is meeting with worried parents and classes are canceled for two days at a Southern California elementary school where two teachers are suspected of lewd acts with young students, officials said. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy will hold the meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at a high school near Miramonte Elementary, the school that has brought national attention to the country's second-largest school district, with allegations of teachers engaging in sexual misconduct with students as young as six. School officials have canceled classes at the school on Tuesday and Wednesday, district spokeswoman Monica Carazo said. The closure is related to the investigation and aftermath of the arrested teachers, but Carazo was not certain what would be happening on campus, or whether faculty and staff would be there.Last week teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who worked at the school for 32 years, was charged with committing lewd acts on 23 children, ages 6 to 10, between 2005 and 2010. The acts cited include blindfolding children and feeding them his own semen in his classroom in what children were allegedly told was a "tasting game." Berndt remains jailed on $23 million bail and could face life in prison if convicted.
LAPD "foxes guarding the henhouse." Four days later another teacher, Martin Springer, 49, was arrested on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom. He was being held on $2 million bail. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy confirmed that the second teacher was removed after accusations of inappropriate touching of students surfaced on Thursday. "We are prepared to fire him next week and we'll do that at the next board meeting for inappropriate conduct and inappropriately touching students," the superintendent told media sources. Deasy said the district has seen an increase in the number of complaints of teacher molestation since news of Berndt's arrest broke, but he provided no figures.
Mark Berndt, 61 (right) faces 23 counts of lewd conduct for allegedly feeding his semen to blindfolded children in "tasting games." Martin Bernard Springer, 49 (left) is suspected of fondling two children in his second-grade class in the last three years.Child-abuse investigators were informed by the district late Thursday night, sheriff's Lt. Carlos Marquez said. Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said Springer of Alhambra was arrested based on information that came forward after the first arrest was announced, but there was no known connection between the two cases. Parker said the victims in the second case were about 7 years old and allegedly were fondled in a classroom.
The development involving the second teacher was made public a day after authorities acknowledged that 18 years ago a 10-year-old girl claimed Berndt tried to fondle her. In a related development, a lawyer on Friday filed a claim against the Los Angeles Unified School District stating that he intended to file a lawsuit on behalf of an unidentified girl who ate a sugar cookie laced with the semen of the first teacher arrested, Mark Berndt.
Merrick Pleads!
Posted: 01/20/2012 05:07:02 PM PST - Updated: 01/24/2012 04:36:06 PM PST
MARTINEZ, CA -- A former teacher at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette was sentenced Friday to five years and eight months in prison for molesting a female student on campus in 2010. Michael Merrick, a 48-year-old Lafayette resident, had been scheduled to go to trial Monday on 25 felony charges but instead chose to take a plea deal and pleaded guilty to six felony counts of sex crimes against a minor. He is required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Had Merrick gone to trial, the victim would have testified in a courtroom closed to the public. Deputy district attorney Johanna Schonfield convinced a judge to close portions of the trial related to the victim's identity in response to a high level of community interest and an online news report that she said compromised the girl's anonymity.
Schonfield required Merrick to admit wrongdoing as part of the plea deal. Speaking in a low tone from inside a courtroom cell, Merrick admitted that he molested the girl on campus and apologized to her, her family, his family, his students and the rest of the Stanley Middle School community. "I betrayed a position of trust," Merrick said. "I was the adult and solely responsible for what occurred."
Merrick (pictured right) was a popular teacher at the Lafayette school when he was arrested in October 2010 on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old girl that summer. The crimes occurred in his classroom during private tutoring sessions paid for by the victim's parents. Among the evidence collected by police were semen from his classroom couch and hundreds of inappropriate text messages that Merrick sent to the victim.
"To the extent that the criminal justice system can address and remedy that wrong that's been done to this young person, the family is satisfied," an attorney said on behalf of the victim's family, who did not attend the sentencing. "But there's no amount of time nor sanction that can be levied by the court that would remedy the wrong that has been done."
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Sexual Encounters
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Historical Nature!
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Posted: 11:20 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - Updated: 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
Tulsa, Okla. -- A history teacher at Central High School in Tulsa has been arrested for the 2nd-degree rape of a student. Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham says 41-year-old Maurice Parker (pictured above, center) is a history teacher. He was arrested for second degree rape on Wednesday. Willingham says, “Second degree rape is defined by anybody in a position of authority that uses authority possibly to further that relationship.” Investigators say Parker had three sexual encounters with an 18-year-old student. “He was not arrested at the school. He was actually located actually in the 9500 block of South Riverside Parkway.” Parker is out on a $25,000 bond.
Peter ... !
Posted: 01/18/2012 05:49:09 AM PST
Updated: 01/18/2012 04:44:16 PM PST
FREMONT, CA -- A James Logan High School teacher was arraigned Tuesday on 21 felony charges in connection with a sexual relationship police said he had with a 16-year-old student. Peter Kolesnikov, 38, is accused of 12 counts of statutory rape and nine counts of oral copulation of a minor, and additional charges may be pending, police Cmdr. Ben Horner said.
Kolesnikov, being held on $1 million bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, is scheduled Thursday to enter a plea to those charges at the Fremont Hall of Justice. In addition, Superior Court Judge Richard Keller is expected to rule on a motion filed by his defense attorney to reduce his bail. It was Kolesnikov's first court appearance since he was arrested Thursday in Hayward, where police said he was en route to meet with the Union City girl, now 17.
Art Teacher Peter Kolesnikov receives his meal at the James Logan Puente lunch.Outside the courtroom, work colleagues praised Kolesnikov for being dedicated to teaching. "He was devoted to his students academically, personally and emotionally," said a co-worker who declined to give her name. "He's a very popular, well-liked teacher, and I've never seen him do anything inappropriate."
Police investigators paint a different picture. Between last March and November, Kolesnikov and the student -- who is not being named -- had a relationship that began with kissing and eventually led to numerous sexual encounters in private residences and motels in Alameda County, Horner said. New Haven Unified School District officials learned of the relationship Jan. 10 and immediately asked Union City police to conduct an investigation, district spokesman Rick La Plante said. Kolesnikov has been on leave since the start of the school year on a matter unrelated to the arrest and has not worked in the school district since June, La Plante said.
Investigators also served a search warrant on Kolesnikov's residences in San Francisco and Berkeley, Horner said. Police believe there may be additional victims, and parents are encouraged to speak to their children about the arrest. "Based on my request to the public, we have received a number of phone calls," Horner said. "We're still in the process of identifying possible additional victims, if there are any."
Posted: Saturday, January 14, 2012 - Updated: 11:58 AM PST, Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Union City, CA -- A Union City high school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student, the latest Bay Area educator to face sexual misconduct allegations. Peter Kolesnikov (pictured left) a 38-year-old art teacher at James Logan High School, had a relationship with the student from March to November, said Union City police Cmdr. Ben Horner."The relationship began with kissing, then eventually led to sexual encounters in private residences and motels in Alameda County," Horner said Friday. Kolesnikov was arrested Thursday as he was on his way to meet with the girl, who is now 17. He is being held at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of statutory rape, oral copulation of a minor and communicating with a minor with criminal intent. His bail was set at $1 million.
» On Wednesday, Livermore police arrested Granada High School math teacher Marie Johnson, 40, for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old male student.
» On Tuesday, San Jose police arrested Craig Chandler, 35, of San Jose on suspicion of sexually assaulting a student at O.B. Whaley Elementary School, where he teaches a combined second- and third-grade class.
Student-Teacher Equations!
Posted: 01/13/2012 12:33:13 PM PST - Updated: 02/6/2012 02:27:31 PM PST
PLEASANTON, CA -- A Livermore high school teacher accused of having sex with one of her students was charged with 24 counts and had further arraignment delayed Friday at the request of her attorney. Marie Johnson, 41 (pictured above, center) a math teacher at Granada High School, was scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court in Pleasanton. The arraignment was rescheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Johnson was arrested Wednesday by Livermore police and charged Friday with 24 counts of sexual assault. She is accused of engaging in sexual relations with a boy under 15 from December 2010 to May 2011, police said. According to police, the relationship between Johnson and the student began through the popular smartphone app "Words with Friends" as well as text messages and Facebook.
The complaint filed by the Alameda County District Attorney's office includes 10 counts of a lewd act upon a child, 10 counts of oral copulation of a person under 16 and four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse. Johnson's arrest comes on the heels of the sentencing of Livermore mom, Christine Shreeve Hubbs, who pleaded no contest in February 2011 to four felony counts and was sentenced to five years in state prison for having sex with two underage teen boys.
Elementary School!
Posted: Thurs. 4:30 p.m. CST, January 5, 2012 - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 - 9:12 AM PST
SAN JOSE, CA (WCJB) – A San Jose elementary school teacher charged with lewd acts on a child is being accused of having multiple victims, prosecutors said Friday. Craig Chandler (pictured left) 35, appeared in court in a brown jumpsuit Friday afternoon to be arraigned on two felony charges of lewd acts on a child. Chandler was arrested on Tuesday night at his home in San Jose on suspicion of several counts of aggravated sexual assault involving a child in the 7- to 8-year-old age range.Prosecutor Alison Philo Friday said multiple victims have been identified.
“We have probable cause to believe that more than one victim was involved,” Philo said.
She said Chandler could face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on the charges. She would not comment on the children’s gender and age, but said they are all younger than 14.
Chandler’s attorney said that Chandler would “deny the allegations vehemently.”
“Mr. Chandler’s very devastated by these allegations,” he said. “We asked that the police reports remain under seal until we have an opportunity to review the case and the judge has agreed to do that.”
Chandler is suspected of committing at least one of the crimes against an O.B. Whaley Elementary School student at the campus at 2655 Alvin Ave. between August and October, police said. Investigators have not released the child’s age or gender.
According to police, Chandler teaches a second and third grade combination class at O.B. Whaley and has been teaching at the school for the past nine years.
The Evergreen School District posted a statement on its website on Wednesday stating that Chandler has been placed on leave “in accordance with district protocol.”
The statement read, “We want to assure the community that the safety and well-being of our children is our primary concern.”
Chandler’s next hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 31.
He is being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Main Jail.
Serial Molester!
Posted: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 10:43 PM - Updated: Fri. January 6, 2012 05:06 PM PST
(Daniel Montague Acker Jr., above, taught fourth grade at three schools and drove buses in the Shelby County school system from 1985 until he retired in 2009.)ALABASTER, Ala. - An Alabama schoolteacher was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, and police said Thursday the man told them he molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career. Alabaster police said Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, was charged with three counts of sexual abuse, and additional charges were possible. "This is not a one-time event," said Deputy Chief Curtis Rigney. "This happened over a period of 25 years." Acker taught fourth grade at three schools and drove buses in the Shelby County school system from 1985 until he retired in 2009. He was investigated on similar allegations in 1992, but grand jurors did not return an indictment, said Rigney.
A girl who is now 12 or 13 came forward within the last week claiming Acker molested her around 2009, when he was a teacher at Thompson Intermediate School, Rigney said. He wouldn't say what drove the girl to go to police. At least one instance of alleged abuse occurred in a classroom in front of other students, Rigney said, but it wasn't clear whether the children saw anything or realized what had happened. An attorney for Acker did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Acker was being held in the Shelby County jail with bond set at $225,000. A jail mug shot showed him wearing a vest meant to prevent prisoner suicides. Acker remained on the school payroll as a substitute bus driver until this week, Rigney said. Acker's father, Dan M. Acker, is a longtime commissioner in Shelby County, just south of Birmingham, but Rigney said there was no indication his father's position helped the teacher avoid charges earlier.
Shelby County schools spokeswoman Cindy Warner said Acker was placed on leave while child abuse allegations were investigated in October 1992, and the county school board voted against firing him in February 1993 after grand jurors did not indict him. She said Acker was reinstated as a fourth-grade teacher at Creek View Elementary, where he worked before moving to Thompson Intermediate.
In a statement, Superintendent Randy Fuller said the district was cooperating with police and would no longer use Acker as a substitute bus driver or in any other capacity. We can only say that the allegations are shocking," Fuller said. "We, as a school district, understand that child abuse is horrible with devastating consequences to victims and their families."
Confronted by police, Acker admitted molesting the girl who went to officers. He also told investigators he had abused more than 20 other girls but did not name any alleged victims, Rigney said. Acker is no longer cooperating with investigators, he said. Investigators believe most if not all of the girls were in Acker's classes, Rigney said. But police are trying to see if some of the girls were students in other teachers' classrooms. "He was in a school. We don't know what contact he might have had with other kids," said Rigney.
Acker's arrest stunned residents in the Birmingham suburb of 28,000, where he was well-known for his long teaching career. "Everybody knows Danny," said former city councilman Bobby Harris, shaking his head.
Un-registered!
Posted: 6:32 a.m. Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 - Updated: 10:22 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — A former Lauderhill Middle School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student entered a no contest plea to aggravated child abuse charges Monday, accepting a punishment of three years in prison instead of a lifetime as a registered sex offender. Kristen Nicole Sullivan, 27 (pictured left) was immediately granted a furlough and will have to surrender to begin her prison term by 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2012. If she fails to appear, Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter said, the three years will be increased to 90. As part of the plea bargain, Sullivan's jail term will be followed by five years' probation, during which time she will not be allowed to take a job teaching children. Sullivan was formally sentenced to 30 years in prison on each of two aggravated child abuse counts and 15 years on each of two aggravated battery counts, a total of 90 years behind bars. Porter said that sentence will be applied if Sullivan fails to surrender on Jan. 3, 2012.Prosecutors offered her another deal that would have kept Sullivan out of prison but convicted her of sexual battery on a minor by a person with custodial authority – a conviction that would have labeled Sullivan a sex offender. Sullivan turned that offer down. Her lawyer said the prison term was preferable in the long run. "This way, she doesn't have to register as a sex offender, which would follow you the rest of your life," he said. Acknowledging that his client was the adult who "should have known better," her attorney said one reason prosecutors agreed to the plea was that the student, who was 13 when the relationship began, was the pursuer. "It was a serious lapse in judgment" on her part, the attorney said. Prosecutor Nicole Alvarez did not comment on the deal.
Police arrested Sullivan in April 2010 after a Lauderhill Middle School student claimed he had a sexual relationship with her lasting almost a year. Police said the relationship was revealed when the boy's girlfriend found incriminating text messages on his cellphone — a gift from Sullivan for the boy's 14th birthday. Alvarez did not lay out the case against Sullivan, instead citing a probable cause complaint filed shortly after her arrest. According to that report, Sullivan met the student at Lauderhill Middle School in the beginning of 2009. In May of that year, the relationship turned sexual. In April 2010, the student's new girlfriend told police that she intercepted text messages from Sullivan to the student. "I'm tired of being the one chasing you," one read. "Why are you ignoring me?" read another. Police monitored a phone call between the student and Sullivan on April 19, 2010, confirming the sexual nature of the relationship, according to the report. She was arrested the next day.
Sullivan, of Plantation, was a high school student when she started working for the Broward School District in 2000 at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines. She worked as a bookkeeper at the school and at Glades Middle School in 2003. In August 2006, she went to Lauderhill Middle as a full-time microcomputer technical specialist. She was a teacher from October 2007 to November 2009, when she took a clerical position at the district's Educational Technology Services department.
National Youth
Coaching & Ministries!
Coaching & Ministries!
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:32pm PST - Updated:
LAKELAND, Fla. — Polk County deputies arrested a teacher and the head football coach at George Jenkins High School in Lakeland for alleged sex crimes involving children. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said both suspects are youth ministers but it didn't immediately identify them. However, the media source said Matt Thompson (pictured above, center) the head football coach at George Jenkins High School, was arrested. The newspaper said Thompson, 30, is accused of having sexual activity with a 17-year-old female student. He faces two counts of sexual battery by a person of custodial authority, the newspaper said. The local media also said Thompson has been under investigation by the school district for alleged harassment. The newspaper said that investigation involved allegations that athletes falsified information. It's not clear whether Thompson's arrest is related to the district's investigation.
The local media said Thompson has been the coach at George Jenkins High School for the past two seasons. The media also said he previously coached at Wildwood High School in Sumter County. In his two seasons at Wildwood, Thompson led Wildwood to the state playoffs each year. Before that, he coached at Paris (Ky.) High. Thompson grew up in London, Ky., and played college football there, but his playing career as a linebacker was abbreviated by four shoulder surgeries. He worked as an assistant at two high schools in Kentucky before coming to Melbourne Central Catholic, where he was an assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and head weightlifting coach. After his stay at MCC, he went to Paris, the third-smallest football playing school in the state The Polk County Sheriff's Office declined to release additional information until a news conference at 11 a.m. today.
Thompson denied inappropriate behavior with any students.
30-year-old teacher Edward Demoreta (pictured above, center-left) was charged with three counts of lewd battery on a victim between the ages of 12 and 15. Detectives say that the victim was a student at Mulberry Middle School and admitted to having a crush on Demoreta.
She admitted to performing oral sex on him three times while he was her teacher. The first time was at his request after a tutoring session on campus. The other times were at her request while he was giving her a ride to church, saying once the act was performed in the church parking lot. Demoreta admitted to detectives that he allowed her to perform oral sex on him, but denied initiating any sex.
27-year-old Ricardo Navarro (pictured above, center-right) was charged with enticing a child to use a computer to distribute pornography and two other counts. According to an affidavit, the 14-year-old victim, a member of the youth group at the First Assembly of God in Mulberry, claims that Navarro attempted to fondle her breasts and touched her hand to his penis while inside the church. The victim also received text messages from Navarro's phone requesting "sexy" and "skin" photos from her.
Navarro told detectives that he did not recall attempting to touch her, but did confess to sending the text messages and requesting to see pictures of the victim naked.
Demoreta and Navarro were youth pastors.
Officials say that while the three cases are separate investigations, the victim in two of the cases is the same girl.
Gay Lipstick Predator!
Posted: Fri December 14, 2011 at 9:49 p.m. PST - Updated: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:14pm PST
MARTINEZ, CA (WCJB) — Declaring her a sex offender who had “created an inappropriate environment not only for the victim, but for many middle school girls,” Judge Clare Maier sentenced a former Moraga middle school teacher and coach to eight years in state prison Wednesday. Julie Gay Correa (pictured below, right) 43, pleaded no contest in October to one felony count of sexual penetration under duress and three felony counts of sexually abusing a child aged 14 or 15 years old, prosecutor Geoffrey Lauter said. Maier also ordered the former teacher and coach to pay nearly $8,000 in restitution to the victim, now 29-year-old Kristen Cunnane of Walnut Creek. Cunnane has chosen to be identified. Correa, a Utah resident and mother of two young boys, is also required to register as a sex offender and will be placed on parole for up to ten years following her release from prison.
“It is the teacher’s responsibility… to protect and to shield students at all costs from any inappropriate connection,” Maier said before handing down the sentence. “Ms. Correa breached that promise.” Cunnane reported the abuse in 2010, about a decade after it ended, after she started having frequent flashbacks of the molestation and suffering from severe anxiety and depression, she said. “Saying something and asking for help is what I knew I had to do in order to heal,” she said today in a courtroom filled with her friends and family as well as Correa’s friends and family.In an emotional statement Wednesday, the victim told the court how she first met Correa—a popular teacher and girls’ sports coach—as an 11-year-old on her first day of sixth grade. “I would come to respect her…more than any other adult,” she recalled. “I wanted to be just like her,” Cunnane said. During her time at the school, Cunnane said Correa manipulated her admiration for the teacher twice her age. The two spent more and more time together outside class, whether during lunchtime chats or one-on-one Slurpee runs, Cunnane said. “She acted more like a peer than a teacher,” she recalled.
When she graduated middle school, Correa gave Cunnane a card and a watch, she said. At 14, the teacher she trusted kissed her for the first time, leading to a four-year pattern of abuse that divided Cunnane’s identity as both “an accomplished Moraga teen and a terrified sex slave”, and has since caused her to suffer from depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she said. Correa repeatedly raped her former student, at her Walnut Creek apartment, in her car, and at Cunnane’s home, where she would sometimes hide in the teen’s bedroom closet or under her bed, waiting for her parents to fall asleep.
Cunnane said Correa threatened to harm herself if she ever left her and told the teen that she would lose her friends if they thought she was a lesbian. Shortly before turning 18, Cunnane began avoiding Correa’s calls and threatened to report the abuse if the teacher continued to pursue her. Though she said Correa did contact her after she enrolled at UCLA, the two didn’t speak again until 2010, when detectives said Cunnane would need to call her former teacher to build more evidence for a sexual assault case, she said. During those calls and later, in court, Correa admitted to the abuse, referring to her “past connection” with Cunnane.
On Monday, Correa made a tearful statement to the court. “It was never, never my intention to hurt you – I cared deeply for you,” Correa said, addressing Cunnane. “At some point, I began to view you as a peer instead of the teenage girl you were…this was an error in my thinking.” On Wednesday, a bailiff led Correa – wearing a dark green jumpsuit – away in handcuffs before remanding her to police custody.
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