2 Teachers and a Teacher's Aide Lead Today's USA P&P List

Man indicted on 8 charges of child sex and child porn - Texas
Young woman, teacher's aide and coach arrested for CSA - New York
Another teacher and coach with additional CSA charges - Alabama
Man in jail for deviate sexual abuse of under 13 y/o - Alabama
Another teacher convicted of CSA after victim reacts to sex-ed - Maryland

Man indicted on eight child sex, porn charges

Amanda Gohn

A Lamar County, Texas man has been indicted for more than a half dozen counts of sexual abuse of a child.

Douglas Lynn Stevenson, 48, was indicted for five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, indecency with a child and possession of child pornography. 

The arraignment hearing is set for July 17 before 6th District Court Judge Wes Tidwell in Lamar County Courthouse.

Teacher's aide, field hockey coach arrested in Schenectady child sex abuse case

SCHENECTADY, NY – A teacher's aide from a Schenectady special education school was arrested Monday and accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student a year ago, police and prosecutors said.

Alexandra Culhane, 24, of Scotia is charged with felony rape and felony criminal sex act.

Culhane allegedly had oral sex and intercourse with a 15-year-old male student in early April 2016 in Schenectady's Central Park, Schenectady County Assistant District Attorney John Carson said Tuesday.

The defendant worked at The School at Northeast, a special education school in Schenectady that serves children from grades 6 to 12. The school is run by Northern Rivers Family of Services, a child and family services conglomerate with offices 12 eastern New York counties. Northern Rivers is licensed by the state Education Department.

Staff reported Culhane's alleged behavior to city police in 2016, Carson said. The district attorney's office, the Schenectady Police Department and the state Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs investigated the case.

The school removed Culhane from her duties when the investigation began and then fired her in February, Northern Rivers spokesman Eugene White said Tuesday. Culhane had worked for the company for about a year.

"We constantly monitor and supervise all of our facilities," White said. "If something happens, we want to uncover it immediately and take corrective action. ... Transparency and accountability are vitally important."

Culhane was also the junior varsity field hockey coach for the Scotia-Glenville High School in fall 2015 and fall 2016, district spokesman Bob Hanlon said Tuesday.

She is not a current Scotia-Glenville School District employee, since her position is seasonal and requires yearly appointment, Hanlon said. He added that the district never had concerns or complaints about her coaching.

Former Teacher, Coach Facing More

Child Sex Abuse Charges

Alabama - A former high school teacher and coach accused of sexual misconduct with a student has been arrested again on additional sexual abuse charges.

Jason Paul Blaney, age 38 of 4884 Highway 4 in Jay, is back in custody and facing three more felony charges of attempted sodomy first degree, sexual abuse first degre and enticing a child.  He is being held in the Escambia County (AL) Detention Center in Brewton with bond set at $120,000.

The new charges were filed after another victim came forward alleging sexual abuse against him.

Blaney was hired a W.S. Neal in 2009 after leaving Milton High School, to teach math and coach volleyball. He became softball head coach in February 2016. He resigned his teaching and coaching positions on April 12, shortly after the first allegations were made against him on March 30.

Escambia Co., AL

Shelby County man, 42, man charged with

child sex abuse

BY CAROL ROBINSON

A Shelby County, Alabama man is behind bars on child sex abuse charges.

Marcus Allen Rose, 42, was taken into custody Friday, according to court records made public Monday. He is charged with first-degree sex abuse and first-degree sodomy.

The warrant says that the incidents happened between November 2011 and November 2014. On the sodomy charge, records state that Rose engaged in deviate sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 12.

On the sexual abuse charge, the warrant says he subjected the victim to sexual contact by forcible compulsion. Additional details weren't immediately available.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office investigated the case. Rose remained in the jail Monday with bonds totaling $75,000.

Shelby Co., AL

Montgomery Co. teacher convicted of child sex abuse

Victim reacted to child sex abuse lesson

By Kate Ryan

WASHINGTON — A veteran Montgomery County, Maryland teacher has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse.

Fifty-year-old John Vigna, of Silver Spring, Maryland, taught at Cloverly Elementary School for more than 20 years, and it was a 2016 class on “body safety” that triggered the investigation that led to his arrest and conviction, said Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy.

McCarthy says that during the February 2016 class — in which children are taught how to identify sexual abuse — teachers noted the physical reaction of one student.

“The person teaching the body safety class watched the girl begin to shrink down, and put her head on the desk,” McCarthy said, adding the instructors talked to the student. “They found out and confirmed their own suspicions that she had been inappropriately touched.”

The investigation led police to ask any potential victims to come forward.

There were five victims named in the 15-count indictment identifying Vigna. One of the victims who came forward is now in her 20s and she told prosecutors she was inappropriately touched by Vigna as far back as 2001.

McCarthy says the veteran teacher was found guilty on nine counts involving four victims.

In one case, a third-grader reported that Vigna would put her on his lap, with his hands on her hips and move her back and forth. When she tried to get off his lap, he would resist.

The verdict came early Saturday morning.

McCarthy says that’s unusual, but the deliberations began late Friday afternoon, and that the jury in the case indicated that they wanted to continue to work into Friday night.

Vigna faces a maximum sentence of 150 years, but McCarthy says the Maryland sentencing guidelines call for between 20 and 40 years in prison.

McCarthy says in working on child abuse cases, “Most of the kids will tell you, they always thought what was happening was weird, but they didn’t know it was wrong.”

Montgomery Co., MD

Alaska School Hid Evidence of Employee Sexually Abusing Disabled Kids – Lawsuit

Begich Middle School in Anchorage, Alaska © Google Maps

The parents of a special-needs student are suing the Anchorage, Alaska school district, arguing it waited too long to investigate a teacher’s aide over claims of sexual abuse. In a plea deal, the aide served 48 hours of community service.

Begich Middle School teacher’s aide Julianti Clarke, 62, was charged with abuse in October 2014, after surveillance video showed her fondling a disabled male student in the lunchroom. In November 2015, prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that would let Clarke serve 48 hours of community service and dropped the charges.

Seriously? Good grief!

In a lawsuit filed this week in Anchorage Superior Court, the student’s parents argue that the school district edited the video to hide Clarke’s abuse of another student while their son watched. They say the district “negligently failed” to supervise Clarke and failed to protect students, asking for damages over $500,000 for "foreseeable severe emotional distress," according to Alaska Dispatch News.

The district waited for several weeks to investigate Clarke, and did not alert the police or forbid her from contact with the student, says the parents’ civil complaint. Unedited video shown to the family by the Anchorage Police Department revealed Clarke fondling another student while their son watched, attorney Mike Kramer told local news station KTVA.

“At least one other child was receiving similar mistreatment,” Kramer said. “We obviously don’t know the identity of that child or whether his parents were contacted, or whether police were even notified about that, but it’s disturbing that we were given an edited video tape that removed that particularly disturbing section.”

“The whole time she’s doing it to the other kid, he’s pounding himself in the head with his fist,” Kramer added.

Clarke was “promptly placed on leave” and fired as soon as the surveillance video was reviewed, the school district said in a statement. According to spokeswoman Heidi Embley, an employee had informed the school in September 2014 that Clarke had “refused to open a bag of chips” for a student, and the administrators found no inappropriate conduct. About two weeks later, the administration found an “unrelated complaint of similar behavior” and that probe turned up “inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature," Embley said.

The family decided to sue after six months of trying to get the school district to release the September 2014 report, Kramer said.

”Our concern is that had they responded to this in September when they should have, they would have been able to confirm that the abuse had been going on since the start of school in August,” Kramer said. Because the surveillance cameras are wiped every 30 days, no lunchroom footage prior to September was available, the Anchorage School District told the family, according to Kramer.

Clarke originally faced two criminal charges of first-degree sexual harassment. According to the prosecutors, she “stroked the student's genitals over his clothes, stuck items from the table down his shirt and used his hand to wipe the table.” The student “communicates through a menu-driven electronic device and responds verbally only rarely,” according to the court documents cited by Alaska Dispatch News.

In the end, prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to charge Clarke with a sex crime, reducing the charges to second-degree harassment and dropping them entirely after she agreed to perform 48 hours of community service.

“A couple different prosecutors looked at it and said that it was not entirely clear whether there was any type of sexual contact with the child,” District Attorney Clint Campion told KTVA.

Teacher's Aide, Grandpa and Grandson on Today's List of Pedophiles

Former teacher’s aide indicted on 270 counts

in child sex-abuse case

By Megan Cloherty WTOP

Attorneys for former school volunteer Deonte Carraway have asked judge to throw out the evidence used as the basis for the 13 federal charges Carrawy faces. He is charged with coercing children to perform sex acts so that Carraway could film child pornography Carraway, 22...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A grand jury delivered a staggering 270-count indictment to former Prince George’s County teacher’s aide Deonte Carraway Wednesday.

Of the counts against him, there are 23 counts of sex abuse of a minor, which represent each of Carraway’s 23 victims involved in the case.

Prosecutors say Carraway, 22, sexually abused students at Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School between August 2015 and February 2016 both on and off school property. 

The 116-page indictment outlines that Carraway threatened, pressured, enticed and/or coerced children — 20 boys and three girls who ranged in age from 9 to 13 — instructing them to perform sexual acts on him and on each other while he video taped them on his cellphone.

Carraway then shared the videos, taken on two cellphones, on the Kik app with a group that included the children featured in the recordings, the document said.

A guardian of one of the victim’s discovered a nude photo shared to the victim’s phone and reported Carraway to the principal at Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary in Glenarden, Maryland, and to Prince George’s County police.

“Several children indicated that the defendant told them that they would be participating in a ‘club,’ and that if they wanted to be a part of it, they had to send photos and videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts while alone and while performing sexual acts on other children,” the indictment said.

Some of the videos were taken inside three of his victims’ homes, John Erzen with the state’s attorney’s office said.

“Carraway visited several of these children in their homes, ostensibly after the children’s parents had asked him to baby-sit or tutor the children,” the indictment said.

Parents, if a man is offering to baby-sit your children, you should automatically be suspicious and reject the offer.

In addition to abuse at the school and the children’s homes, some children who participated in the Glenarden Municipal Center choir which Carraway directed were also abused, the indictment said.

Along with state charges, a federal grand jury indicted Carraway on 13 counts of produced child pornography in February.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed by families and guardians of some of Carraway’s victims against the Prince George’s County Board of Education, Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School Principal Michelle Williams and Carraway.

He remains in jail without bond.

Grandpa, grandson arrested for child sex abuse

Police believe there may be other victims in the Milwaukie and Portland areas

KOIN 6 News Staff


William A. Kirk Sr., 72, and Troy L. Kirk Jr., 26, were arrested on sex abuse and sodomy charges. (Milwaukie PD)

MILWAUKIE, Oregon (KOIN) — A Milwaukie man and his grandson were arrested on charges related to child sex abuse last week, and now police are looking for information on any additional victims.

William A. Kirk Sr., 72, and Troy L. Kirk Jr., 26, were arrested on June 21 and lodged in Clackamas County Jail. They are facing charges of first-degree sex abuse and first-degree sodomy, according to Milwaukie Police Dept.

Oregon State Police reportedly began investigating the grandfather and grandson in 2015. Two victims were identified in the Milwaukie area. They were reportedly ages 4 and 7 when the alleged abuse occurred.

Now police believe there may be other victims in the Milwaukie and Portland areas. Anyone with information regarding William or Troy Kirk should call 503.786.7500.

40-year-old man charged in sex abuse of young child

Carlos Hernandez (Shelby County Jail)

By Carol Robinson Al.com

A Montevallo man is behind bars, accused of having sexual contact with a young child.

Carlos Hernandez, 40, was arrested on Tuesday, according to Shelby County jail and court records. He is charged with one count of sex abuse of a child.

The arrest warrant for Hernandez said the incident happened on June 24 and 25. The victim is less than 12 years old.


Hernandez remained in jail today. His bond is set at $15,000.

    Montevallo, AL

Man pleads guilty in Minnesota child sex abuse case

MASON CITY | A Minnesota man pleaded guilty to lascivious acts with a child Tuesday in connection with an incident in Clear Lake involving a 13-year-old.

Javier V. Sanchez, 23, Plymouth, Minnesota, will be sentenced Aug. 22 in Cerro Gordo County District Court on the charge, a Class C felony.

He originally was charged with third-degree sexual abuse, also a Class C felony.

Police say the offense took place on Aug. 15, 2013, at a residence in Clear Lake.

-- Mary Pieper

    Clear Lake, MN

Teacher, school board member charged with failing to report child sex abuse

ALIQUIPPA, Pennsylvania
A substitute teacher and a school board member in the Aliquippa School District are facing charges of failing to report child sexual abuse. 

Aileen Gilbert, a school board member, was arraigned Monday afternoon. There is a warrant out for Ahna Anderson, a substitute teacher.

According to the Beaver County district attorney, two female students showed Anderson a cellphone video depicting a sex act between a 12 year old girl and an older student and didn’t immediately report it to school officials, police or the state. 

Court paperwork said one of the students told investigators that Anderson asked her to show Gilbert the video because Gilbert was working on a program to address that kind of behavior by students.

According to the criminal complaint, both Anderson and Gilbert were shown the video on April 26 at Aliquippa Elementary School.

A report was made to authorities the next day after the vice principal was made aware of the incident and contacted school officials, law enforcement and Pennsylvania Child Line.

Under Pennsylvania law, school personnel and individuals who play an integral part in regularly scheduled school programs are mandatory reporters of suspected child sex abuse.

Anderson and Gilbert are charged with violations of the “persons required to report suspected child abuse” statute and endangering the welfare of a child.

To report suspected abuse call 800-932-0313.


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