An Oklahoma City metro teacher is under investigation after claims of abuse toward a student were reported to police.

Body cam footage from the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office shows deputies confronting and arresting Roderick Kohl, a Special Education teacher at Council Grove Elementary in the Western Heights School District.

A former Tupelo Public Schools cafeteria worker, Lyndsay Hamer, 30, of Coalgate, Oklahoma, has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges following an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Authorities allege that Hamer sent sexually explicit photos and videos to a student. The Coal County Sheriff’s Office initiated the investigation in April before requesting assistance from OSBI.

Christopher Ward, a 37-year-old first-grade teacher at Hunters Point Elementary School in Queens, New York City, was arrested and charged with possessing child pornography after allegedly sharing hundreds of explicit photos and videos of minors over at least the past year. While standing before his young students daily, Ward is accused of storing and distributing material depicting prepubescent children and those under 12 years old.

Sandy Carazas-Pinez, a 36-year-old teacher from Bethel, Connecticut, was sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old special needs student at the Biondi School in Yonkers, New York.

Evergreen High School student Desmond Holly allegedly entered his school armed with a revolver and opened fire on classmates, critically injuring two students before turning the gun on himself. He later died at the hospital, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a complaint of a possible sex crime at Richwood High School in Richwood, Louisiana. Geoterrius Spivey, a substitute teacher admitted to the sexual abuse. An arrest warrant was issued, and he was booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center on two counts of second-degree rape, sexual battery, and simple battery.

Addam Timothy LeClair, a 43-year-old former math teacher and soccer coach at Tradition Preparatory High School in Port St. Lucie, Florida, was arrested by the Martin County Sheriff's Office for allegedly soliciting a romantic relationship with his 16-year-old student.

A private Christian school teacher in Virginia has been arrested amid allegations of child sex crimes. Katelin Campbell, an English teacher at CH Friend School, was taken into custody for consensual sexual contact with a minor who is at least 15 years old.

Holly Condra, an elementary school teacher at Griffith Elementary School in Sequatchie County, Tennessee has been arrested after physically assaulting a 9-year-old special education student.

Skyler William Ahrens faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor – cause to engage in act, grooming, and three counts of telephone dissemination of obscene material to minor. Prior to his arrest and resignation, Ahrens was as a gym teacher and track and field coach at Lake Mills Public Schools.

Samuel Melton, a former choir teacher at Choctaw High School in the Choctaw-Nicoma Park School District, was sentenced to 42 years—17 years in prison followed by 25 years of probation—after pleading guilty to 15 counts of sex crimes against a student. The charges included four counts of first-degree rape by instrumentation, three counts of second-degree rape, four counts of sexual battery, and four counts of forcible oral sodomy. The abusive relationship began when the victim was 16 years old, and she has since graduated from the school.

Fort Collins Police have arrested former Poudre School District counselor Cassandra Poncelow, 40, for allegedly maintaining an inappropriate relationship with a student and sexually assaulting the victim multiple times over several years. According to Fort Collins Police Services (FCPS), the department began investigating after receiving a report in July alleging that Poncelow, who worked in the district from 2007 to 2024, had engaged in a sexual relationship with a student while employed by the district. The assaults reportedly took place off campus, and the victim was a minor at the time but is now an adult.

A substitute teacher who worked for Decatur Public Schools has pleaded guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault, admitting in court to having sexual relations with a sixth-grade student.

Alley Bardfield, 34, was arrested in April of last year, when Mt. Zion Police were informed by a mother that Bardfield had an inappropriate relationship with her 11-year-old son. The boy was assigned to Bardfield’s class at Hope Academy in Decatur. The substitute teacher invited the boy to multiple “play dates” at her home in 2023 and then twice in March 2024, during which time the pair had two sexual encounters.

Two female students—both minors—say school officials arranged and bankrolled abortions at Fairfax Healthcare Center without so much as a phone call to their parents, a direct break with Virginia’s parental-notification law. The Fairfax County Public Schools system in Virginia has launched an investigation into accusations that school staff arranged abortions for students without notifying their parents, according to local reports.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for Andrew James McGann, an elementary school teacher who was arrested for the stabbing death two people who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, according to a preliminary probable cause affidavit released Thursday.

“McGann, 28, of Pinecrest Street in Springdale was arrested by Arkansas State Police on Wednesday in connection with two counts of capital murder. McGann is being held at the Washington County Detention Center with no bond set.”

Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher to come to art club after school in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado. Little did Lee know, it was a Gay Straight Awareness club where a guest speaker told her daughter if she’s “not 100% comfortable in her female body, she’s transgender.”

Jocelyn Sanroman, a 26-year-old who previously taught at Oakside Prep Academy in Waterford Township, was charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, officials said.

A Mississippi teacher who received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award in 2022, was arrested for multiple new sex crime charges after a previous arrest in May of 2024. During a court appearance on July 23, 2025, Tyler Shows pled not guilty to six charges. His bond was set at $90,000 on three new child exploitation charges.

School officials thought they knew better than the girl’s parents. They decided to ‘socially transition’ her against her parents’ stated wishes. Officials regularly met with her to assist with and encourage her ‘transition’ to ‘genderqueer,’ with a male name and nonbinary pronouns, and using bathrooms where middle school boys undressed.