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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Texas City High School teacher and coach was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he planned to meet what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex, but was actually an undercover detective.

Former South Carolina teacher Nicole Ballew Callaham, 33, has been charged with a "prolonged pattern of abuse" involving a teenage boy student, according to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. She turned herself in to the Anderson County Detention Center on Thursday, facing three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The investigation, which began in May, revealed that the misconduct started in 2021 during her time as a teacher at Anderson School District Five and lasted at least two years.

A band teacher at Lampasas Middle School was charged after concerned parents informed the sheriff’s office their daughter may be involved in a relationship with the educator.

Authorities arrested Jeremy Flint on a warrant charging improper relationship between educator and student, a second degree felony.

A former school employee in Oregon has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping a 16-year-old student. Angela Schafer worked as a former health services advocate at Taft 7-12 Middle & High School in Lincoln City, Oregon.

A New Jersey elementary school teacher was indicted for allegedly abusing a student over the course of several years, while it is also being reported that she gave birth to the boy’s child.

U.S. Marshalls arrested a Hope Christian School teacher in Idaho on Thursday. He is accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. Albuquerque police said 66-year-old Kelly McEachran touched the student inappropriately, both over and under her clothes, over several weeks. A warrant was put out for his arrest earlier in the week.

“A former St. Xavier High School employee who admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with a student was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday. Emily Nutley will also have to register as a Tier III sex offender for the rest of her life.”