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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

A man employed by a school district is now facing more than 40 felony charges, including creating and distributing child porn. As a volleyball coach [at Valley Head High School, in Valley Head Alabama], Brown held a position of trust and influence over students, a role now clouded by serious accusations of exploitation and misconduct.

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.”

“A former Ansonia High School teacher was charged Tuesday (June 17) with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old.

Vincent M. Wynne, 41, of Torrington, was charged with second-degree sexual assault where the victim is younger than 16, and illicit sexual conduct with a victim under 16.”

A former special education teacher and soccer coach at Downers Grove South High School, who was previously charged with having a sexual relationship with a student, has been indicted on 52 additional charges.

She was originally charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count of criminal sexual assault against a minor.

A former East Texas teacher who was previously arrested on bestiality and child pornography charges has been re-arrested for allegedly touching a child inappropriately.

A Crestview High School teacher has been arrested after he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a student two decades ago.

Through interviews with the victim and witnesses, investigators obtained enough evidence for probable cause,” the release said. Investigators said the relationship began in April 2001 when the victim was 14 and continued until July 2005 when she was 17.

The investigation led to the arrest of 58-year-old Timothy John Sexton at his home on Jeff Drive in Crestview. He is charged with sexual battery by a person in a custodial authority and sexual battery with a victim between 12-18 years old.

A former educator has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for various sex crimes involving children.

Ryan England was found guilty on April 24, 2025, of Inappropriate and Unlawful Behavior, having molested four of his first-grade students, both during class and after school.

Mary Durso-Smith, 32, of New Haven, is charged by Ansonia police with second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor. Police say she dragged a 3-year-old boy at Mead Elementary School, and the boy later was found to have a broken arm.

Joseph Molineaux, the former Virginia Beach City Public Schools P.E. teacher recently charged with trespassing on school grounds and possession of child porn, received at least seven reprimands during his time with the school division.

His violations ranged from sending inappropriate texts to a substitute teacher in November 2021 to violating the Individuals with Disabilities Act in April 2006. They also included using “language/phrases that made [students] feel uncomfortable”