Sydnee Graf, a 36-year-old fifth-grade math teacher at Smyrna Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested on December 15, 2025, after allegedly engaging in explicit sexual conversations with a male student under the age of 12 during a virtual Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) day. The investigation began when Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) police alerted Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) detectives to the potential exploitation of the juvenile.

The National Center to Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct, & Exploitation recently released a groundbreaking report, titled Understanding and Preventing Sexual Misconduct and Abuse by K–12 School Employees (October 2025), which reveals the scope and prevalence of educator sexual misconduct in America’s schools.

A 26-year-old elementary school teacher in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Madison Bergmann, was sentenced to six years in prison followed by six years of extended supervision after pleading guilty to one count of child enticement and two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. The victim was an 11-year-old fifth-grade boy at St. Croix Falls Elementary School. Court documents revealed that Bergmann exchanged approximately 35,000 text messages with the child, including discussions about "making out" and other inappropriate conduct, as well as allegations of kissing, touching, and sexual contact during school hours.

In Buncombe County, North Carolina, 53-year-old Samuel Jason Ingle, a former coach and "Dean of Spiritual Formation" at the private Asheville Christian Academy, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to misdemeanor sexual battery charges involving sexual misconduct with an 18-year-old female student. The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office investigated reports of inappropriate conduct starting in early 2024, leading to Ingle's arrests on felony charges (including sex acts with a student) before the case resolved with reduced misdemeanors.

A former New Jersey high school teacher, Michael Canning, is facing a civil lawsuit filed by former student who alleges years of sexual abuse during her time as a student at Red Bank Regional High School. The lawsuit, filed on December 15 in Monmouth County Superior Court, names Canning, the Red Bank Regional Board of Education, the school district, and several of Canning's family members as defendants.

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.

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.

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 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 now-former track coach and teacher at Detroit’s East English Village Academy is accused of sexually assaulting one of his male student athletes.

Nathan Lemuel Tedford, 54, of Detroit, is charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.

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.

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”

“Florida high school students were drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, and told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by The Daily Wire.”

“Parents don’t need to know that you’re transitioning,” Nevada DHHS official caught on hidden camera admitting to using ‘runaway youth’ loophole to hide gender surgeries from parents.”

“Deshaun Eli Mack, a Family Services Specialist with the Nevada DHHS, told an undercover OMG journalist that not only has he helped children transition, but he has done it “a few times, actually. Actually, a lot of times.”

A Baltimore County Public Schools middle school teacher was arrested on multiple sex offense and assault charges, police said. Roger Myers, 61, was arrested Friday by detectives with the Baltimore County Police Department's Crimes Against Children Unit.

A teacher at a high school in Berkeley, California has been charged with sex crimes against a minor after his employer and the victim's family went to police last week. Jason Hoopes was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse, oral copulation with a minor, arranging a sexual meeting with a minor, and aggravating circumstances, according to jail records.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Police arrested a former West High School coach accused of sexual battery on Friday night.

According to the Knoxville Police Department, 57-year-old Richard Shaver was indicted by a grand jury for four counts of sexual battery as an authority figure and two counts of attempted sexual battery as an authority figure.