Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES COMMITTED IN SCHOOL’

December 17, 2019
WTVR

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. – A Chesterfield County teacher and football coach has been arrested and charged with sex crimes against a child.
Police say 30-year-old Joshua L. Alford, of Chesterfield, had an inappropriate relationship with an underage female student.
Police say the inappropriate relationship occurred while Alford was a teacher at Manchester High School. According to the school’s website, Alford is a physical education teacher and is a running back coach for the varsity football team.
Alford was arrested on Monday, December 16 and charged with two counts of taking indecent

December 17, 2019
WTVR

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. – A Chesterfield County teacher and football coach has been arrested and charged with sex crimes against a child.
Police say 30-year-old Joshua L. Alford, of Chesterfield, had an inappropriate relationship with an underage female student.
Police say the inappropriate relationship occurred while Alford was a teacher at Manchester High School. According to the school’s website, Alford is a physical education teacher and is a running back coach for the varsity football team.
Alford was arrested on Monday, December 16 and charged with two counts of taking indecent

December 10, 2019
Julie Compton
NBC News

Stephen Snyder-Hill had worked hard to forget the name of the Ohio State University sports doctor who he says sexually assaulted him in 1995. But last year, while watching the news in his home in Columbus, Ohio, he saw a picture of Dr. Richard Strauss, who is accused of assaulting hundreds of former OSU students, and immediately recognized him.
“It is like a sledgehammer that hits you right in the face into a reality that you never knew existed,” Snyder-Hill told NBC News. “And that’s when you

December 10, 2019
WGN TV

ZION, Ill. — An elementary school principal in Zion has been charged with five counts of sex abuse dating back to 2008.
Beulah Park Elementary School Principal Curtiss Tolefree’s charges are related to his time working in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Tolefree was charged with three counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff and two counts of exposing genitals to a child. Beulah Park Elementary School immediately placed Tolefree on administrative leave after learning of the charges.
The district said “there’s no indication whatsoever” that the alleged conduct impact

December 7, 2019
WGN TV

VANDALIA, Ill. — A trooper has been relieved of duty and charged with sexual assault in connection with incidents alleged to have occurred when he worked at a southern Illinois high school, according to the Illinois State Police.
James Dierkes, 29, of Greenville, was arrested Friday on aggravated criminal sexual abuse and criminal sexual assault.
Two victims have alleged inappropriate sexual contact on multiple occasions in 2016 during Dierkes’ time at Vandalia Community High School in Vandalia, southeast of Springfield, the state police said in a release.
Dierkes has been

December 4, 2019
Alison Knezevich
Baltimore Sun

The former pastor of a Dundalk church pleaded guilty Wednesday to a sex offense against a student when she was 17, in what Baltimore County prosecutors described as a coercive relationship more than a decade ago.

Baltimore County prosecutors said Cameron Giovanelli, now 42, used his position of authority at Calvary Baptist Church to pressure the girl — who babysat for his family and attended the church school — into sexual activity in 2007. She reported the incidents to police last year, when she was in her