Category Archive for : ‘GYM TEACHER’

DURHAM, N.C. — A former Durham gymnastics coach indicted for sex crimes against three young gymnasts has been offered a plea agreement — that comes with a much lighter sentence.

This week, however, a judge refused to accept the agreement as written.

Stephen Maness, the man at the center of this case, once operated Bull City Gymnastics. He has been accused of assaulting three young girls who were enrolled there.

Stephen Maness, Bull City Gymnastics Durham coach, facing criminal charges, suspended from contact by USA Gymnastics

Maness was accused of assaulting one young gymnast

huffingtonpost.com/Andres Jauregui
10/21/14
Megan Mahoney, a 24 year old former basketball coach and gym teacher at Moore Catholic HighSchool in Staten Island, faces statutory rape charges for her alleged sex abuse of a malestudent.　 She was arrested for allegedly having regular sexual contact with the same 16 yearold student over a period of more than two months beginning in late October 2013. Some of theencounters happened on school grounds. She faces 30 counts of statutory rape.
(New York)

Newsday/Andrew Smith 12/18/13 Thomas Sheppard, a 28 year old Westhampton Beach Middle School gym teacher, admittedWednesday to using a cell phone to secretly record video of female students in the lockerroom.  Sheppard, of Speonk, is expected to get 5 years of probation and give up his teacher’slicense and register as a sex offender, according to the terms of a plea deal.  He pleaded notguilty on April 29 to an indictment that accused him of making a cellphone video recording of hisfemale eighth-grade students undressing in the locker room after class. 

Newsday/Chau Lam 11/6/13 Aaron Kozlowski, a 31 year old gym teacher, was accused by students of watching pornographyin his office while fondling himself.  One of the four students recanted, and two others haverefused to cooperate with authorities.  With no evidence to corroborate the boys’ stories, thecase against the North Shore Middle School gym teacher has collapsed.  Nassau District CourtJudge Valerie Alexander threw out four child endangerment charges, including the one based onallegations made by the fourth boy, who still says the story is true.  The case began early this year,

huffingtonpost.com

Lauren Redfern, a 25 year old physical education teacher at Basalt High School, was bookedon suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old student.  She was charged withsexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse. In 2010, the high school hired her to coach the girls’ basketball team and a gymteacher.  In Colorado, a 17 year old can have consensual sexual relations with an adult aslong as that person does not hold a position of trust,

AP

Beth Ann Chester, a 26 year old health and physical education teacher at Moon Area High Schoolin Pittsburgh, was arrested Friday and charged with child sexual abuse, statutory sexual assaultand related counts. She is charged with sending nude pictures of herself and sexually suggestivecell phone text messages to a 14 year old freshman at the school. Chester was being held afterfailing to post $50,000 bond. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.

(Coraopolis, Pennsylvania)