Category Archive for : ‘MUSIC TEACHER’

February 3, 2020
Kesq

A former music teacher at Indio’s Desert Ridge Academy pleaded guilty to engaging in sex acts with one of his underage female students, prosecutors said today.
Ruben Jesse Flores of Indio, 31, was arrested on April 30, 2018, after police said the mother of the victim found “suggestive texts on her daughter’s cellphone and notified police,” according to Sgt. Daniel Marshall of the Indio Police Department.
Flores was charged with eight counts of lewd acts with a child, four counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object and two counts

January 31, 2020
Kendall McGee
CBS 17

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Search warrants from the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office reveal Roland Grise band teacher Peter Frank was counseled by district officials for having “inappropriate relationships” with students during his tenure at the middle school.
The document details years of inappropriate conduct with female students noted in his personnel records and substantiated by searches of his phone and computer.
Frank has been suspended without pay from his role with New Hanover County Schools after being charged with a dozen felony sex crimes. He faces six

November 18, 2019
Ellie Silverman
Inquirer

Lara St. John, the famed violinist who alleged that she was sexually abused by her teacher at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in the 1980s, on Monday joined calls for statute of limitation reform in Pennsylvania, the same day the legislature moved on a compromise still criticized as not going far enough.

“The most important thing for me, obviously, is just justice for people who were children at the time,” St. John said at a news conference Monday, standing alongside CHILD USAdvocacy executive director Kathryn Robb and

news12.com 3/27/15 Kenton Burt, of Connecticut, was a music teacher at the Burt Music School inHicksville.  He is accused of molesting students as young as 9 years old.  Burt sexuallyabused girls between the ages of 9 and 14 years old over the last three years during privatelessons.  He was arrested yesterday for allegedly molesting two students and faces a judge onsex abuse charges.  Police are asking anyone else who may have been a victim to call theSpecial Victims Squad at 516-573-4022. (New York) “Message from Executive Director Laura A. Ahearn: Please visit

Newsday/John Valenti 2/21/14 Yoel Gonzalez, a 27 year old Valley Stream music teacher, was arrested Thursday night. He is charged with third-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape.  He met the victim,then 13, in 2009 when she began taking guitar lessons at Bracco Music Center on Rockaway Avenue inValley Stream, when Gonzalez ended his employment at the music center he tutored the girl at hishome.  But police said that after two years Gonzalez, who by then was 24, initiated a sexualrelationship with the girl — white she was 15 — that

The Buffalo News/Matt Gryta

10/14/04

Peter Nagy, a 34 year old former Amherst public school music teacher, was spared a prison termbut ordered to undergo sex offender counseling and submit to mental testing after admitting that heaccessed child pornography on school and home computers.  Nagy, of East Aurora, was placed oncourt-supervised probation for the next 10 years and ordered to perform 500 hours of communityservice.  He pleaded guilty to child porn charges August 16 before his indictment.

(New York)