April Watson & Ashley Elenea

April Burford Watson, 33 & Ashley Elenea Burett, 31 both of Florida have entered pleas of no contest to unlawful sexual activity with minors. Both of the teachers were originally arrested on August 6. for having sex with male students during late 2007.

Watson was a math teacher, while Burkett was a reading teacher and worked with special ed students. Apparently Burkett was supposed to be the 2009 volleyball head coach for the school while Watson a sponsor for the cheerleading team.

The sentencing is scheduled for April 14th. According to law, the teachers can receive at least a 33 month sentence. So we’ll have t wait and see what their sentence will be.

Christina Butler

In Tampa, Florida,  Christina Butler will be sentenced in December after pleading guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old student. The teacher-student sex case occurred last year.

Butler, 34, pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and contributing to the delinquency/dependency of a minor.

The penalty for the charges carry more than 30 years in prison.

Butler was arrested in October 2007 and accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy as many as a dozen times. Authorities have charged her with having sex with the boy just twice.

When another student came forward to report Butler, the student was ignored and later suffered a school suspension. School officials have since apologized for the suspension.

The case against Butler was made when the Tampa Police Department found two minors driving the teacher’s Jeep Cherokee and the passenger hinted to the officer that the driver (the 16-year-old) had a relationship with the teacher.

Cynthia Horvath

A teacher who resigned from a Volusia County (Florida) Christian school amid allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a student has been arrested.

Cynthia Horvath, 45, of South Daytona, was arrested Wednesday on charges of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors at the Wal-Mart on Beville Road in Daytona Beach around 12:20 p.m.

Horvath, who taught at Warner Christian Academy, was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail and was being held on a $10,000 bond.The teacher was investigated by Port Orange and South Daytona police after she was confronted by a school administrator about having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old male, police said.

According to a preliminary investigation by South Daytona police, the teacher and the student met off-campus over a four-month period and had a sexual relationship.

Jennifer Gwynn Tarkenton is a 34 year old Seminole County (Florida) special education middle school teacher. She is facing three charges of sexual molestation after police found her with a 14 year old boy in her car. Post sex apparently. No word on whether or not the boy was one of her students.

Police said the boy snuck out of his house to be with Tarkenton, who then went to a pharmacy, bought a box of condoms, and then … well ya know.

Tarkenton is out on $10,000 bail, and she is currently suspended without pay.

Janelle Bird was recently sentenced to two years in prison for having sex with a student:

A former teacher was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison for having sex with a student.

Janelle Marie Bird, 25, had previously been found guilty of two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and two lesser counts of unnatural and lascivious acts. She faced up to 30 years in prison.

Bird admitted having a relationship with a 15-year-old boy at East Hill Christian School. Both testified during the trial that they loved each other.

Bird will be appealing the sentence.

This was a pretty lurid case. From Hott for Teacher’s archives:

Janelle Bird, 25, said she loved him so much that, despite a Pensacola Christian College education that preached against premarital sex, she gave him her virginity.

“He made me feel really comfortable and safe, and I trusted him,�? the former East Hill Christian School biology teacher said while sobbing.

“At some point, it hit me that this was not something I should be doing. I betrayed the trust of his parents, and I tried to break it off … and he said ‘You can’t do this to me,’ �? Bird said Thursday during her more than hourlong testimony.

You know, just when you think the entire Debra Lafave story has nothing left to offer, a former Backstreet Boy steps up and reveals that she was his first sexual experience:

Nick Carter has revealed he lost his virginity to Debra Lafave, the Florida schoolteacher who shocked America by having sex with a 13-year-old pupil.

The former Backstreet Boy told shock jock Howard Stern he dated LaFave for 18 months when they were classmates, but ditched her after learning “she had cheated on me with a girl.” He kept quiet during the scandal, which thrust Lafave to notoriety, because his management team were worried about the controversy.

The singer says, “My publicist is like, ‘Stay as far away from that [bleep] as you can.’

At this point I’m not even sure I can feign surprise. Actually I think the most surprising part is Carter’s reason for breaking up with Lafave. Who breaks up with their girlfriend, in high school no less, for sleeping with another girl?

Debra Lafave, under house arrest, was granted a temporary leave to do a national interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer:

Debra Lafave, the teacher turned seducer of a 14-year-old boy, got a break from her home confinement to sit down Tuesday with NBC’s Matt Lauer for an interview that will air on national TV.

Her probation officer didn’t agree to it. A judge and prosecutors did.

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“Debbie really wanted to explain her bipolar illness in hopes that it might be beneficial to people when they hear about it,�? her attorney John Fitzgibbons said.

Court records show prosecutor Michael Sinacore didn’t object because 25-year-old Lafave was not compensated, a condition of her three-year community control.

I don’t personally really see the problem with this since she won’t be compensated. I’m sure many people don’t give her bipolar defense much credence, but if she is actually bipolar then it’d definitely explain her actions.

This woman has serious issues:

Tears rolling down her face, a former teacher who faces up to 60 years in prison testified there was nothing lewd and lascivious about her relationship with her 15-year-old student — just love.

Janelle Bird, 25, said she loved him so much that, despite a Pensacola Christian College education that preached against premarital sex, she gave him her virginity.

“He made me feel really comfortable and safe, and I trusted him,” the former East Hill Christian School biology teacher said while sobbing.

“At some point, it hit me that this was not something I should be doing. I betrayed the trust of his parents, and I tried to break it off … and he said ‘You can’t do this to me,’ ” Bird said Thursday during her more than hourlong testimony.

The kid also talked about Bird:

The teen testified that he had loved Bird. But when asked by defense attorney Jerry Allred if he still loved her, the 16-year-old responded with, “Uh . . . nah.”

Bird will be sentenced on October 4th, and she’s facing up to 30 years.

Bird is a 25 year old teacher who worked at East Hill Christian School in Florida. She’s charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious battery and two counts of unlawful sexual activity with her student:

At one point in her career, she earned sterling performance reports from East Hill Christian School, which the student attended before moving to another school.

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Her attorney, Jerry Allred, asked potential jurors how they felt about Mary Kay Letourneau and Debra Lafave, teachers who were charged with having sex with their underage students in sensational cases that grabbed national attention.

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Bird was a first-year teacher at Escambia High School when the allegations surfaced in October 2005.

The aunt of the student, who is now 16, called the school and accused the teacher of engaging in a sexual relationship with the unidentified boy, said Escambia County School District spokesman Ronnie Arnold.

The aunt reported that the alleged relationship began at East Hill Christian School two years ago when Bird was a science teacher there and the boy was a student, Arnold said.

The Escambia County School District suspended Bird, a reading teacher, with pay after the allegations surfaced.

A month later, the School Board fired her.

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Bird is a 2003 graduate of Pensacola Christian College and a 1999 graduate of New Life Christian School in Virginia, Minn., according to her resume.

Interesting background if these charges turn out to be true.