Teacher Raped Kids, Plotted Husband's Death
E/C Annie
POSTED: 11:39 am CDT April 14, 2006
COFFEEVILLE, Ala -- An English teacher at a small Alabama high school
has been charged with having sex with at least four students and
allegedly involving one in a plot to kill her husband.
Officials released few details but said the husband, a gym teacher who
taught at the same school last year, was unharmed.
School officials were first tipped off to concerns about the teacher in
2004 by an unsigned letter accusing Sharon Linton Rutherford of
sleeping with students, Clarke County Schools Superintendent Gerald
Stephens said.
Stephens said the school investigated and informed police, but they had
little to go on.
Then, on April 5, one of the students told Coffeeville High School
Principal Janice Richardson that he had had sex with the 30-year-old
teacher, according to Stephens and detectives.
Authorities declined to comment on the evidence but arrested Rutherford
on Tuesday and charged her with solicitation of murder, rape, sexual
abuse and two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes. She was
ordered held on $55,000 bond.
Clarke County Sheriff's Detective Ron Baggette said two of the victims
were under 16 and he was investigating to determine if more students
might have been involved. He said some of the alleged encounters were
on school grounds.
"I wouldn't have charged her if I didn't have enough evidence to show
it is true," Baggette told the Mobile Register for its Friday editions.
Coffeeville High School, about 75 miles north of Mobile in southwest
Alabama, has about 110 student.
Rutherford was put on administrative leave after she was charged. Her
husband, James Rutherford, who teaches in another town, did not return
calls seeking comment.
Coffeeville Mayor Faye Cotten described Sharon Rutherford as a shy
woman and told the Register that she and others in the community were
surprised by her arrest.
"We've all been talking about it, and what we can't figure out is, if
she really did this, why she would risk everything, just everything?"
Cotten said.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/education/8697570/detail.html
Bo Raxo
"E/C Annie" <cab...@cavtel.net> wrote in message
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> Police: Teacher Raped Kids, Plotted Husband's Death
>
> POSTED: 11:39 am CDT April 14, 2006
>
> COFFEEVILLE, Ala -- An English teacher at a small Alabama high school
> has been charged with having sex with at least four students and
> allegedly involving one in a plot to kill her husband.
>
Is it just me, or do a disproportionate number of these female teachers with
male students stories seem to come out of the South?
E/C Annie
Seems to be all over; however, I will agree that the Eastern half of
the country is getting a lot more news coverage. This article is very
interesting.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47895
Other cases collected from news reports by WND and iGossip include:
Adrianne Hockett: Accused of having sex with a 16-year-old
special-needs student in a Houston apartment she rented for the
get-togethers. The boy has testified the pair would "have sex, drink
beer and smoke weed."
Amber Jennings, 31: Initially charged with having sex with a
16-year-old, the counts against the Sturbridge, Mass., woman were
reduced to a single charge of disseminating harmful materials to a
minor. She reportedly admitted e-mailing naked photos of herself to a
former student.
Amber Marshall, 23: Northwest Indiana woman allegedly had sexual
contact, including intercourse, with several students, and turned
herself into authorities, telling police she knew what she did was
illegal.
Amira Sa'Si, 30: Clayton County, Ga., woman remarked she didn't think
her relationship was inappropriate based on her Internet research,
learning the Peach State's age of consent is 16.
Amy Gail Lilley, 36: Inverness, Fla., woman charged with an alleged
relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Angela Stellwag, 24: Delran, N.J., woman accused of having sex in her
apartment with a 14-year-old boy she met in school.
Beth Raymond, 31: Private-school employee from Pownal, Maine, charged
with risk of injury to a minor and second-degree sexual assault of a
juvenile male.
Bethany Sherrill, 24: Daughter-in-law of school-board president is
charged with molesting a middle school student when he was 14.
Carol Flannigan, 50: Boca Raton, Fla., music teacher reportedly slept
with 11-year-old former student, and also had a simultaneous sexual
relationship with the boy's father.
Celeste Emerick, 32: Police in Huber Heights, Ohio, say she hosted a
party where students were shown porn.
Christina Gallagher, 26: Jersey City, N.J., woman ordered to pay more
than $1,000 in fines, sentenced to a lifetime registration as a
convicted sex offender and ordered to attend therapy for having sex
with a 17-year-old student.
Deanna Bobo, 37: Arkansas teacher allegedly had sex twice with a
14-year-old boy in his own bed while his parents were not home.
Donna Carr Galloway, 33: Married mother of two found naked in a car
with a 17-year-old student.
Elisa Kawasaki, 25: Officials say ex-biology teacher had sexual
relations with a 16-year-old student on up to 20 different occasions.
Elizabeth Miklosovic, 36: Grand Rapids, Mich., woman pleaded no contest
to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female student she "married" in a
pagan ritual.
Elizabeth Stow, 26: Woman from Fresno, Calif., area convicted of having
sex with three of her students was sentenced to nine years, but the
judge suspended that sentence and gave her one year, possibly on house
arrest, as well as faces five years probation.
Ellen Garfield, 43: Former student says teacher took him into an empty
classroom where she worked, partially disrobed, and coaxed him into
having sex with her in 1998. Garfield was acquitted of all charges in
September of this year.
Emily Morris, 28: Alabama woman faced a possible 20-year sentence, but
received one year in jail for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old
student.
Erica Rutters, 29: York, Pa., woman allegedly wrote erotic messages to
a 17-year-old student and had sexual intercourse with him four times in
her apartment.
Georgianne Harrell, 24: Sylvester, Ga., woman charged with performing
oral sex on a 9-year-old boy, allowing students to gaze down her blouse
and slashing her wrists with glass in front of her students. She
pleaded not guilty.
Gwen Ann Cardozo, 33: Colorado woman charged with having sex with a
17-year-old male student.
Heather Ingram, 30: Mathematics, science and business teacher in
British Columbia had sex with a 17-year-old student.
Janelle Marie Bird, 24: Accused of having a two-year affair with a
15-year-old student from East Hill Christian School, in Pensacola, Fla.
Jaymee Wallace, 28: Basketball coach in Tampa, Fla., charged with
having an 18-month lesbian relationship with a student.
Joan Marie Sladky, 28: Redwood City, Calif., woman sentenced to six
months in county jail for having sex with a 16-year-old student after
pleading no contest to four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, oral
copulation and penetration with a foreign object.
Katherine Tew, 30: Married English teacher from Greenville, N.C.,
arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old student.
Kathy White, 39: Charged with having sex with a 17-year-old student in
Lumberton, Texas. Victim alleges: "She just started grabbing me and
hormones were on and it just happened."
Kelly Lynn Dalecki, 28: Woman from St. Augustine, Fla., pleaded no
contest to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy.
Kristen Margrif, 27: Michigan woman accused of having sex with a
16-year-old male student in her car or at his summer workplace.
Kristi Dance Oakes, 32: Former Tennessee high-school teacher allegedly
had sex with a 16-year-old boy who was in her biology class the
previous year.
Lakina Stutts, 40: School-bus driver admitted to cops she had sex with
a 14-year-old student in her home and in a car outside the boy's home.
Laura-Anne Brownlee, 26: Former music mistress at a top private school
in Belfast, N. Ireland, was sentenced on six charges of indecently
assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Laura Lynn Findlay, 30: Middle-school band teacher in Buena Vista
Township, Mich., charged with having sex with at least 5 students, one
as young as 14.
Margaret De Barraicua, 30: Sacramento, Calif., area woman arrested
after police found her having sex with a 16-year-old male student in
her car while the woman's toddler was strapped into a seat in the back.
Maria Saco, 28: Passaic, N.J., woman sentenced to a year in jail for an
intimate relationship with a teen student who was 14 when they first
met.
Mary Kay Letourneau, 34: Des Moines, Wash., woman did prison time after
having an affair with a sixth-grade student, and had two children by
him. The couple recently married.
Melissa Michelle Deel, 32: Bristol, Tenn., woman pleaded guilty to
crossing the state line into Virginia to have oral sex with a
13-year-old male student.
Michelle Kush, 29: Ohio woman allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old boy
several times during summer break.
Nicola Prentice, 22: British woman from Sheffield, England, given a
12-month suspended jail sentence after she seduced a 16-year-old
student and began a 19-month affair.
Nicole Andrea Barnhart, 35: Colorado woman reportedly told police she
loves the 16-year-old boy with whom she was having sex. She pled guilty
to felony sexual assault on a child, resulting in a two-year prison
sentence.
Nicole Pomerleau, 31: High-school English teacher in Charlotte, N.C.,
accused of having a sexual relationship with her 16-year-old student.
Pamela Smart, 22: Media-services director at Winnacunnet High School in
Hampton, N.Y., had convinced her 15-year-old lover to murder her
husband. The Nicole Kidman film "To Die For" is based on her story.
Pamela Turner, 27: Former model and beauty-pageant contestant accused
of having a three-month sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy.
Rachelle Vantucci, 32: Ex-substitute teacher in western New York
admitted having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
Rebecca Boicelli, 33: Redwood City, Calif., woman gave birth to a baby
last year and DNA test results gave prosecutors enough evidence to
prove the father is Boicelli's former student, who was 16 at the time
of conception.
Rhianna Ellis, 24: New York City teacher who allegedly had a 10-month
affair with an 18-year-old, and allgedly gave birth to his baby.
Robin Gialanella, 26: Elementary teacher in Toms River, N.J., engaged
in kissing, and inappropriate conduct and conversations with two
sixth-grade boys, ages 11 and 12. She was sentenced to 364 days in
jail.
Robin Winkis, 29: York, Pa., woman allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old
boy after giving him alcohol.
Samantha Solomon, 29: Fired after school bosses learned she was having
sex with a teenage boy. She denies the charges.
Sandra "Beth" Geisel, 42: Albany, N.Y., woman was fired from her job at
an private all-boys school after police in found her in a parked car
with a 17-year-old. She pleaded guilty to a single count of rape and
was sentenced to six months in jail.
Shelley Allen, 35: East Texas teacher's aide accused of sexual assault
and faces a possible 20 years behind bars.
Shelley White, 24: Geography teacher in Britain had been engaged to be
married before she kissed a 15-year-old student on at least three
occasions. She avoided jail, but received 12 months community service.
Stephanie Burleson: Volleyball coach and teacher at Floresville High
School in Texas six years ago, pleaded guilty to all charges for
molesting a 16-year-old female student. She was sentenced to 10 years
probation, and required to register as a sex offender.
Susan Eble, 35: Former teacher's aide is accused of having a sexual
relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
Tara Lynn Crisp, 29: Police allege she had sex with a student at least
three times beginning when he was 14.
Toni Lynn Woods, 37: The Braxton County, W.Va., woman confessed to
having sexual intercourse with three juveniles a total of four times
and oral sex with one of those juveniles and another juvenile a total
of four times. She resigned.
Savant
maybe, but rape?
That doesn't make sense. Rape involves the threat of force or actual
physical force, unless they are charging her with STATUTORY rape, where
those two things do not have to be proven to have occured. They should
have said that, instead of just calling it 'rape'.
I can believe that this woman had sex with her students, I've seen too
many cases of that when I was in high school, both with male students
and women teachers, and the exact opposite, to say it never occurs, it
definitely does.
But solicitation of murder? WTF!? Seems like too close to the plot of
the movie I saw on USA a while ago. Could it have happened, where she
involved this boy in a plot to kill her husband, with the promise of
sexual favors..... Yes, it could!
Would it be LIKELY to happen, if parents would tell their children that
NOTHING, is worth killing another human being over? No, it wouldn't.
Perhaps these parents actually impressed that on their son, so when he
realized this woman was asking him to kill her husband, he thought
"Lady, are you NUTS?! This is the woman I was making whoopie with? What
if she turns against ME!", so he contacted the police, as he should
have.
Uncle Buck
<snip>
>Authorities declined to comment on the evidence but arrested Rutherford
>on Tuesday and charged her with solicitation of murder, rape, sexual
>abuse and two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes. She was
>ordered held on $55,000 bond.
I really need to slow down when I read. It took me about two minutes to
comprehend that she had -not- been charged with soliciting rape, soliciting
sexual abuse and soliciting two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes.
<grumblebrumblemumblegrouse>
--
L8r,
Uncle Buck
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Bo Raxo
>
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>
> Joan Marie Sladky, 28: Redwood City, Calif., woman sentenced to six
> months in county jail for having sex with a 16-year-old student after
> pleading no contest to four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, oral
> copulation and penetration with a foreign object.
>
>
> Rebecca Boicelli, 33: Redwood City, Calif., woman gave birth to a baby
> last year and DNA test results gave prosecutors enough evidence to
> prove the father is Boicelli's former student, who was 16 at the time
> of conception.
>
Nice to see my old school district represented...twice!
Michael Snyder
"Uncle Buck" <Uncl...@SpamMeNot.com> wrote in message
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> E/C Annie quoted:
>
> <snip>
> >Authorities declined to comment on the evidence but arrested Rutherford
> >on Tuesday and charged her with solicitation of murder, rape, sexual
> >abuse and two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes. She was
> >ordered held on $55,000 bond.
>
> I really need to slow down when I read. It took me about two minutes to
> comprehend that she had -not- been charged with soliciting rape,
soliciting
> sexual abuse and soliciting two counts of enticing a child for immoral
purposes.
>
> <grumblebrumblemumblegrouse>
Yeah, badly constructed sentence; I noticed it too.
MaryL
> Police: Teacher Raped Kids, Plotted Husband's Death
>
> POSTED: 11:39 am CDT April 14, 2006
>
> COFFEEVILLE, Ala -- An English teacher at a small Alabama high school
> has been charged with having sex with at least four students and
> allegedly involving one in a plot to kill her husband.
>
> >
>
Ooops. I just posted this same article. I did a quick scan before posting
and missed this one. My apologies.
MaryL