Category: Student Teacher Relationships
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Does it Really Count as a Sex Crime if we Both Consented?
This is a tricky question, and one that we get asked a lot. After all, surely if both parties were consenting, and neither of them has changed their mind or tried to lie about it afterwards, then why would it be a sex crime? Surely when two consenting people enjoy sex together, they shouldn’t…
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Jackson Teacher Convicted of Sending Inappropriate Texts to Student
After two hours of deliberations, a Jackson County, Michigan jury of twelve found Jonathan Hastings guilty of sending sexually inappropriate texts to one of his students. The former Jackson high school teacher and baseball coach is now facing up to ten years in prison and the prospect of being on the Michigan Sex Offender…
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Middle School Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex With Student in Roscommon County
Just days before his trial was set to begin in Roscommon County, Michigan, 31-year-old Vaughn J. Canamore has accepted a plea agreement in which he has agreed to plead guilty to having sex with an underage student. Initially Canamore was charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim between…
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Kalamazoo Teacher Charged With CSC With a Minor
A Vicksburg, Michigan teacher has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested for allegedly committing a sex crime with a minor. The teacher, identified as 47-year-old Timothy Pratt of Kalamazoo, has already been arraigned in Kalamazoo County District Court and is currently out on bond. According to police records, the alleged crime…
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Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Former Teacher’s Rape Conviction
In November of 2014, Abigail Simon was convicted of First Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct (CSC) because of a highly controversial relationship she had with one of her students. The boy, a teen at the Catholic high school where Simon was an athletic tutor, is 18 now and has filed a lawsuit against Simon and the…