Remember Mary Kay LeTourneau? She was the middle school teacher in Des Moines, Washington who had sex with her 13-year-old student in 1996. She later pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape. It was a huge story. There was a made-for-TV movie starring Penelope Ann Miller.

Well, similar teacher-student sex stories are happening every day, all the time, all over the country. It’s some kind of epidemic, apparently.

The Daily Caller whipped together the slideshow below based on teacher-student sex stories that appeared on respectable national and local news websites this week alone.

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