Here’s a test: just Google “teacher student abuse“. You’ll get millions of classroom statutory rape articles. If you Google “teacher student sex“, you get more… a LOT more.

Like this one:

(via WTSP News) – “…For the first time, we are hearing from the Polk County school district about a Lakeland teacher who, according to police, admitted to having sex with her 17-year-old student. 10 News has learned critical red flags may have been missed with Jennifer Fichter because the Polk County school superintendent said she falsified her employment application….”

Or like this one:

(via CBS 11 News; North Texas) – “…A Collin County teacher is out on bond, after deputies arrested her on allegations that she had an improper relationship with a student. Saralyn Portwood, 30, is a special education teacher at Princeton High School. Philip Anthony, the Superintendent of Princeton Independent School District, says the allegations first surfaced late last week.

Anthony says teachers at the high school reported rumors among students that Portwood had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old male student at the school…”

Or this one:

(via the New York Daily News) – “…An Oregon teacher was sentenced to a month in jail for sexually abusing one of her former students — after another alleged victim sued the woman, claiming her cop husband threatened him with a gun. Denise Keesee, 38, was convicted of two counts of second-degree sex abuse on Monday for molesting one of her students while teaching at Sherwood High School just southwest of Portland…”

Or this one:

(via CBS News; Burbank, California) – “…Amy Beck, a teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, surrendered to the Burbank Police Department on Monday for allegedly having sex with one of her students. The 33-year-old English and social science teacher was booked on suspicion of lewd or lascivious acts with a child of 14 or 15 years and was held on $400,000 bail…”

Or this one:

(via ABC 15; Phoenix, AZ) – “…A former Valley teacher and coach has been sentenced to one year in prison and seven years of supervised probation after being accused of sexual abuse that goes back at least 30 years. Whitehead was fired in November 2011 after two former Brophy Prep students claimed he had molested them.

At the time, the students didn’t want to contact police, but police conducted an investigation anyway and found that Whitehead allegedly invited students to his home, gave them alcohol and then tried to fondle them…”

Or this one:

(via CBS News, Los Angeles) – “…Authorities have arrested a 44-year-old female teacher at Yucaipa High School for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old male student. On Thursday, April 17, 2014 detectives from the Crimes Against Children Detail, and personnel from the Yucaipa Sheriff’s Station, contacted the 16-year-old student who acknowledged having sex with Heacock. He said the abuse began in January 2014 and continued through March 2014…”

Or this one:

(via NBC News; Estero, FL) – “…The Department of Children and Families is investigating a teacher and coach at Estero High School. Domenic Frank, a French and Spanish teacher who also coached varsity boy’s soccer, was fired this week after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.

…the teen is struggling mentally with the situation. We spoke to the teen on Thursday. Distressed and heartbroken, the sophomore claimed she and Frank were in love. When asked how long the two had been involved, she responded “long enough.” Though, it was uncovered that the sophomore was 16 when the investigation began…”

Or this one:

(via the New Hampshire Union Leader) – “…A Stevens High School math teacher was fired as details came out in court Monday about his alleged relationship with a 14-year-old student.



Police said Christopher LeBlanc, 29, sexually assaulted the girl in a classroom as well as his home and a friend’s house…”

Or this one:

(via New York Daily News again) – “…A Pennsylvania high school teacher is facing felony charges after she was caught having sex with one of her students. Emily Nesbit, 31, of South Middleton Township, admitted to having sex with the 18-year-old student, including one encounter that took place in a classroom as recent as two weeks ago, Cumberland County authorities said.

Nesbit was an 11th grade English teacher at Cumberland Valley High School before she abruptly resigned on Wednesday, two days after school officials learned of her alleged hook-ups, PennLive.com reported. She turned herself into police on Friday and was charged with institutional sexual assault.

“Frankly, we’ve had too many of these cases involving school employees,” Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed said…”

Gee, you don’t say? And yet, each of these cases is reported as an oddity, a local exception to the rule. No pattern; no larger context. How is this possible? Why are they not the leading national headlines on the nightly news?

We’ve covered this previously (both here and here, for starters). But we’re just a blog: where’s the coverage from the alleged professionals?

Could it possibly be that the media is so blind in their adoration of public school teachers that they simply won’t allow themselves to see a staggeringly gigantic problem that’s directly in front of them?

It’s well-known that our Media and the various Teachers Unions are fellow travelers along the liberal road to Utopia, but don’t national reporters have kids in schools, too? Is the national Press now so completely devoid of integrity that they’re willing to sacrifice their own children to these monsters, rather than actually investigate and start connecting the dots?

These are sexual predators being PAID to have direct access to their prey, otherwise known as “our children”. This is leading lambs to slaughter.

Yet it persists. Slate.com had an article a couple years ago where they surmised that “about 10 percent of students suffer some form of sexual abuse during their school careers“, and that 1-in-1o students had likely experienced inappropriate sexual conduct “from a teacher or other school employee“.

Furthermore:

“…If these numbers are representative of the student population nationwide, 4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault. This number would include both inappropriate romantic relationships between teachers and upperclassmen, and outright pedophilia…”

If that is even close to accurate, how is this not on every front page, every day?

The Mainstream Media could write a couple of these posts every week. Imagine if:

NBC News started their nightly broadcast by examining the commonalities between these offenders.

Or if ABC demanded new guidelines and safeguards be implemented, immediately.

Or if the New York Times merely pursued this story with the same gusto that they attack a Sarah Palin or a Ted Cruz.

We might see this issue start to reverse itself not in months, but in weeks.

That they don’t do ANY of that makes our Fourth Estate more than merely guilty of ignoring these crimes: it makes them complicit IN them.