Two MORE female teachers are charged over sexual relationships with students as 'cougar' epidemic rumbles on



Two women have become the latest teachers to be charged with having sex with high school students.

In Alabama, a teacher charged with sexually abusing three students pled guilty to two counts and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Amy Caudle will serve three years, with credit for time already served and will have 12 years of supervised probation.

Teacher sex epidemic: Amy Caudle from Alabama, left, was jailed for 15 years for having oral sex with pupils in her car. Abby McElhenny from South Carolina resigned after she was caught having an affair with 16-year-old



District judge Trippy McGuire also ruled that she resign from her job at Andalusia Middle School, surrender her teaching certificate and sign on to the sex offenders register.

Chief assistant district attorney Grace Jeter had told the court that between November 2010 and February 2011 that Caudle performed oral sex on two pupils in her car.

The accusations came to light when Caudle had a ‘slip of the tongue’ when talking to a former school system employee.

In South Carolina, a 23-year-old Spanish teacher resigned from her job on Tuesday after she was charged with sexual battery with a student.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said his office received a complaint about an inappropriate relationship between a 16-year-old Boiling Springs high school student and teacher Abby McElhenny.

Explanation: Leading child psychologist, Dr Michael Oberschneider, put the increase of cases down to the blurring of boundaries between teachers and their students He said the relationship came to light when the student’s parents discovered that he was lying about spending the night at a friend’s house. When they checked his phone they found 391 text messages to an unknown number over a five day period. When a friend called the phone pretending to be a salesman, they discovered that he had been having an affair with his teacher. The Spanish teacher had worked as a Spanish teacher at the school for two years and was also the varsity swimming coach. The teachers joins a long line of female sex predators operating in U.S. schools.



SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR

Angela New , 39, from Gladewater, Texas, was arrested last week after school chiefs at Union Grove High School, where she taught English received a tip off about an alleged affair between her and an 18-year-old student. Had the offence taken place a month later - after the teen graduated - she might not have been charged as he was no longer a full-time student and at the age of consent. April Alexander, 26, from Irving, Texas, was last week arrested after being accused of having sex with a 16-year old student on more than 25 occasions. The teen, now 18, told police he and the biology teacher had sex on more than two dozen occasions at MacArthur High School in Irving and in Alexander's car. Brittni Colleps, 27, from Arlington, Texas, was arrested last week after being accused of having sex with five of her teenage students during an orgy at her home. The English teacher and girl's basketball coach at Kennedale High School allegedly invited the boys to her home while her husband was away with the military and the sex romp was allegedly filmed on the students' cell phones.

The married mother-of- three faces up to ten years in jail. Michelle McCutchan, 38, was jailed in Checotah, Oklahoma, after admitting making a sex tape with her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend. The mother-of-one confessed to having sex with the teen on at least five occasions and setting up a video camera to film two of the romps.





This month alone the MailOnline has reported on six cases all involving female teachers who have been allegedly indulging in sexual relations with teenage boys.



Leading child psychologist, Dr Michael Oberschneider, of Ashburn Psychological Services, puts the increase of cases down to the blurring of boundaries between teachers and their students.

But he also has something to say about the potential influence of TV shows like Cougar Town and films which seem to celebrate the so-called 'Mrs Robinson' effect.

' As a nation we are over sexulising things,' he told MailOnline. ' Our prime time shows are becoming very graphic, we have TV shows that encourage 'cougars' - they're saying isn't it a wonderful idea for older women?

SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR Nicole Chapman, 28, was this month jailed for 10 to 12 months earlier this month for having sex with a 19-year-old special needs student in North Carolina. Bizarrely the teenager's mother approved of the relationship between her son and the ex North Shelby teacher and told local TV: 'I ain't no victim. If it is love, man, it's love. Nobody can stop this.'

Marie L Fisher, 21, was last month charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy after sending him explicit text messages. Fisher, who worked in the Special Education Department at Reeds High School in Sparks, Nevada, is alleged to have sent him a photo of her 'half naked breast' and later slept with him.

Bethyl Shepherd, 34, who worked in the same department as Fisher , was arrested last month after officials found out about an alleged threesome with two 17-year-old students. Shepherd, who had taught at the school for 10 years, claimed one of the teens forced her to have sex while the other watched.

Barbara Anderson, 37, a teacher at a Washington State school, was arrested in March after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student. The pupil in question told his uncle he was 'getting laid by a teacher,' according to court documents. She sent almost 800 text messages to the boy between January 15 and February 21, including more than 100 texts in one 24-hour period.



'This idea of the cougar and the inappropriate term MILF (Mom I'd like to f**k). It's trendy to be with someone's mom,' he added.

The authors of recent book ‘A Billion Wicked Thoughts’ analysed over one billion internet web searches to identify popular sexual desires.

The term MILF came in at number three on the top 10 list of terms people search for at 4.3 per cent. Youth was number one at 13.5 per cent.



Dr Oberschneider, who sees both teenagers who have been sexually abused and the adults who sexually abuse, said having sex with older women, especially women in a position of power is a badge of honour for some boys and their peers.

SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR Jamie Waite , 35, a swimming instructor at a school in Utah, was arrested in March for allegedly having sexual relations with a 17-year-old student.



Police in Utah arrested the teacher after a tip off from friends of the student who claimed the pair were having a relationship . Deborah J Cox, 58, of Naperville became involved with the boy while he was at Neuqua Valley High School, police said. The teacher's aide, had been the boy's personal academic tutor for several years, before she was arrested in March for having an alleged sexual relationship with him.

Carrie Shafer , 38, a biology teacher, was caught in March by police partially naked in a car with one of her students. An arrest report revealed the married mother-of-two, from Kentucky, was in a compromising position with a 17-year-old student from her school in Louisville. Police said the windows of the car were 'steamed up' and both occupants were partially clothed. Gail Gagne, 29, a weight room supervisor at Cretin-Derham Hall High School, Minnesota, was sentenced to two years probation in February after having sex with a then 16-year-old student - both at her home in Bloomington and at a nearby hotel.

But perhaps more disturbing is the attitudes of some parents to what should be a harrowing ordeal for their child.

'I've had teenage boys in my office talking about being with older women and their parents are laughing,' Dr Oberschneider said.

'The father is almost saying "atta boy".

'There is a certain mystique around the older woman in our society,' he added. 'If it was a man (who is abusing) in our society we are harsher, but when it's a woman we kind of wonder about it.



SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR Chanda Frank, 34, a physical education coach at Haywood High in Brownsville, was charged with sexual battery in February, after allegedly fondling a 14-year-old female student on her softball team. It happened at least twice between the dates of August 2010 and February 2011, according to court documents.

Stacy Schuler, 32, of Mason, Ohio, was charged with committing sex acts with students from her high school football team in February.

She faces 19 felony counts of sexual battery involving five male students, three misdemeanor charges of serving alcohol to underage youths and more than 96 years in prison if convicted.

Ashley Blumenshine, 27, a PE and dance teacher was arrested in January behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her in a car with a 16-year-old boy student.

Police believe they had had sex shortly before the officers arrived and say the relationship may have gone on for more than a month. Courtney Bowles, 31, a teacher who advised colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students, was caught having sex with a teenager in her car. Bowles was found by a police officer lying naked on top of the boy, who was also naked, from her school in Colorado. A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple.



'It's still a horrible thing, but I think there is also a little bit of unconscious permission (in society). It seems to be not quite as bad when an older woman does something with a younger boy'

Social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace are also having an influence, according to Dr Oberschneider.



'I have head teachers in my practice who are friends with their students on Facebook and they don't see anything wrong with it,' he said.



'It's a blurring of boundaries but your teacher is not your friend. We need to get the boundaries back.

SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR Marcie Lynn Rousseau, 34, had sex with a 16-year-old student at least 100 times. The Michigan English teacher was sent to prison last December to serve a minimum of four years having pleaded guilty to all the charges. But her defence lawyer said of the student: 'He took part in this also ... He courted her, bought her lunch, brought her flowers.' Jennifer Riojas, 27, a science teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, was pregnant when arrested for sexual assault in November after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student.

The pupil told police they met in motels and even had sex when he was in a hospital bed recovering from a football injury.

Megan Baumann, 28, is currently serving three years in prison after pleading guilty to various sex charges involving three male students.

The social sciences teacher had sex with one and sent him naked pictures of herself by text. The former Tennessee teacher sent texts of her breasts and pubic region to another while she fondled the third while he was clothed.



Carlie Rose Attebury, 31, a former California marching band teacher, denied having sex with a 15-year-old student but admits having sex with two former students when they were 18. Attebury said that she hugged the 15-year-old boy as she did any 'band kid'. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison in March.



SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR Elizabeth Colleen Wallis, 34, was sentenced in March to four months in the Yuba County Jail for having sex with a former underage special needs student now 17.

Wallis a teacher’s assistant at Yuba Gardens Intermediate School in Olivehurst, California, came to the attention of police when they were notified of the alleged inappropriate relationship by a concerned family member of Wallis. The boy’s mother had indicated that her son was in love with Wallis.

Kimme Woolf, was a 29-year-old math teacher at Perrin High School in Perrin, Texas, when she was arrested for allegedly committing sexual assault on a male student, 16, and having an improper relationship with another, 18, last November.

Woolf is alleged to have slept with both boys after they repeatedly asked for sex. She is also thought to have performed oral sex on both. Felecia Killings, 27, an English teacher at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield, California was arrested in November on allegations of having sex with a 16-year-old student.

Police believe the alleged relations took place at Killings' home. Sara Leann Dwiggins, 24, a math teacher at South Creek Middle School in Williamston, North Carolina, was arrested on allegations of having sex with a 14-year-old former student. She has been charged with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of sex offence with a student.

Gina Watring, 40, was jailed for five years last September after admitting having sex with a boy, 10, at the primary school in Durham, North Carolina. The mother-of-two had faced up to 70 years after being charged with dozens of offences.





'Teachers need to be very clear about what their role is; they are not friends, they're authority figures and it's important for teachers to know that.'

In his experience most teachers who have been caught abusing their students have psychological issues.