Allenna Williams Ward, 23, was a middle school teacher in Clinton, SC. Yesterday she was arrested for criminal sexual contact and lewd behavior with minors.

Looks like Allenna was having sex with five boys ages 14 and 15, and the police suspect there may have been more. She was meeting these boys behind a restaurant, in a park, and in the school where she taught and some of the boys attended, as well as sometimes actually paying for a motel room.

She's married, and according to a blogger who knows her, Allenna and her family are all, you guessed it, "great Christian people". She got busted when school staff found a dirty note that she presumably wrote to one of the students she was involved with.

The student apparently filmed one of their encounters with his cellphone, and his parents later saw the movie on his phone and called the cops. Poole denies that they were having a relationship, but explains the actual video footage that exists of her having sex with her underage student by saying that he made her do it: she told the police he was holding a screwdriver to the back of her head. You just can't see it in the movie.

A creative defense on the part of Ms. Poole the drama teacher, but it sounds like blaming the victim to me.

Johnny Cuevas, 37, was a Spanish teacher at Randolph High School in Harlem. In 2005, he went on vacation to the Dominican Republic over spring break, and another teacher at his school saw him there, staying at the same hotel. But Cuevas was apparently vacationing with a special girlfriend--his student, Alenny Mercado, who was 18 at the time.

The teacher who says he saw the teacher and student together says he told their principal about it twice, but the principal brushed him off. When investigators started looking into the allegation, the principal brought Cuevas in for a meeting to get their stories straight over the MLK Day weekend earlier this year, paying him two days' salary for his time.

Cuevas and Alenny Mercado both deny that there was any relationship going on, though Mercado does say she was in the DR over Spring Break 2005 visiting relatives. She's now going to Fordham, and has refused to speak to investigators: "I spoke to someone, asking me questions, but I didn't know what it was about," she said. "The investigator wanted to meet with me, but I said no. He wouldn't tell me what it was about, and I was busy."

She also suggests that the accusing teacher, who is apparently black, was upset about "Latin culture" growing at the school, so attacked a Latino Spanish teacher as some sort of psycho-racial-sexual retaliation.

Cuevas is no longer teaching anyone irregular conjugation, but is doing administrative work during the investigation.

Five of the brothers at the Russian Orthodox Christ of the Hills Monastery in Texas have been charged with sexual assault of a child. The person who came forward to accuse the monks says that he had been assaulted at the monastery beginning in 1993, when he was a teenager. Since then, another man has come forward saying the same thing, and the DA says there could be more.

It sounds like the young man in question was a novice, living at the monastery and preparing to become a brother via some questionable induction ceremonies with the elders. I suspect this is the case, considering that one of the five indicted monks, Jonathan Hitt, 45, was convicted in 1999 of indecency with a 14-year-old novice monk at the Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery, and is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence.

The other monks are William Hughes, 55, known as Father Vasilli; Walter Christley, 44, known as Father Pangratios; Hugh Fallon, 40, known as Father Tihkon; and monastery founder Samuel Greene, 61, known as Father Benedict. Greene also pleaded guilty six years ago to indecency with the same novice monk from the 1999 case and was sentenced to 10 years' probation. In this case, they are pleading not guilty.

Check out this scary picture of Greene from the earlier case.

It looks like this monastery has been involved with sexual abuse of children frequently enough to warrant an entire page about it on a website that monitors abuse in the Orthodox community.

As if novice molestation wasn't enough reason to visit the Christ of the Hills monastery, visitors also come to see a painting of the Virgin Mary who allegedly cries tears of myrrh. Locals are dubious. The sheriff said, "The whole thing is going to be exposed as a sham. They just put the tear drops on there themselves and then got all these people making donations trying to get some kind of miracle cure."

Oh, Lisa, Lisa. Don't you understand that the first rule of having an illicit sexual relationship with your 16-year-old neighbor is that his parents can't find out? And that parents get very, very suspicious when their 16-year-old son suddenly comes home with a $40,000 Mercedes?

Unfortunately, Long Island housewife and mother Lisa Frodella, 39, didn't think her gift through. She had allegedly been having an improper relationship with the 16-year old (who goes to school with her two teenage daughters) since January. Frodella would pose as his mother to get him out of school, and then have sex with him in her car or at the local Red Roof Inn. But the whole sordid story was exposed when the smitten Frodella presented him with a 2002 Mercedes-Benz S430.

Like many teenagers, this particular young man knows how to cover his ass. He claimed the car was in return for helping Frodella with her "import-export" business. So to speak.

Here's Lisa's mugshot.

Remember when you were in high school and your Social Studies teacher was 23 or 24? And he or she seemed so mature at the time, but now you think "Damn, how can they let people that young teach high school?" Well, young as they were, at least most of those first-year teachers had the sense not to date us.

Unfortunately, former Miss Texas contestant Amy McElhenney didn't get that memo. A first year Spanish teacher and cross-country coach, 25-year old Miss McElhenney figured she was safe dating an 18-year old student. After all, he's legally an adult. Oops! Turns out that she might have beat the statutory rape case, but violated another law regarding improper relationships between teachers and students, no matter the age difference. So far, five Texas teachers have been convicted under the law since it went into effect in September 2003.

But of course, as one Bad Love reader notes, "She's 25? And he's 18? Aw, let her have a little fun."

Fun? Sure. But still bad love? Definitely.

Wendie Schweikert, 36, was a 5th grade teacher at E.B. Morse Elementary School in Laurens, SC, and has been accused of having sex with one of her 11 year-old male students on several occasions in 2005.

According to the police who arrested Schweikert yesterday, she and the student began having a sexual relationship around Christmas break. He said it all began during a Christmas field trip to Frankie's Fun Park in Greenville and continued once school was back in session.

According to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, "the student told authorities that Schweikert performed oral sex on him during the field trip to Frankie's Fun Park, then fondled him after class once school was in session. He also stated that the two of them had intercourse on her desk at a later date."

Based on the kid's testimony, the cops searched the classroom for "evidence", which they say they found. Guess Wendie didn't wipe down that desk very carefully.

This small town is understandably shaken by such flagrant misuse of power: "After 31 years in law enforcement, I thought I had encountered most anything," Laurens City Police Chief Robin Morse said. "This is kind of shocking."

The kid in question told his mom what was happening on Thursday, and yesterday Schweikert confessed. At the hearing, the boy's mother tried to tell the judge how shaken her son was, but "was choked back by tears." She said he "wanted his mother to tell the court he was scared," prosecutor Jerry Peace said. "He is terrified that the defendant will get out on bond."

The bond hearing is today; she has already resigned from her job.

The details of the relationship between the teacher and the object of his affection are unclear, but we know the boy was spending some time in the teacher's home. One day while in the bathroom, the boy noticed a camera with the Record light on, and followed the wire back into Acavedo's bedroom, where it was attached to a VCR. The kid watched a tape of himself in the bathroom and taking a shower, and apparently reported his teacher pal. What he was doing taking showers in a teacher's apartment in the first place, who knows.

Donald Beyer, 55, has been arrested for fourth-degree stalking of a 13 year-old boy from Islip. Beyer met the boy when he was conducting a spring production at the BayWay Arts Center; the boy was a performer. They became "friends" according to Beyer, but when he started giving the boy cards, gifts, and cash, and showing up to all his performances, his parents contacted Beyer and asked him to stop. He continued his wooing until December, when he got busted.

Beyer is a private music teacher who gives lessons in students' homes on a variety of instruments [I'm sorry I can't help it] hopefully not including the skin flute.

He is now out on $100 bail, but can no longer work at the Performing Arts Center.

Well, it shouldn't have been hard to see how this would end up:

The attractive new substitute teacher at Strongsville High School proposed a novel incentive to her class of special-education students: Improve your grades and win a dinner date with the teacher.

Predictably:

Dinner at the Dairy Queen was nothing special, but what happened afterwards was enough to melt his ice cream. In the car in the parking lot at Westfield SouthPark mall, Bradigan said the 36-year-old teacher, Christine Scarlett, wrapped her arms around him and tried to kiss him.

Despite his initial reluctance, which probably lasted all of about .5 seconds, Bradigan started making out with Scarlett, and so an affair was born. Now Scarlett has a lot more to worry about than some melted ice cream. The article is a little vague on this point, but eventually they had a child together, but now Bradigan is suing Scarlett in a custody dispute and seeking compensation for her mistreatment of him.

Scarlett denies she ever had sex with Bradigan, but DNA tests on the child prove otherwise. Plus:

Steven Bradigan thinks his case will be bolstered by X-rated photos of the couple snapped by his high school buddies.

[source] (thanks, b.)