📢AZ BoE | Enforcement Actions - September 2023
Astonishing trend continues.
Teacher certificates voluntarily surrendered include:
➡️7 out of 16 cases involving sexual interest in minors
➡️That's 44% of all cases for the month, up from 41% last month

Highlights in the 🧵⬇️
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/2/ Agua Fria Union HS:
➡️District discovers allegations of molestation of a 13 yo step-daughter over a two year period Image
/3/ Benson USD:
➡️Teacher uses Snap Chat app to contact students, "sat close to a particularly young lady at a community park," and
➡️dated former students after graduation Image
/4/ No district identified
➡️Teacher impregnates, later marries, former student in California; not criminally proven to have developed relationship while still a minor
➡️CA revoked license, decision on appeal Image
/5/ No district identified, arrest in Mesa
➡️Teacher has contact with 9-yo female student, asks to "lift shirt up" to use a stethoscope on her bare breast and nipple area.
➡️Admits to police he has a "stethoscope fetish"
➡️Arrested for 3-counts of sexual abuse of minor Image
/6/ Sunnyside USD
➡️Teacher engages in sexual contact with student off campus
➡️Sends text messages, nude photos and porn videos to student, multiple times
➡️Arrested for felony sexual conduct/abuse of minor Image
/7/ Flagstaff USD
➡️Flagstaff police notify district that teacher alleged to have molested minor niece in 2001 Image
/8/ In pipeline - ASU Prep Academy
➡️Substitute tells female student: "I'm going to have fun with [her] today", repeatedly touches her and others
➡️Says 13-yo female "dressed as a model, knee high boots, skirt, pearls, silk shirt" - that she's "vibrating" and "highly sexed"
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