Related News: Former Shelby County assistant principal arrested in Georgia for trying to have sex with child, lawmen say

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A former assistant principal at Shelby County High School and Elvin Hill Elementary School is one of more than a dozen people arrested during a Georgia operation targeting online child predators.

John McGill, 56, and the other 13 arrestees are charged under the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999. McGill was currently an elementary school principal in Douglas County, Ga.

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Related News: Missing Wetumpka girl found safe; TX man faces multiple sex charges

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Authorities say Stephens met the girl after talking to her through an online social network. He hitchhiked to Alabama to meet her.

“We are looking at the mistakes we made,” Daniel Grecu, explained. “You need to know who they are talking to on Facebook, what their passwords are. That’s a must as parents. If you give them freedom now, you can put them in harms way, that’s obvious now,” Grecu added.

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Related News: Yik Yak Trend Concerns Some University Students

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Troy University students are flooding the free smartphone app Yik Yak. It uses location features to show comments near by. And people can post, like and share comments anonymously.

Students are writing things ranging from what’s being served in the dining halls to hurtful comments calling out students. The majority of the posts use profanity. University police say they are aware of it.

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Related News: Student-teacher sex: Are more female teachers being charged?

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All of the accused are women. In fact, about one-third of the cases of possibly inappropriate relationships investigated by Alabama education officials in 2013 involved women.

“It may not be happening more, but now there’s more punishment,” said Josh Klapow, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at UAB’s School of Public Health. “We don’t know those incidents that aren’t being caught and aren’t being reported.”

Social media, authorities say, helps to fuel the fire.

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Related News: Girl costs father $80,000 with ‘SUCK IT’ Facebook post

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The former head of a private preparatory school in Miami, Florida is out an $80,000 discrimination settlement after his daughter boasted about it on Facebook.

Patrick Snay, 69 — the former head of Gulliver Preparatory School — filed an age discrimination complaint when his 2010-11 contract wasn’t renewed.

In November 2011, the school and Snay came to an agreement in which Snay would be paid $10,000 in back pay, and an $80,000 settlement. Gulliver Schools also agreed to cut Snay’s attorneys a check for $60,000.

But before the ink could dry on the deal, Snay’s daughter took to Facebook, boasting, “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.”

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Related News: Blount County teacher pleads guilty to sexting 15-year-old student

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A former teacher at Susan Moore High School pleaded guilty today after authorities said she sent sexual text messages to a 15-year-old male student.

Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, entered her plea at a 1:30 p.m. hearing at the Blount County Courthouse. She pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor, said Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey.

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Related News: Former Army officer from Huntsville sentenced to 20 years to life for sex crimes against children in Colorado (updated)

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Former Army officer Aaron Lucas, 33, of Huntsville, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today in Colorado for multiple sex crimes against children, the Gazette reports.

According to the Gazette, the former Fort Carson soldierĀ  was sentenced by Judge David Shakes for charges that included rape and sexual assault of a child.

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Related News: Report: Former teacher gets 15 year sentence for sex with students

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The Anniston Star is reporting that former Cleburne County teacher Bronson Ward was sentenced in Calhoun County Circuit Court today to 15 years in prison.

Ward, 33, who was also a girls basketball coach, was arrested in September on five charges of having sex with students under the age of 19. Investigators said the acts involved two students, took place in Cleburne and Calhoun counties, and went back as far as 2009.

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Related News: Prosecutor: Charges against Thorsby teacher include allegations of sex with teen boy on school property

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A Thorsby sixth grade teacher indicted on rape and sodomy charges allegedly had sex with a teen boy at her school on more than one occasion, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Jennifer Collins McNeill, 39, of Thorsby, was indicted Feb. 14 on six counts of second-degree rape and two counts of second degree sodomy, said C.J. Robinson, chief deputy district attorney for the circuit covering Chilton, Elmore and Autauga counties.

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Related News: Man gets 99 years for rape of 10-year-old girl

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A Houston County judge sentenced a man Wednesday to 99 years behind bars for the rape of a 10-year-old girl.

Circuit Court Judge Butch Binford sentenced Donald E. Lacey, 43, of Panama City, Fla., to the prison term for a felony first-degree rape conviction.

Assistant Houston County District Attorney Gary Maxwell asked the court for the maximum sentence of 99 years.

Source: Dothan Eagle