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: 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: NASA employee, 49, charged with having sex with 14-year-old boy in Limestone County

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A Limestone County woman and NASA employee has been charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy, the Athens E-News Courier reports.

According to the E-News Courier, Susan Loraine Whitfield, 49, of Harvest, was charged Wednesday with five counts of second-degree rape and one count of bribing a witness.

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Related News: Ex-Mobile County commissioner Jockisch pleads not guilty to child sex charges

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Former Mobile County commissioner Freeman Jockisch entered a not-guilty plea through his attorney on two child-sex charges Monday.

The 69-year-old, who was arrested on Nov. 26 for traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and the electronic solicitation of a child, was not in court and has been out on $80,000 bond since Nov. 27.

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Related News: Former Spain Park teacher pleads guilty to having sex with student; placed on probation

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A former Spain Park High School teacher was sentenced to probation this morning after pleading guilty to having sex with a student under the age of 19.

Stephanie Suggs Millard, 34, of north Shelby County, was sentenced by Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Dan Reeves to 10 years in prison. But the judge suspended the sentence and placed her on probation for five years.

The sentence was the result of a best interest plea agreement Millard entered with the Shelby County District Attorneys Office.

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Related News: Eufaula man charged with having sex with minor

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The Barbour County Sheriff’s Dept. says it has arrested a suspect and charged him with rape and sodomy for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a child.

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Related News: Military official found guilty of sex crime in Ozark

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Authorities say a high ranking military official has been charged in a sex crime.

Ozark officials say 32-year-old Ryan Gericke has been found guilty of traveling to meet a child for sex.

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Related News: Arrest shines light on human trafficking

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Police found out about the alleged crime when a female juvenile escaped a Dothan hotel room where she said she was being held. She ran to another hotel and a patron there called the police. She said she was taken from Mississippi, forced to take drugs and sold for sex.

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Related News: Former University of Alabama and NFL linebacker Saleem Rasheed begins serving time on plea to teacher sex charges

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Former University of Alabama and NFL linebacker Saleem Abdul Rasheed, carrying a copy of the Quran and a skull cap called a Kufi, surrendered to a judge this morning to begin serving a sentence for his guilty plea to charges that he had sex with two students at Woodlawn High School while he was a teacher at that school.

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