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Approximately 431 teachers were arrested in the southeast from 2007 to 2011 for sexual misconduct according to a study in the “Journal of Childhood Sexual Abuse”.

Here in Alabama, nearly 70 teachers have been accused of inappropriate actions with a student in the last two years with more than half of those in the last ten months.

Last month, a Selma teacher, LaTangela Wiliams, pleaded guilty to having sex with students. Anthony Ray Staten Jr., a substitute teacher at Alabama Christian Academy, was charged with having sexual contact with a student. Then a Southlawn Middle School teacher was charged with indecent exposure.

The most recent case came Friday when police charged a north Alabama soccer coach, David Jacobs Barrow, with sexual abuse and Human Trafficking.

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Related News: Former Leeds teacher arrested for sexting junior high student

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A former Leeds Middle School teacher was arrested Wednesday after authorities said she was sexting a 14-year-old male student.

Ashley Casiday, 31, turned herself into the St. Clair County Jail Wednesday morning. She is charged with one count of transmitting obscene material to a child, said St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor.  She is out of jail after posting $100,000 bond.

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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: 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: Pelham High School assistant principal arrested on charges she had sex with teen student (Update)

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A former assistant principal at Pelham High School was arrested Thursday on charges she had sex with a male student.

Catherine Michelle Bell, 33, turned herself in to the Shelby County Jail about 2:45 p.m. She is charged with three counts of “School Employee Engaging in a Sex Act or Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a Student Under the Age of 19 years,” Shelby County Sheriff Chris Curry announced this afternoon.

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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: Mont. court blocks judge on new sentence for teen rape

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Montana’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a county judge to cancel a hearing to reconsider the 30-day prison sentence he gave a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student with whom he had a sexual relationship for several months.

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Related News: Thorsby 6th grade teacher arrested on rape charges

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McNeill is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage student under the age of 18. The Chilton County District Attorney says the accuser was not a student at Thorsby, which is a combine K-12th grade school.

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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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Related News: Cops: Villanova student secretly filmed women undressing, posted to porn site

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Tyler Jones admitted to police that he secretly hid his iPhone in the bathroom to record the woman and then uploaded it to a porn site from his dorm room at Villanova.

While police were investigating, they say two other victims were discovered. One of the victims was 17 years old at the time of the recording.

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