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Lauren Harrington-Cooper and Other Teachers Arrested for Sex Crimes

Posted on | January 11, 2014 | 62 Comments

Lauren Harrington-Cooper likes teenage semen, allegedly.

If you pay attention to the news, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that America’s public schools are staffed by sex-crazed perverts, including this accused molester of teen boyflesh in Pennslyvania:

A married Pennsylvania high school teacher was arrested again on Thursday, accused of having sex with a second teenage student.
Lauren Harrington-Cooper, 31, of Wyoming Valley West High School, faces new allegations that she sent racy text messages and had sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy starting in October 2013.
This arrest comes just a month after she was charged having sex with a different 18-year-old student in December. Harrington-Cooper has been suspended without pay from her teaching job.
Harrington-Cooper, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, is accused of meeting up with the teenager on several occasions after they sent each other text messages, then kissing and having oral sex.
The Citizen’s Voice reports that the boy told authorities that he picked up the teacher at her home and they drove around for 90 minutes before kissing in the car outside her house.
After the pair continued to text they met up again and Harrington-Cooper allegedly performed oral sex on the 17-year-old student in a parked car. . . .
[Harrington-Cooper’s previous] arrest came after the alleged victim’s parents found a sexually explicit conversation on a laptop between Harrington-Cooper and the boy, 18.
The parents went to Wyoming Valley West High School and informed the principal of the material and Harrington-Cooper was arraigned on a single count of institutional sexual assault.
According to the Times-Leader, Harrington-Cooper, a ninth-grade English teacher at the school, told the victim’s sister she thought he was ‘hot.’
The boy obtained Harrington-Cooper’s phone number from his sister and the pair exchanged text messages.
They agreed to meet up and Harrington-Cooper picked the boy up near his home several times during which they had sex and the teacher performed oral sex on the boy in the car.

So, the blow-job-in-the-car appears to be Harrington-Cooper’s preferred modus operandi, but what’s the deal with this guy’s sister helping him hook up with the English teacher? I mean . . . yuck.

However, such crimes are far from unusual, as we have frequently observed, and here are just a few recent examples:

Roger French couldn’t resist teenage girl, allegedly.

COLORADO SPRINGS:

Just three months after starting a new job at a local high school, arrest papers allege a 31-year-old science teacher started a relationship with one of his students. . . .
Roger French Jr. first met the victim in one of the classes he taught at Mesa Ridge High School, then took the relationship a step further by stopping by her job in November.
That’s where the two allegedly kissed for the first time.
The arrest affidavit says things escalated into a sexual relationship after French asked the victim to babysit his roommate’s kids a month later.
When asked about the alleged abuse, the arrest affidavit says French called it a “judgment error.”
“It wasn’t good, I got too close to her. I made judgment errors … I kept pumping the brakes, I couldn’t stop, it’s like I am going off a cliff.”

Kimberly Brody got caught with a naked boy in a truck, allegedly.

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA:

A Clay County elementary school teacher was arrested early Monday after being found together with a youth without most of their clothes on, according to an arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Kimberly Hillard Brody, 40, was arrested in the 7300 block of Westland Oaks Drive after police were called there on a report of a suspicious vehicle about 12:30 a.m. Monday.
Brody was in a pickup truck with nothing on but a sweater, the arrest report said. The boy was completely naked outside the truck. It was unclear what the boy was doing at that point, because the report was redacted. But it did say police interrupted them having sex.
Brody is charged with unlawful sexual activity with minor 16 to 17 years old.
She has been a second-grade teacher at W.E. Cherry Elementary School for two years, according to Clay County school district spokesman Gavin Rollins.

Bresnniel Mones boned a 17-year-old, allegedly.

MIAMI:

A South Dade Senior High math teacher was arrested late Wednesday and charged with having sex with a student.
According to Miami-Dade Schools police, Bresnniel Jansen Mones, 32, had sex with a 17-year-old female student. In one instance, he received oral sex in his geometry classroom, according to his arrest report.
Police say they confiscated Jansen’s phone after he also admitted to sexting with the student. . . .
Jansen was charged with two counts of sex with a minor and one count of transmission of harmful material to a minor. . . .
The incident is the second time in two years that a South Dade teacher has been accused of having sex with a student. In March 2012, police said physical education teacher Jimmy Francisco Vega lured a student off campus, gave her marijuana and then had her perform oral sex.

With all these teachers having sex with students, you may ask: “What about the school staff? Are lunch ladies getting any action?”

Cafeteria worker Janelle Foley did her friend’s 15-year-old son, allegedly.

WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS:

A food service worker at a Massachusetts middle school is accused of raping a boy.
Janelle Foley faces four counts of statutory rape for allegedly sexually assaulting her friend’s 15-year-old son, according to the Boston Herald.
Foley, who was arrested Wednesday by Weymouth police, was put on leave from her job at Chapman Middle School, administrators said in a statement. . . .
The 36-year-old was arraigned Thursday in Quincy District Court. According to prosecutors, the alleged rapes took place during holiday parties at the boy’s family’s house in November and December. . . .
Foley’s attorney, William Sullivan, said his client suffered from depression and substance abuse, and that those problems may have resulted in a “lapse in judgment.”

Well, these are just allegations. Certainly, if a teacher were actually convicted of such offenses, the punishment would be severe, right?

Boy-raper Laura Whitehurst served four months behind bars.

REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA:

A California teacher — sentenced to a year in prison after she pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage student and having his baby last year — was released on Sunday.
Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 29, was released eight months before her sentence was to be completed. Whitehurst must register as a sex offender within five days of her release, and must wear a GPS tracking device, a district attorney spokesman told the San Bernardino Sun.
Whitehurst was arrested in July, two weeks after she gave birth to a baby that she conceived with a 16-year-old student, according to police. . . .
After the allegations were reported, two additional students, now adults, came forward and claimed they had sex with the former Citrus Valley High School teacher.
In August, Whitehurst pleaded guilty to having sex with three different students and was sentenced to a year in San Bernardino County jail, and five years’ probation.
Whitehurst originally faced 41 felony charges, which carried a maximum sentence of 29 years in prison. The remaining counts were dismissed at her sentencing.

She had sex with three students, gave birth to a 16-year-old boy’s baby and served a whopping four months in jail. That’s the kind of tough sentence that shows how serious they are about preventing sexual molestation in California, i.e., not very serious at all.

 

 

Comments

62 Responses to “Lauren Harrington-Cooper and Other Teachers Arrested for Sex Crimes”

  1. concern00
    January 11th, 2014 @ 7:48 pm

    Damn; can’t blame the homosexuals for these.

  2. robcrawford2
    January 11th, 2014 @ 7:49 pm

    Why not? When the dominant party’s success in elections depends on the teachers unions and deviants, sometimes you’ll people who fit into both categories.

  3. robertstacymccain
    January 11th, 2014 @ 7:54 pm

    It doesn’t have anything to do with that.

    What I see — and the prevalence of this problem is widespread enough to be scary — is symptomatic of moral corruption that is eroding the fundamental institutions of society.

  4. Steve Skubinna
    January 11th, 2014 @ 8:37 pm

    If it feels good, do it. Whatever floats your boat. Who am I to judge? Love yourself first.

    Yeah, no idea what makes these people think this is the thing to do. Meanwhile you want to bet these folks hate the Catholic Church for not doing enough to protect the children and the Boy Scouts for protecting the children?

  5. concern00
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:11 pm

    And it happens across the board. You slacken morality in one aspect of society and slowly it starts slipping all over until you have an avalanche, or slippery slope if you will.

  6. aliswell
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:16 pm

    Sending your child to public school is tantamount to child abuse.

    H-o-m-e-s-c-h-o-o-l

  7. WarEagle82
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:21 pm

    Next thing you know the MSM will be telling us these were all ordained Catholic priests…

  8. Zohydro
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:23 pm

    Why not?

  9. Zohydro
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:28 pm

    Or all three!

  10. Mm
    January 11th, 2014 @ 9:28 pm

    Yes, the only time prevention and punishment are taken seriously is when the perpetrator is a priest.

  11. Horus
    January 11th, 2014 @ 10:37 pm

    It’s more a symptom of the end of Christian morality and back to a more Pagan morality, especially in terms of sex(homosexuality, pederasty, hook-ups).

  12. Horus
    January 11th, 2014 @ 10:38 pm

    Actually we’re just going back to a time before Christianity and what dominated the world for about five millenia.

  13. The_Livewire
    January 11th, 2014 @ 10:41 pm

    Here’s a band director of 26 years, you missed. May he rot in the Special Hell http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/ex-high-school-band-director-sentenced-prison/nbdfX/

  14. Chemman01
    January 11th, 2014 @ 11:34 pm

    Nothing to see here just a rogue teacher. However, if it were a priest it would be the fault of the institution.

  15. emersonushc13
    January 12th, 2014 @ 7:56 am

    Hey, they love kids. What can I say?

  16. teapartydoc
    January 12th, 2014 @ 8:01 am

    Get your kids out of public school NOW!

  17. bflat879
    January 12th, 2014 @ 8:06 am

    In a society, that has long been trying to say, “If it feels good, do it.” we’ve scrapped the idea of people denying themselves any pleasure.

    I would venture that that majority of the men reading this are thinking, “Where were those teachers when I was in school?” THe problem with this is they were probably there but had to actually have some self-restraint. Considering the number of teachers, the numbers are quite low, but I’ll still bet the men are looked at differently than the women.

    One thing’s for sure, if society, as a whole, doesn’t deal with this, it will get worse.

  18. dwpittelli
    January 12th, 2014 @ 8:08 am

    Well, it shows the moral corruption of the teachers involved. But there are almost 1 million high school teachers in the US. How many high school teachers get arrested for this each year? (You can’t count the lunch lady or elementary teachers, or you’d have to also up your denominator.) And what is the multiplier to figure the total number of offenders? (I’d guess less than 5, as teenagers can’t be expected to keep such a secret more than 80% of the time.) So it seems that at most 1 in 10,000 teachers is doing this. That’s higher than one should hope for, but hardly damning of the society overall. Society, indeed, is condemning their actions, in many cases making them criminal for teachers even where the student would be above the age of consent for any adult who is not a teacher or similar youth-leader.

  19. dwpittelli
    January 12th, 2014 @ 8:10 am

    I’d be willing to bet (if we had some neutral omniscient judge) that private schools have similar levels of such activity.

  20. Steve Kellmeyer
    January 12th, 2014 @ 9:07 am

    Actually, Charol Shakeshaft’s study for the DOE said 10% of public school employees have engaged in sexual molestation of students.

    But that report never made the news because it wasn’t Catholic schools.

  21. Bandit Keena
    January 12th, 2014 @ 9:19 am

    That story in Weymouth MA has nothing to do with school. It was her best friends son and he didn’t attend. The school and it didn’t happen at school. It’s skanky enough as is but doesn’t belong with the rest of the stories.

  22. Oracle
    January 12th, 2014 @ 10:18 am

    Forget the priests, public school teachers are the biggest sexual preditors out there. As the media and the NEA are apart of the same political organization, you’ll hear nothing in main stream news.

  23. SamEnglish
    January 12th, 2014 @ 11:04 am

    The sentencing of a female is around 4-6 months, for a male teacher it’s around 10 years.

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  25. Arch
    January 12th, 2014 @ 11:29 am

    Where were these babes when I was in school?

  26. koblog
    January 12th, 2014 @ 11:58 am

    Honk if your Honor Student has been molested by a Unionized Democrat Public School teacher!

  27. koblog
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:00 pm

    Look, the state owns the children, right? They can do with them as they please.

  28. Bob Parkman
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:02 pm

    Good solid upstanding union members, all!

  29. Michael Lorton
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

    That is as it should be.

  30. chasrmartin
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

    Oh come on, folks. At least with Harrington-Cooper, we’re talking about two legal adults having sex. They weren’t even in her classes, she’s a 9th grade teacher.

    This isn’t a sex crime, it’s a Penthouse Letter.

  31. Michael Lorton
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

    The teachers we are looking for are the ones lacking self-restraint.

  32. Michael Lorton
    January 12th, 2014 @ 12:23 pm

    The original activity (with the 18-year-old) was two legal adults; this one, Pennsylvania law is less clear.

    In the original case, I think there’s a possibility of a Lawrence defense; the Supreme Court takes a dim view of state constraints on the private, non-commercial, consensual sexual behavior of adults. The prosecution (if it comes to that) could argue that administering a public school is so important, and student/teacher contact so detrimental, that the right of the two of them to screw each other can be over-ridden, but it would be a little shaky.

  33. Peter Seckler
    January 12th, 2014 @ 1:56 pm

    I think the only way we, as a society, can stop the epidemic of female
    child molesters that operate in our high schools… is if we teach these
    women not to rape.

  34. CaptDMO
    January 12th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm

    Hmmm…I “bet” not.
    Without “special” union considerations private school teachers
    1. Are subject to MUCH more stringent vetting.
    2. WILL be fired for inappropriate policy infractions.
    3. In the case of private boarding school, are under MUCH closer scrutiny.
    Just saying the levels are NOT the same, not that it doesn’t exist.

  35. Tom Billings
    January 12th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm

    One thing I find notable here is that while the percentage of molesters is small, it is seen to be growing over the last 15 years. It also has openly involved more women than before. These 2 trends coincide with a trend that seems to proceed it by about 5 years. It may have given offenders one thing they often need, …the perception of permission.

    That trend is the growth, in the pornography industry, of portraying teacher/student sex as a norm, or even a transformation from loser to winner for the student, especially male students. The web-based viewing of pornography is widespread, among adults and children both. These portrayals, repeated, can give to the mind of a sociopath precisely the perception of permission that enables them to tell themselves they are not abusers, but benefactors of their targets. Once into the “grooming” phase of abuse, the pleasures so many get from just “the chase” might take over as a secondary motivator rewarding planning after starting on an impulse.

    We have a usual percentage of sociopathy in all large human populations (whether it is now designated a fraction of the psychopath population or not) in all professions, including teaching. The poor impulse control and other aspects of sociopathy fit well with the perception of permission, as portrayed in the increasing percentage of pornography about teacher/student sex. No single portrayal will make the difference, but there are so many available that it is less probable that a person lacking impulse control will stave off slipping into first fantasy and then acting out that fantasy.

    If you question this availability, go to practically any site designated by a sex-related word, _____tube.com, and you will see tens of thousands of clips available along these lines. This is *not* the only thing fueling the changes we see. It is *very* probably *not* the biggest multiplier. Still, I doubt that it fails to add its own coefficient to multiplying the amount of student abuse.

  36. mikegiles
    January 12th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm

    Don’t worry, Every time one of these incidents happens, the media makes sure to remind you of the Catholic Church scandal – even though these types of incidents in public schools far out number those in the Church.

  37. mikegiles
    January 12th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm

    BTW, some of these female teachers who engage in this behavior are beautiful; they would have absolutely no problem attracting a man of their own age – or they’re married. Why would a grown women want a kid?

  38. L.B.
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm

    The taxpayer doesn’t pay the salary for private school deviates. You, me and every other taxpaying citizen pays the salaries of the scum listed above. State departments of education also keep data on sexual harassment in schools, the activity levels are not similar.

    In private schools, especially Catholic schools, the oversight since the priest abuse scandal has been incredibly high.

  39. Steve Skubinna
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:09 pm

    Search for youth, maybe?

  40. chasrmartin
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:25 pm

    Seems pretty chancy even with the 17 year old. 16 is the age of consent, absolutely. http://www.premierdefensegroup.com/blog/pennsylvania-age-of-consent/

    On the contributing to delinquency, IANAL thank Gods, but I think making the case that a 17 year old male getting a BJ is delinquent would be a difficult one to prove,

  41. chasrmartin
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm

    You know, I wonder how much of that perception is valid. I don’t think the older woman younger man thing is new, but I am suspicious that it’s not been reported or prosecuted in the past.

  42. richard mcenroe
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm

    Inadequate “adult” men?

  43. K-Bob
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:30 pm

    It’s all psychology, I guess. But I’m guessing they like the sense of being in control of the “relationship.”

  44. K-Bob
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm

    Do we really know that? I’m guessing that both situations involve a huge amount of under-reporting.

    I wonder if this is a “modern” thing with women, or has it been going on for centuries.

  45. K-Bob
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm

    I don’t think it’s the pr0n so much as the push to legalize deviant behavior.

  46. K-Bob
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:37 pm

    Not only would they be fired, but there would be no union interference, and all benefits would be terminated as well, including pensions.

  47. K-Bob
    January 12th, 2014 @ 4:41 pm

    That ignores the inherent self-selection of certain demographic groups.

    For example, you’re going to find more closeted homosexuals in the military and the church. It’s “where the boys are.” That isn’t a slam on any group, it’s just a reality.

  48. Fat_Man
    January 12th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm

    Where was Lauren Harrington-Cooperwhen I was a lad? Sigh.

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