{"id":3553,"date":"2022-07-21T17:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:50:20","slug":"growing-number-of-k-12-teachers-charged-with-child-sex-crimes-in-recent-months-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"GROWING NUMBER OF K-12 TEACHERS CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX CRIMES IN RECENT MONTHS: ANALYSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3553\" class=\"elementor elementor-3553\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ba7bd6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ba7bd6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6af68294\" data-id=\"6af68294\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1288364a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"1288364a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div><strong>INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND<\/div>\n<div><blockquote>\"The wicked walk on every side, when the <div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> vilest <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STONG\u2019S 2149: <\/font>zulluwth, zool-looth\u00b4; from 2151; properly, a shaking, i.e. perhaps a tempest:\u2014vilest.<\/span><\/div> men are <div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> exalted. <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STONG\u2019S 7311: <\/font>ruwm, room; a primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively):\u2014bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (x a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.<\/span><\/div>\n\n<span><p><\/p> \u2014 Psalm 12:8<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div><blockquote>\u201dAnd because\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> iniquity <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> Strongs 458: <\/font> anomia, an-om-ee\u00b4-ah; from 459; illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness: \u2014 iniquity, x transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.<\/span><\/div> shall abound, the\n\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> love <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> Strongs 26: <\/font> agape, ag-ah\u00b4-pay; from 25; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast: \u2014 (feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.<\/span><\/div> of many shall wax cold.\"\n\n<span><p><\/p> \u2014 Matthew 24:12<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4990f72a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4990f72a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48cb4c91\" data-id=\"48cb4c91\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d77a524 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d77a524\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Article Source: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/growing-number-of-k-12-teachers-charged-with-child-sex-crimes-in-recent-months-analysis_4610196.html\">The Epoch Times<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>At least 181 K-12 teachers, principals, and staff have been arrested for child sex crimes in the United States so far this year, according to an analysis of reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At least 181 educators have been arrested between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to a Fox News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/181-k-12-educators-charged-child-sex-crimes-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a>. Arrests that did not make it in media reports were not counted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four principals, 153 teachers, 12 substitute teachers, and 12 teachers\u2019 aides were arrested on a litany of charges, including sexually assaulting\u00a0students and\u00a0possessing child pornography. About 140 of those who were arrested carried out alleged crimes against students.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, an educator in Delaware, identified as\u00a0High Road School\u00a0teacher James Garfield, was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting a 15-year-old student. He was\u00a0charged with two counts of felony rape and related charges, according\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/wilmington-teacher-arrested-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-a-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to local media<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Days before that, a teacher in Warren, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old student. He was charged with aggravated indecent assault, institutional sexual assault, and other charges, it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-journal.com\/news\/local-news\/2022\/07\/teacher-charged-for-sexual-assault-of-student\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weeks before that, a Hoboken, New Jersey, the man\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/nj-gym-teacher-admits-sexual-assault-teen-girls-francisco-realpe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0to raping two 17-year-old girls while he worked as a gym teacher in two different public\u00a0school districts in Hudson County, New Jersey. In late June, 45-year-old\u00a0Francisco Realpe pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault, prosecutors said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, an activist who has battled the spread of critical race theory in classrooms, called for a new study on child sex abuse in schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is a scandal that the political Left is doing everything in its power to suppress,\u201d he said in a statement to Fox News. \u201cThe basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teacher&#8217;s unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn\u2019t happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/abuse-in-schools-no-conspiracy-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article published<\/a>\u00a0in April, Rufo noted that the\u00a0Department of Education last\u00a0released a report in 2004 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/rschstat\/research\/pubs\/misconductreview\/report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pdf<\/a>), which said nearly 9.6 percent of students had been targeted by teachers for sexual misconduct in K-12 classrooms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe most comprehensive report about sexual abuse in public schools, published by the Department of Education in 2004, estimates\u2014on the basis of a 2000 survey, conducted by the American Association of University Women, of 2,065 students in grades eight through 11\u2014that nearly 10 percent of K-12 students have been victims of sexual misconduct by a public school employee,\u201d he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If that figure is correct, he noted that it would \u201ctranslate into approximately 4.5 million children nationwide suffering sexual misconduct by public school employees, with an estimated 3 million suffering physical, sexual abuse.\u201d That figure, Rufo said, could be \u201cmore than 100 times greater than the physical abuse committed by Catholic priests, who, at the time the report was published, was undergoing a reckoning for the crimes within their ranks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Epoch Times has contacted the Department of Education for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom in Tustin, Calif., on March 10, 2021. (John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<h5><font color=\"#0000FF\"><strong> At least 181 educators been arrested between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to a Fox News analysis. Arrests that did not make it in media reports were not counted.<\/font><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iniquity-shall-abound","category-spiritually-decaying-nation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}