And again and again. Every day in our country we have adults, grown men and women sexually abusing little children. These are most always people in a position of "trust" and "authority." These acts are horrible and so very damaging and traumatic to children that even with years of therapy a majority never goes on to live a happy and "normal" life. These perverts will get "time-out," a few years of probation, a slap on the wrist, and they go on their merry way to repeat their abuse with other children. When will we, as good citizens, as caring protectors of the children in our country finally going to put a stop to this? It seems to have reached a point where many people are simply numb to this trauma as it happens all of the time. They give a "too bad" and go on with their lives. If this was your child; when it hits home, that is when people react and act. There are a few good groups in America who work to save these chldren and who work to stop these perverts who should never be allowed near a child. One that I have followed for decades is Focus Adolescent Services, Focusas.com. They save the lives of American children. They have a feee national help line for parents and for professionals. Do something please people. Support our children, stop this! People give more to save a snail or a bird than to save innocent little children. Send a donation, ten bucks or ten thousand bucks to them or a group whose work you like. This is insane.

All five educators should be fired AND THEIR PENSIONS removed!

No those girls wanted it don't fool yourself

"Administrative Leave" are they still getting paid?

"Protecting her teachers" What are protecting the students who are victimized?

"A female student told a substitute teacher at Triton that teachers and students were engaging in sexual activity in April." Our kids can confide more in subs than the real teachers who work there.

"steph" do the world a favor and practice safe sex, so that you will not make the same mistake your mother made.

I know this is public information and record, but I feel as though these legal documents are unnecessary and expose too much information, including initials of victims as well as addresses of defendants. I don't agree with this information being public knowledge, and would appreciate if this was taken down. Thank you.

Don't get me wrong, all of these men are perverts and should be held responsible for everything and be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Personally, if these were my girls I would probably hunt them down and put a really nasty hurting on these men. But, I would also have to question my daughter(s) as to why in hell she would even be attracted or drawn to one of them in the first place. Yes, I know there could be many reasons, father figures, being cool, attention etc. But just as the teachers are told not to get involved with students, these kids, male or female have got to be taught and told that it isn't acceptable either. We just assume that these teachers won't when time after time they do. We have to teach our children that any relationship with a teacher is wrong and explain why. The schools should teach the kids as well. I realize boys and girls get 'crushes' on teachers, even the little ones. Little ones don't understand why though. Teenagers do for the most part. I think it is extremely important to educate these kids how dangerous both emotionally and physically that their so-called relationships can be BEFORE it even starts. Teach your children well.

Besides....EW! They certainly aren't the most handsome men.That's for sure. Just goes to show you that these guys find some way to lure these kids. Power, promises, flirting and giving them false hopes. Builds their self esteem I guess.

Any one ever consider how many of these students lie because they have a grudge against the teacher. A simple desire to not do an assignment could be the cause, as I have seen in my 15 year career as a teacher. I have never in all my years met a teacher who was attracted to a student, but I have spoken to kids who planned on making accusations to "get back" at a teacher they felt had wronged them in some way. OPEN your eyes and ears, not all teachers are predators.

Innocent until proven guilty....unless the Constitution has changed....

That's it I am home-schooling my kids

I'm predicting a slap on the wrist and sweeping the entire story under the rug by the end of the week. This is just the tip of the iceberg, more people are involved. Uniforms would be a good start.

Typical pervert you see this behavior everyday from the subarbanites

The Nation has remove God from there educational system, in the absence of God sin will continue to prevail.
in God we trust bring back the fear of God in our schools by teaching his word.our nation is sick we need the Gospel or we will all perish God is angry at us beside it is Illegal and unlawfull for God to do any thing for humanity without an intercessor Pray for Teachers, Tenagers,and all to have the fear of God. THE LORD CAN BEGIN WITH YOU.

The tip of the iceberg some reports last night students in runnemede were making jokes about this weeks ago and parents too!

I agree completely agree with innocent until proven guilty, as it is (or at least should be) the crux of our judicial system. Obviously we only know what we see, hear, and read about in the news. But, if we are to believe the evidence that the media and the authorities are allowing us to see, it's pretty damning. Most telling I find, is the admission of the Principal to attempting to cover it up to "protect" her teachers. If there were no wrong-doing, what is there to protect them from?
I get the innocent until proven guilty, I really do, but the court of public opinion is often the most damning of all-- I don't see these people getting a slap on the wrist for this one.

Not to mention, it's all over the news. Did anyone here Preston & Steve this morning? They dedicated a good chunk of their show this morning to discussing this. They had current and former students calling in- many of whom were saying that it was "common knowledge" among some circles that this was going on- and that it was not the first time.
I know besides all of the local news affiliates, at least one national news outlet, and several radio talk shows picked this up this morning.
I just don't see this one going away so easily. Granted, had it been a younger grade level than high school seniors, there likely would be much more outrage, but try telling that to the parents of these girls.

These are male teachers. It is the Female teachers that always get a slap on the wrist for this type of behavior. There is a huge Double Standard in the prosecution of sex crimes.

Sometimes yes the girls are the aggressors but the teachers should know better than to fall for the girl's acts. They are supposed to be the adults. Another question would be what did the parents think their daughters were doing going to the shore with their teachers. Parents need to open their eyes and watch what their children are doing at all times. Parents also need to know what the teachers are doing with their children. I also know that one of these math teachers was hired as a favor to the math supervisor at the school and an ethical, capable and reliable teacher was fired in order to make room for him to be hired, all with the backing of the principal. Karma will get you every time.

Mark it is this mentality that helps blur the lines between abuse and consent. Blame the victim, they asked for it...anyone with half a wit about them would realize that the girls are not on the same developmental level emotionally, that the power of the teachers needs to be taken into account, and that any grown true man that sees an age around consent as a license to prowl as perverted. Get a clue

Not that he had anything to do with this, but does anyone know what happened to the former principal, Ed Stahl? I went to school with him. He was a nice guy.

Carole Parker
I am sorry but the adults should be fired! This is totally unacceptable - they have broken the trust that the community has given them. WoW! This is absurd and truly crazy! I feel bad for the school systems and the children.

If all of the kids in the school were aware it was taking place, why didn't another teacher pick up the phone and call authorities. Why was it a substitute teacher who was told about it? Did the children know that the other teachers were aware of it and turning their heads? This is really worse than it looks if you dig a little deeper. Nows the time to clean it up so that parents can feel comfortable sending their kids into that building. It's hard to believe that no school board members and know teachers and know one from the superintendents office heard any of these rumors. It's a disgrace, you all failed these children!!!!!!!

All I can say is wow!!!!! This is horrible. It's amazing that teachers are hired to educate our children just to turn around and have inappropriate relationships with them...Wow, absolutely amazing. I will say this much, MOTHERS...FATHERS...LEGAL GUARDIANS...please take the time to talk with your children and make them understand what's right and what's wrong. Although those girls were young and still considered minors but engaging in adult activities, we must all remember that these girls were not innocent at all. Now, don't get me wrong, what happened was a disgrace and should of never happened and not only did the teachers fail those kids, but others who didnt say anything failed those girls, Those girls knew what they were doing as well as the teachers who participated in the relationships that they had with them. My thing is, how in the hell or shall I say, why in the hell would an adult having an inappropriate relationship with a minor, where the minor is willingly engaging in that relationship, think for one second, that child is going to have a closed mouth about it? Come on now, really!!!! We are talking about teenagers here dude...teenage girls for that matter. For a teenage girl to have that sort of a relationship with an adult, it's exciting to them and therefore they are going to tell their friends or mention it to someone. Why the adult in the situation would think that this sort of relationship will be on the hush hush, is as dumb as a box of rocks

At the risk of sounding like the middle aged school marm I am, I suspect none of these young people are looking at this incident the way we are. For example, when I was in HS, a boy grabbing the fanny of a female student sent the the girl to the bathroom in tears, with teams of sympathetic friends who shunned the boy for WEEKS afterward.

When the same thing happened to my stepdaughter in the 80s, she gave the boy a withering look and considered the issue resolved - with no stigma attached to her. I think thats key to what the girls are doing here - there is no stigma attached to them and they're right to feel that.

The 20 something and 30 something teachers probably took the warnings about fraternizing with students in the same vein as the rule against wearing backless sandals. They've grown up with all kinds of promiscuity out in the open with no stigma attached. Educational leaders and parents will have to instill the missing stigmas against it before they can understand why its so bad.

If a few parents threaten to sue unless the Superintendent and President and Vice-President of the school board resign, will they cave and resign or will they fight it?

If it was ok for Clinton to behave as he did while he was president, there is no negative stigma attached

Any news about the five criminals still being paid by us the taxpayers. The story has been buried in the recent news like so many times.

Schu: why not put it in question form directly to Patch. That is what they do, or should do as follow up.

Nothing new, they are getting paid to sit around the house and the state dept of ed hasn't revoked their license. Glad to know we're paying their salary for being perverts.

We are still paying their salaries this comes two and a half month later, these perverts are still collecting a taxpayer funded pay check, amazing how the system works against the good people.

I am a current student at Rasmussen Business College and I am working on a paper about unethical issues going on. I choose this topic because it is very unethical not only what the teachers did but also what the administration did and that was nothing the principle and vice principle wanted to protect the teachers, good looking out both of you. Did they even consider the students and what they wanted? If any of this was consensual then why not wait until after the day they graduated I mean come on. Our schools are supposed to be safe from such things. If we cannot trust the administration then who can we trust when our kids are in school and what are they learning. I am just saying. MK