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Florida teacher arrested for sexual battery of student www.privateofficer.com
Mrs. Hernandez was a 6th Grade teacher at Our Lady of Charity School, in Hialeah.
According to police she had an intimate relationship with a 15-year-old male student she met at the school.
The school’s principal learned of the alleged relationship Friday and contacted the Department of Children and Families who then contacted Hialeah Police.
Hernandez, who worked at the school for four years, has been fired.
According to police, Hernandez and the 15 year old male were vacationing in Disney World Orlando on Saturday, when the Hialeah Police Department began its investigation.
Police contacted the pair who returned to South Florida.
According to Hialeah Police, Mrs. Hernandez admitted to the crime. She was arrested and taken into custody.
The mother of the15-year-old Florida boy who was allegedly having a sexual relationship with a sixth-grade teacher not only knew of the affair, she reportedly endorsed it according to reports.
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Haines City teacher arrested for sex with minor www.privateofficer.com
The 28-year-old teacher allegedly had sex with a female victim, who was 16-years-old at the time. She is now 17-years-old.
According to the arrest affidavit, the victim became acquainted with Guerin in August 2008 through her participation in school activities.
During the next several months, Guerin developed a personal relationship with the victim, communicating extensively via cell phone calls and text messages.
At one point, Guerin told the victim his feelings for her had changed from just a ‘teacher-student’ relationship.
He also posted to his MySpace page that he was falling in love with her. The relationship then became physical.
The relationship was short lived. Within days, Guerin’s wife became aware of the relationship.
Despite telling the victim to deny all rumors of their relationship, Guerin was arrested Thursday by detectives. He is currently being held without bond.
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Teacher charged with lewd communications with student www.privateofficer.com
Police say Geneva Henry had been sending lewd messages to a 14-year-old student through MySpace since December 2008. The student was a freshman in Henry’s English class.
An investigation into the claim revealed that the student felt he could talk to Henry about anything and the two began talking on MySpace a short time before Christmas. About two months into the friendship the student began to get messages of a sexual nature.
The student saved the messages into a word document for the investigator.
When administrators from Jupiter Christian School confronted Geneva Henry, before the police investigation, Ms. Henry resigned from her position and confessed to sending the messages.
The student also told the investigator that Henry had written poems about the student saying that she got “butterflies in her stomach every time he walked by.”
Henry surrender herself at the Palm Beach County Jail today where she will be charged with lewd and lascivious conduct.
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Retired police officer drowns rescuing child www.privateofficer.com
Harrelson, a 65-year-old retired police officer, died Saturday after jumping into the Indian River near Titusville to rescue a boy with disabilities who had fallen out of his john boat.
“My father instinctively just jumped off the boat. Didn’t think, just did,” said his son Corey Harrelson, 36, of Lake Mary.
Steve Harrelson was with several other police officers who took a group of teens with disabilities and their parents on a fishing outing Friday. The boy who fell out of Harrelson’s boat made it back. Harrelson didn’t.
Pulled unconscious from the water, he was taken to Parrish Medical Center in Titusville. His family removed him from life support Saturday morning.
Harrelson spent 20 years with the Orlando Police Department and also worked for the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. In his last years with OPD, Harrelson worked on crimes against children. The abuse and suffering he saw, but could not prevent, took a toll on him, his son said.
“It was very frustrating to him not to be able to take that poor child and get them out of that situation. He took it so personally, it was emotionally taxing on him,” his son said. “He always had a special place in his heart for children, for sure.”
So he turned to mentoring boys he could save, providing them with moral and ethic guidance, offering support and advice. Often his wisdom came from the end of a fishing pole. Being outdoors, on the water, under the stars, by a campfire, is when the stern and strict exterior of Steve Harrelson gave way to the compassionate heart inside.
“Some of the most influential conversations I had with my father were sitting under the stars by a fire. The conversations that made me want to be a better person, we shared on those occasions — fishing, hunting or camping.”
Always an athletic and physically fit person, Harrelson had gained weight in recent years and developed health problems — high blood pressure, diabetes — that could have contributed to his death, his son said.
“He was a terrible patient. He wouldn’t eat the right things. He would miss taking his medications,” the younger Harrelson said.
And though the retired officer was a good swimmer, he was lousy at floating — sinking straight to the bottom of any body of water, his son said.
“My theory is he tried so hard to keep his head above water he just plum wore himself out,” Corey Harrelson said. “He’s my dad. I love him dearly, and I will miss him.”
In addition to his son, Steve Harrelson is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Harrelson, of Longwood; daughter, Melissa Tillotson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; two brothers, Donnie Harrelson and Tony Harrelson; and four grandchildren.
Woodlawn Carey Hand Funeral Home, Gotha, is handling funeral arrangements.
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Minister arrested for sexual battery on child www.privateofficer.com
abcnews.com — Police say the minister of the New Life Tabernacle Church is behind bars after he was charged with sexual battery involving a juvenile female member of his church.
Evans Bacon faces charges of sexual battery and lewd and lascivious conduct and molestation. He was arrested Monday following an investigation into the allegations.
Police say Bacon asked the girl to take pictures of herself closeup while she was naked.
He is also accused of touching her inappropriately while they were together at the church building, located at 342 11th Street North. Authorities say the abuse took place over several years.
St. Petersburg continue to investigate and are asking anyone who may have been a victim to contact them at their Crimes Against Children unit at 727-893-4979.
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Pastor arrested with gun at airport www.privateofficer.com
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“He has been a tremendous national leader, adding value throughout the world whether it’s Africa or right here in Palm Beach County,” said Bill Hobbs from Urban Youth Impact.
The author and speaker is famous for his advice on leadership. He’s a teaching pastor at Christ Fellowship Church.
Maxwell blogged about the incident.
“What I did was wrong, and it was my fault. I certainly didn’t intend to break the law, but I will face up to the consequences,” Maxwell wrote.
Maxwell explained that is was a mistake. The gun had been given to him as a gift after a speaking engagement out of state, to which he traveled on a private plane. He said he forgot to take the gun out of his bag before traveling through PBIA days later.
“If you’re not paying attention and you do something stupid, it’s going to hurt you. In the end, I just hope my mistake isn’t going to hurt anybody but me,” wrote Maxwell.
His supporters say Maxwell’s reaction and admittance to his error is what makes him the “real deal.”
“That’s rare in today’s culture with leadership. People want to side step it. They want to blame someone else and John faced the issue head on, took responsibility and he learned from it,” said Hobbs.
Maxwell bonded out of jail for three thousand dollars. He does not have a court date scheduled. He continues to travel and speak on leadership throughout the country.
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