About ongoing reports of sexual abuse in educational settings reaching the level of an epidemic:
"I'm tired of opening the news and reading about professions taking advantage of our children"
And no migrant or immigrant is involved in this purely American epidemic, perhaps inspired by Donald Trump's pedophilia and friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Why can the wealthy and powerful elites have sex with underage minors and we can't?
States involved in recent sex abuse cases against minors include: Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky. Conservative Southern or Midwestern "family values" MAGA states that voted for Donald Trump.
And remember: These are the cases we hear about. Imagine what's beneath the iceberg that we never hear about. With Trump's racism and xenophobia focused on the tiny minority of crimes committed by migrants-immigrants, what will the Moron-in-Chief do with all these pure US-born Americans like him who sexually abuse children?
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Louisiana Middle School Teacher Charged With Alleged Sex Crimes After Being Named Teacher of the Year
Katherine Schaffstall
Fri, January 30, 2026
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
A Louisiana teacher at Broussard Middle School – who was previously named Teacher of the Year in September 2025 – has been arrested and charged with child sex crimes.
Christie Oster was arrested on Wednesday, January 28, and charged with indecent behavior with juveniles and carnal knowledge of a juvenile, according to online records viewed by Us Weekly. She was released one day later on a $50,000 bond.
Lafayette Police said that Oster, 38, allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a former student, according to KLFY. However, no other details have been shared about the alleged relationship or how old the victim is.
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment. It is not currently clear if Oster has entered a plea or retained legal representation following her arrest.
Oster is an eighth-grade math teacher at the middle school and she was named the 2025-26 Teacher of the Year just four months before she was arrested.
An LPSS spokesperson confirmed to KLFY that Oster has been placed on leave in light of the arrest.
Following news of her arrest, resident Rebekah Vallot shared her frustration with the ongoing reports of abuse in educational settings while speaking to KATC. “Initial reaction is anger and frustration. I'm tired of opening the news and reading about professions taking advantage of our children,” she said.
Vallot added that the crime should still be considered serious even though it was reported that Oster was involved with a “former student.” She said, “You put the word ‘former’ in front of a student and it still is a student. Former, current, future — it doesn't matter, it's wrong.”
Oster’s arrest has reignited calls for increased classroom surveillance, while Vallot urged school officials to install cameras to ensure the safety of the students. “It is far beyond time. We have the technology to do so, we have the funding to do so – the cameras need to go in now,” she said.
Vallot also encouraged parents to have open communication with their children in order to prevent instances like this. “The best advice I can give parents is you are the number one advocate for your child. No one else will do that for you,” she said.
Those who are found guilty of indecent behavior with juveniles in Louisiana state can be fined up to $5,000, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than seven years or both, according to the Louisiana State Legislature.
Meanwhile, the sentence for those found guilty of the carnal knowledge of a juvenile charge depends on whether the offense is classified as a felony or a misdemeanor. That will ultimately be determined based on the age difference between the parties.
According to the Louisiana State Legislature, a “misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile is committed when a person who is seventeen years of age or older has sexual intercourse, with consent, with a person who is thirteen years of age or older but less than seventeen years of age, when the victim is not the spouse of the offender, and when the difference between the age of the victim and age of the offender is greater than two years, but less than four years.”
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Married Former Kansas Teacher Accused of Grooming and Having Unlawful Sexual Relations With Student, 17
By Chris Harris
December 5, 2025
Nicole Hernandez, Nikki Baird - Facebook/Wichita North High School Football
A former Kansas high school art teacher accused of grooming and having unlawful sexual relations with an underaged student will stand trial on four criminal counts, a judge determined this week.
Nicole Hernandez, 30, appeared in court on Tuesday, December 2, after being charged with four counts of unlawful sexual relations with a student, KAKE.com reported.
Hernandez, who also goes by the name “Nikki Baird,” was arrested back on May 22, but made her first appearance in court last month, according to the Wichita Eagle.
She no longer teaches art at Wichita North High School, where the victim — a 17-year-old boy — was a student.
Wichita police started looking into Hernandez after receiving a tip on May 19 about a specific Instagram post that claimed the married teacher had had an “inappropriate relationship” with a former Wichita school district student.
The Eagle, citing an affidavit in the case, reports the school was made aware of Hernandez’s alleged behavior during the 2023-2024 school year, and that the matter was handled internally. The affidavit does not include information regarding the outcome of that probe.
Administrators approached Hernandez in May after learning she was being investigated, and she allegedly “admitted … that she got too close” with the student “and crossed boundaries,” according to the Eagle.
She initially claimed she had an emotional relationship with the boy that began after he’d graduated high school. But the dates for each of the four offenses she’s charged preceded the student’s graduation, the paper reported.
She also claimed things with the teen never got physical.
But the student, who is now an adult, told investigators otherwise. She groomed him throughout his sophomore, junior and senior years of high school, he claimed. “He described how she befriended him, then isolated him from others,” the affidavit read, according to the Eagle.
She then started “touching or rubbing his back or shoulders” and would soon start requesting hugs from him. The student claimed he spent a lot of alone time with the teacher, and that they began texting one another. Hernandez “messaged him about how her marriage was struggling,” read the affidavit. A letter she allegedly wrote to him “said, ‘I hope and pray one day I get the chance to be with you’ and ‘I know that I love you.’”
When he was a senior, and the two were spending time together at a local arts center, she allegedly grabbed his hand and held it. Back at school, Hernandez allegedly kissed the boy’s neck during one of their hugs.
Hernandez later arranged for them to meet up after school, and “kept asking him if he wanted her to kiss him,” it is alleged in the affidavit, the Eagle reported. “He said he was nervous and eventually said, ‘yes.’” Hernandez allegedly told the boy to keep the interaction a secret.
The touching continued and got more intimate. Then, the week before he graduated, Hernandez asked the boy into her office, where she told him to touch her body. Hours after his graduation ceremony, Hernandez arranged to meet the student in a random neighborhood, and the boy “felt pressured” to have sex with her in the back seat of her Jeep.
Hernandez allegedly told the teen victim that what they were doing was legal, given he had graduated. The sexual assaults then continued for weeks after, and Hernandez started sending the boy nude photos of herself, the Eagle reported.
In time, the teen cut off communication with the educator after realizing “the relationship he had with [her] was inappropriate and he had been manipulated by [Hernandez],” according to the affidavit.
The Eagle reported that cops claimed she visited the teen at his workplace and even left candy on his car while it was parked in his driveway. That spooked the teen, who told his parents, and later shared the nude photos with investigators, according to the affidavit.
Hernandez was released from jail on $50,000 bond and is set to return to court on July 28. Attempts to reach her lawyer for comment were unsuccessful Friday.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
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Math Teacher Accused of Having ‘Sexual Conversations’ With Student Under Age of 12
Katherine Schaffstall
Mon, December 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM GMT+2
Math Teacher Accused of Having 'Sexual Conversations' With Student Under Age of 12
A fifth-grade math teacher in Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested after she was accused of having "sexual conversations" with one of her students during remote learning.
Sydnee Graf was taken into custody and charged with procuring or promoting use of a minor by electronic means, according to a Louisville Metro police arrest citation viewed by People.
Louisville Metro Police detectives were contacted by police for Jefferson County Public Schools about the alleged “exploitation of a juvenile victim,” according to the citation. The student in question was under 12 years old at the time of the alleged offense.
The incident took place during a “non-traditional workday,” in which class was held virtually, and students and teachers did their work online. The citation claimed that “a 5th grade math teacher engaged in sexual conversations with a 5th grade student.”
The citation went on to note that detectives reviewed “screenshots and video recordings of the conversations” between the juvenile and the suspect, which included “images of the suspect as well as her name, Sydnee Graf, displayed in the top left corner.”
The conversations also included discussion of “oral sodomy.” Per the citation, the suspect allegedly told the student, “I really need to taste that d**k.”
The suspect also allegedly made plans to meet the juvenile on December 15, which was the same day that the citation was written.
Graf was arrested when she picked up the juvenile from the “area of his residence,” according to the citation. “Post Miranda, the suspect admitted to the previous (sic) mentioned conversations,” the citation claimed.
The Louisville Metro Police did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment.
An arraignment hearing was held on December 16, and Graf entered a not guilty plea, according to WAVE, WLKY and Fox 56. Additionally, her bond was set at $100,000 cash.
She was originally taken into custody at Louisville Metro Detention Center. However, the jail’s website does not state if she is still in custody or if she was released, according to online jail records.
Smyrna Elementary School principal Amanda Cooper addressed the situation in a letter to parents, saying that Graf will be reassigned and will not have contact with students while the criminal case is being investigated, according to WLKY.
It is not currently clear if Graf has obtained a lawyer. The procuring or promoting use of a minor by electronic means charge is generally punishable as a Class C felony in Kentucky, according to the Legislative Research Commission. If Graf is found guilty of the charge, she could be sentenced to serve between five and ten years in prison.
If the victim is under 12 years old, and the offense involves a commercial sexual activity, the offense will still be classified as a Class C felony but may also carry enhanced penalties.
Additionally, it will still be considered a Class C felony if the suspect is a registered sex offender or entered the Commonwealth of Kentucky from another jurisdiction for the purpose of the offense, according to the Legislative Research Commission.
If you know of a young person who is being exploited or is the victim of a crime, you are urged to report it to your local FBI field office by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI. Tips can also be left at tips.fbi.gov.
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N.J. School District Failed to Protect Former Student from 'Obsessed' Teacher Who Allegedly Groped Her and Sent Her Love Notes, Lawsuit Alleges
An unidentified woman is suing the school district and the teacher, who was convicted in 2019 of endangering the welfare of a child and sentenced to five years in prison
KC Baker
Fri, January 30, 2026
Burlington County Prosecutor's Office
NEED TO KNOW
A New Jersey woman is suing her former school district for allegedly failing to protect her when her high school teacher groomed and sexually assaulted her
The teacher, Brantley Cesanek, pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in 2019 and was sentenced to five years in prison
Cesanek was "obsessed" with the student, but no one at the school protected her, the complaint alleges
A New Jersey woman is suing her former school district for allegedly failing to protect her when her high school teacher groomed and sexually assaulted her.
In a civil complaint filed on Jan. 14 in New Jersey Superior Court, a woman identified as Jane Doe A.H. alleges that for more than two years beginning in 2016, Brantley Cesanek, a Latin teacher at Cherokee High School, “preyed upon” her while she was a “young high school student he was entrusted to teach.”
As a result, she was allegedly subjected to sexual grooming, sexual advances and eventually sexual assault, according to the complaint obtained by PEOPLE.
The lawsuit alleges that at one point, Cesanek took the girl into his classroom during school, “pinned her against a wall, and kissed her while touching and groping her underneath her dress."
“This case exposes the horrific experience of a minor student who was abused for years by a teacher and the school system that failed to protect that student,” the lawsuit claims, adding that it "stands as a stark reminder of the dire consequences when those in power choose to turn a blind eye over the safety and well-being of those they are meant to protect."
Named in the suit — which is seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as a jury trial — are the Lenape Regional High School District Board of Education, the Lenape Regional High School District, Cherokee High School and Cesanek.
Arrested in October 2018, Cesanek was charged with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct.
This came after a police investigation into the teacher indicated that he was involved in an "inappropriate ... ongoing sexual relationship" with a student, according to a statement from the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.
"The sexual contact occurred at Cesanek's home in the 300 block of South Park Drive. There was also improper conduct by the defendant with the student while at school," according to the statement, which notes that he pleaded guilty to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced to five years in prison in September 2019.
Cesanek stopped teaching after the arrest and is no longer employed by the district.
He has since been released from prison.
The complaint alleges that Cesanek began preying upon the girl when she was a 15-year-old sophomore and joined the Latin club, which he ran.
During his time with her, he regularly told her she was beautiful, gave her “expensive gifts” including a soccer jersey, let her eat lunch in his classroom and gave her numerous hall passes, it alleges.
He found “surreptitious ways to give her attention, such as bringing her — and only her — breakfast and coffee to school many mornings, in full view of other staff members, who observed this pattern repeatedly but failed to question or report it,” according to the suit.
He would also pass her handwritten love letters, the suit alleges, including one that ended with the words “I love you” written in Greek, "which Cesanek learned A.H. could speak fluently while spending excessive amounts of unsupervised and unnecessary time with A.H. at the School, time the School authorized and facilitated."
“This was not romance — this was a grown man declaring his 'love' to a child he was systematically grooming for sexual abuse, grooming that occurred entirely on school property during school hours with the School’s implicit permission," the suit states.
By the time the girl was a senior, she began withdrawing from Cesanek when she realized his behavior “was abusive” and she felt “traumatized by their interactions," the suit alleges. His alleged "obsession" with her continued after she went to college and, per the complaint, he showed up to her dormitory “unannounced, in a final act of stalking."
While the teen was away at college, her mother found a bag filled with love notes and an "excessive amount of hall passes" Cesanek allegedly wrote for her, per the suit, which states that "the sheer volume of hall passes — physical documentation the School generated and should have tracked — evidenced a pattern the School should have detected years earlier."
The young woman and her family contacted police in October of 2018 and less than 24 hours later, Cesanek was arrested and charged.
“As outlined in the complaint, this case involves years of alleged sexual abuse by a teacher and repeated failures by school officials to intervene despite clear warning signs. Schools are entrusted with children’s safety, and when that trust is broken, the consequences can be life-altering," an attorney for the victim said in a statement to PEOPLE.
"Our courageous client came forward to hold the school district accountable for systemic failures in protecting her and push changes within the district to prevent this from occurring again."
The Lenape Lenape Regional High School District did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Cesanek was unable to be reached as phone numbers for him were out of service.
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