Welcome to Top10Archive! While in school, have you ever had it bad for one of your teachers?
It's okay if you did, it's a pretty common occurrence among adolescents. When the roles
are reversed, however, you get an entirely different scenario that winds up on the evening
news and in this taboo Archive of the top 10 most shocking teacher / student affairs.
10. Bethany Sherrill 24-year-old Bethany Sherrill had a pretty
sweet arrangement as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Farmington, Missouri.
As the daughter-in-law of the school-board president, who knows what hand-me-downs she
could have received. The fool threw it all away, though, when she opted to engage in
lewd acts with a student. Her inappropriate relationship was uncovered when the parent
of another student stumbled across text messages from Sherrill that suggested inappropriate
acts. While investigators were looking at this relationship, a 14-year-old student stepped
forward, claiming the two had engaged in sexual acts. Sherrill resigned from her position
and took a plea for first-degree sexual misconduct, forcing her to register as a sex offender
and spend 90 days behind bars. 9. Shelley Dufresne and Rachel Respess
This dynamic duo came crumbling down when the 16-year-old they were fornicating with
likely got a little cocky and told his friends of the inappropriate relationship the three
were sharing. According to the lawsuit filed against Dufresne, Respess, and the St. Charles
Parish public school system, Dufresne allegedly had sexual encounters with the 16-year-old
student more than 40 times within a 36-day time span. Respess came into the picture amidst
the affair and, knowing full well the student's age, offered her apartment as the perfect
setting for a 3-some between her, Dufresne, and the student. Both teachers have pleaded
not guilty to charges brought against them in Jefferson Parish, where Respess' apartment
is, but Dufresne did plead guilty to an earlier charge of felony obscenity in St. Charles
Parish. 8. Sherry Jo Duncan
Tishomingo Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Duncan was in for a shocking surprise when,
in September of 2016, his wife and alternative education high school teacher in the district,
Sherry Jo Duncan, was arrested for alleged inappropriate contact with a 14-year-old student.
Text messages sent between Sherry and the student were uncovered, revealing a slew of
lascivious conversations between the two. After their relationship was uncovered, the
student revealed to officers their sexual encounters and chronicled several scenarios
in detail, one of which involved a drive home from a movie with Duncan's daughter asleep
in the car. 7. Virginia Houston Hinckley
Sometimes all it takes is word of mouth to sink a person, and if not for two students
talking a little too loudly about her brief affair with a 16-year-old student, Virginia
Hinckley may have been able to walk away unscathed. However, the 26-year-old St. Augustine high
School teacher turned herself in after hearing of a warrant for her arrest in late-2015.
The self-described "bubbly" teacher was alleged to have had sexual relations with a student
in the back seat of her vehicle. Though their relationship prior to the encounter was flirtatious,
a week after their vehicular romp, communication between the two was said to have ceased and
wasn't spoken about again until the investigation opened in October.
6. Pamela Turner Engaging in sexual acts with an underage individual
is a road with one ending. For 27-year-old Pamela Turner, that depraved road led her
to exactly where she deserved. After serving a reduced sentence of 6 months in prison for
engaging in intercourse with a 13-year-old student, the former teacher was faced with
a 6-year prison sentence when she was caught re-engaging the youngster with nude selfies.
She spent only 3 years in jail after being released in 2012 and faced additional prison
time in June of 2015 for smuggling cell phones into a state prison. Far from the picture
of the perfect citizen, Turner's original crime was heinous, especially as the young
boy altered his life and dumped his girlfriend to spend more time with the gym teacher.
5. Alexandria Vera At the start of the 2015 school year at Stovall
Middle School in the Aldine Independent School District, 24-year-old Alexandria Vera was
introduced to a 13-year-old boy that would forever change her life. The young student
and Alexandria are said to have engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship throughout
the school year, one that left the English teacher with an unexpected surprise. In January
of 2016, Alexandria became pregnant, though she opted for an abortion after her relationship
with the boy went public. Throughout the investigation, Alexandria claimed that the boy's family was
"Accepting of their relationship" and the coming baby, leaving one to wonder who is
the crazier party involved in this twisted tale of taboo love. For her misdeeds, Alexandria
faces 25 years to life if found guilty. 4. Wendie A. Schweikert
The small town in Laurens County, South Carolina wasn't a place known for its high profile
criminal cases, so when rumors of a teacher / student affair started circulating, it took
everybody - including the authorities - by surprise. What seemed to make the case even
worse was the age of the student that 36-year-old Wendie Schweikert of E. B. Morse Elementary
School was having relations with. The unidentified 11-year-old 5th grader wasn't entirely shy
about giving up his teacher and told his mother about their encounters. A year prior to her
arrest, Wendie had engaged the student on 3 separate occasions, one of them during a
field trip to amusement and gaming park, Frankie's Fun Park.
3. Leah Shipman Sometimes love really can conquer all, and
in the case of Leah Shipman, her love for then 15-year-old Johnnie Ison beat even the
court system. In 2009, the 42-year-old Brunswick County Academy teacher was arrested for alleged
sexual relations with a 15-year-old student. Had the investigation succeeded and the charges
against her proven, Leah would have spent up to 15 years in prison, but the odd couple
threw a curveball when they got married in 2011. According to North Carolina law, a husband
is not required to testify against his wife, meaning the prosecution's star witness was
untouchable. As if the allegations of sexual assault of a minor weren't bad enough, at
the time of their nuptials, Ison was still a minor, meaning his parents had to give written
permissions for the marriage to be legal. 2. Mary Kay Letourneau
It all started rather innocently, with Mary Kay befriending Vili Fualaau, a student she
started teaching in her 2nd-grade class at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Washington.
The two were reunited in Mary Kay's 6th-grade class and it was then that their relationship
became flirtatious. By the summer of 1996, the two were engaged in a sexual relationship.
The teacher was arrested in March of 1997, but by that point, she was already pregnant
with her first child with Fualaau. In 1998, after serving 6 months in jail, Mary Kay was
caught with 14-year-old Fualaau and sent back to prison for 7 1/2 years. During her sentence,
she birthed Fualaau's 2nd daughter. When she was released in 2004, the two got married
and finally sealed the deal on their 9-year relationship.
1. Erin McLean Up until now, most of the parties involved
in these salacious affairs came out on the other side physically unharmed. The tragic
case of Erin McLean's affair with 18-year-old Sean Powell was not as clean cut, ending in
a gunshot heard throughout Knoxville, Tennessee and a pool of blood. After learning details
of Erin's alleged affair with a student from the high school she counseled at, Eric Powell
was enraged. On March 10th, 2007, Eric returned home to find Powell at their residence with
his wife, grabbed his shotgun, and shot the student dead. One would think this would end
with a murder trial, but 5 months after the fatal shooting, allegations of a new affair
between Erin and a student at Pioneer Christian Academy surfaced. Of course, to this day,
the now-former teacher vehemently denies any additional teenager relationships beyond Powell.