In Thursday’s news release the suspect’s last name is spelled Howey, but Alameda Countyprosecutors have clarified that it is spelled Howry. The correct spelling is included in the updated story below. A Union City elementary school teacher is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on eight felony charges alleging that he molested eight different female students. Michael William Howry, a 47-year-old teacher at Alvarado Elementary School, was arrested at his home in Alameda on Wednesday and is being held at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $1.5 million bail. Union City police said they arrested Howry after an investigation that began last month when an adult witness at Alvarado Elementary School reported that Howry had engaged in criminal acts with a female student. READ MORE HERE

A Dallas ISD middle school teacher has been charged with sexual assault after a 14-year-old girl accused him of having sex with her in his classroom in recent months. The eighth-grade girl told police that the relationship escalated, with Scott Alcaraz buying her Dr Peppers at Marsh Middle School and offering to buy her anything she wanted. It ended after two months when the girl said she saw him kissing another girl in his classroom, court documents state. READ MORE HERE

For victims of a serial rapist broadcaster, his guilty plea may finally bring some good news.  83-year-old veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty to charges that he raped upwards of thirteen girls between 1967 and 1985. The Chief Crown Prosecutor has described Hall as an opportunistic predator who would befriend a target and wait until she was alone, according to BBC.  READ MORE HERE

A mother was charged in the fire deaths of her four children.   Hope Kaneshia Hawkins, 21, the mother of four children who died in a mobile home fire in Hartsville, has been charged with four counts of unlawful neglect of a child and four counts of homicide by child abuse.  According to WBTV, during that news conference, Fire Chief Jeff Burr revealed that the investigation so far has determined that fire began in the kitchen, and has been deemed accidental though they are not sure of the exact cause.  READ MORE HERE

Father and Girlfriend Tried to Hide Son’s Abuse with Make-Up

There was no hiding the child’s disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday. Nor was there any concealing of the abuse of the child by his father and the father’s girlfriend. Not like Chad Cymbalista and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Corcoran, had tried to do April 24, 2012, when they caked makeup on the boy’s face and took him to the Nebraska Medical Center. Tuesday, their abuse of the little boy was laid bare. READ MORE HERE