NEW YORK–A history teacher received a lesson in criminal justice Thursday after being arrested for having a year and a half long sexual relationship with one of his own 8th grade students. And it was his wife who dropped the dime on him.Sex Ed was on the curriculum at the Susan B. Anthony school in Queens, except it was private lessons between a 13-year-old girl and her 44-year-old history teacher Charles Oross, officials said. Oross, a married father of 2 from East Islip, Long Island was charged with statutory rape Thursday morning of his 8th grade student.

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LAGUNA HILLS — A school bus driver has been arrested on suspicion of sexually molesting three children younger than 14 at his Laguna Hills apartment, officials said Thursday. Shane Norman Crawford, 37, worked as a bus driver for 12 years, most recently for First Student Transportation Services, driving buses for several schools in Orange County, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino.

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HARRODSBURG, KY — The mother of a 9-year-old autistic boy in central Kentucky says her son was stuffed inside a duffel bag at school for misbehaving. Sandra Baker says that last week, she was called to Mercer County Intermediate School, where her son Christoper is enrolled in a special needs program, because he was acting up.

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Two men were charged Friday with rape of girls they met at Governor’s Square Mall, according to Montgomery County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Ted Denny.Timothy Crawford Jr., 23, who gave a 1235 Parkway Place Apt. G address, was charged with child rape. Dominique Elder, 20, who gave the same address, was charged with rape, Denny said. Both men are Fort Campbell soldiers, he said.

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DOVER— The former Provider bus driver already indicted on federal charges involving the sexual exploitation of children was indicted this month by the state on 15 new charges, alleging he sexually abused a local child between February 2009 and February 2011. If convicted, the charges could send him to prison for more than 200 years.

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Father Now Says He Was “Only Joking”

A South Side father who allegedly posted a Facebook photo of his 22-month-old daughter bound and gagged was just joking around and the whole case has been “blown out of proportion” by the Internet, his attorney and family said today. Andre Curry, 21 — who has no criminal background — was charged with aggravated domestic battery, a felony, after turning himself in to police on Tuesday.

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BELLFLOWER, CA– Sheriff’s investigators arrested the coach of the Bellflower High School girls basketball and track teams Tuesday, saying he sexually assaulted a former student over a period of four years. Bryan Shepherd, 47, of Long Beach, was a coach at the school for the past five years, according to a news release issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

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LONDON — Researchers in the UK say they found traces of cocaine on 92 percent — roughly 9 out of 10 — public baby changing tables. The study was conducted by journalists from Real Radio, a station in North West England, the Huffington Post reports. They used specialized wipes to test changing tables in shopping centers, hospitals, churches, supermarkets and department stores, among other places.

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SANTA CLARITA, CA– A 19-year-old Santa Clarita man is facing 29 felony counts of sex with minors after he was arrested last week by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators. Michael Downs allegedly had sex with at least 14 girls under the age of 18 in 2011 after meeting the girls on Facebook. Deputies arrested him last week.

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Thousands of photos and videos were taken by an international paedophile ring and distributed over the internet of the “horrific” child abuse of two young children in the UK and one in Australia, a British court has heard. A sentencing hearing at Portsmouth Crown Court was told that Melissa Noon and her partner Robert Hathaway met the three other defendants, Lee Parson, Stephen Fraser and Simon Hilton, over the internet to carry out the abuse. A six-week trial heard that two young children were abused by the group in the UK, which used a nudist website as a guise for their perversions.

FRANKFORT, KY. — At a packed committee hearing, Kentucky legislators berated the state’s top child-welfare officials Monday for failing to accurately report child-abuse fatalities.And one lawmaker called for the resignation of the cabinet secretary who oversees Kentucky’s child-welfare programs, saying the state was withholding information.

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Order prompted by Penn State, Syracuse University scandals

MADISON— Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Monday signed an executive order requiring any state university employee to report any possible child abuse or neglect to an outside agency, or the police, who will be required to investigate, which virtually eliminates any opportunity to sweep the abuse under the rug.

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