Holly Condra, an elementary school teacher at Griffith Elementary School in Sequatchie County, Tennessee has been arrested after physically assaulting a 9-year-old special education student.

A substitute teacher who worked for Decatur Public Schools has pleaded guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault, admitting in court to having sexual relations with a sixth-grade student.

Alley Bardfield, 34, was arrested in April of last year, when Mt. Zion Police were informed by a mother that Bardfield had an inappropriate relationship with her 11-year-old son. The boy was assigned to Bardfield’s class at Hope Academy in Decatur. The substitute teacher invited the boy to multiple “play dates” at her home in 2023 and then twice in March 2024, during which time the pair had two sexual encounters.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for Andrew James McGann, an elementary school teacher who was arrested for the stabbing death two people who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, according to a preliminary probable cause affidavit released Thursday.

“McGann, 28, of Pinecrest Street in Springdale was arrested by Arkansas State Police on Wednesday in connection with two counts of capital murder. McGann is being held at the Washington County Detention Center with no bond set.”

A Mississippi teacher who received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award in 2022, was arrested for multiple new sex crime charges after a previous arrest in May of 2024. During a court appearance on July 23, 2025, Tyler Shows pled not guilty to six charges. His bond was set at $90,000 on three new child exploitation charges.

A New Jersey elementary school teacher was indicted for allegedly abusing a student over the course of several years, while it is also being reported that she gave birth to the boy’s child.

A former educator has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for various sex crimes involving children.

Ryan England was found guilty on April 24, 2025, of Inappropriate and Unlawful Behavior, having molested four of his first-grade students, both during class and after school.

Duane Sanders is charged with committing 19 different crimes against 9 of his students. Those charges include continuous sexual abuse of a child and aggravated sexual battery. Two former students and a mother of one of the students shared their stories with a jury in Chattanooga Thursday morning.

George Vega, was arrested Tuesday, nearly three weeks after the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office received word that the elementary school teacher had “inappropriate contact with a student.”

“Elementary school students transported to hospital. Johnstown Elementary School posted a news release alerting parents that a kindergarten student gave out "alcohol in the form of small jello cups ‘to three other students.’”

Four fifth grade students were detained in Surprise after they plotted to kill one of their classmates by luring him to an outside bathroom at their school, where one would stab him in the stomach while the others acted as lookouts, police said.

Joseph Dalton, the former Blount County Schools gym teacher who pleaded guilty to touching elementary school students, was sentenced Wednesday.

He’ll serve six months of supervised probation for the five assault charges levied against him, court officials confirmed Wednesday.