Dec
2009
38-Year-Old Alabama Teacher Charged With Rape Of Student
Public schools across the United States are closed for the winter holidays, but apparently not all teachers are done seeing their students.
Amanda Watkins, a 38-year-old mother and teacher at Sheffield Jr. High School in Alabama, has been arrested on second degree rape charges. According to the Shoals Insider, Ms. Watkins was discovered Saturday night by the police in a vehicle parked near the Covenant Christian school, off of Hwy. 43 in Muscle Shoals.
The officers responded to an alarm at the Christian school, and upon arrival they noticed a car with heavily fogged windows. When the police approached the car, they discovered Ms. Watkins engaged in sexual activity with a 15-year-old African-American male. It has now been confirmed the boy was in one of Ms. Watkins’ classes during the 2008 – 2009 school year.
Ms. Watkins has been placed on administrative leave from teaching 8th grade English and reading classes pending this investigation. Although, it has been reported that Ms. Watkins has made a full confession, this has not yet been confirmed by an official source on the record.
She has been charged with sodomy and rape in the second degree, which is a class B felony and carries a sentence of 2-20 years imprisonment. Upon her release she would be monitored and required to register as a sex offender.
Ms. Watkins has been released from jail on $15,000 bond.
These two now join the roll call of teacher sex scandals for 2009!
- Christine McCallum, Boston, MA
- Lisa Lavoie, Holyoke, MA
- Christy Lynn Martin, St. Petersburg, FL
- Linda Nef and Valynne Bowers, Bountiful, UT
- Sarah L. Tolzien, Richton Park, IL
- Autumn Faulkner, Randolph County, WV
- Lindsay Massaro, Hackettstown, NJ
- Lauren Breslin, Vineland, NJ
- Kristina Anna Baeta, Union City, CA
- Raeanna Jewell, Apache Junction, AZ
- Jennifer Lea Burton, Orangefield, TX
- Tamara Hofmann, Chandler, AZ
- Jennifer Marie Collier, Jacksonville, FL
- Gina Marie Watring, Durham, NC
- Alison M. Peck, Greenfield, MO
- Maria Guman Hernandez, Hialeah, FL
- Helen Goddard, London, UK
- Amy Rita Ellsworth & Brian Drake, Waterford, MI
- Alini Brito & Cindy Mauro, Brooklyn, NY
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Jude | December 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pm #
This is nobody's business. To ruin this beautiful woman's life because she was attracted to a younger male is terrifying. And I think her husband, who is, shall we say, not hitting as much viagra as he should, is more at blame here.