A special education teacher’s aide in Michigan has been arrested for having “sexual relations” with three separate students.

37-year-old Amy Rita Ellsworth has been accused of having sexual relations with three different students at Waterford Mott High School in Waterford, MI.  She was charged this past Thursday with six counts of criminal sexual conduct with students.  These include two 15-year felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and four life felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

In short, if convicted, she is facing life in prison.

There was no listing of what evidence was discovered against Ms. Ellsworth in any of the numerous reports on the case.  The only fact that was repeated was that it was with three separate students both on and off school grounds.  She also was not an instructor, but just an aide, something they are going to great lengths to stress.

The problem for the school district is that this is the second employee brought up on sex charges in two weeks.  The earlier one was Brian C. Drake, the district’s theater coordinator, was charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student. He is accused of having sex with a female senior during the 2008-2009 in the Waterford Kettering High theater.

Each of Mr. Drake’s felony charges carry a 15-year sentence if convicted.

The Waterford police are said to have begun investing Mr. Drake in September and Ms. Ellsworth in October.

There is something to be said that this problem of school employees having sex with students when it is so out of control that your district has not one, but two investigations going on at the same time.  While I’m sure the two stories are in no way connected, it is just unnerving that the odds of this happening have increased to such a degree that this is even possible.

So glad I don’t have any kids in school.

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

Hard to believe it, but this is the 2000th post on this blog.

Now, that isn’t 2000 consecutive days (I’m at 1,662 days), but it is a total of 2,000 separate posts that I’ve made, some of them even before I started this non-stop run attempt.  It really isn’t that large of an accomplishment compared to most big blogs, some that can do that many posts a month, but when you are the lone writer on a blog, I think it’s worth some form of acknowledgement.

So I thought I would do a quick walk down memory lane of a few of my favorite posts.

Who Is The Best James Bond?

No clue why, but I really liked doing this post, and people seem to like it also as it continues to get new visitors every day.  It was just kind of nice to discuss something that has been a part of pop culture for so long, and is something just about every one has some sort of an opinion on.  I don’t think any two commenters had the exact same order of which actor played the role the best, but that was half the fun.

It also led to me doing Who Is The Best Doctor Who and Who Is The Best Star Trek Captain.

Who Is The Best James Bond?

Anonymous Takes On Scientology

It’s nice to do something on here once in awhile that actually feels like it might open someone’s eyes to the things going on in the world around them. If I can ever get even one person questioning the motivations of the Church of Scientology, then I’ll feel like I’ve accomplished something.

Anonymous Takes On Scientology

Teacher Sex Scandals

I know, I’m cheating by just listing a group of posts, but it’s my blog, and I can if I want!

A lot of friends have asked me privately if there is something in my past that causes me to write about the teacher sex scandals, as in have I ever been sexually assaulted by a teacher.  I can tell you without hesitation that absolutely nothing like what these teachers have done has ever happened to me.  I simply write about these stories because I have known a great number of teachers in my life, and in general I just find it disgusting that any teacher would betray the trust of the student, their family and the community.  So, if they do it, they should be talked about.

I have actually pondered spinning those stories off into their own blog, but that is something I am weighing the pros and cons of at the moment.

Teacher Sex Scandals

47-Year-Old Susan Boyle Wows The Judges On Britain’s Got Talent

For all of the negative things I write about on this site, it is nice sometimes to write about a positive, uplifting story. Susan Boyle was definitely one of those stories, and kudos to her. And, yes, I did actually spin stories about her off into their own blog at SusanBoyleFandom.com which I am still updating with various tidbits about her and her upcoming album entitled “I Dreamed A Dream”.

47-Year-Old Susan Boyle Wows The Judges On Britain’s Got Talent

On To The Next 2,000

I know my favorites seemed heavy on recent posts, but that is partially because I think I am finally finding my voice as a blogger.  One would certainly hope I have after this many posts!

I am excited about the future, and have no intentions of stopping blogging any time soon, so here is to 2,000 more posts of my rambling!

Well, that didn’t take long.

A mere month after 26-year-old Helen Goddard, a trumpet instructor at the City of London School for Girls, was discovered to be having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old female students, she has been given her sentence.  While I normally don’t do follow ups on the sentencing of the teachers I write about, this one just filled in too many holes to be ignored.

According to the London Evening Standard, it was the teenager who instigated the relationship by first discussing personal issues with the teacher, and then eventually going for coffee together that led to the girl attempting to kiss the older woman.  The girl said in a victim impact statement that she felt remorse for the situations he had gotten the teacher into.

While the original story on Helen Goddard had the parents saying they would have no problem with their daughter eventually reconnecting with Ms. Goddard, they have now taken a much harder line over the situation. The young girls parents are now angry and say that the teacher betrayed their trust.  They also revealed that the girl had been telling them she was staying at a friend’s house when she was sneaking away to see the teacher.  Nothing specific was mentioned on how Ms. Goddard ended up taking the girl to Paris for a weekend to attend a Gay Pride parade, but they somehow managed to pull that off also.

As the evidence was presented, more details of the raid that found the two together was revealed.  When the police went to question Ms. Goddard, they found the girl there also, and confiscated numerous sex toys, including “fluffy handcuffs”.  They also seized the girl’s cell phone which contained one text message from Ms. Goddard that read:

‘It’s going to be a beautiful day. I love you. You were on my mind all night.

With the amount of evidence against her, Ms. Goddard confessed to six sexual encounters with the student between February and July of this year.

Speaking on her own behalf, Ms. Goddard said she had been “pressurised” (yes, she said “pressurised”) into the affair by the young girl.  Seeing as the woman is so much older, Judge Anthony Pitts apparently didn’t care; he sentenced Ms. Goddard to 15-months in jail, she must register as a sex offender for 10 years and she is banned for life from working with children.

Other teacher sex scandals from this year

• 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

A mother who gave up her son for adoption years ago, began reconnecting with him over the Internet, and now she stands accused of committing incest with him.

Aimee Louise Sword, a 35-year-old woman from Michigan, gave up a son early on in life for adoption.  According to ABC News, she was allowed limited contact with him over the years, but at some point they began talking more on the Internet.  She now stands accused of having started a sexual relationship with in the Summer of 2008.

In the Fall of 2008, somehow Child Protective Services (CPS) became aware of the situation and alerted the local police.  An investigation was conducted, and Ms. Sword eventually surrendered to the police on April 24th of this year.  She was initially charged with three counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct, but now a judge has lowered it to just one count.  She is currently free on $3,000 bond, and is scheduled to go to a hearing on Sept. 21st.  Ahead of her hearing, she has already plead not guilty.

The details in this case are very sketchy as the boy involved is a minor, and Michigan won’t even allow his age to be revealed to the public.  (not that his age should matter in a case of incest)  Ms. Sword has other children, and all of them have been removed from her home by CPS.

It will be interesting to see what the evidence in this case is, because from the multiple stories I’ve read, no evidence is ever mentioned.  Compared to the teacher sex scandals I normally cover, which usually have heaps of evidence, this one seems to be missing a lot.  While I’m not one to pass judgement usually, you have to wonder if possibly the adopted parent(s) didn’t like the increased contact between Ms. Sword and her son.  I have zero evidence of this, it is pure speculation, but you do have to wonder.

It seems Houston, Texas schools wanted to make sure their students had heard of “sexting” by banning it.

For those who haven’t heard the word endless brandied about it, “sexting” is the slang term for texting sexually suggestive text or pictures to someone else via mobile phone.  It has led to some embarrassing moments for students, and it has become a favorite past time of teachers involved in sex scandals.

According to Breitbart, the Houston, Texas school district, which has over 200,000 students, and is one of the largest districts in the country, was so worried about it that it opted to ban it before the new school year began. “Some principals raised the issue, so we included a provision saying sending, receiving, possessing sexually suggestive messages is forbidden,” Hans Graff, assistant general counsel at the Houston Independent School district, told Breitbart.

See, while this may seem like a way to protect the kids, all they have done is to now make it “cool”.  Any time any authority figures bans something, kids there were never aware of it are now acutely aware of it, and those kids who already knew about it, but had the resisted the urge, will now want to give it a go.  What a way to show “the man” that the kids know better!

This also crosses some lines for me on privacy issues as this rule extends in to the children’s private lives, which their phones are unquestionably part of.  This is like schools that have tried telling kids what they can and cannot blog about.  If it happens off of school grounds, then the school should have no say in it.  Yes, if the phones are brought on to school grounds with the photos, or the photos are taken on school district property, then, yes, they have every right to comment on it.  However, Mr. Graff’s description sure makes it sound like the school district will have a say no matter where it happens.

So, kudos to the Houston school district for making this “cool”, and also for possibly tying up a court room as someone tries to sort this whole thing out after the first kid gets punished for it.  Personally I find sexting disturbing, but there is a point where school districts really should just keep their collective mouth shut.

Well, it isn’t just teachers in the United States that have inappropriate relationships with their students.

26-year-old Helen Goddard, a trumpet instructor at the City of London School for Girls, was discovered to be having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old female students.

Ms. Goddard, nicknamed “the Jazz Lady” by her students, was a child musical prodigy, and even performed at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Sydney, Australia in 2000.  The unnamed girl was a student of hers and they started meeting for coffee after lessons which eventually led to the sexual affair.  Reports indicate that the fair lasted from February to July of this year when another teacher at the school received an anonymous tip to the affair.

After the tip was received, the Headmistress of the school was alerted to the situation and she informed the authorities of the situation.  The police conducted a raid and found the teacher and student together along with an assortment of sexual toys.  Ms. Goddard’s mobile phone was confiscated and text messages of a sexual nature, also known as “sexting”, were found on the teacher’s phone.

Being caught red-handed, Ms. Goddard confessed to the affair.  She went before a judge and plead guilty to six counts of sexual activity with a minor under the age of 16.  (16 is the age of sexual consent in England as opposed to the standard of 18 in the USA)  The judge issued bail and set sentencing for September 21st.  Ms. Goddard faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison, and has already been required to register with the sex offender registry.

In an odd twist, the parents of the girl, both reported to be highly educated individuals, say they will have no problem with the relationship if it was to resume once their daughter turns 16.  The date of her birthday was not disclosed.

Ms. Goddard has been suspended from her teaching duties.

This women now joins 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

UPDATE: Helen Goddard has been sentenced

You know, I may be scratching my head for quite some time over why a Chicago radio station felt the need to collect images of teacher sex scandals in to a photo gallery on its web site.

WBBM News Radio 780, a CBS station in Chicago decided to launch a photo gallery of “Notorious Teacher Sex Scandal Photos” with no real clear reason why or as to what purpose it serves.  People who read my blog know that I talk about teacher sex scandals quite often, but I have also made my reasons as to why I do so very clear.  WBBM’s photo gallery is nothing but pictures with short blurbs attached them about who each woman is and only the most salacious of the facts about their case in the caption with the picture.  In short it reeks of glamorizing this disturbing problem we have seen more and more of over the past few years.

Don’t believe me?  Go and flip through it for yourself for a minute.  Gee, kinda funny how every teacher gets only one picture until you hit the poster child of the “hot teacher” brigade, Debra Lafave.  Ms. Lafave has three separate pictures in the gallery.  Pamela Rogers, another teacher known for her very femme appearance?  Three images.

Even the whole look of the gallery is very slapdash.  Under a picture of Amber S. Jennings there is a note that says “** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 21 ** **FILE**”… you couldn’t be bothered to edit out the AP photo pool notes?  Nice work there, Sparky.

Who knows, maybe they had legit reasons for doing this photo gallery, but it just has the feeling of being exploitative in the worst possible way.  And if it had any sort of reason as to why it was up, that would go a long way to quelling my queasy feeling as to the motivations behind the idea, but for now I am going with, “lets glamorize teacher sex!”

… ew

Thanks to Jo from Jo’s Cafe for emailing me the tip on this

Scattercast is 45… and it’s turning in to an old yelling guy.

- Okay, so I work too much, I admit it. Oh well.

- Walmart is changing their stores, and it may end up damaging one industry quite a bit. How did we let one retailer have this much power?

- The new Buffy movie is really worrying me.

- The teacher sex scandals just get dumber and dumber, and it makes me worry about this country as a whole.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

A new twist to the age-old story of teacher sex scandals where the mother actually knew it was going on.

Maria Guman Hernandez, 32-years-old, has been asked to resign from her position as a sixth-grade teacher at Our Lady of Charity in Hialeah, FL.  The reason is that around May 20th rumors began to circulate that Ms. Hernandez was  having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old eigth-grader at the school.  Principal Xenia Torres struggled with the idea of reporting the rumor to the Department of Children & Families (DCF).  She was informaed by a school lawyer that they had no choice under Florida law, so they made the call.

While the police sought the teacher for questioning, they had to wait for her to return from a vacation she was taking with the student to Walt Disney World.

During the time where they waited for the pair to return, they spoke with the student’s mother and discovered that she was well aware of the relationship and had approved of it because she felt Hernandez “was a nice enough person and a good influence on her son.”

Upon Ms. Hernandez’s return from the vacation, she was taken into custody and admitted to the relationship after she was read her rights.  The student also admitted to a sexual relationship with the teacher, and he informed the police that the sexual relations began in March of this year and that they used his family apartment for their meetings with his mother’s approval.

The mother has not yet been charged with anything, but that may change as the investigation continues.  On late Wednesday a juvenille judge ruled that the mother could keep custody of both the 15-year-old and her 4-year-old, but she would have to under go counseling, and the two boys would have to be checked for emotional damage.  The court also said that a guardian would have to live in the house for a while to help the mother out, and DCF was authoried to make unannounced visits to check in on how the family was doing.

There is still no word on if Hernandez has resigned, but she did make her bail of $10,000 and is currently out of jail.

This women now joins 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
• Helen Goddard, London, England
• Amy Elsworth & Brian Drake, Waterford, MI

A 23-year-old music teacher at Greenfield High School in Greenfield, Missouri has been arrested on allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a student.

Back on May 15th, Alison M. Peck was charged with two counts of statutory rape of a child under the age of 17.  These were followed up on May 18th with charges in a second county and she is now facing statutory rape and sodomy charges.

Reportedly the relationship with the student began in December 2008 via text messages that eventually evolved into sexting, and then became physical in January of this year.  The liaisons were said to have happened in two different counties, and the charges are for statutory rape in Dade County, and statutory rape and sodomy in Lawrence County.

Now, this is where the story takes an odd turn.  I originally passed on covering this story because I had done so many of these lately, and even though this happened in my own state, I showed restraint and passed over it, but then she was arrested again on May 22nd on completely new charges.

After the original charges were filed, Ms. Peck was instructed to have no contact with the student or his family.  On May 15th, two friends of Ms. Peck contacted the 16-year-old boy and arranged for him to meet with her at the American Inn in Springfield, MO for pizza.  The two friends picked up the boy and transported the boy to the arranged meeting spot.  After her friends left, Ms. Peck and the minor were reported to have spent the night at the hotel and engaged in sexual relations.

When authorities learned of the liaison, she was arrested again and charged with one count of statutory rape and her bond in that county was set at $200,000.  Under the new court orders she is to have no contact with the boy or his family, to remain 1,000 feet away from his home and school and to also have no contact with the two friends that assisted her with the May 15th meeting.  She was also ordered not to leave Missouri and had to surrender her passport to the authorities.

In a May 19th interview with KSPR, Ms. Peck’s lawyer, Bob Torp, said the following.

She’s going to cooperate.  We’re going to get to the bottom of this, investigate it.

I want people to understand that she’s a person. She’s not a monster. She’s innocent until proven guilty.

Torp said his client is “doing as well as can be expected. I think that, you know, there’s a certain amount of shock that comes with something like this. It’s just starting to sink in.”

This was of course four days after the reported meeting at the American Inn, and three days before she was arrested again.

UPDATED 06/04/09: Age corrected from 14-years-old to 16-years-old. At the time of the original posting he was being reported at the former, so that is what I went with.

This women now joins 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
• Maria Guman Hernandez, Hialeah, FL
• Helen Goddard, London, England
• Amy Elsworth & Brian Drake, Waterford, MI

There’s bad taste, and then there is REALLY bad taste. One guess which category this idea falls in to.

It seems that Mary Kay Letourneau and her husband Vili Fualaa are hosting a “Hot For Teacher” night at a Seattle nightclub named Fuel.  In case you don’t remember this pair, Mary Kay was Vili’s teacher in 1996, and they began a sexual relationship when he was 13 and she was 34.  Her husband found a letter between the two in February 1997, and between this and Vili’s cousin learning of the relationship, she was arrested and charged with statutory rape.

She was sentenced to 7 & 1/2 years in prison, and four months after starting her sentence she gave birth to a baby girl fathered by Vili.  Two months later she was released on January 1, 1998 for good behavior, and ordered not to see Vili.

On February 3,1998 she and Vili were found in a car by the police and was arrested for violating the court order. She has also failed to join the sex offender program, and evidence was found in the car the implicated she was abut to leave the country. She was placed back in prison for her full possible sentence of 7 & 1/2 years.

In March 1998 it was discovered she was pregnant with a second child by Vili, and she gave birth to that child in October, 1998.  In May 1999 she and her husband, Steve Letourneau, were divorced, and he moved with their four children to Alaska.  Then, in November, 1999, she got six months in solitary confinement for smuggling letters out of prison to Vili.

On August 4, 2004, she was released from prison, and by August 7th Vili was filing for the ban on them seeing each other to be lifted.  They wed on May 20,2005, and Mary Kay is still registered as a Level 2 sex offender who has to have her address verified every 90-days.

So, a woman convicted of committing statutory rape against a student, and her victim-turned-husband, are going to host a party at a night entitled “Hot For Teacher”.  I can’t be the only one who thinks this may be one of the most tasteless ideas ever, can I?  Nope, I’m not.  How anyone can think this is a good idea, from the nightclub to Mary Kay and Vili themselves thinks this is a good idea, is just totally beyond comprehension.  And when did Vili start thinking he was a DJ?

Perhaps some of this year’s teachers involed in sex scandals can make a lucrative career out of hosting nightclub nights that are in bad taste.

• 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

A 40-year-old teaching assistant in Durham, NC has been accused of sexual assault on a 10-year-old boy from the school she works at.

Gina Marie Watring, a mother of three,  has been working at Creekside Elementary School since November 2008, and resigned this week when the allegations that she had sex twice in April, on the 10th and 21st.  The student that has been reported to be 10-years-old, but that remains unconfirmed at this time.

The allegations came to light when another student at the shcool found a note between the teacher and student, and turned it over to school officials.  When the school contacted the student’s mother, she informed them that she had warned Ms. Watring to stay away from her son.  This request was made after she had allowed her son to go placed with Ms. Watring, and they had returned late, or she had to call them to learn where they were.

After the school learned the details, they warned Ms. Watring to have no contact with the student, but she was caught the next day sending him a text in the teacher’s lounge at the school.  Upon further investigation, multiple texts were found on the student’s cell phone from the teacher’s aide, and some of the content was described to be of a sexual nature.  A warrant was also issued for computers for them to be searched for other possible contact between the two.

Ms. Watring is currently being held in jail on $100,000 bond.  Her attorney, a friend of the family who was only representing her for her arraignment, did attempt to get it lowered as he said she did not pose a flight risk, but due to her charges being two felonies, the court opted not to lower it.  All of her further appearances in court will be handled by the public defenders office.

This women now joins 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
• Alison M. Peck, Greenfield, MO
• Maria Guman Hernandez, Hialeah, FL
• Helen Goddard, London, England
• Amy Elsworth & Brian Drake, Waterford, MI