Peyton Wolcott - Pass the Trash

It appears that Campbell’s
propensities were known
beforehand but the district
hired him anyway.   I base
this in part on the
indifference expressed by
the assistant high school
principal when the plaintiff’s
aunt apprised him of what
had occurred, as alleged in
plaintiff’s sworn complaint:
“On or about November 19,
2003, co-defendant Rick
Prewitt, assistant [Burnet]
High School principal, was
made aware of the incident
against the plaintiff by
plaintiff’s aunt. He stated to
plaintiff’s aunt that ‘this
should be kept quiet
because we [are] in the
playoffs and this could hit the
news media, and would not
be good for Paige (plaintiff)
or the school.’”   The
complaint, however, goes
further. It states that Craig
Spinn, high school principal,
told the plaintiff’s mother that
“he was aware that co-
defendant Foy Campbell
had engaged in sexual
relations with a student at
Lampasas during his
employment by the school
system in Lampasas, and
that it had been ‘swept under
the carpet’ when Burnet High
School hired him.”
(continued in grey sidebar at
far right)

Questions being
faxed to BCISD supe
Jeffrey Hanks today:
o "Why did you hire Foy
Campbell?"
o "What did you know about
Foy Campbell's history in
Lampasas and when
did you know it?"
o "Did Foy Campbell fully
complete his employment
application?"
o "Did you do or cause to
be done a criminal
background check on Foy
Campbell including
fingerprints before hiring
him?"
o "What is your annual
budget"?

I will post the district's
response if any when
received.   It is my sincere
hope that Hanks will save
his taxpayers some money
and answer these simple
and straightforward
questions himself rather
than involving Walsh
Anderson's employment
law attorneys.

Foy Leighton Campbell's
State Board for Educator
Certification page shows
that he possesses a
Secondary Mathematics
certificate for grades 6-12,
valid through Dec. 31, 2007,
and the notation that "This
individual is currently under
review by the SBEC
Professional Discipline
Unit."   This must be a
comfort to Paige and her
family.

P E Y T O N W O L C O T T

Conservative Commentary - "Pass the Trash" educators

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Never-before
released photos:
Texas supe's fall
By Peyton Wolcott
Revised Sun., Dec. 17, 2006

(COMPLETE
STORY HERE)
Former Llano ISD supe
Jack Patton's fall--from
superintendent of one of
Texas' richest school districts
and former superintendent of
the year--to selling BBQ from a
convenience store/gas station
in East Texas can be traced to
one specific action on his part:
His refusal to produce a steak
dinner receipt in response to a
public records request, thus
becoming Texas' first Public
Information Act conviction,
according to Texas Attorney
General Greg Abbott.
These photographs are being
published now as (1) a
cautionary tale for those
superintendents who appear
to their parents and taxpayers
to think and act as though they
are above the law, and (2) as
an encouragement to parents
and taxpayers stuck with
superintendents who appear
to think and act as though they
are above the law.
History teaches us that tyrants
fall and justice and truth
eventually prevail.

PHOTOS, clockwise from top:
Jack Patton waiting while
trustees deliberate his
settlement; Patton with
attorney in Johnson City
courtroom; LISD trustee
handing papers (see arrow)
back to Patton during
settlement deliberation-- which
papers trustees later denied
having seen; LISD board
president beckoning Patton
back inside after deliberation.
All of these photos in larger
easier-to- see sizes here.

Burnet CISD
total
disbursements
all funds 2004-05
$44,762,563

1. "On or about November 27,
2006 a call was made to the
Burnet Police Department from
[BCISD] concerning a female
teacher’s aid and her sexual
involvement with a 17 year-old
male high school student."
(SOURCE--Harvey Klee)

(R) BCISD
supe Jeffrey M.
Hanks; BCISD
employee D.J.
Elsasser
(PHOTO--KXAN)

Att'y Mark Goulet
of Walsh Anderson

As a purely practical
matter, the problem with this
practice is that we now have a
situation called "Pass the
Trash," where educators can
pass in and out of districts all
over the U.S. For example,
although former Llano ISD
superinten- dent Jack Patton
(story above right) surrendered
his Texas educator credentials
as part of his conviction for
violations of the Texas Public
Information Act, there is
nothing in the world to keep
Patton from hypothetically
driving over the Louisiana
border near his home and
getting a job as an educator in
that state.

The average school
district will generally allow
educators such as the three
above to leave, with no notice
added to personnel files, for
several reasons, not the least
of which is the possibility that
the educators can sue the
district if there's a dispute.

In the D.J. Elsasser
case, Burnet supe Jeff
Hanks says he consulted the
district's lawyer, Mark Goulet,
a shareholder in Texas
education law firm Walsh
Anderson. "In a telephone
interview with The Bulletin on
Feb. 13, four days after
Elsasser's arrest, Hanks said
he consulted with the school
district's law firm and on their
advice made a report to the
State Board of Educator
Certification. 'Based on the
information I had, there was no
compelling reason to make a
report to law enforcement,'
Hanks said. 'Based on the
information we had, there was
no reason to believe there was
a criminal act.' " (SOURCE--The
Burnet Bulletin)

Burnet HS homecoming
parade

2004 Burnet HS
football coaches

Is federal legislation
the answer?
There was a bill in Congress
which did not see passage;
House Bill 6411, known as
“The Jeremy Bell Act of 2006,”
was named for a West Virginia
boy who died while visiting a
fishing cabin belonging to
Friedrichs, his elementary
school principal.

Edgar Friedrichs, Jr.
(Philadelphia Weekly)

Friedrichs was later convicted of
sexually abusing
Bell’s friends, and in a separate
trial three years ago, Friedrichs
was convicted of killing Bell.

Now let's take a
closer look at Foy
Campbell, the former
Burnet CISD coach.
Regarding Campbell, he
"was employed by the
Lampasas ISD before being
hired by the Burnet school
district as a football coach.
While at Lampasas,
according to the 33rd
District Attorney’s Office,
Campbell was involved in
'multiple instances of sexual
misconduct, inappropriate
sexual behavior and
improper relationship
between an educator and a
student on or about June 1,
2001 with two students in
Lampasas County, Texas.'
The Burnet CISD either
knew or should have known
of these prior 'crimes and
bad acts' before Campbell
was hired and once known,
should not have hired him."
(SOURCE--Burnet Bulletin)

Edgar Friedrichs, Jr. as a
young teacher in Pennsylvania

"Background checks are conducted to weed out the
incompetent or undesirable. As later explained, according
to one of the allegations in the Complaint, the Burnet CISD
did in fact know of Campbell’s prior sexual relations with
at least one student while employed at Lampasas ISD."
(Ibid.)

The Edgar
Friedrichs murder
case is a prime
example of how
severe the
consequences of
"Passing the Trash"
can be.

CONCLUSION: While my
immediate instinct to the
proposed Jeremy Bill Act
was enthusiasm, my
enthusiasm is now
tempered. This is a bill that
would, if passed, perhaps make
parents feel temporarily safer,
and that is all.

At the end of the day, such bills
are only as good and as effective
as their enforcement. The
Jessica Lunsford Act and its
predecessors all look good on
paper, but if the district that
employed John Evander Couie
can't manage to turn in their
paperwork within a few weeks of
the bill's passage, how much
more compliant will other
districts be?

If such a bill passed, we'd have
more federal controls--
theoretically, anyway--and in
actuality we'd still only have what
we have now: parental
responsibility at the local school
district level to insist that our
schools do their jobs and
perform thorough background
checks.

HOW DO WE PUT AN
END TO "PASS THE
TRASH"?
By Peyton Wolcott
Revised Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006

3. "In 2005, 29-year-old Foy
Campbell was indicted on a
sexual assault of a child
charge. He was a football
coach at Burnet High School.
The accuser claims he picked
her and another teenager up in
his vehicle for sex in Buchanan
Dam in 2003. He made a deal
with prosecutors and received
probation on an injury to a child
charge." (SOURCE--KXAN)

2. "Acting on telephone tips
from the public, the Burnet
Police Department became
involved in an alleged case of
inappropriate conduct by an
educator with a student--a
crime school district officials
knew about but never reported
until confronted by law
enforcement officials. Danya
Jean Elsasser [right], 32, was a
teacher at R.J. Richey Middle
School and long distance track
coach for the district."
(SOURCE--The Highlander)
NOTE: Mrs. Elsasser's
husband Rich Elsasser is
Burnet Middle School
principal.

Edgar Friedrichs "began
his teaching career in
his native Pennsylvania.
Men now in their 40s who were
once his grade school students
testified in Fayette County
Circuit Court about how
Friedrichs molested them in
their Pennsylvania school. He
was never charged with any
crimes in Pennsylvania, but the
parents of students there
believed he had been banished
from teaching.

"Instead he began a new
career in West Virginia.
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick
introduced a bill this month that
would require schools to do a
better job of checking the
backgrounds of potential
teachers. Now that Congress
has adjourned for the year and
Fitzpatrick is leaving office,
Patricia Wandling, a member of
Fitzpatrick’s staff, said
Wednesday that the bill would
have to be introduced again."
(SOURCE--Susan Williams/West
Virginia Gazette)

In 2003, Burnet CISD wide receiver
Jordan Shipley, left, was awarded a
ball by Burnet HS principal Craig
Spinn (far right) for breaking the state
receiving record. (PHOTO--Alex
Jones/Austin American-Statesman)

A closer look at Burnet
CISD's football'n'balloons
climate that would enable
the hiring of a Foy
Leighton Campbell, Jr.

Burnet High head football coach Bob
Shipley at BCISD Football Signing
Day in high school library, Feb. 4,
2004

Three seasons after
Burnet's "Signing
Day" Burnet High's star
football players are still
grabbing headlines. Here's
one from this past
Thanksgiving Day from the
Austin American- Statesman:

'Horn or Aggie, Always
a Bulldog'
Jordan Shipley and Stephen
McGee, who thrilled Burnet
as high school football stars,
meet Friday in the
Texas-Texas A&M game.

McGee plays for the Texas
A&M Aggies, and Shipley for
the University of Texas
Longhorns. And, oh,
Jordan Shipley's father
Bob Shipley is head coach
at Burnet HS.

NOTED: Two of the
three BCISD educators
listed above are
coaches.

Bob Shipley (right), head Burnet HS
Bulldogs football coach, with Pastor
Rodney McGee, Stephen's dad;
Shipley led both boys and their team
to 3A state title games their junior and
senior years. (PHOTO--Alex
Jones/Austin American-Statesman)

Burnet HS Gym

Thar's gold in them thar education fields (above); this is the entrance to Burnet High School;
note the new Cadillac and the Range Rover in assigned staff (see inset) parking slots.

FACT: Neither then-Citrus
County School District supe
David Hickey (above) nor
then-Homasossa Elementary
principal Roberta Long nor
then-Homasossa ES assistant
principal (and now HES
principal) Regina Allegretta
appear to have made sure that
all workers involved in
Homasossa's renovation were
safe for school children to be
around.

QUESTION: Do federal laws
and controls help when
educators do not appear to be
using common sense and
operating with a sense of
urgency when it comes to
protecting our children and
their students?

Perhaps Florida's Citrus
County Public Schools
might be a good place
to look next.

Jessica Lunsford (left);
John Evander Couey

FACT: "For five months,
convicted sex offender John
Evander Couey
worked as a mason's helper at
Homosassa Elementary
School, where 9-year-old
Jessica Lunsford attended
class." (SOURCE--St. Petersburg
Times) Further, "a mason on
the job said Couey had direct
contact with students and
teachers during the project,
though it was unknown
whether he had contact with
Jessica." (Ibid.)

David Hickey (PHOTO-RonThompson /St.
PetersburgTimes)

Sept. 19, 2005--five and a half
months after Gov. Jeb Bush
approved the legislation and
almost three weeks after the
bill went into effect.
QUERY TO HIMMEL
NOW OVER A YEAR OLD
WITH NO ANSWER YET:
On Dec. 14, 2005 I first
contacted Sandra "Sam"
Himmel asking why the district
was so slow in complying with
requirements of the Jessica
Lunsford Act.

Jessica Lunsford
Student - Homosassa Elementary School

October 6, 1995 – Born
February 23, 2005 - Abducted
February 27, 2005 - Died
March 18, 2005 - Couey confessed
March 19, 2005 - Body found in hole

Rest in Peace, Dear Child.

FACT: In medicine the first rule is, "Do no
harm." Why isn't this true also in education?

"Homosassa Elementary School principal Regina Allegretta, left, jokes with media
specialist Deborah Kenney inside the school's recently completed media center
Tuesday afternoon. The opening of the media center, along with the school's new
cafeteria, was delayed due to serious construction problems." (PHOTO--Stephen J.
Coddington/St. Petersburg Times)

FACT: This photo above was published August 7, 2005, just
over four months after Jessica Lunsford's death. Gone
apparently are the crisis counselors Allegretta brought in to
assist students and teachers.
FACT: A banner reading, "Where Our Children Come First" still
scrolls across Homosassa's webpage. What does this slogan
mean in a school that failed to screen visitors and workmen
adequately? If children really come first at this school, wouldn't
the children's safety have been the first order of the day?

Sandra "Sam"
Himmel

FACT: Current Citrus County
School District supe Sandra
"Sam" Himmel's letter to
vendors regarding compliance
with Florida's HB 1877 (the
Jessica Lunsford Act) is dated

Burnet MS principal Rich Elsasser
at school (above); wife Danya Jean
Elsasser (KXAN) in court this week

Coach's alleged molesta-
tion of student ignored
because 'We are in the
playoffs'?
By Peyton Wolcott
First published Sun., Jan. 14,
2007

Burnet HS football coaching
staff (PHOTO/Burnet CISD)

To understand the
above headline, you
first have to understand the
importance of football here
in Texas, especially
small-town rural Texas.
Here's an illustration: Late
one afternoon a few years
back my husband and I
were driving home from San
Antonio; about halfway, we
passed an enormous
convoy of Burnet CISD
school buses plus a
seemingly endless stream
of pickups and SUV's, all
heading towards San
Antonio. It appeared all of
Burnet ("The Bluebonnet

Capitol of Texas") was
driving to San Antonio to
support their football team
in the state playoffs that
night. They lost, but the
entire town was there to
cheer them on.

Burnet's a nice small
town (population 4,735
according to the 2000
census) with beautiful
scenery, a picturesque
central square with some
great antique shops, some
quarries and mines, and a
state prison for women
(Halbert SAFP*); the local
school district is the largest
local budget and the
largest employer. Heading
the list of assets on the
Chamber's website are the
library and post office.
According to local historian
John Hallowell in Hill
Country Magazine,
"attendance at the [Burnet
HS Friday night] football
game is more than the
town’s entire population."
So this is the context of
high school football in
Burnet.

Retired California attorney
and Bluffton, Texas
resident (near Buchanan
Dam) Harvey Klee has
been covering goings-on
involving the three BCISD
staffers who have had
sexually related complaints
filed against them in the
past two years in his
commentaries. Here's
what Harvey learned from
reviewing the complaint
against Foy Campbell:

* "SAFP" is the acronym for
"Substance Abuse Felony
Punishment."

WHAT ELSE IS
BURNET CISD NOT
FULLY DISCLOSING?
How much money is
BCISD raking in annually,
$21 million or twice that
amount, $42 mil?

According to the Burnet
Chamber of Commerce
website, the "Public School
Budget" is "$20,788,200."
But according to the Texas
Education Agency, BCISD's
total expenditures for all
funds for the most recent
reporting period (2004-05)
were "$41,988,164."

Friday Night Lights–Out!
Former Burnet High School Coach Sued
for Sexual Assault upon a Minor
By Harvey Klee
Posted July 31, 2006

It wasn’t one of Foy Campbell
Jr.’s most sterling moments, although he had
several of them in his illustrious career. As a
football coach in the local school district he was a
hero on campus, admired and looked up to by his
colleagues and students alike. High moral
standards were expected of him both on and off
the field. After all, he was the coach. Not just any
coach but one of the football coaches of the Burnet
Bulldogs – one of the most successful teams in
the conference from Central Texas. It was 2003
and once again they found themselves in the
playoffs heading for the state finals as they had the
year before.

Campbell had more to celebrate that Tuesday
night than just a winning season. He was engaged
to Rikkie Love, a teacher at Burnet High School,
and was soon to be married. His friends cooked
up a bachelor party for Coach Campbell, sort of a
last fling at the single life before exchanging
marriage vows of lifelong fidelity. According to court
documents, around 10:00 p.m. as Campbell was
driving under the influence of alcohol on highway
29, he spied a couple of girls from Burnet High
School driving down the same highway. He
signaled them to pull over in an uninhabited and
unlit area. What follows is abstracted from a sworn
complaint filed July 25, 2006 in the United States
District Court, Western District of Texas, Austin
Division.

Once they had pulled over, Campbell invited the
two girls to take a drive in his new truck. Campbell
said he would let Veronica, the 18 year-old and
driver, to drive his truck. However, he coerced the
female passenger, 16 year-old Paige, into his truck
by saying she could either wait by the side of the
highway in this dark and deserted area until they
came back or go with them. Paige didn’t have a
driver’s license or even a learner’s permit and was
unable to drive home by herself. Besides, Veronica
was Paige’s cousin and older; she felt reasonably
safe in getting into the truck.

Once inside the truck, however, Campbell forced
Paige to perform fellatio on him in spite of her
spoken refusals and pushing him away. Campbell
was older and stronger than Paige and held a
position of authority over her as a coach at the High
School. She conceded, thinking it the only way she
would be able to get home. Campbell’s conduct is
bad enough but what followed, in my opinion,
borders on criminal irresponsibility by the school
district and several of its employees.

Paige’s aunt notified Nick Prewitt, Assistant
Principal of Burnet High School, as to what had
happened to her niece. Alleged in the sworn
complaint filed in this matter, he stated, “This
should be kept quiet because we (are) in the
playoffs and this could hit the news media and not
be good for Paige or the school.”

Two days later, Paige and her mother appeared at
a meeting called by school officials. Jeffery Hanks,
Superintendent of the Burnet Consolidated
Independent School District; Ed Middlebrooks,
Assistant Superintendent of the BCISD; Craig
Spinn, Principal of Burnet High School; and Prewitt
were present. These four school representatives
were all males. The female school counselor, who
called Paige’s mother encouraging her to call
Principal Spinn, did not attend the meeting. In fact,
no victim’s advocate, nurse, or anyone familiar with
assisting child victims of sexual assault attended
the meeting which lasted over an hour and twenty
minutes.

Following the meeting, Principal Spinn told Paige’s
mother that Child Protective Services would be
notified and would contact her about the incident
as per school policy. Paige’s mother asked the
school to provide counseling for her daughter.
Child Protective Services, however, has never
contacted Paige nor did the school arrange
counseling for her.

Aggravating the situation further, Spinn told Paige’s
mother that he was aware Campbell had engaged
in sexual relations with a student in the Lampasas
school district during his prior employment in that
district and that it had been “swept under the
carpet” when Burnet High School hired him. As it
turned out, Campbell had engaged in multiple
instances of sexual misconduct with Lampasas
students in 2001, yet he was hired by BCISD.

Matters didn’t come to a halt following this high
level meeting with school administrators; Paige
was assigned to a class taught by Rikki Love, who
by then had married Campbell. Paige immediately
got leave from another teacher to go to the office to
get her class assignment changed. She didn’t
want to be in a class taught by the wife of the man
who sexually assaulted her. In the hallway, Paige
was approached by teacher Denise Love, Rikki’s
mother and now Campbell’s mother-in-law, who
called Paige a “slut.” Both Rikki and Denise were
later overheard talking about Paige, calling her a
liar and stating that they “didn’t care who heard
them” talking. The harassment continued. Paige
was assigned to take classes from teacher Frank
Love, Campbell’s father-in law. The school refused
Paige’s mother’s request that she be reassigned.

Criminal charges were brought against Campbell
to which he pled guilty but only after the charges
were reduced to that of a Class “A” misdemeanor.
He was placed on 30 days probation, fined $1,000
and $198 in court costs. This is the extent of the
penalty paid by Campbell for sexually assaulting a
16 year-old child even though the prosecuting
attorney submitted evidence of "Multiple instances
of sexual misconduct, inappropriate sexual
behavior and improper relationship between and
educator and" two students in Lampasas County,
Texas, where Campbell was previously employed.

No penalty has been paid by the Burnet
Consolidated Independent School District, its
administrators or teachers, however; although they
knew or should have known of Campbell’s
propensities before he was hired. It appears they
chose to blame the victim after Campbell’s assault
against Paige became known. The District along
with the administrators and teachers mentioned
herein, and of course Campbell, are all named
defendants in the lawsuit.

Employment at BCISD seems to be a family affair
and perhaps explains why the teachers and
administration take on a bunker mentality when
any of their own comes under attack. Football may
rule in Texas but it shouldn’t trump the welfare of
our children.

www.kleekal.com

Is this a small city? Is
this where Citizen Kane's
"Rosebud" sled wound up?
No. It's Burnet High School's
gym. Really.

Burnet HS football coaches

In the next county
over, less than a
half-hour from my
home, Burnet
Consolidated ISD has
employed not one, not two,
but three separate
educators who allegedly
sexually molested students,
all in the past two years.

How can this be, three
incidents in two years in
one small, 3,000-student
school district?

HOME

Burnet CISD (TX) parking lot:
Forget the kids--is this really
what it's all about?

COMMENT: I did not point
out to Himmel the irony that the
school district that caused the
act to be passed in the first
place was already out of
compliance with the act's
reporting requirements. I
myself would have thought
Himmel would have wanted to
be first out of the starting gate,
with all of the necessary
paperwork at the ready; as it is,
it appears the district was
dragging its heels.

Friends, "Pass the Trash" is a game of education hot potato in which school districts try to remove errant educators from their schools, sometimes paying them to leave. The miscreancies
can range from financial mismanagement to coach/student/sex or teacher/student/sex to what longtime Pennsylvania investigator Dan Barber calls "preferential pedophiles," an important
component of which is that grooming and other behaviors can ramp up to murder. I counsel parents to watch out for educators of all levels up to and including principals and superintendents
who bounce around from district to district, region to region, or state to state. Generally there have been problems in the old place and they're trying to distance themselves.

FOY L. CAMPBELL, JR.

ANDREW JACKSON PATTON

FOOTBALL CULTURE

Edgar W. Friedrichs, Jr.
Teacher & Principal:
Pennsylvania, West Virginia.
STATUS: In Mt. Olive Correctional
Center (WV) for murdering student.

Updated April 4, 2010

Frederick Charles Deussing
Teacher & Prinicipal: Pennsylvania,
NY, Vermont, Colorado & Alaska.
STATUS: Out of prison, living in
Wasilla; registered sex offender.

The path of educator
Fred Deussing's
teaching and administrative
career resembles a giant
game of hopscotch across
the face of America as he
jumped from jobs in
Vermont to jobs in Alaska.
Fred surrendered his
teaching credentials in 2007
after his trial for possession
of child pornography; some
of the images of child rape
were of babies as young as
a year old, images so
troubling that even
seasoned veterans on the
police force reportedly found
them difficult viewing.
Following Fred's early
release from prison in
January 2009 (after only two
years) he first lived in a hotel
and now resides in Wasilla,
eight miles from the Palins.

Teacher pleads no
contest; sentence
could have been up to
18 years instead of the
2 she now faces.
By Max Zimbert
Burbank Leader
Updated Friday, March 26, 2010

BURBANK — Amy Beck, the
former Burbank middle
school teacher who turned
herself in earlier this month
for allegedly having sex with a
14-year-old student, faces up
to two years in state prison as
part of a plea deal announced
in court Thursday.

Beck, a 33-year-old former
English and social science
teacher at Jordan Middle
School, pleaded no contest in
Los Angeles County Superior
Court as part of a deal in
which she faces up to two
years in state prison, in
addition to registering as a
sex offender for two charges
related to sex with a minor. A
no-contest plea is not an
admission of guilt, but it is
treated as such for
sentencing purposes. She is
scheduled to be sentenced
May 7.

“She understood the day she
walked into the police
department that she would in
fact go to state prison,” her
attorney Michael Williamson
said. “Amy feels quite guilty
and very remorseful, in fact I
would say it’s the highest
degree of remorsefulness
anyone could ever get to.”

Beck was originally charged
with four counts of unlawful
sex with a minor and one
count of oral copulation with a
minor. All but one of those
charges were dropped as
part of the plea deal, Deputy
District Atty. Debra Archuleta
said. Another charge that
required her to register as a
sex offender was added.

“It’s what we do at times to
resolve cases quickly,” she
said. “I think it’s in the best
interests of all the parties that
this case be resolved quickly
and quietly.”

Beck wore an orange
jumpsuit with her hands
bound behind her back as
she affirmed her no contest
plea in court with a series of
responses: “Yes ma’am.”

She has remained in custody
since March 8, when she
turned herself into Burbank
Police, her attorney at her
side, for allegedly having sex
with a former male student
during a six-month period,
ending in September,
authorities said.

Williamson said Beck was
not in love with the former
student, and that her decision
to turn herself into authorities
was motivated by guilt.

AK DPS
FREDERICK C. DEUSSING
Court Docket Number:
3AN-07-769

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Educator sentenced
on child porn charges
Juneau Empire
Oct. 21, 2007

ANCHORAGE - A longtime
educator in Alaska was
sentenced to three years
in prison on child
pornography charges after
thousands of images and
videos were discovered on
his computers.

Frederick Deussing, 64,
pleaded no contest and
was sentenced Friday. He
will be on probation for five
years when he is released
and will have to register as
a sex offender.

Deussing had worked in
village schools in several
parts of rural Alaska and
was an assistant principal
at Heritage Christian
School in Anchorage. He
was employed by the Kenai
Peninsula School District
from 1995 until 2000.

Investigators found no
indication that Deussing
had molested children,
assistant district attorney
Trina Sears said Friday.

The images appeared to
have been downloaded
from the Internet, police
said at the time of
Deussing's arrest.

The investigation began
after a computer technician
found child porn on a
laptop Deussing had taken
in for repair last November.

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Alaska's Kenai High School

Developing . . . .

John G. Acerra
Principal, Nitschmann MS/Bethlehem,
PA; STATUS: Out of prison after plead-
ing guilty to selling meth from his office at
school under unusual circumstances.

MISSING LAPTOPS: RELATED?
Claiming harassment for
reporting that laptops --
anywhere from 11 to 80 -- were
missing from Acerra's school, a
Bethlehem Area School District
computer technician sued the
Bethlehem Area School District.
Desirae Szloboda of Emmaus
alleged she faced retaliation
from Director of Information
Technology director Robin
Lutcher after speaking with
associate supe Robert Gross
about the laptops. The district
denies the accusations. The
district also declined to release
its $30,000 internal report on
John Acerra to the public.

"A love affair with drugs,"
is how a local therapist
described John Acerra's
involvement (buying and using,
sometimes at school) with
crystal meth. Repercussions
included community outrage
(below) that "that a middle
school principal could be
allegedly dealing crystal
methamphetamine and watch-
ing gay porn naked in his office
without anyone suspecting."
Afterwards, supe Joseph Lewis
chose early retirement after
disclosure of the district's risky
swap derivative deals which
cost taxpayers millions.

Reporter Tony Rhodin found the
photo at top left of John Acerra
in their 1979 Moravian College
yearbook.

Amy Beck
Teacher, Burbank, California. STATUS:
In jail & awaiting May 7, 2010
sentencing after having turned herself in
for having sex with 14 year old student.

Brenton Wuchae
Coach, South Brunswick HS,
North Carolina.
STATUS: Quit teaching job to
marry 16-year old student in 2007.

The Hagers are trying to
figure out how life went off
track for their teenage
daughter, Windy.
June 22, 2007
ABC News

They envisioned that life for the
good student and promising
athlete would be filled with
dreams of the prom and
college, but that all changed this
week when Windy, 16, married
her high school track coach.

"She was a dream kid," said
her mother, Betty Hager. "We'd
never have to worry about
Windy trying to get by with
something."

At South Brunswick High
School in North Carolina,
Windy's greatest passion was
track and field.

"She just always was outside,
always running, and her
name's Windy — I guess she
was predestined to do love to
do that," Betty said.

But that passion led her down a
troubling path.

Special Attention From Coach
During Windy's freshman year,
her 38-year-old track coach,
Brenton Wuchae, began taking
a more active interest in her,
offering to give the 14-year-old
rides home from practice.

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"He just seemed like a genuine
guy, like he was there for the
kids," said Windy's father,
Dennis Hager.

But the Hagers eventually grew
uneasy. Their phone bills
showed text messages
between Wuchae and Windy
as late as 2 a.m.

They also discovered worrying
e-mails. In one, Windy wrote to
a friend, "I don't care to look at
anyone other than him. He is
the apple of my eye, I've never
felt this way for someone, but I
just don't want to lose him
because of my parents' power
trips."

The Hagers confronted
Wuchae.

"He assured me there was
nothing like that going on, [and
that] they were just friends. His
intentions were purely
appropriate," Dennis said.

Not satisfied with that answer,
the Hagers turned to the school
district, which spoke to the
coach.

The principal of the high school
wrote to the Hagers, "I have
seen nothing but a cooperative
attitude from the teacher, and to
the best of my knowledge, he
has not had any contact with
Windy since then."

"School officials can't be
responsible for what happens
the other hours of the day, and
I would think the relationship
developed much more outside
of school," said Brian Shaw, an
attorney for the school district.

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