Teacher Scandals

James Mentzer would allegedly pull some of the girls out of class and bring them to an empty room to hypnotize them and make them perform puppet shows. 

Long-time friends Talia Sisco and Tina Pourani boasted about "going to hell for their actions," police said.

Shannon Hathaway, a married school counselor at Harwood Junior High School in Texas, is accused of having an affair with a ninth-grade student before the couple was busted by the boy's mom, cops say.

“I felt trapped in a teacher’s life,” Jessica Langford, 32, told the court.

Pennsylvania teacher Rachael DelTondo was shot and killed in her mom's driveway on Mother's Day.

Rachael DelTondo was shot multiple times at close range in her mother's driveway in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. A year ago, she was suspended from her teaching job after confidential information about her from police leaked to the public.

He allegedly went through one victim's phone to make sure she didn't record them, text anyone, or take pictures.

Former teacher Madeline Marx asked for forgiveness through tears after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual battery. She had engaged in sexual contact with students in local parking lots.

Substitute math teacher Ryan Fish faces charges including reckless endangerment and risk of injury to a minor after running an underground "fight club" in a Connecticut high school.

Last year, Tad Cummins and his former student Elizabeth Thomas ran off for 39 days. They were eventually found in a remote cabin posing as husband and wife.