{"id":1695413,"date":"2022-10-14T13:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695413"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:34:58","slug":"at-least-269-k-12-educators-arrested-on-child-sex-crimes-through-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-269-k-12-educators-arrested-on-child-sex-crimes-through-september\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 269 K-12 Educators Arrested on Child Sex Crimes Through September"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-least-269-k-12-educators-arrested-on-child-sex-crimes-through-september%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Nearly 270 public educators were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first nine months of this year, ranging from grooming to raping underage students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital found that from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, at least 269 educators were arrested, which works out to roughly one arrest a day.<\/p>\n<p>The 269 educators included four principals, two assistant principals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">226 teachers<\/a>, 20 teacher&#8217;s aides and 17 substitute teachers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least 199 of the arrests, or 74%, involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged crimes<\/a> against students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/trustee-transgender-kids-charity-resigns-unearthed-speech-group-minor-attracted-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUSTEE OF TRANSGENDER KIDS&#8217; CHARITY RESIGNS AFTER UNEARTHED SPEECH TO GROUP FOR \u2018MINOR-ATTRACTED PERSONS&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The analysis looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of K-12 principals, assistant principals, teachers, substitute teachers and teachers\u2019 aides on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/sex-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child sex-related crimes<\/a> in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren&#8217;t publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.<\/p>\n<p>Only 43 of the alleged crimes, or 16%, did not involve students. It is not known whether another 10% of the alleged crimes involved students.<\/p>\n<p>Men also made up the vast majority, with over 80% of the arrests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/old-dominion-professor-statement-minor-attracted-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY PLACES PROFESSOR ON LEAVE AFTER INTERVIEW DEFENDING \u2018MINOR-ATTRACTED PERSONS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are an estimated 3.2 million public school teachers in the country, meaning the arrests compiled by Fox News Digital make up only 0.0084%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of teachers arrested for child sex abuse is just the tip of the iceberg \u2014 much as it was for the Catholic Church prior to widespread exposure and investigation in the early 2000s,&#8221; Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. &#8220;The best available academic research, published by the Department of Education, suggests that nearly 10% of public school students suffer from physical abuse between kindergarten and twelfth grade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to that research, the scale of sexual abuse in the public schools is nearly 100 times greater than that of the Catholic Church,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The question for critics who seek to downplay the extent of public-school sexual abuse is this: How many arrests need to happen before you consider it a problem? How many children need to be sexually abused by teachers before you consider it a crisis?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the arrests in Fox News Digital\u2019s latest analysis involved especially heinous allegations.<\/p>\n<p> Eugene Pratt, a former principal, elementary school teacher and coach who taught at-risk youth in multiple Michigan public schools, is accused of sexually assaulting at least 15 boys and young adult men over the course of several decades. (Genesee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Pratt, 57, a former principal, elementary school teacher and coach who taught at-risk youth in multiple Michigan public schools, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in August. He is accused of sexually assaulting at least 15 boys and young adult men during his education career spanning several decades.<\/p>\n<p>Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson, whose office is investigating Pratt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2022\/08\/17\/former-dean-teacher-at-wayne-genesee-schools-sexually-assaulted-at-least-15-boys-men-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told ClickOnDetroit<\/a> in August that sexual predators often put themselves in a supervisory position so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 270 public educators were arrested on child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first nine months of this year, ranging from grooming to raping underage students. An analysis conducted by Fox News Digital found that from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, at least 269 educators were arrested, which works out to roughly one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}