A Polk County middle school teacher was arrested on Thursday for allegedly having sex with students, the latest in what is turning out to be an ongoing trend.
Stambaugh Middle School teacher Danielle Jones was charged with four felony counts of having sex with a minor. According to the police report, Jones had sex with four students. Two of the minors were her former students and the other two were their cousins.
What the hell is going on around here, anyway? Do kids these days have mad game, or are these preda-teachers just really desperate?
The victims, all between 14 and 16 years old at the time of the incidents, were all able to describe specific details of Jones’ apartment including holes in the walls and the location of sexually-related items such as handcuffs and lubricants. This information was confirmed by the investigating officer.
Jones allegedly picked the victims up in her car from various locations and brought them back to her apartment for sex. Investigators recovered over 50 communications between Jones and the students from her MySpace page where Jones referred to herself as “Momma” and the victims as her “sons.” She also spoke with them by cell phone conversations after she allegedly gave the students her digits.
Jones was placed on administrative leave on May 19. In January, she had been warned in a letter from Stambaugh Middle School principal Allison Kalbfleisch to avoid allowing male students visit her classroom “before, during and after school hours … for visitation, hugs, tickles and flirtatious non school-related conversations.”
Jones remains in jail in Polk County without bond. If convicted, it is unlikely Jones would be found to be too pretty to go to prison.
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2008.
