Courtesy Spring Branch ISD Police Department

Kathanna Culp was blackmailed into admitting the illegal relationship, according to a police officer's statement.

Correction: Kathanna Culp was never a court-appointed child advocate, and was never an employee of Child Advocates, Inc., the organization's spokeswoman tells us. Although Culp went through the volunteer training, she never took a case, and her file was closed in May 2012, meaning she wouldn't have been eligible to take any cases without being retrained.

"She did all the credentialing, all the background, and all the paperwork, and all the 30 hours that they put them through to make sure they understand how to become an advocate," Ashley Brockette says. "But since she never did take a case, that...means that she never really was an advocate....She never worked for us.She was never on our payroll."

The Press regrets the error.

Please see a further update from Culp's attorney at the end of this post.

A former Spring Branch ISD high school teacher, who also worked as a court-appointed child advocate, has been charged with having sex with an 18-year-old student.

Ex-Northbrook High teacher Kathanna C. Culp was charged March 19, according to Harris County District Clerk records, after she acknowledged the relationship, and after the student said she provided him and his friends with marijuana, which they all smoked at her apartment. (The student has since graduated).

According to the 28-year-old Culp's LinkedIn profile, she graduated with a law degree from the University of Florida, and worked for Child Advocates, Inc. for a year beginning in January 2011. Her profile states "I underwent extensive training in child abuse, the legal system and child advocacy."

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Mark West: Denies the charges.

Officials at Spring High School, it seems, had long been suspicious of assistant principal Mark Steve West's closed-door meetings with female students.

One told investigators she saw "female students exit [West's] door with their hair and clothing disheveled, and the female students would be smiling and laughing," court documents say.

No victims came forward, though, until police tracked down one now attending college. And she told them -- with a description straight out of a bodice-ripping romance novel -- of how she and West had sex during a prom-planning event.

Her description also seems designed to inflame the Internet commenters who shout "entrapment!" whenever there's an item about alleged high school teacher-student sex.

West, 30, has denied the charge of inappropriate relationship with a student, court documents show.

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Maria Calvillo: Not a subtle sexter.

No one can accuse Maria Calvillo of being the world's most subtle sexter.

They can -- and have -- accused the Taylor High School nurse's aide of having an improper relationship with a student. The 38-year-old is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old senior at the Alief ISD school.

Court documents show that investigators were called in after the student's mother found sexually charged conversations between her son and Calvillo on Facebook.

The court documents offer a sample of the online conversations, and if true, they show Calvillo, also known as Molly Ortega, knows what she wants and isn't afraid of asking for it (Forgive the all-caps, but we guess they couldn't contain themselves. Also, it's NSFW):

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Amanda Feenstra: Cops say while her husband was away, she had sex with a student.

A 17-year-old Humble High School student has told cops that she and her dance instructor had sex too many times to count while the teacher's husband was away.

The teacher, Amanda Feenstra, faces a felony charge of improper relationship with a student.

Court documents show the student said, "There were so many times that [Feenstra] and she had sex, she cannot remember every specific date."

The relationship between the 29-year-old teacher and the student lasted from August 2010 to November 2011, court documents say.

School officials told investigators that the girl "felt embarrassed and trapped" and "had lost all her friends" and therefore was hesitant to come forward. She made her outcry to authorities in September.

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Chris Sutton: Former school cop, alleged Grindr fan.

A former school cop and a high school referee have been charged for having sex with the same teenager in Conroe.

Chris Sutton, a 14-year veteran of the Conroe Independent School District police, and Brian Ortiz, who has been a football and basketball referee employed by CISD for a year and a half, face charges of improper relationship between educator and student, court documents show.

Court documents say Sutton had been communicating with the adult male student on Grindr -- a popular gay hookup app -- for a while before meeting him at a church function last April.

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He'd been viewing it for the past five years.

A third-grade teacher in the Houston school district entered a guilty plea Tuesday to charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Juan A. Villarreal, 52, a teacher at Anderson Elementary in Westbury, has taught in the district for 11 years, but he was out of a job once he was arrested shortly after the current school year began last August.

The investigation into Villarreal began when Beaumont police officers discovered him sharing child porn with a suspect they were looking into.

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LaShawn Simmons: Sexed four different students, cops say.

LaShawn Simmons, a 41-year-old former middle-school math teacher in Pasadena, is facing a slew of charges in connection with her having sex with four students, police say.

Simmons, who has resigned her position at the Pasadena district's Beverly Hills Intermediate School, is charged with sexual assault of a child, two counts of improper relationship between an educator and a student, online solicitation of a minor and possession of child pornography, according to court records.

The records indicate the teacher and students exchanged dirty texts and inappropriate photographs until a parent discovered what was going on. A two-month investigation showed, cops say, that Simmons had sex with four students at PISD's Dobie High: Two adults and two minors, all males.

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Kathryn Murray bettter get used to being behind bars.

Kathryn Murray, the Memorial Middle School teacher who's been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old student, is in trouble again

KHOU reports that at a hearing today, a judge revoked Murray's bond after the boy she allegedly had sex with was discovered at her home.

The boy had allegedly run away from his own home to be with Murray.

Murray will now stay in jail until her trial on the charges.

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According to an arrest affidavit, it all started with a trip to the Phobia Haunted House on the Northwest Freeway on the night of November 6.

Sixteen-year-old "Julie" was in the backseat of Atascocita High School English teacher and assistant tennis coach Taylor McClain's car and 15-year-old "Heather" was in the passenger seat, with McClain driving. The two front-seat riders were enjoying Smirnoff Ice beverages, and according to the complaint, Julie noticed that Heather set her drink down and performed oral sex on the 43-year-old McClain.

The trio then arrived at the haunted house. While there, McClain allegedly propositioned Julie via text. According to the complaint, "The text asked [Julie] if she wanted to join in on a sexual threesome with [McClain] and [Heather]." Julie reportedly texted back "No" in response.

Which likely made for an even more awkward trip back to the subdivision where the girls lived.

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Gordon Oehmig had some disgusting child porn, cops say

A former Prep Coach of the Year from St. Thomas High has been arrested after authorities found 1,500 digital images and 500 videos of child porn on his computers, court documents show.

Gordon Daniel Oehmig, 29, is no longer at the school, but coached there from from 2009 to 12, when he won the coach of the year award.

Court documents say child-porn activity was traced to the IP address on his computer, and a search found the images and video. (The court document somehow lists the day of the search as October25, 2012, but that's for the lawyers to hash out, we guess.)

See Also:
- Juan Villarreal: HISD Teacher Arrested on Child-Porn Charges (UPDATED)
- Amber Schmidt: Second Female Metroplex Child Porn Fan This Month
- Misty Reneedawn Wofford: Forced Three-Year-Old to Perform for British Skype Perv, Police Say

Oehmig is a grad of The Kinkaid School and the University of North Carolina, according to a news profile in which he says, "My job is not to just win or lose, but to help grow the kids personally, spiritually and athletically. Part of that is making sure where they're going to be after they leave St. Thomas."

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