Black Collar Crime Round-Up: September 29, 2012
Louis Spadaccini • Luckner Sylvain • Carey Thomas
Charged: Mary Lynn Boggs, 46, former preschool teacher, Ocean View Baptist Church Teaching and Learning Center, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with unlawful neglect of a child. Boggs was arrested “following allegations of harm to infant children,” reports Myrtle Beach Online, “after parents contacted Myrtle Beach police on Sept. 21, to report that a teacher at their child’s preschool had harmed their infant daughter and may have hurt other children.” Accused of using “excessive force to restrain a young girl during nap time at the school,” Boggs is currently free on a $150,000 bond. Story: Myrtle Beach Online, September 27, 2012
Arrested: Jeremy Forrest, 30, teacher, Bishop Bell Church of England Mathematics & Computing Specialist School, Eastbourne, U.K., on suspicion of child abduction after apparently running away to France with 15-year-old student Megan Stammers. Stammers has been returned to her parents. The BBC notes that In 2009, another Bishop Bell teacher “was jailed for grooming pupils and in March [2012] it emerged a retired priest” — Canon Gordon Rideout (see Conservative Babylon, April 19, 2012) — “had been allowed to remain as a governor despite child sex allegations against him. … Robert Healy, who was a PE teacher at the school, was jailed for seven years after grooming two pupils on social networking site Bebo. He had sex three or four times with one teenage victim and then started a second relationship with a slightly older girl from the same school.” Story: BBC News, September 25, 2012; BBC News, September 28, 2012; Irish Examiner, September 29, 2012
No contest plea: Earl Wayne Gann, 56, former girls’ soccer head coach, Ontario Christian High School, Ontario, California, and former AYSO (American Youth Soccer Organization) coach; to one count of lewd and lascivious acts with one of his players, a 14-year-old girl — about the same age as his own daughters, also soccer players. The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin adds: “About a month after the arrest, a woman came forward claiming she too was sexually assaulted by Gann more than 10 years ago when she was 12, police said. School officials said they did not conduct a background check on Gann prior to his hiring about a year ago.” Sentencing, at which Gann is expected to get a year in prison, is scheduled for November 1, 2012. Story: Conservative Babylon, July 1, 2012; Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, September 26, 2012
Sentenced: Steven Poole, 43, Roman Catholic priest, St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Christopher, Illinois, and St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sesser, Illinois; to two years’ probation and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after pleading “guilty but mentally ill” to a misdemeanor retail theft — of an ashtray from an antiques store. Poole, reports AP, has a history af such arrests and convictions for retail theft dating back to 2001, including an attempt “to make off with $3.22 worth of butter and a $60 sofa cover he failed to scan at a Walmart’s self-service checkout…. Poole went on leave and pledged to seek counseling, blaming that theft on emotional distress brought on by his mother’s death. In 2001, Poole pleaded guilty in Illinois’ Clinton County to reduced charges related to a bogus police report in which he claimed to have been beaten and robbed at a church by a stranger who showed up for confession. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Poole was sentenced to six months of court supervision and a $100 fine.” Story: AP, September 14, 2012
Guilty plea: Louis Spadaccini, 38, baseball coach (one-time Catholic League Coach of the Year), Ss. John Neumann and Maria Goretti High School, South Philadelphia, and court crier, Court of Common Pleas, to of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault and furnishing alcohol to minors. Spadaccini was arrested twice in two days in the fall of 2011 after allegedly abusing two boys, one 13 and one 14. In the first case, Spadaccini was charged with simple assault, corrupting the morals of a minor, furnishing alcohol to a minor, child endangerment, interference with the custody of a child, luring a child, and distributing narcotics after allegedly taking the 14-year-old to a Holiday Inn, and making the youth “very intoxicated” with beer and a screwdriver spiked with Xanax. In the case of the 13-year-old, Spadaccini was accused of carrying out the same scenario, as well as sexually molesting the boy in the hotel and in his own home. Facing 12 to 14 years in prison plus probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender, he is expectedto be sentenced in January, 2013. Story: Conservative Babylon, April 10, 2012; Daily Mail, September 27, 2012
Sentenced: Luckner Sylvain, 49, former pastor, First Haitian Baptist Church, Norwich, Connecticut, to two and a half years in prison, ten years’ probation and sex-offender registration after entering an Alford plea to charges of repeatedly sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl who said he told her “he was teaching her a lesson for when she gets older so she’ll know what to expect.” The Norwich Bulletin adds that Sylvain, who is married, “reportedly fled to Haiti in December 2011″ without telling his wife, “but was captured in Florida and returned to Connecticut last April.” Story: Norwich Bulletin, September 27, 2012
Arrested: Carey Trevon Thomas, 23, kindergarten volunteer, now-shuttered Living Springs Christian School, Arrowbear, California, “for allegedly committing sex acts with 6-month-old girl, who sustained injuries to her genitalia, authorities reported,” according to CBS Los Angeles. Thomas is in custody on $500,000 bail. Story: CBS Los Angeles, September 28, 2012
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