Sandra Brinkley

Sandra Binkley, 36, a math teacher at Portland High School in Portland, Tennessee was first arrested in September 2008 and charged with statutory rape by an authority figure for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old male student. After police started investigation they found out that the alleged one time incident was not one time incident at all, but she had had sex with other students too.

Authorities allege Sandra Binkley, a math teacher at Portland High School, had sexual relationships with two additional students at the school, the first dating back nearly a year.

Brinkley allegedly had sex with the first student in a classroom closet on two occasions, in November 2007 and then again in August 2008 , during school hours.

Also in August 2008 police said Binkley drove to the other student's home and engaged in sexual contact with the 16-year-old victim while sitting in her car in the victim's driveway.

Investigators found about the first case after the teenager told his parents, who reported the incident to school administrators. After that two more students have come forward claiming they’ve had a sexual encounter with Sandra Binkley.

At the December 2009 preliminary hearing for Sandra Binkley, three boys testified about alleged sexual encounters between themselves and Binkley in a locker room office, a classroom closet and her car and home. Binkley’s attorney claimed that one of the teens had raped Binkley in the office and the other two are lying to protect her attacker.

At her trial one of her victims, a former Portland High School student, testified that the relationship he shared with teacher Sandy Binkley included sex, gifts and shared confidences.

The jury has found Sandra Binkley guilty in Sptember 2009 on two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure.

The jury acquitted Binkley on seven counts involving two other boys, one of whom was the younger brother of the victim she was convicted of having sex with.

Reportedly, Binkley faces a sentence of three to six years in prison, which she would serve at 30 percent because she does not have any prior convictions.

Sentencing is set for November 13th.

Jennifer Rice

Jennifer Leigh Rice,33-year-old fourth-grade teacher at McKinley Elementary School, was arrested back in August 2007 for allegedly kidnapping a 10-year-old boy for sex. Rice was first charged with first-degree kidnapping with sexual motivation, but the investigation revealed that the 10-year-old was not only young boy Rice had been having sexual realtions with. New charges were filed against Rice in Setptember 2007 and she faced six counts of first-degree child rape, four counts of first-degree child molestation and two counts of third-degree child rape involving two youths.

The first-degree child rape and child molestation charges pertain to the 10-year-old child she kidnapped. The third-degree child rape charge involve another boy, who is brother of the first victim, between 14 and 16 years of age, who Rice allegedly molested between July 10th and August 20th 2007.

In April 2009 a Pierce County judge Monday convicted Jennifer Rice of kidnapping and raping a 10-year-old boy she taught at Tacoma’s McKinley Elementary School.

Superior Court Judge D. Gary Steiner also found Rice, 33, guilty of raping the boy’s older brother and ruled one of her crimes was predatory, qualifying her for an extra-long prison sentence.

Under state statute, the only prison term possible for the former Tacoma school teacher, convicted of sex crimes involving a 10-year-old student and his older brother, was 25 years to life in prison.

And so she was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The convictions followed a brief “stipulated facts” trial. Prosecutors and Rice’s defense team agreed to a set of facts in the case, and Steiner reviewed them before making his decision. Rice agreed to the trial instead of a straight plea in order to preserve some of her appellate rights.

The arrangement was, in essence, a guilty plea by Rice. She admitted she had sexual intercourse with both boys on separate occasions – the older brother was 15 at the time – and that she kidnapped and molested the younger boy, according to court records.

Steiner convicted Rice of four crimes: first-degree kidnapping, first-degree child molestation and two counts of third-degree rape. Steiner found the child-molestation crime was a predatory offense because the victim was one of Rice’s students.




That designation – required when a teacher is accused of certain sex crimes – invokes stiff sentencing requirements: a minimum term of 25 years or the high end of the standard sentencing range, whichever is longer. In Rice’s case, the high end is 26 years, according to previously filed court documents.

Prosecutors contended in court documents that Rice began a sexual relationship with the 10-year-old boy that lasted from December 2006 to August 2007, when she sneaked him out of his home and drove him to Ellensburg where they had sex at a rest stop before she returned him home.

According to court records, the boys' father told investigators that Rice showered his younger son with attention until about July 2007, when she was told to stop coming to the house.

After her arrest, Rice said she'd had sex with the boy four or five times previously, including once when she sneaked into his house while his parents were asleep, according to a police affidavit.

Prosecutors also charged her with twice having sex with the boy’s older brother in July 2007.

Rice previously argued that the law that classifies some crimes as predatory is unconstitutional because it wrongly curtails the powers of the state’s prosecutors by restricting their discretion. Steiner rejected that argument in July 2008.

The News Tribune of Tacoma reported previously that Rice resigned from earlier jobs teaching Spanish at Spanaway Lake High in the suburban Bethel School District and as a second-grade teacher at Southworth Elementary in Yelm, between Tacoma and Olympia, both when her professional judgment was questioned after a year on the job.

Six months after taking the job at McKinley, Rice was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into reports of inappropriate socializing with students outside school hours, Tacoma schools spokeswoman Leanna Albrecht said.

Investigators found no evidence of sexual misconduct, but because of other unspecified findings her contract was allowed to lapse at the end of the year

Rebecca Bramlett

Rebecca Ann Bramlett, 33, a former teacher at at Baines Middle School in Missouri City, Texas was arrested in May 2008 and charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.

The charges stemmed from an April 2008 incident in which Fort Bend County Sheriff’s deputies discovered her with a student in her car. Deputies stopped her at 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning, near Rose Lane and Renfrow Burford Road in the Fresno area, when they noticed the vehicle she was driving had an obscured license plate.

Bramlett, who is married mother with children, volunteered information to the deputies once they stopped her car, telling them the 16-year-old was her boyfriend, with whom she had been having an ongoing relationship. The sexual relationship between female teacher and male student lasted for several months and Bramlett occacianlly took the boy to her home, according to investigators.

In June 2009, Rebecca Ann Bramlett entered into a plea deal with prosecutors under which she received deferred adjudication, a form of probation under which if she fulfills the terms of probation the charges may be dismissed.

Under the terms of the plea deal, Bramlett has been placed on seven years’ probation, was fined $2,000 and ordered to pay about $620 in court costs.

Brookanne Collier

Brookanne Collier, 32-year-old elementary school principal, who was arrested in April for having sex with a teen female, pleaded guilty to three felony counts last week.

The prosecution says her sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl started about six years ago and lasted until this year.

The former Tunnel School Principal was facing seven felony counts of sex acts with a minor. In April, Collier entered not guilt pleas to all of the charges. Following Thursday's plea agreement, Collier pleaded guilty to four charges after three of the seven charges were dropped.

Collier will face one year in county jail and five years probation when she is sentenced next month.

In addition, she will be required to surrender her teaching license and register as a sex offender.