Both Texas Scorecard and The Texan have done good work highlighting a disturbing reality: Numerous public school teachers of all grade levels have been arrested for sex offenses, many involving children.
I’ve been running several of these in LinkSwarms, but Texas Scorecard has featured a number over the last week:
A former Texas teacher received the maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography—specifically videos showing her performing sexual acts on a prepubescent child.
Sonya Conchita Murillo, 33, was a substitute teacher for the Marfa Independent School District in West Texas.
Murillo was arrested in June 2023 on federal sexual exploitation of children charges, a month after her boyfriend was arrested on similar charges. She has been held in federal custody without bond ever since.
The former teacher pleaded guilty in January to one count of production of child pornography; four additional counts were dropped.
“The fact that the judge delivered the maximum allowed 30-year imprisonment to this defendant for producing child pornography, is indicative of the utterly horrendous predatory acts Murillo committed,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza in a Justice Department statement.
Murrillo’s one-time boyfriend Patricio Javier “PJ” Serrano, a youth softball coach in Marfa, was arrested in May 2023 for possessing child sexual abuse materials featuring images and videos of prepubescent boys.
While investigating Serrano, authorities found at least eight Snapchat videos of Murillo performing sexual acts on a boy who was 3 to 5 years old, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
If you had done this on a 3-5 year old 40 years ago in west Texas, I strongly suspect you’d get a bullet in the back of your head and a shallow grave, no law enforcement involvement required.
A federal judge has rejected an immunity claim by a Central Texas school administrator accused of facilitating a male teacher’s molestation of a 5-year-old female student in 2020-21.
The judge found that Lorena Primary School Principal April Jewell’s lack of action to protect pre-K children from a teacher’s sexual abuse “shocks the conscience.”
According to a lawsuit filed last year by the victim’s parents, Jewell ignored months of warnings from multiple school employees about inappropriate behavior by the teacher, Nicolas Scot Crenshaw, toward two of his female students.
Crenshaw eventually pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a young child and other sex crimes against the students and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Jewell kept her job as the school’s principal, shocking many parents who say the ordeal has shattered their trust in the local school system.
In a May 20 report to U.S. District Judge Alan Albright, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Manske rejected Jewell’s claim to qualified immunity and recommended that her motion to dismiss the parents’ case against her be denied.
Parents of the victim, identified as Jane Doe, are suing April Jewell and Lorena Independent School District for failing to protect their then 5-year-old daughter from months of sexual abuse by pre-K teacher Nicolas Scot Crenshaw during the 2020-21 academic year.
Crenshaw was a long-term substitute teacher at Lorena Primary School, where Jewell was—and still is—the principal.
At the beginning of the school year, Crenshaw shared a class with another teacher.
According to court documents, in January 2021 teachers and other school staff began reporting to Jewell about Crenshaw’s inappropriate behavior with Jane, which included him lying under a blanket with Jane during nap time and frequently placing her on his lap or having her straddle him.
An aide even gave Jewell photos of Crenshaw’s suspicious behavior, but she was reprimanded by Jewell for taking the pictures.
What principled principal would receive repeated reports of a teacher creeping on young children and go “Nah, it’s fine?”
A Texas charter school teacher is in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old student. The visiting international teacher had been reprimanded and then fired for placing his hands on students, but the school later rehired him.
International Leadership of Texas teacher Jose Adrian Hernandez Grimaldo, 46, was arrested last month and charged with one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years in prison.
At the time of the alleged assault, Hernandez Grimaldo taught at the ILTexas K-8 school in College Station. He later transferred to the school’s Lancaster K-8 campus where he worked at the time of his arrest.
According to an arrest report from the College Station Police Department, the female victim alleges the teacher attacked her in a bathroom in February 2023. She told police he threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the attack.
Hernandez Grimaldo denied the allegations, but according to a report by KBTX, he failed a polygraph test.
ILTexas Superintendent Eddie Conger confirmed in a statement Friday that, as a result of the arrest, Hernandez Grimaldo was terminated from ILTexas on May 24.
The ILTexas statement included a timeline of Hernandez Grimaldo’s employment with the school system.
Hernandez Grimaldo, who is in the U.S. on a teaching visa, was hired in August 2022 to teach Spanish at ILTexas’ College Station K-8 campus. According to the timeline, he cleared a standard background check and additional security clearance from the Department of Homeland Security.
I hardly think we need to be importing child molesters from other countries. We seem to have quite enough trouble with the home-grown variety.
He was placed on administrative leave and reprimanded in October 2022 for putting his hands on a student.
In March 2023, Hernandez Grimaldo was terminated from ILTexas following more complaints about him touching students.
He then filed a grievance and the district overturned his termination in May 2023.
“We can’t hire this guy! He had multiple complaints that he was molesting students!” “But wait! He filed a grievance! We have to hire him back so he can molest more children!”
Sounds like the person in charge of managing the grievance process also needs to be fired.
The teacher was offered a transfer and began working at ILTexas Lancaster K-8 in August 2023.
In September 2023, a parent reported to the ILTexas College Station principal that inappropriate sexual interactions took place between their then-6th-grade student and Hernandez Grimaldo.
He was again placed on administrative leave in October 2023.
Superintendent Conger said ILTexas investigated but was unable to substantiate the sexual assault claims. Hernandez Grimaldo was reinstated as a teacher at ILTexas Lancaster K-8 in January 2024.
The superintendent said ILTexas filed “required reports with the local police department, Department of Family and Protective Services within 48 hours of initial notice, and the State Board of Education as appropriate.”
Just how many sexual assault claims are needed until a charge is considered “substantiated?” People were willing to give Bill Cosby the benefit of the doubt when it was one or two women accusing him, but the scale tipped well before the 60 or so who eventually came forward. Grimaldo should never have been put back into a position to molest children after the initial charges.
A Houston-area elementary school teacher filmed sexually explicit videos of herself while on campus, and community leaders are demanding that her teaching certificate be revoked.
Adrienne Harborth was a music teacher at Gray Elementary in Lamar Consolidated Independent School District in Fort Bend County near Houston.
Harborth can be seen in two videos shaking her bare breasts and buttocks while in a classroom and a bathroom at the school. Harborth’s school ID badge with her name printed on it is also visible.
[Blinks] This is not exactly what people think of when discussing the perfect crime. I think the Babylon Bee would reject the ID badge detail in one of their stories. “Nah, too heavy handed.”
Censored versions of the videos, first posted by Grizzy’s Hood News under the title “Teacher Gone Wild,” have gone viral on the internet.
My cousin told me about Grizzy’s Hood News a while back. Basically a Houston woman went “OK, I’m gonna start my own news web page,” and now she breaks a lot of news that seems too spicy for mainstream Houston media. That “Teacher Gone Wild” video is no longer up, but, having watched a bit of it, I can assure you that you didn’t miss anything…
Harborth has since told Texas Scorecard she filmed the videos on the weekend, not during school hours, and that an ex-boyfriend released the videos as revenge porn.
“I want to shoot a nude video of myself. I know! I’ll go down to my school and wear my name tag! That can’t possibly backfire on me!”
Shooting a nude video of yourself is a pretty stupid thing to do, especially if you’re not a porn star. While people may be inclined to forgive such a thing if it was a mistake made in youth (say, drunk college girls on spring break), doing it at your place of work is going to be a firing offense pretty much everywhere, but especially at a public school.
Texas Scorecard has a Bad Apples tag for such incidents, and an interactive map of incidents at the bottom of the relevant news stories that I don’t see a way to embed or link to directly.
I am not so naive as to believe we’ve never had sex offenders as teachers before the 21st century, but when one seems to pop up every week in Texas, there’s a problem. (I’m also willing to bet that the problem is actually worse per capita in blue states.) Something has certainly changed in society, and new “pedo friendly” element seems to have entered political discourse in western society, from Jeffrey Epstein to Salon to Germany decriminalizing child pornography, today’s leftwing elites can’t seem to help being soft on child rape.
Texas citizens need to demand better screening by schools, and swifter action when sex offenders are discovered.
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“If you had done this on a 3-5 year old 40 years ago in west Texas, I strongly suspect you’d get a bullet in the back of your head and a shallow grave, no law enforcement involvement required.”
It’s because we stopped shooting, shoveling and shutting up that sex offenders are so prevalent in our schools. The residents of Skidmore, MO showed people how it’s done July 10th, 1981. Take Nike’s marketing campaign to heart, just do it.
Once upon a time, a sex offender would be afraid to “express themselves”. Today, we celebrate them… We’re right in the middle of an entire month devoted to making sexual deviancies normal, and you wonder why there’s so much more of it?
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to think that there are reasons that society used to be so “repressive”. It’s like you either keep this crap closeted and “unexpressed”, or it comes out and abuses the kiddies as a norm.
Frankly, I think there’s something more than a little “off”, mentally, with anyone who is too obsessed with their “sexuality”, whatever orientation they happen to be. Normal people do not go out and wave their wing-wangs in other people’s faces just to be “transgressive”; that’s a sign that something is out of whack in their headspace and timing, and since God didn’t issue us any of the appropriate gauges, I take it as a sign that we need to return these folks to the originator as needing adjustment…
I’ve met a lot of reformed drunks and other addicts. I’ve never met a reformed pedo or other sexual deviant. It would appear to be a lifelong issue that’s beyond any hope of “reform”, and I think that in the name of preserving future innocents from harm, we ought to just make sex crimes automatic capital crimes. You lose track of the number of recidivists; there should be no such headline as “Three-time sex offender commits fourth crime…”
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A few years back I read about two national studies of teacher education. One said the typical ed major graduated in the bottom third of their class. The other said grade inflation was rampant. The above stories seem to prove them out.
Michigan has a detailed criminal background check system required to obtain and hold teaching credentials. Is Texas getting Michigan’s castoffs?
https://www.michigan.gov/mde/services/ed-serv/educator-conduct
You can mandate all the checks you like, but so long as the various “advocates” for these groups are allowed to skew things in favor of the deviants… What’s the point?
Example of this would be the local library that thought getting on the “Drag Queen Story Hour” train would be a good idea. Problem was, they didn’t bother with background checks on the drag queens doing the storytelling… When the outraged parents did the due diligence, they discovered a rather large percentage of them had previous sex offenses. They complained, and were told that “justice-involved” individuals in question were merely the victims of a repressive society…
The raw fact is that we’re in the midst of a society-wide overturning of common sense, mostly perpetrated by the so-called “intellectual elite” we’ve churned out of the indoctrination centers we turned our universities and colleges into, at the behest of these same people’s predecessors.
The more I observe of this, the more I understand “anti-intellectualism” as railed against by my educated family members from the 1950s and 1960s. My only thought, looking at this crap, is that the “anti-intellectuals” didn’t go nearly as far as they should have. I ain’t saying I support Pol Pot’s questionable methods, but… I have a better understanding of where he was coming from, nowadays.
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When the parents identified sex offenders coming to the library the next step isn’t to complain to the people who scheduled the event. Take the list to your local sheriff and tell them ‘here is a list of sex offenders who are coming to our library for an event with children’
If any of the ‘guests’ have limits about being around children they just blasted thru their release/probation conditions and could be arrested and hauled away forth-with.
if there is evidence that TX is worse per capita than everywhere else, I didn’t see it in the article.
@Rick T;
You would think, wouldn’t you? The parents tried that route, and were shut down by the “authorities”, because the “public service” that the performers were doing counted as “good time” towards their sentences…
This is what was related to me, by the parents dealing with it. Western Washington State, not sure what jurisdiction… I was incredulous to hear the story, tried to check up on it, and was told that it was not open to comment due to privacy laws. Apparently, if you’re a sex offender undergoing treatment, HIPAA applies.
The entire state has gone nuts… They’re mainstreaming sex offenders whose permanent incarceration was mandated years ago on McNeil Island, and putting them into residential facilities in rural communities, ones that just happen to have voted Republican in previous elections. Go figure.
What I suspect is going to happen, once the boiling point is finally reached, is that there’s going to be a short, sharp reaction to all of this, and a bunch of politicians and “activists” are going to be decorating various landscaping features. I cannot see people putting up with this BS for much longer, but maybe I’m wrong.
“‘I want to shoot a nude video of myself. I know! I’ll go down to my school…”
Nude shoots at the school?! This is going to give a bad name to school shootings.
“The raw fact is that we’re in the midst of a society-wide overturning of common sense…”
Nope. It’s a wholesale abandonment of common DECENCY. Lewdness has the courts’ imprimatur, so pushing back the clock to 1950 isn’t something that we should expect law enforcement will be capable of doing.
Look… It’s not “common decency” so much as it is the time-honored and time-tested rules of how to get along with other people in society. The norms are what they are; overturning them is the transgressive act designed to undermine everything else.
In some societies, nudity isn’t a big deal. Here in the US, it is. The transgression is the point of it all, forcing the “normies” to live the lifestyles of the depraved because “tolerance”:
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1798190155569983964
This was a deliberate choice, made by the usual suspects. You’re not even safe from them on your property; they’ll follow you, and wave their wing-wang in front of your kid, and I dare say that if the father in this video had made the normal response to this situation and beaten the sex offender down, he’d be the one going to jail for assault.
I think the term is “anarcho-tyranny”, and it is assuredly not happening by accident. They’ve deliberately enabled and virtually ennobled this demographic in order to break down the norms and force acceptance of more and more deviation. At some point, should the normies not start fighting back, there will be criminal charges preferred for not giving your children up for the sexual gratification of others. That’s the world they’re aiming for, and it isn’t necessarily being done because they want a world safe for libertines and deviants… The aim is to do precisely what the Nazis did, use the general disgust of the average person in society with what is going on around them in order to gain power. The deviants and pervs aren’t smart enough to recognize that they’re being used, and will likely go into the camps all shocked and bewildered at how their erstwhile “benefactors” in the Totalitarian Democratic Party have sold them South…
They’re all dumbasses, not realizing that the farther and farther they push the pendulum of social norms, the further and harder will be the eventual and inevitable backswing… At the rate they’re going, I’m gonna guess that in a few short years, the average American will be signing up for outright extermination of the deviant demographic, along with the drug-using homeless segment.
I repeat and reiterate… People are not going to put up with this. The “authorities” need to figure that out, before they find themselves replaced by things like Committees of Vigilance. We don’t have to do social controls as we have been doing them; something else will come along to replace them, once enough people decide that calling 911 ain’t working for them.
Pedos go where kiddoes are. Why is this surprising?
This guy taught at my Houston-area high school in the early 1980s.
I’m trying to think of any sexual shenanigans gotten up to by my teachers and school administrators, when I was growing up.
About the only one I can think of was the hot new art teacher we got in the year I finished high school, who was later reported as having been boinking students left, right, and center later on in her career. My younger brothers were both very matter of fact about it, and that’s about the only teacher-related thing I can think of.
In the last couple of years, I’ve heard of multiple cases of really egregious violations of the “don’t touch” policy in local school districts, as well as a lot higher rate of sexual depravity on the part of students. Something has really changed, and I look out at the rest of the general society and have to lay responsibility on the way every damn thing has been so thoroughly sexualized and rendered more and more perverse. I mean, when did it become the norm for 9 year-old girls to have their mom’s put them in thong panties…?
You want to lay blame for all of this, you need to begin at home, and examine just what the hell we’ve been teaching the kids and tolerating. It’s not just the weirdoes we’ve allowed into the schools, it’s the entire damn social structure around them, including the parents and the students both. Weird Mr. Jones wouldn’t be making any headway if the kids he was weird with weren’t all consciously looking the other way, so as not to be too “judgey” of his freedom to express himself sexually. A large part of all this has at least something to do with the way the kids are being taught and conditioned to be perfect little victims…