JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (FOX 10 TV) – A Mississippi high school teacher is behind bars and facing fines up to $1 million, all for growing marijuana at his St. Martin home.
Narcotics officers from two agencies searched the home of 51-year-old Patrick Charles Walker on Wednesday, November 15. Walker is a teacher at St. Martin High School.
During the search, agents found marijuana plants growing inside and outside Walker’s home. They also seized marijuana that had been recently harvested, as well as stuff to grow marijuana, like fertilizers, nutrients, fans, and Ultraviolet grow lights.
If convicted, Walker faces a fine up to $1 million and up to 30 years in the state penitentiary.
In other news from Mississippi high schools:
Desoto County, Ms (My FOX Memphis) – A substitute teacher is behind bars after Desoto County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him Monday, for allegedly having sex with multiple underage students.
23-year old Joey Johnson of Horn Lake, Mississippi is charged with multiple counts of sexual battery. Johnson is alleged to have had sex with at least two 16 year old students while working as a substitute teacher at Lake Cormorant High School near Walls, Mississippi.
Johnson isn’t the only Mississippi teacher facing charges. Last week, 22-year old Tyler Bigham, a music teacher at Desoto Central High School was arrested and charged with sexual battery for allegedly having sex with a 17-year old student at a park.
(Smoking Gun) A Mississippi teacher admitted to cops that she had sex with a 15-year-old male student to whom she sent explicit text messages and trysted with in her Jaguar, which bore the license plate “GRRRRR.” Those are just some of the sleazy details in a Biloxi Police Department report detailing Rebecca Dawn Bogard’s alleged sexual assault of the boy, who the 27-year-old educator taught at the Biloxi Alternative School. Bogard… is facing felony sexual battery charges. She has been suspended with pay and is free on $50,000 bail.
LONG BEACH, MS. (WLOX) – A former teacher faces new sex charges. Police say Joseph Eugene Council, 33, of Long Beach confessed to having a sexual relationship with 17 year old girl.
Until May, Council taught band and choir at Pass Christian Middle and High Schools. Council was taken to the Harrison County Jail where he was being held pending $75,000 bond. Long Beach Police say the investigation is continuing and ask anyone with information about the case to call 228-863-7292.
Four different Mississippi teachers involved in sexual relationships with minors. Their bonds were set at values between $50,000 and $100,000 dollars. Mississippi law sets the bar for statutory rape at age 16, so only the female teacher in the Smoking Gun piece might have been charged with rape. But in her case, and the other teacher cases, the charges are set to felony sexual battery, defined as:
§ 97-3-95. Sexual battery.
(1) A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with:
(a) Another person without his or her consent;
(b) A mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person;
(c) A child at least fourteen (14) but under sixteen (16) years of age, if the person is thirty-six (36) or more months older than the child; or
(d) A child under the age of fourteen (14) years of age, if the person is twenty-four (24) or more months older than the child.
(2) A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with a child under the age of eighteen (18) years if the person is in a position of trust or authority over the child including without limitation the child’s teacher, counselor, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, minister, priest, physical therapist, chiropractor, legal guardian, parent, stepparent, aunt, uncle, scout leader or coach.
§ 97-3-101. Sexual battery; penalty.
(1) Every person who shall be convicted of sexual battery under § 97-3-95(1)(a), (b), or (2) shall be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for a period of not more than thirty (30) years, and for a second or subsequent such offense shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than forty (40) years.
So remember folks, if you’re a high school teacher in Mississippi, growing marijuana plants in your own home is as reprehensible as having sex with your teenaged students. Oh, wait, I’m sorry, it’s worse. The felony sexual battery charges don’t carry a $1,000,000 fine.
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Sexual predation amongst our schools happens a lot more than people realize. In Clark County, NV, a couple of years ago, there were some 40+ incidences. Some were more egregious than others, of course, but I was stunned at the sheer volume.
This is unfortunately due to the concentration of prey (kids) and that many humans are still stupid animals. This is not a reflection on teachers per se. People, be paranoid about your kids–sexual predation happens more often than you realize.
But hell, it’s just sexual predation, right? It happens! People are only human, imperfect. But the DEVIL WEED? Satan’s minions growing that stuff must be sent back to HAY-ELL!!! That devil-spawn should get DAY-ETH!!!
Lesson from all this? Get the fuck out of that backwater Mississippi. And no protests, southerners–I grew up in Alabama and mostly Louisiana.
My wife teaches and I would think what a teacher does in their home on his or her’s own time souldnt reflect on that teacher at all. But I do think if your going to RAPE a 16yr old child well thats a hell of alot worse than growing pot! Total BS
I should add… until 2000 the legal age of consent was… 14.
Dayum… Long Beach and Biloxi are just a few miles from where I lived down there… both schools within walking distance. I lived in Gulfport which bordered both.