Every school has a child molester teacher

Here's mine! I always saw him and the girl he had "relations" with at the coffee shop a block from our school. I never had him as a teacher but my some of my buddies did and they always thought of him as weird but not child molester weird. I'm a little bit disgusted

http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=22580

Police: Teacher detailed sexual relationship with teen

By Pierrette J. Shields

LONGMONT — A Longmont High School teacher arrested on Wednesday confessed to detectives explicit details of a sexual relationship he carried on with one of his teenage students, according to his arrest report.

Alex Tinsley, 51, of Boulder was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust with a pattern of abuse.

According to reports, both he and the girl, who is younger than 16, initially denied the relationship when confronted by officers. A review of text messages on the teenager’s phone and an interview Tinsley gave officers on Wednesday detailed the married teacher’s sexual affair with the girl.

Tinsley appeared briefly in Boulder County Court at the Boulder County Jail on Thursday afternoon. He bowed his head to acknowledge Boulder District Judge Thomas Reed, but did not speak. Bond was set at $50,000 and Tinsley must surrender his passport before he is released.

He has ties to Japan and police worried he may attempt to flee, noting in the police report that he did not tell them Tuesday he planned to leave the country that day. Instead, police reported, he said he planned a trip to Japan in two weeks.

Tinsley is scheduled to return to court on Wednesday for a formal filing of charges.

Jail staff kept him separated from other inmates who appeared in court at the same time.

Tinsley was scheduled to escort 13 students to Japan on Wednesday evening, but police worked to arrest him before he left. The students were allowed to go on the trip without him, according to the National Registration Center for Study Abroad.

St. Vrain Valley School District officials could not be reached to confirm his date of hire, but he wrote in a newsletter about teaching Japanese that he started the program in 2003, after he had been hired to teach German.

School district spokesman John Poynton said on Wednesday that Tinsley had been placed on paid administrative leave while the district investigated the allegations.

The relationship was uncovered Tuesday when a woman who saw Tinsley pick up the girl at the Twin Peaks Mall noticed them again at Starbucks on Hover Street, police said.

She told police she was struck by their age difference and that they “appeared way too romantic, like they were boyfriend and girlfriend, like they were in a new romance,” according to reports.

Officers found them at the coffee shop, separated them, and both denied that they were anything more than a teacher and student.

However, with permission from the girl’s mother, the officers reviewed between 30 and 40 text messages the pair had exchanged that day. The texts revealed the sexual relationship, police said.

According to police reports, they discussed his planned trip to Japan and they fantasized about dressing her up “as a teddy bear” to sneak her on the plane with him. They then discussed joining the “Mile High Club” during the flight, but worried over the logistics of sexual intercourse on a cramped airplane.

Through the messages, they agreed to meet because, according to police reports, “hugs, kisses, coffee and naked pictures of his girlfriend should make him feel better.”

After the initial police contact, officers allowed Tinsley to leave while they followed up with the girl and her mother.

On Wednesday, Tinsley returned a detective’s phone call and agreed to a phone interview. Tinsley said the girl had been his student for two years.

“Until the spring semester of 2010, he said their relationship had been strictly teacher/student,” the report reads. “Alex said since this semester their ‘affection has grown’ for each other.”

Initially, he told the detective the relationship was not sexual, saying that they had “steamy dialogues” via text message that were “probably beyond the protocol of professional conduct that is expected of me.”

The relationship began to get physical in May 2010 and escalated from a kiss in his office to sexual intercourse in the bed of his pickup truck “a couple of times a week for a couple of weeks,” Tinsley told officers.

He detailed numerous sexual encounters, which a therapist told officers the girl confirmed.

Longmont Police Cmdr. Tim Lewis said some suspects quickly reveal sexual assaults on children, but more often request an attorney. Because of Tinsley’s position as a teacher and karate instructor, investigators are trying to determine whether there may be other victims, Lewis said.

“So far no other victims have come forward, but it is still early in the investigation,” Lewis said.