Oyster-Adam teacher arrested

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Oyster-Adams fundraiser page: "At HIS place..., I hope not" !!!! http://oysteradamsauction.maestroweb.com/Details.aspx?OrgID=911&ItemID=472

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That is ALWAYS a red flag - male or female doing this.

Everyone should pretend they are a Catholic for a day and go see those informational videos for anyone that wants to volunteer or work
in the Catholic church. It's an education.

I'm sure you could just crash it without signing up (they hold them at various times in auditoriums - it's a movie. I know someone crashed
the one I went to because I attended far from my house and started getting calls for haircuts in that area! Funny, but some guy who had a hair salon clearly
crashed the movie long enough to get names/numbers off the sign in sheet to then call me. Place was nowhere near my house, no other way I could have
gotten on the list). Actual sex offenders get on there and tell you how they fooled the parents and lured them into
thinking they were a great person, who they pick on (middle kid, kid with busy parents, single parent kid, kid from a large family, anyone stupid
enough to trust them, etc etc).

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school. Notorious case a few years ago. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-dc-teacher-makes-fbi-most-wanted-list-after-2008-child-porn-discovery/2012/05/16/gIQAPJJHUU_story.html

Thanks for posting! An excerpt from the article states that Beauvoir's head of school unwittingly gave Toth an opportunity to flee the country.

From the Post: "The camera was assigned to third-grade teacher Eric Justin Toth. School head Paula Carreiro quickly summoned Toth that day in June 2008 and confronted him. She then had him escorted to the end of the cathedral driveway, ordering him away.

With that, she gave Toth a critical jump on police, unwittingly helping a man alleged to have a history of making child pornography. He is now one of the country’s most notorious fugitives — last month, the FBI put him on its Ten Most Wanted list, filling a spot left empty by Osama bin Laden’s death."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good that the Oyster pervert is sitting in jail now. I hope other abusers stop, or they'll go to lock-up too. I hear it's not so nice there.

Most offenders end up in protective custody and are isolated from the general population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good that the Oyster pervert is sitting in jail now. I hope other abusers stop, or they'll go to lock-up too. I hear it's not so nice there.

Most offenders end up in protective custody and are isolated from the general population.

What's your point? They're still locked-up, aren't they?

[Anonymous]

So why is the Wash Post and news media not writing about this case?? They were all over other teacher creepers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why is the Wash Post and news media not writing about this case?? They were all over other teacher creepers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-middle-school-teacher-is-arrested-on-a-sex-abuse-charge/2015/06/02/dbc17ed4-0997-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html

[Anonymous]

No, unfortunately, it's not a red flag! This is a typical "auction item" you'll find on many school fundraisers. And (virtually) all of them are completely harmless, nice and cute. What I deplore is the naivete with which we don't stem them knowing that for 1 in something like a 1,000 there is more to it. The answer is quite simple: lack of awareness, lack of rules and boundaries, and lack of courage to call all of that out by fear of offending someone.

Here is one for everyone to ponder: A great soccer coach I know regularly invites players to sleep over at her/his house. It's to get all of them to the field on time the next morning and to foster some team spirit. While I'm 99.999999999% sure there is absolutely no more to it than that, I would love for someone to tell the coach "no, sorry, not alright" and the parents "guys, this is not alright; absolutely sending the wrong message". And sponsoring organization should require of these coaches some youth protection training and to have clear and transparent rules and boundaries that leave no doubt. If I didn't feel exposed doing so in the absence of any rules that I can refer to, I'd find a way to put a stop to it, not because I don't trust this person but because I think there need to be principled boundaries on all such coaches to minimize opportunities for a predator.

My conclusion, we're all in this together but largely ignorant.

[jsteele]

The Eric Toth episode at Beauvoir generated what was at the time the most active thread in DCUM history. For those who weren't here in those days, here is the original thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/17200.page

It was locked well after it had become inactive because spambot kept posting to it.

The lack of initial media coverage was one of the issues discussed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, unfortunately, it's not a red flag! This is a typical "auction item" you'll find on many school fundraisers. And (virtually) all of them are completely harmless, nice and cute. What I deplore is the naivete with which we don't stem them knowing that for 1 in something like a 1,000 there is more to it. The answer is quite simple: lack of awareness, lack of rules and boundaries, and lack of courage to call all of that out by fear of offending someone.

Here is one for everyone to ponder: A great soccer coach I know regularly invites players to sleep over at her/his house. It's to get all of them to the field on time the next morning and to foster some team spirit. While I'm 99.999999999% sure there is absolutely no more to it than that, I would love for someone to tell the coach "no, sorry, not alright" and the parents "guys, this is not alright; absolutely sending the wrong message". And sponsoring organization should require of these coaches some youth protection training and to have clear and transparent rules and boundaries that leave no doubt. If I didn't feel exposed doing so in the absence of any rules that I can refer to, I'd find a way to put a stop to it, not because I don't trust this person but because I think there need to be principled boundaries on all such coaches to minimize opportunities for a predator.

My conclusion, we're all in this together but largely ignorant.

I would not hesitate to tell the coach that he should stop doing this -- to protect himself against false accusations. Many organizations now have a two-adult coach/leader rule in place to protect everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, unfortunately, it's not a red flag! This is a typical "auction item" you'll find on many school fundraisers. And (virtually) all of them are completely harmless, nice and cute. What I deplore is the naivete with which we don't stem them knowing that for 1 in something like a 1,000 there is more to it. The answer is quite simple: lack of awareness, lack of rules and boundaries, and lack of courage to call all of that out by fear of offending someone.

Here is one for everyone to ponder: A great soccer coach I know regularly invites players to sleep over at her/his house. It's to get all of them to the field on time the next morning and to foster some team spirit. While I'm 99.999999999% sure there is absolutely no more to it than that, I would love for someone to tell the coach "no, sorry, not alright" and the parents "guys, this is not alright; absolutely sending the wrong message". And sponsoring organization should require of these coaches some youth protection training and to have clear and transparent rules and boundaries that leave no doubt. If I didn't feel exposed doing so in the absence of any rules that I can refer to, I'd find a way to put a stop to it, not because I don't trust this person but because I think there need to be principled boundaries on all such coaches to minimize opportunities for a predator.

My conclusion, we're all in this together but largely ignorant.

I would not hesitate to tell the coach that he should stop doing this -- to protect himself against false accusations. Many organizations now have a two-adult coach/leader rule in place to protect everyone.

I will also note that many soccer coaches also wear short shorts. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, unfortunately, it's not a red flag! This is a typical "auction item" you'll find on many school fundraisers. And (virtually) all of them are completely harmless, nice and cute. What I deplore is the naivete with which we don't stem them knowing that for 1 in something like a 1,000 there is more to it. The answer is quite simple: lack of awareness, lack of rules and boundaries, and lack of courage to call all of that out by fear of offending someone.

Here is one for everyone to ponder: A great soccer coach I know regularly invites players to sleep over at her/his house. It's to get all of them to the field on time the next morning and to foster some team spirit. While I'm 99.999999999% sure there is absolutely no more to it than that, I would love for someone to tell the coach "no, sorry, not alright" and the parents "guys, this is not alright; absolutely sending the wrong message". And sponsoring organization should require of these coaches some youth protection training and to have clear and transparent rules and boundaries that leave no doubt. If I didn't feel exposed doing so in the absence of any rules that I can refer to, I'd find a way to put a stop to it, not because I don't trust this person but because I think there need to be principled boundaries on all such coaches to minimize opportunities for a predator.

My conclusion, we're all in this together but largely ignorant.

I would not hesitate to tell the coach that he should stop doing this -- to protect himself against false accusations. Many organizations now have a two-adult coach/leader rule in place to protect everyone.

I will also note that many soccer coaches also wear short shorts. Just saying.

And are men!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, unfortunately, it's not a red flag! This is a typical "auction item" you'll find on many school fundraisers. And (virtually) all of them are completely harmless, nice and cute. What I deplore is the naivete with which we don't stem them knowing that for 1 in something like a 1,000 there is more to it. The answer is quite simple: lack of awareness, lack of rules and boundaries, and lack of courage to call all of that out by fear of offending someone.

Here is one for everyone to ponder: A great soccer coach I know regularly invites players to sleep over at her/his house. It's to get all of them to the field on time the next morning and to foster some team spirit. While I'm 99.999999999% sure there is absolutely no more to it than that, I would love for someone to tell the coach "no, sorry, not alright" and the parents "guys, this is not alright; absolutely sending the wrong message". And sponsoring organization should require of these coaches some youth protection training and to have clear and transparent rules and boundaries that leave no doubt. If I didn't feel exposed doing so in the absence of any rules that I can refer to, I'd find a way to put a stop to it, not because I don't trust this person but because I think there need to be principled boundaries on all such coaches to minimize opportunities for a predator.

My conclusion, we're all in this together but largely ignorant.

Is this a Dad or Mom coach? If not, then this is absolutely weird and unacceptable. I have never heard of this happening anywhere. I'm telling you right now...RED FLAG

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So why is the Wash Post and news media not writing about this case?? They were all over other teacher creepers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-middle-school-teacher-is-arrested-on-a-sex-abuse-charge/2015/06/02/dbc17ed4-0997-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html

I feel like every time someone on here complains about the Post "ignoring" a story, that story has been covered by the Post. The problem seems to be with the readers, not with the Post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who are saying "I can't believe no one noticed anything" are interesting to me.

It makes you feel better to think there is a something you'd notice about a sex offender to protect your child, but having worked with them. There isnt. The horrifying thing is...they can seem just like normal people on the outside.

This. If it was easy to spot a sex offender it would be a lot easier to keep kids safe.

+100. Child molesters often work VERY hard to remain above suspicion. That's why their crimes often go unreported for years (and sometimes forever). For examples, please see Dennis Hastert, the teacher from Horace Mann in NY, and countless others.

THis. They work very hard to gain trust so that they have the opportunity to commit their crimes.

[Anonymous]

The post needs to do an article on men wearing short shorts.