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Subscribe to RSSA school board in Indiana Monday night unanimously fired a middle school teacher accused of sending sexually suggestive text messages, according to local media reports.
Bryan Tyman, 44, was a social studies teacher at Fegely Middle School in Portage, Ind. He was charged with felony sex counts involving "sexting" incidents with teen girls, nwitimes.com reported, citing police reports. "Sexting," as it's colloquially known, is the act of sending sexually suggestive or explicit messages or photos over wireless devices.
A former female student told police she developed a friendship with Tyman as a father figure and they played Xbox games online, the Post-Tribune in Indiana reported. But the relationship eventually became "creepy," the girl told authorities, according to the Post-Tribune.
Court records reviewed by nwitimes.com say that in December 2011, the then-14-year-old girl asked Tyman what he wanted for Christmas. "I think you know what I want," Tyman responded, according to court records. He was charged Monday with a Class D felony count of child solicitation over this incident, nwitimes.com reported.
Tyman was also charged with felony counts of vicarious sexual gratification and child solicitation for another Dec. 29 incident involving text messages exchanged with three girls, nwitimes.com reported. Police said Tynam asked for a sexually explicit photo of one of the girls and for the girls to perform a sex act while he watched, according to nwitimes.com. On the cellphone reportedly used by the girls, police also found a photo believed to be sent from Tyman, nwitimes.com reported.
Portage Township Schools Superintendent E. Ric Frataccia confirmed Tyman's termination with NBC News, noting that the teacher had been with the school system for about five years. But Frataccia declined to provide further comment Tuesday.
Tyman has also served as the coach of the Portage High School girls golf team, according to nwitimes.com.
Just this month, a former high school teacher in Alden, N.Y., pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, The Buffalo News reported. Officials say investigators determined Alden High School teacher Gerald Wild II had sent inappropriate instant messages to a 16-year-old student, the newspaper added. A judge ordered 46-year-old Wild to turn in his state teaching certificate and he now faces up to a year in prison, according to The Buffalo News.
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If it was a woman teacher, she would get community service and the kid would get high fives. What it with the huge double standard on this issue?
well the kid wouldn't find it creepy or tell on the teacher. The 'victim' would think it's awesome so they punishment is less
so.... let us suggest that everyone begin carrying a gun. Well, everyone can now. Kids ~ babysitters ~ campers in the National Forest...folks on the bus... the cashier at the store... why, we could advance so far as to become, yes, that's it ~ the New Wild West where everyone has a gun! yeah ~ that's it.........
??? This is a story about a teacher sexting middle-school female students, neil. How you got off the beaten path is, well, creepy.
its not the physical attraction these guys have towards apparently developed girls that is disgusting, but rather it's their disability to socialize and pick up on of-age girls. It shows such an amount of low self-esteem, disrespect to his job, and worst of all, most of these pedos say and send things to these girls that I would never say or send to ANY girl lol. i mean who sends pics of genitals?
"creepy," the girl told authorities, anytime you're saying something to someone that is young enough that you coould have been changing their diaper - - IS CREEPY
@wbednar,
if they are both adults, like Hugh Hefner and his new wife, it is not creepy, although she may be changing his diaper, for all we know.
Note how our illustriously corrupt judicial system handled a case in which sex didn't happen, and how it handles cases in which numerous sexual encounters occur.
Gender biased, totally... "we" should be ashamed. If the teacher is female, she gets charged with misdemeanors and no jail time. Here, the guy is charged with multiple felonies and is quickly fired.
Is anybody stopping to ask the question: Why were these girls texting him or offering information in the first place?
I wont deny this is unacceptable and very creepy, this guy has problems. But why are these girls letting themselves be put into such situations? How did it come to this point?
Me thinks you can't just be blaming this guy as the ONLY cause for the incidents. There was more leading up to this than was divulged to the public.
It is called "selective reporting" where usually the editor/publisher will cut out particular information that was obtained by the media for a certain "slant". Many news outlets are guilty of this. Until there is a law against it, this unethical practice will continue to happen.
Ban editing? I thought that was already dead and buried.