Another teacher (Gerald William Lemay) suspected of pursuing underage girls online

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Gerald William Lemay

For the third time this summer, police have arrested a man who allegedly pursued an underage girl online to meet her for sex.

The case against Gerald William Lemay, 46, a substitute teacher in Butte County, is similar to that of a San Jose band instructor arrested in August and a plumber from San Jose busted in May.

Like the two prior cases, Lemay initiated a chat room conversation then arranged to travel to Santa Cruz to have sex with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, according to Santa Cruz police. She was actually a Santa Cruz police detective.

"I think it just brings out the inherent danger that hopefully parents can be made aware of and monitor their child's activity on these Internet Web sites... because these conversations can really turn dangerous," Santa Cruz police Lt. Rudy Escalante said. "We need to be aware that, unfortunately, these predators are out there." Lemay started chatting with the detective posing as a teenage girl in August, according to Butte County sheriff's detective Tom Dryden, who is assigned to the Special Victims Unit and assisted with the investigation. Escalante said the conversations were "very sexually explicit."

http://www.teachercrime.com/california.html

[Jules100]

Originally Posted by teachercrime

Gerald William Lemay

For the third time this summer, police have arrested a man who allegedly pursued an underage girl online to meet her for sex.

The case against Gerald William Lemay, 46, a substitute teacher in Butte County, is similar to that of a San Jose band instructor arrested in August and a plumber from San Jose busted in May.

Like the two prior cases, Lemay initiated a chat room conversation then arranged to travel to Santa Cruz to have sex with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, according to Santa Cruz police. She was actually a Santa Cruz police detective.

"I think it just brings out the inherent danger that hopefully parents can be made aware of and monitor their child's activity on these Internet Web sites... because these conversations can really turn dangerous," Santa Cruz police Lt. Rudy Escalante said. "We need to be aware that, unfortunately, these predators are out there." Lemay started chatting with the detective posing as a teenage girl in August, according to Butte County sheriff's detective Tom Dryden, who is assigned to the Special Victims Unit and assisted with the investigation. Escalante said the conversations were "very sexually explicit."

http://www.teachercrime.com/california.html

As this seems to be happening all the time, i sometimes wonder if some of these people go into teaching just so they can have access to children- scary thought