Burbank teacher Amy Beck remains in jail for alleged sex with student

Amy Beck, a 33-year-old mother-of-three and a sixth-grade teacher from Burbank, California has been in jail since earlier this week after turning herself in for having sex with a teenager last year. The boy in question was 14 at the time.

Amy Beck has been charged with five counts of unlawful sex with a person under 16. The boy has since moved from David Starr Jordan Middle School to a different location, officials said.

Originally, Beck was scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday. However, the arraignment was postponed until March 25th. If tried and convicted, Amy Beck could face up to seven years in prison.

It is of note that Amy Beck turned herself in on Monday, as opposed to someone such as Melinda Dennehy (accused of sexting a student). Amy Beck is being held on $175,000 bail. The Burbank Unified School District said she resigned the Friday before turning herself in to authorities.

While Amy Beck admittedly turned herself into police, her attorney, Michael Williamson, said:

“My client is not making any admissions. She’s voluntarily assisting and cooperating with the Burbank Police Department.”

In fact, the arraignment was reportedly postponed by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge so that Amy Beck could continue to work with authorities, as noted above.

Ex-Teacher Turns to Adult Films After Firing Over Bikini Photos

Tiffany Shepherd, 31, who was fired from her teaching job at Port St. Lucie High School last year (coincidentally after pictures of her as a bikini-clad "mate" for a charter fishing boat operation were discovered), has given up finding a new teaching position after thousands of resumes have been rejected. She's changed her name for her new career, as well: Leah Lust.

While Tiffany Shepherd (AKA Leah Lust) lost her teaching position, the school district originally said it wasn't related to the bikini pictures. In fact, they said, the termination was because of more than 30 unexcused absences from work.

Although the charter she worked for advertised that some "mates" worked topless, Tiffany Shepherd insisted that she did not do her mate's job topless.

Quite obviously, you might surmise with the moniker Leah Lust that Tiffany Shepherd has entered the world of adult films, and you'd be right. She turned to adult films, she said, after sending out 2,500 resumes without landing a new teaching job. Also, since her firing, not only has Tiffany Shepherd been unemployed, she's lost custody of two of her children.

Interestingly, despite her claims that she never appeared topless for her charter boat gig, it's the boat's captain that claims to have introduced Leah Lust, er Tiffany Shepherd to the biz.

Gil Coombes, and his wife Kat, besides owning the charter boat Smoking 'Em, own a porn webcam studio, KLC Productions.

“We sat down with her and told her she’d never get a teaching job again. So I told her, use ‘em before they fall to the ground. But God, does she need to work on her acting!”

Tiffany Shepherd says she's not proud of her new career as Leah Lust, but I'd have to ask: you were OK w/ the bikini-first-mate gig? At any rate, she said:

“I’m not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it. I’m an educated woman, but I never thought it would come to this. No one gets brought up thinking they’ll be a floozy.”

Teacher Pays Student $1,500 for Sex

Oh, those crazy people in Utah. A former Helper (UT) Junior High School teacher not only had sex with a 15-year-old male student, it was apparently so good she paid him between $1,400 and $1,500 after the encounters according to court documents.

Melissa Ann Andreini, 28, was charged last Monday in 7th District Court with three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a third-degree felony. Her first court appearance is scheduled for Sept.28tg before Judge Douglas Thomas in Price, UT. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison on each count.

The victim's mother (I know, I know, he's a victim, but with $1,500 in his pocket, it's harder to say that) confronted Melissa Andreini at her home on July 3rd. The teacher admitted not just the sex but also the payments of between $1,400 to $1,500, all told.

According to the boy, Andreini paid him the cash after three separate sexual encounters at her home in June. The encounters started during the 2008-09 school year.

It's unclear if the money was for sex or for hush money, to keep the boy quiet. Andreini was booked into the Carbon County jail last week, but was released after posting $10,000 bail.