Authority & Access · Week of November 30–December 6, 2025

McKeown was sentenced to 135 years in state prison on child pornography and related charges. According to statements from the Florida Attorney General's office and local coverage, investigators determined he used school Wi-Fi at UBIC Academy during school hours to send and receive child sexual abuse material. Some of the material involved very young children.

McKeown was convicted of aggravated possession of child pornography, multiple counts of possession of child pornography, and several counts related to sexual conduct with the family's dog. As part of the sentence, he was designated a sexual offender and prohibited from owning animals if he is ever released.

Palmer, a former elementary school teacher, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of electronic solicitation of a child (or person believed to be a child) and five counts of possessing child sexual abuse material. According to charging documents, he communicated with an undercover officer he believed to be a 13-year-old boy and claimed he had 87 gigabytes and more than 1,000 videos of child sexual abuse material stored on a device he called his “pedophone.”

He arranged to meet the purported minor at a public park, where he was arrested. Coverage notes that he was employed as a teacher in a Minneapolis public school at the time of his arrest and was later terminated from his position.

Dicer, a former Highlands School District teacher, was charged with sexually abusing two male students. According to the criminal complaint summarized in local coverage, one victim alleges abuse beginning when he was around 11 or 12, and another reports abuse as a minor student. Prosecutors say Dicer allegedly paid one victim more than $6,000 over time in an effort to keep him from reporting.

The charges include institutional sexual assault of a minor, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, indecent assault, and related offenses. The case appears to involve conduct tied directly to his position as a teacher and his access to students.

Coffield, 35, a Green Valley High School theater teacher, was arrested on multiple sex-offense charges, including sexual assault and sexual conduct between a school employee and a pupil over 16. According to a Henderson police report referenced in local coverage, he allegedly lured a student to the school's theater by email a few days before her graduation, sexually assaulted her in a dressing room, and she later became pregnant.

Reports say the student first disclosed the assault to her mother; Coffield has since appeared in court and no longer works for the Clark County School District. Additional media coverage has prompted broader conversations locally about warning signs and how schools respond to allegations of educator misconduct.

Cassic, 56, a former Douglas County teacher and soccer coach, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 10 years of sex-offender intensive supervised probation after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a child. According to the 23rd Judicial District Attorney's Office, a fellow teacher found him in January 2024 sitting at his desk with his pants down, watching pornography on his laptop; investigators later found images on his phone that included students photographed without their knowledge.

The DA’s office said that some images focused on students as they bent over or climbed stairs. Cassic will be subject to strict probation conditions and ongoing monitoring, but local coverage does not explicitly detail his registry classification beyond the sex-offender-focused probation terms.

The Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Victoria Marling, described as a school teacher, on allegations of sexual misconduct between an educator and student, obscenity, and obstruction of justice. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies received a report of suspected sexual abuse on November 18, 2025.

Detectives executed social-media search warrants and, after reviewing digital communications, developed probable cause for her arrest. No additional details regarding the student or duration of alleged misconduct were provided in the public statements.

Alcala, a former Florissant police officer, pleaded guilty in federal court to 20 felony counts including civil-rights violations and computer fraud. According to federal prosecutors, during multiple traffic stops he took women’s phones under the pretense of checking documents, unlocked them, and searched their photo galleries to send intimate images and videos to devices he controlled—without their knowledge or consent.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office reports that nearly two dozen women and individuals depicted in the stolen images have filed federal civil-rights lawsuits against Alcala and the City of Florissant. Those suits are paused pending sentencing, where he faces up to 25 years in prison.

De La Torre, 31, a former Schertz Police Department K-9 officer, was fired and later arrested on a warrant charging him with sexual assault. According to reporting summarizing law enforcement statements, he was terminated on November 18, 2025, after an internal investigation into a complaint concerning truthfulness, and was under investigation for a November 14 police report alleging sexual assault and official oppression.

Guadalupe County deputies arrested him following what they described as a “high risk traffic stop” in Cibolo. Specific details of the alleged assault were not publicly released.

Sinnott, a former municipal police officer and ex-chief of the Silverton Volunteer Fire Company, was arrested in Florida after New Jersey authorities charged him with four counts of criminal sexual contact and one count of official misconduct. According to the New Jersey Attorney General’s office, multiple male volunteer firefighters report Sinnott handcuffed and groped them during purported “training sessions,” and in some cases photographed them while restrained.

The alleged incidents occurred both at the Silverton firehouse and at Sinnott’s home. Investigators say the victims initially believed the exercises were legitimate law-enforcement or safety training.

Multiple families have filed civil lawsuits against Celina ISD and former Moore Middle School teacher/coach Caleb Elliott. Recent filings include a third and fourth lawsuit alleging that Elliott secretly recorded boys in various stages of undress in a locker room and coerced students into nude exercises. Families claim the district ignored or downplayed warning signs.

Reports indicate at least 39 alleged victims. Suits say administrators failed to act on prior concerns and that Celina police closed an earlier investigation too quickly. One suit uses a new Texas statute allowing claims against districts in certain sexual-misconduct cases despite sovereign immunity.

Parents of an 8-year-old filed suit against Sierra Canyon School alleging older students pressured younger children into a “kissing club” involving unwanted, sexualized contact in bathrooms. The family contends school officials failed to supervise adequately or report concerns promptly.

According to the complaint, the mother had previously raised concerns in 2023 about bullying and boundaries but felt the school minimized the seriousness. The family eventually withdrew their child, alleging institutional negligence.