What March shows
At a Glance
March’s through-line is trusted access. The included cases are not interchangeable crime items; they cluster around roles and institutions that gave adults credibility, proximity, privacy, or power before formal accountability began.
Education and youth-facing roles dominated the month, while healthcare, law enforcement, clergy, and school-district accountability actions showed the same larger pattern: prevention often failed before courts, prosecutors, civil litigation, or attorneys general entered the picture.
The recurring absence of prior-registration information reinforces the point. The cases gathered here are best understood through authority, legitimacy, access, shielding, and delayed intervention — not through a simplified public-warning model of risk.
March 2026 was dominated by education and youth-access roles: teachers, coaches, school employees, and youth ministers appeared across arrests, indictments, pleas, and sentencings.
The strongest arrest pattern involved school access, including classroom authority, school athletics, campus-linked allegations, and teacher-student cases.
Institutional-accountability items were significant: the Rhode Island Diocese report, El Monte Union settlement, and Oconto Falls lawsuit all centered on oversight, complaint handling, and prevention failure.
Healthcare authority was unusually prominent, with two physician sentencings showing how medical trust and patient vulnerability fit the broader authority-and-access pattern.
March was not a random collection of criminal cases. The same access points appeared again and again: classrooms, locker rooms, youth sports, ministry, healthcare, campus policing, and institutional complaint systems.
Criminal procedure
New Arrests & Charges
Education / youth sports
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Ryan Brungardt
Former Salina Central High School wrestling coach
March 5 and March 24, 2026
Kansas / federal
Charged / IndictedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Federal prosecutors first charged and later indicted Brungardt in a school-athletics CSAM production case tied to a high school wrestling event and minors in a locker-room setting.
Why included: School-athletics access is central: the allegations involve a former coach, a high school wrestling environment, and minors in a setting shaped by supervision and institutional trust.
Education
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Benoit Cransac
Former Isidore Newman School teacher
March 23, 2026
Louisiana / Orleans Parish
Re-arrest / added chargesRegistry: No prior registration noted
Prosecutors added 17 child video-voyeurism counts, bringing the reported total to 42 counts at that stage. Reporting connected the allegations to unauthorized images, students, and campus access.
Why included: The March expansion deepened a school-linked exploitation investigation involving teacher access, students, and alleged misuse of a campus environment.
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Ashley A. Fisler
Former Orchard Valley Middle School teacher
March 26, 2026
New Jersey / Gloucester County
Arrested / ChargedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Fisler was charged with offenses including sexual assault of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, and official misconduct. Prosecutors said the allegations involved a student from the period when she taught at Orchard Valley Middle School.
Why included: Teacher-student authority and an official-misconduct charge put the alleged conduct squarely inside a school-access and public-trust frame.
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Nadia Horn
North High School special education teacher
March 25–30, 2026
Wisconsin / Eau Claire County
Arrested / ChargedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Horn was arrested after a school-resource-officer investigation and later charged with multiple child sex offenses involving students.
Why included: This is a direct school-trust case involving a teacher and students, with the initial investigation tied to a school-resource-officer channel.
Case outcomes
Pleas / Convictions / Sentencings
Other institutional authority / wealth and public influence
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Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander, and Tal Alexander
Luxury real estate / business figures; Alon also reported as a private security executive
March 9, 2026
New York / Southern District of New York
ConvictedRegistry: No prior registration noted
A Manhattan federal jury convicted Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander of multiple federal sex offenses, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, after a weeks-long trial. Federal prosecutors said the verdict followed testimony from 11 victims.
Why included: Wealth, luxury real estate status, elite social access, and professional credibility can create access, lower suspicion, and make repeated abuse harder to challenge. This case shows how influence and social capital can operate as a form of protection before law enforcement ever enters the picture.
Clergy / religious institutions
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Aaron Paul Lockman
Former youth minister
March 6, 2026
Indiana / Southern District of Indiana
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Lockman was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for possession offenses involving minors. DOJ identified him as a youth minister and linked the case to a broader child-protection investigation involving a former Kentucky school superintendent.
Why included: Youth ministry confers spiritual authority, adult trust, and child-facing access, making the role central to the accountability pattern.
Education
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William Boston
Former Intermediate Unit resource instructor
March 6, 2026
Pennsylvania / Western District of Pennsylvania
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Boston was sentenced to seven years for transporting CSAM. DOJ identified him as a former Intermediate Unit resource instructor.
Why included: The education-linked role places this CSAM sentencing inside the broader pattern of child-facing professional trust.
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John Magee Gavin
Former Boston science teacher, Josiah Quincy Upper School
March 12, 2026; DOJ release March 13
Massachusetts / District of Massachusetts
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Gavin was sentenced to 10 years in a child-exploitation case. DOJ identified him as a former Boston science teacher.
Why included: Schools grant legitimacy, routine access, and adult authority around students before criminal process ever begins.
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Kostas Fekkas
Former high school teacher
March 18, 2026
New York / Southern District of New York
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Fekkas was sentenced to 13 years for coercing minors to produce CSAM. DOJ identified him as a former high school teacher.
Why included: The former teacher role remains relevant to the authority-and-trust pattern even where the sentencing event is not limited to a current classroom-victim framework.
Clergy / religious institutions / education
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Andrew Brown
Volunteer teacher and youth minister
March 12, 2026
Ohio / Southern District of Ohio
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Brown was sentenced to 160 months for CSAM distribution, receipt, and possession offenses. DOJ described him as someone who served in child-facing religious and school roles.
Why included: This case sits at the intersection of school and religious youth access, showing how multiple institutions can confer credibility and proximity to children.
Youth sports / youth groups
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Daniel James Riggs
Former Fort Lauderdale tennis coach
March 17, 2026
Florida / Southern District of Florida
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Riggs was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty in a case involving two minor students. DOJ said he worked as a tennis coach and that both minors were his students at a Fort Lauderdale tennis center.
Why included: Youth-sports coaching can create routine contact, one-on-one trust, training authority, and opportunities for isolation.
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Darius Tremayne Lawshea
Former Miami Gardens youth track coach
March 24, 2026
Florida / Miami-Dade County
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Lawshea was sentenced to 50 years after conviction in a case involving a student athlete. Reporting identified him as a longtime youth track coach in Miami Gardens.
Why included: The access point was a trusted youth-coaching role inside a track program, not stranger contact.
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Stephen James Lemelin
Former Burlington High School wrestling coach
March 26, 2026; DOJ release March 30
Massachusetts / District of Massachusetts
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Lemelin was sentenced to two years for attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor.
Why included: The school-coach role places the case inside a youth-access and institutional-trust pattern.
Law enforcement / corrections
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Paul Aurelio McClain
Former San Diego State University Police sergeant
March 18, 2026
California / Central District of California
Guilty pleaRegistry: No prior registration noted
McClain pleaded guilty to possessing more than 600 CSAM files. DOJ identified him as a former SDSU Police Department sergeant.
Why included: Campus-police authority matters because public-safety institutions confer legitimacy and power while often escaping the suspicion aimed elsewhere.
Healthcare / therapy
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Craig A. Spiegel
Former St. Louis County pediatrician
March 24, 2026
Missouri / Eastern District of Missouri
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Spiegel was sentenced to 20 years for exchanging prescriptions for sexual conduct, images, or cash. DOJ said he exploited his medical position and that many affected patients had first known him when he was their pediatrician.
Why included: Pediatric medicine creates exceptional trust, privacy, and vulnerability; the reported exploitation of medical authority makes the accountability frame central.
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Robert Glapinski
Family medicine physician
March 25, 2026; DOJ release March 26
Michigan / Eastern District of Michigan
SentencedRegistry: No prior registration noted
Glapinski was sentenced to 15 years for CSAM distribution and possession conduct. DOJ identified him as a family medicine doctor who treated adults and children.
Why included: The physician role matters because medical authority and patient trust are part of the broader pattern of institutional legitimacy.
Institutional accountability
Civil / Administrative Actions
Education
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El Monte Union High School District
Public school district
March 20, 2026
California / Los Angeles County
AG settlement / stipulated judgmentRegistry: No prior registration noted
California DOJ announced a settlement requiring oversight and reforms after finding systemic shortfalls in the district’s handling of student complaints. The plan requires complaint tracking, policy revision, training, services, and other reforms.
Why included: The accountability issue is institutional: complaint handling, prevention systems, training, services, and outside oversight.
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Oconto Falls Board of Education / Oconto Falls School District
Public school district
March 11, 2026
Wisconsin / federal civil lawsuit
Civil lawsuit filedRegistry: No prior registration noted
A federal lawsuit alleged a long-running pattern of school-district failure involving teacher and coach misconduct.
Why included: The filing raises prevention and oversight questions around repeated warnings, institutional response, and whether alleged harm was allowed to continue.
Legal and registry note
Arrests, charges, indictments, civil allegations, and investigative findings are not convictions. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. Civil and institutional findings should be read according to their own legal posture and source language.
Registry-status notes are limited to reviewed public source material. Under the current series display convention, “Registry status not mentioned” is displayed as “Registry: No prior registration noted” to preserve the prevention-policy frame without inventing registry history.
