Guilty! Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, Blountsville, Alabama (arrested Dec 2013)

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    Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, teacher at Susan Moore High School, Blount County Schools, Blountsville, Alabama, "charge of transmitting obscene material to child by a computer"

    AL.com: Blount County teacher charged with texting nude photos to student (Dec 20 2013)

    Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, turned herself in this afternoon at the Blount County Correctional Facility. The bond is set at 100,000 ... authorities say the teacher is accused of sending sexual text messages and nude photos of herself to the male student. [Blount County District Attorney Pamela] Casey said once she found out about the claims, she contacted the Department of Human Resources and the Blount County Sheriff's Office to ask that investigations begin. Casey said she also has asked the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to investigate why school authorities, including the principal and the superintendent, didn't notify law enforcement officials about the complaints, as is required by law. She said school officials knew about the claims for at least a week.

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    NBC News: Susan Moore teacher charged after sending nude photos to student (Dec 20 2013)

    A Susan Moore High School teacher [Crystal Gilliland Clowdus] has been charged with transmitting obscene material to a child by computer. Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, surrendered to the Blount County Correctional Facility this afternoon, where she's being held in lieu of $100,000 bond. Clowdus has been on paid administrative leave since Monday.
     
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    Fox 10 TV: Teacher charged with sexting minor (Dec 21 2013)

    District Attorney Pamela Casey says she is asking the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to review the way school officials looked into claims involving Crystal Gilliland Clowdus. The 32-year-old Clowdus surrendered Friday on a charge of sending obscene material to a minor. She is on leave from her teaching job at Susan Moore High School. The prosecutor says school officials didn't notify law enforcement about complaints involving Clowdus, as is required by law. She says school officials knew of the allegations at least a week.
     
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    WHNT: Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sending Nude Photos to Student (Mar 3 2014)

    A Blount County teacher [Crystal Clowdus] entered a guilty plea Monday to transmitting obscene material to a minor ... “The plea agreement is that she will will receive a ten year sentence, suspended on nine years of that,” said District Attorney Pamela Casey. ” She will serve 9 months in the Blount County jail, followed by 6 months of house arrest.” Clowdus will also have to surrender her Alabama teaching license and will have to register as a sex offender.
     
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    AL.com: Blount County teacher pleads guilty to sexting 15-year-old student (Mar 3 2014)

    Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 32, entered her plea at a 1:30 p.m. hearing at the Blount County Courthouse. She pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor, said Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey. Clowdus received a 10-year sentence, but nine of those years will be suspended. She will serve six months in the Blount County Correctional Facility, followed by six months of house arrest, Casey said. She was expected to begin serving her jail time this afternoon. Following her one year in detention, Clowdus will have a five-year probation period. She is also required to register as a lifetime sex offender and has to surrender her teaching license.
     
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    Former Blount County teacher, now sex offender, arrested for volunteering at elementary school

    A former Blount County high school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2014 to sending sexual text messages to a 15-year-old male student is back behind bars. Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 35, was arrested Wednesday afternoon, again in Blount County, after she was found to be volunteering at Oneonta Elementary School, records show. According to jail records, Clowdus is charged violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, also known as SORNA. SORNA is part of a comprehensive federal law that requires states to maintain a system for monitoring and tracking convicted sex offenders following their release into the community. A ...


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    Sex offender, former teacher charged after volunteering at elementary school

    A former Blount County teacher, who pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit text messages to a teenage student in 2014, is in back trouble after investigators said she volunteered at an elementary school this week. Crystal Clowdus, 35, is charged with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), according to investigators in Blount County. “She was volunteering at the Oneonta Elementary School last night,” said Tim Kent, Operations Coordinator for the Blount County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said Clowdus was charged after she was interviewed by authorities Wednesday. Authorities also talked with other people who were at the school. ...


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    Sex offender accused of volunteering at elementary school

    A former Alabama high school teacher who’s registered as a sex offender has been arrested after police say she was volunteering at an elementary school. News outlets report 35-year-old Crystal Gilliland Clowdus was arrested Wednesday afternoon after records show she was volunteering at Oneonta Elementary School in Blount County and has been charged with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Clowdus was a teacher at a Blount County high school in 2013 when a 15-year-old student said she sent him sexual text messages. She pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor in 2014, and received a ...


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    Teacher Who Went To Jail For Sexting Student Arrested Again After She’s Found Working At School

    She’s clearly not the brightest lady. Let’s all talk about 35-year-old Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, a former high school math teacher who was sent to jail back in 2014 after it was discovered she was sexting naked photos of herself to a 15-year-old male student. And because of that Clowdus ended up pleading guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor as part of a plea deal. Clowdus then received a 10-year suspended sentence but still had to serve six months in a county jail followed by six months of house arrest.


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    Rso Crystal Gilliland Arrested After Volunteering At Her Child's School.

    A day of volunteering landed a former Alabama high school teacher and registered sex offender in jail. Crystal Gilliland was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Blount County after she volunteered at Oneonta Elementary School, AI.com reports. It's not clear what type of volunteer work Gilliland was doing, but it was in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. "All sex offenders are instructed as to what the requirements of SORNA are for them," Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey told the outlet. "They are required to initial that they have read them and understand them."


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    Former teacher, now a sex offender, pleads guilty to volunteering at elementary school

    A former Blount County high school teacher who is a convicted sex offender for sending sexual text messages to a 15-year-old male student has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of violating the state's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Crystal Gilliland Clowdus, 35, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the SORNA violation, according to court records. SORNA is part of a comprehensive federal law that requires states to maintain a system for monitoring and tracking convicted sex offenders following their release into the community. A violation is a felony charge. Clowdus, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to sexting a 15-year-old male ...


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