Joseph Thomas Koetters, Los Angeles, California (fired July 2014)

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    Joseph Thomas Koetters (Santa Monica, California), 46, teacher at Polytechnic School, Pasadena, California, "charged with having a sexual relationship with a female student"

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    Pictured: English teacher accused of sending sexually-charged emails to female students at elite $35,000-a-year private school
    • Joe Koetters taught English at Marlborough School in Los Angeles before leaving last year to work at Polytechnic School
    • Several former students have come forward to accuse Koetters of sending them inappropriate emails and going so far as to touch them
    • One former student complained to Marlborough School administration when Koetters touched her on the knee
    • The teacher was sent to sexual harassment training and stripped of his English department chair, but not fired because it was a 'first-time offense'
    • On Sunday, Polytechnic School issued a statement saying Koetters was no longer employed
    The Polytechnic School issued a statement on Sunday, saying English teacher Joe Koetters, 46, is no longer employed there following fresh allegations he sexually harassed multiple female students. Koetters came under fire last month when former student Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie (now a rising sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania) published an essay on xoJane about the inappropriate relationship he instigated three years ago. That personal account triggered several more former students to come forward and tell Buzzfeed their own experiences with Koetters, which ranged from sexual comments to sexually-charged emails and even touching.

    Koetters taught English at the $35,000-a-year Marlborough School for 14 years, before leaving last year to teach at his alma-mater Polytechnic School. Amid the new allegations, Koetters has quit his job and now both schools are re-investigating the claims of sexual harassment.


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    When Gilbert-Lurie and her parents went to the school to inform them about Koetters inappropriate behavior, the administration began an investigation. Koetters was sent to sexual harassment training and stripped of his position as chair of the English department, but was not fired because it was a 'first-time offense'.

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    $35,000-a-year school facing lawsuit from former student who claims teacher got her pregnant a decade ago... and legal threat comes six months after ANOTHER student claimed ...
    • The alleged victim is threatening legal action against Marlborough in LA, after Joseph Koetters 'started having sex with her when she was 16'
    • The former student alleged that she fell pregnant and that Koetters tried to arrange an abortion but she suffered a miscarriage
    • Koetters, who was married and has children, was identified last year by other girls at the school who claimed he inappropriately touched them
    • The students also claimed they were sent sexually-charged emails by the 47-year-old English teacher

    A prestigious girls' school, attended by some of Los Angeles' most affluent families, has been threatened by legal action from a former student who claims she fell pregnant by a teacher. The alleged victim, who has not been identified, is planning to sue Marlborough School more than a decade after she claimed she was coerced and manipulated into sex at the age of 16 with former teacher Joseph Koetters.

    The woman, who spoke to Vanity Fair, alleged that in the early 2000s, she was targeted by the English teacher and began having sex with him. She told the magazine: 'He made me feel like the smartest, funniest, most beautiful person walking the planet.' She was soon meeting up with the teacher at his home when his gynecologist wife was not there. She said that he normalized the inappropriateness of his actions, saying 'this is something special, and we’re entitled to pursue it as human beings'.

    The girl ended up pregnant but Koetter organized for her to have an abortion, she claimed. He went into 'clinical' mode and talked about 'handling it', she told Vanity Fair. She miscarried the baby just under three months into the pregnancy.

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    Former Prep School Teacher Charged With Sexually Abusing Student

    Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, was charged Tuesday with oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object involving someone under 18, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Koetters was the head of the English department at the private Marlborough School in Hancock Park before leaving at the end of the 2013 school year for a position at a Pasadena school. The victim in the case was a 16-year-old girl in one of Koetters’ English classes. The suspect is accused of initiating a year-long sexual relationship with the teen in 2000. The girl’s attorney said Koetters impregnated her, and she later miscarried. ...


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    Ex-Teacher At Elite L.A. Girls School Charged With Having Sexual Relationship With Female Student

    Joseph Koetters, who formerly taught English at the all-girls prep school, was charged with four felony counts: two counts of oral copulation of a person under 18 and two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object. The case against Koetters was filed on Tuesday, he was booked and released on $140,000 on Wednesday, and he is scheduled for arraignment on Thursday.


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    Former Teacher at Elite L.A. Girls’ School Charged in Alleged Sexual Relationship With Student

    A former English teacher at a private girls’ school in Hancock Park was charged with having a sexual relationship with a student that lasted more than a year ... The charges against Joseph Koetters, who taught at the Marlborough School, were first reported Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times, which cited a Los Angeles police detective. Koetters, 47, was set to be arraigned in downtown L.A. courtroom Thursday on two counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object, the DA’s office said. Koetters was booked and released on $140,000 bail Wednesday ...


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    Ex-Marlborough School teacher arrested on sex charges involving student

    former English teacher at Marlborough School, a private all-girls high school in Hancock Park, was arrested Wednesday on felony charges of sex crimes involving a former student at the school, authorities said. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, was arrested Wednesday morning and released hours later on $140,000 bail. He is charged with two counts each of oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object involving someone under 18, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Koetters allegedly initiated a yearlong sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student beginning in 2000 ...


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    Santa Monica Teacher Charged with Sexually Abusing Student

    Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, of Santa Monica, is charged with two felony counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object. Koetters was an English teacher at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park when he allegedly initiated a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old girl in 2000, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

    The young woman notified police last July after learning about other alleged victims through an Internet blog post, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Los Angeles police Detective Kim Porter, who heads the sex crimes unit at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Bureau, told the Los Angeles Times that two other alleged victims had also been interviewed. But one of the incidents allegedly occurred too long ago to file charges, and the other allegedly occurred in Nevada, Porter said.

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    Ex-Teacher at Elite L.A. Girls School Charged With Having Sexual Relationship With Female Student

    A former teacher at Los Angeles' elite Marlborough School, attended by the children of many Hollywood luminaries, was charged with having a sexual relationship with a female student for more than a year, the L.A. County District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday. Joseph Koetters, who formerly taught English at the all-girls prep school, was charged with four felony counts: two counts of oral copulation of a person under 18 and two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object. The case against Koetters was filed on Tuesday, he was booked and released on $140,000 on Wednesday ...


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    Ex-Marlborough School Teacher Accused of Sex With Student

    former teacher at an exclusive Southern California high school was charged with sex crimes involving a student who allegedly miscarried his baby. Joseph Koetters, 47, was an English teacher at the all-girls Marlborough School in Hancock Park when he allegedly started a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old girl in 2000, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

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    Ring said his client never reported the acts to the school and thought she was the only one until an another student, Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie, wrote an essay for xoJane magazine detailing her alleged relationship with Koetters that never became sexual. "For over 10 years she truly believed that he had only done this to her and then when she found about Mikaela and then she found out about a whole bunch of other girls who said he did very similar things to them, she said that's it, I'm coming forward. This guy is a predator," Ring said.

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    "past two years"? I suspect the author of this article missed the time frame.

    Teacher Charged For Having Sex With Minor

    Joseph Koetter, 47, has been charged for having sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl for the past two years. The victim reported the incident to the police after finding out about other alleged victims through a blog post over the internet.


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    Ex-Marlborough School teacher accused of sex abuse to appear in court

    A former English teacher at Marlborough School in Los Angeles accused of felony sex crimes involving a former student made his first court appearance Wednesday, pleading not guilty to the charges. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, who was arrested earlier this month, faces two counts each of oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object involving someone under 18, according to the district attorney's office. Koetters pleaded not guilty on all charges and is free on $140,000 bail.


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    Former Marlborough School teacher pleads not guilty to sex charges

    A former teacher at an all-girls private school in Hancock Park pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to felony sex charges stemming from an alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student more than a decade ago. Joseph Koetters, a 47-year-old Santa Monica resident, was an English teacher at the Marlborough School, which serves students grade 7 through 12. He resigned in 2013. He was charged on Feb. 3 with two felony counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object. The criminal complaint alleges that the crimes occurred between June 2000 and June 2002. ...


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    Prep School Teacher Pleads Not Guilty To Sex Charges

    A former teacher at an exclusive high school for girls pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, of Santa Monica, was charged Feb. 3 with two felony counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object. Koetters was an English teacher at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park when he allegedly initiated a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old girl in 2000. The criminal complaint alleges that the crimes occurred between June 2000 and June 2002. The young woman ...


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    Former Pasadena Teacher Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Crimes Involving Student

    A former teacher at an exclusive high school for girls pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, of Santa Monica, was charged Feb. 3 with two felony counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object. Koetters was an English teacher at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park when he allegedly initiated a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old girl in 2000. The criminal complaint alleges that the crimes occurred between June 2000 and June 2002.


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    Ex-Marlborough School teacher Joseph Koetters pleads not guilty to sex-with-student charge

    A former teacher at an exclusive middle and high school for girls pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters, 47, of Santa Monica, was charged Feb. 3 with two counts each of oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual penetration by a foreign object.


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    Ex-teacher pleads not guilty to student-sex charge

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former teacher at a private girls high school in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters was charged earlier this month with ...


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    Ex-teacher pleads not guilty to student-sex charge

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former teacher at a private girls high school in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters was charged earlier this month with ...


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    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former teacher at a private girls high school in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters was charged earlier this month with ...


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    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former teacher at a private girls high school in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters was charged earlier this month with ...


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    Ex-teacher pleads not guilty to student-sex charge

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former teacher at a private girls high school in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to felony sex charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old student. Joseph Thomas Koetters was charged earlier this month with two ...


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    Ex-teacher pleads not guilty to student-sex charge

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