Peyton Wolcott - Pass the Trash

Convicted Alaska baby-porn educator
could be out of prison by October 2009
By Peyton Wolcott
Updated Wed., February 19, 2008 (First published Tues., January 30, 2007)

P E Y T O N W O L C O T T

Conservative Commentary - "Pass the Trash" educators

How we take back our children's education:
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QUOTES

EXCERPTED FROM
THE
S.E.S.A.M.E. WEBSITE

STOP EDUCATOR
SEXUAL ABUSE,
MISCONDUCT,
AND EXPLOITATION

www.sesamenet.org

Founder and board
president: Terri Miller

The mantra Ms. Miller
hopes will inspire
change is:

As Parents we are
mandated, by law, to
send our children to
school - by law, our
schools had better be
mandated to
keep them safe.

When asked about her
credentials, she
responds: "my title is
MOM; Mamma On a
Mission; I'll never give
up pursuing better
practices for Safety and
Success in educating
children."

ATTENTION EDUCATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS:
Every attempt possible has been made to verify all sources and information. In the event you feel an error has been made, please contact us immediately. Thank you.

"I can't
give you
brains,
but
I can
give you
a diploma."

--The Wizard of Oz

Never-before
released photos:
Texas supe's fall
By Peyton Wolcott
Revised Sun., Dec. 17, 2006

(COMPLETE
STORY HERE)
Former Llano ISD supe
Jack Patton's fall--from
superintendent of one of
Texas' richest school districts
and former superintendent of
the year--to selling BBQ from a
convenience store/gas station
in East Texas can be traced to
one specific action on his part:
His refusal to produce a steak
dinner receipt in response to a
public records request, thus
becoming Texas' first Public
Information Act conviction,
according to Texas Attorney
General Greg Abbott.
These photographs are being
published now as (1) a
cautionary tale for those
superintendents who appear
to their parents and taxpayers
to think and act as though they
are above the law, and (2) as
an encouragement to parents
and taxpayers stuck with
superintendents who appear
to think and act as though they
are above the law.
History teaches us that tyrants
fall and justice and truth
eventually prevail.

PHOTOS, clockwise from top:
Jack Patton waiting while
trustees deliberate his
settlement; Patton with
attorney in Johnson City
courtroom; LISD trustee
handing papers (see arrow)
back to Patton during
settlement deliberation-- which
papers trustees later denied
having seen; LISD board
president beckoning Patton
back inside after deliberation.
All of these photos in larger
easier-to- see sizes here.

Burnet CISD
total
disbursements
all funds 2004-05
$44,762,563

1. "On or about November 27, 2006 a
call was made to the Burnet Police
Department from [BCISD] concerning a
female teacher’s aid and her sexual
involvement with a 17 year-old male high
school student." (SOURCE--Harvey Klee)

(Above) BCISD supe
Jeffrey M. Hanks;
BCISD employee D.J.
Elsasser (PHOTO--KXAN)

Att'y Mark Goulet
of Walsh Anderson

As a purely practical matter, the
problem with this practice is that we now
have a situation called "Pass the Trash,"
where educators can pass in and out of
districts all over the U.S. For example,
although former Llano ISD superinten-
dent Jack Patton (story above right)
surrendered his Texas educator
credentials as part of his conviction for
violations of the Texas Public Information
Act, there is nothing in the world to keep
Patton from hypothetically driving over the
Louisiana border near his home and
getting a job as an educator in that state.

The average school district will generally allow educators such as the
three above to leave, with no notice added to personnel files, for several
reasons, not the least of which is the possibility that the educators can sue the
district if there's a dispute.

In the D.J. Elsasser case, Burnet supe Jeff Hanks
says he consulted the district's lawyer, Mark Goulet, a
shareholder in Texas education law firm Walsh
Anderson. "In a telephone interview with The Bulletin on
Feb. 13, four days after Elsasser's arrest, Hanks said he
consulted with the school district's law firm and on their
advice made a report to the State Board of Educator
Certification. 'Based on the information I had, there was
no compelling reason to make a report to law
enforcement,' Hanks said. 'Based on the information we
had, there was no reason to believe there was a criminal
act.' " (SOURCE--The Burnet Bulletin)

Burnet HS homecoming
parade

2004 Burnet HS
football coaches

Is federal
legislation the
answer?
There's a bill in Congress
which did not see passage
this last time around;
House Bill 6411, known as
“The Jeremy Bell Act of
2006,” was named for a
West Virginia boy who
died while visiting his
elementary school
principal's fishing cabin.

Edgar
Friedrichs, Jr.
(Philadelphia
Weekly)

The principal, Edgar Friedrichs Jr., was
later convicted of sexually abusing
Bell’s friends, and in a separate trial three
years ago, Friedrichs was convicted of
killing Bell.

Now let's take a closer look
at Foy Campbell, the former
Burnet CISD coach.
Regarding Campbell, he "was
employed by the Lampasas ISD
before being hired by the Burnet
school district as a football coach.
While at Lampasas, according to
the 33rd District Attorney’s Office,
Campbell was involved in 'multiple
instances of sexual misconduct,
inappropriate sexual behavior and
improper relationship between an
educator and a student on or about
June 1, 2001 with two students in
Lampasas County, Texas.' The
Burnet CISD either knew or should
have known of these prior 'crimes
and bad acts' before Campbell was
hired and once known, should not
have hired him." (SOURCE--Burnet
Bulletin)

Edgar Friedrichs, Jr. as a
young teacher in Pennsylvania

"Background checks are
conducted to weed out the
incompetent or undesirable. As
later explained, according to one
of the allegations in the
Complaint, the Burnet CISD did in
fact know of Campbell’s prior
sexual relations with at least one
student while employed at
Lampasas ISD." (Ibid.)

The Edgar Friedrichs
murder case is a prime
example of how severe
the consequences of
"Passing the Trash"
can be.

CONCLUSION: While my immediate instinct to the proposed
Jeremy Bill Act was enthusiasm, my enthusiasm is now
tempered. This is a bill that would, if passed, perhaps make parents feel
temporarily safer, and that is all.

At the end of the day, such bills are only as good and as effective as their
enforcement. The Jessica Lunsford Act and its predecessors all look good on
paper, but if the district that employed John Evander Couie can't manage to turn
in their paperwork within a few weeks of the bill's passage, how much more
compliant will other districts be?

If such a bill passed, we'd have more federal controls--theoretically,
anyway--and in actuality we'd still only have what we have now: parental
responsibility at the local school district level to insist that our schools do their
jobs and perform thorough background checks.

HOW DO WE PUT
AN END TO "PASS
THE TRASH"?
By Peyton Wolcott
Revised Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006

3. "In 2005, 29-year-old Foy Campbell
was indicted on a sexual assault of a
child charge. He was a football coach at
Burnet High School.
The accuser claims he picked her and
another teenager up in his vehicle for sex
in Buchanan Dam in 2003. He made a
deal with prosecutors and received
probation on an injury to a child charge."
(SOURCE--KXAN)

2. "Acting on telephone tips from the
public, the Burnet Police Department
became involved in an alleged case of
inappropriate conduct by an educator
with a student--a crime school district
officials knew about but never reported
until confronted by law enforcement
officials. Danya Jean Elsasser [right], 32,
was a teacher at R.J. Richey Middle
School and long distance track coach for
the district." (SOURCE--The Highlander)
NOTE: Mrs. Elsasser's husband Rich
Elsasser is Burnet Middle School
principal.

Edgar Friedrichs "began his
teaching career in his native
Pennsylvania. Men now in their 40s
who were once his grade school stu-
dents testified in Fayette County Circuit
Court about how Friedrichs molested
them in their Pennsylvania school. He
was never charged with any crimes in
Pennsylvania, but the parents of students
there believed he had been banished
from teaching. Instead he began a new
career in West Virginia. Rep. Michael
Fitzpatrick introduced a bill this month
that would require schools to do a better
job of checking the backgrounds of
potential teachers. Now that Congress
has adjourned for the year and Fitzpatrick
is leaving office, Patricia Wandling, a
member of Fitzpatrick’s staff, said
Wednesday that the bill would have to be
introduced again." (SOURCE--Susan
Williams/West Virginia Gazette)

In 2003, Burnet CISD wide receiver Jordan
Shipley, left, was awarded a ball by Burnet HS
principal Craig Spinn (far right) for breaking the
state receiving record. (PHOTO--Alex
Jones/Austin American-Statesman)

LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT
BURNET CISD'S FOOTBALL'N'
BALLOONS CLIMATE THAT
WOULD ENABLE THE HIRING OF
A FOY CAMPBELL

Burnet High head football coach Bob Shipley at
BCISD Football Signing Day in high school
library, Feb. 4, 2004

Three seasons after
Burnet's "Signing Day" Burnet
High's star football players are still
grabbing headlines. Here's one
from this past Thanksgiving Day from
the Austin American- Statesman:

'Horn or Aggie, Always a
Bulldog'
Jordan Shipley and Stephen
McGee, who thrilled Burnet as high
school football stars, meet Friday in
the Texas-Texas A&M game.

McGee plays for the Texas A&M
Aggies, and Shipley for the
University of Texas Longhorns. And,
oh, Jordan Shipley's father Bob
Shipley is head coach at Burnet
HS.

NOTED: Two of the three BCISD educators listed above are
coaches.

Bob Shipley (right), head Burnet HS Bulldogs
football coach, with Pastor Rodney McGee,
Stephen's dad; Shipley led both boys and their
team to 3A state title games their junior and senior
years. (PHOTO--Alex Jones/Austin
American-Statesman)

Burnet HS Gym

Thar's gold in them thar education fields (above); this is the entrance to Burnet High School;
note the new Cadillac and the Range Rover in assigned staff (see inset) parking slots.

FACT: Neither then-Citrus County School District supe
David Hickey (above) nor then-Homasossa Elementary
principal Roberta Long nor then-Homasossa ES
assistant principal (and now HES principal) Regina
Allegretta appear to have made sure that all workers
involved in Homasossa's renovation were safe for school
children to be around.

QUESTION: Do federal laws and controls help when educators do not appear to be using
common sense and operating with a sense of urgency when it comes to protecting our
children and their students?

Perhaps Florida's Citrus County Public Schools might be a good place to
look next.

Jessica Lunsford (left);
John Evander Couey

FACT: "For five months, convicted sex offender John
Evander Couey
worked as a mason's helper at Homosassa
Elementary School, where 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford
attended class." (SOURCE--St. Petersburg Times)
Further, "a mason on the job said Couey had direct
contact with students and teachers during the project,
though it was unknown whether he had contact with
Jessica." (Ibid.)

David Hickey (PHOTO-RonThompson /St.
PetersburgTimes)

Lunsford Act) is dated Sept. 19, 2005--five and a half months after Gov. Jeb
Bush approved the legislation and
almost three weeks after the bill went into effect.
QUERY TO HIMMEL NOW OVER A YEAR OLD WITH NO ANSWER
YET: On Dec. 14, 2005 I first contacted Sandra "Sam" Himmel asking why the
district was so slow in complying with requirements of the Jessica Lunsford Act.

Jessica Lunsford
Student - Homosassa Elementary School

October 6, 1995 – Born
February 23, 2005 - Abducted
February 27, 2005 - Died
March 18, 2005 - Couey confessed
March 19, 2005 - Body found in hole

Rest in Peace, Dear Child.

FACT: In medicine the first rule is, "Do no harm." Why isn't this true also
in education?

"Homosassa Elementary School principal Regina Allegretta, left, jokes with media
specialist Deborah Kenney inside the school's recently completed media center
Tuesday afternoon. The opening of the media center, along with the school's new
cafeteria, was delayed due to serious construction problems." (PHOTO--Stephen J.
Coddington/St. Petersburg Times)

FACT: This photo above was published August 7, 2005, just over four months after Jessica
Lunsford's death. Gone apparently are the crisis counselors Allegretta brought in to assist
students and teachers.
FACT: A banner reading, "Where Our Children Come First" still scrolls across
Homosassa's webpage. What does this slogan mean in a school that failed to screen visitors
and workmen adequately? If children really come first at this school, wouldn't the children's
safety have been the first order of the day?

Sandra "Sam"
Himmel

FACT: Current Citrus County School
District supe Sandra "Sam" Himmel's
letter to vendors regarding compliance
with Florida's HB 1877 (the Jessica

Burnet MS principal Rich Elsasser
at school (above); wife Danya Jean
Elsasser (KXAN) in court this week

COACH'S ALLEGED MOLESTATION
OF STUDENT IGNORED BECAUSE
'WE ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS'?
By Peyton Wolcott
First published Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007 - 6 pm

It appears that Campbell’s propensities
were known beforehand but the district
hired him anyway.   I base this in part on
the indifference expressed by the
assistant high school principal when the
plaintiff’s aunt apprised him of what had
occurred, as alleged in plaintiff’s sworn
complaint: “On or about November 19,
2003, co-defendant Rick Prewitt,
assistant [Burnet] High School principal,
was made aware of the incident against
the plaintiff by plaintiff’s aunt. He stated
to plaintiff’s aunt that ‘this should be kept
quiet because we [are] in the playoffs and
this could hit the news media, and would
not be good for Paige (plaintiff) or the
school.’”   The complaint, however, goes
further. It states that Craig Spinn, high
school principal, told the plaintiff’s mother
that “he was aware that co-defendant Foy
Campbell had engaged in sexual
relations with a student at Lampasas
during his employment by the school
system in Lampasas, and that it had
been ‘swept under the carpet’ when
Burnet High School hired him.”
(continued in grey sidebar at far right)

Burnet HS football coaching
staff (PHOTO/Burnet CISD)

To understand the above
headline, you first have to understand
the importance of football here in Texas,
especially small-town rural Texas. Here's
an illustration: Late one afternoon a few
years back my husband and I were
driving home from San Antonio; about
halfway, we passed an enormous convoy
of Burnet CISD school buses plus a
seemingly endless stream of pickups
and SUV's, all heading towards San
Antonio. It appeared all of Burnet ("The

Bluebonnet Capitol of Texas") was driving
to San Antonio to support their football
team in the state playoffs that night. They
lost, but the entire town was there to
cheer them on.

Burnet's a nice small town
(population 4,735 according to the 2000
census) with beautiful scenery, a
picturesque central square with some
great antique shops, some quarries and
mines, and a state prison for women
(Halbert SAFP*); the local school district
is the largest local budget and the largest
employer. Heading the list of assets on
the Chamber's website are the library and
post office. According to local historian
John Hallowell in Hill Country Magazine,
"attendance at the [Burnet HS Friday
night] football game is more than the
town’s entire population." So this is the
context of high school football in Burnet.

Retired California attorney and Bluffton,
Texas resident (near Buchanan Dam)
Harvey Klee has been covering goings-
on involving the three BCISD staffers who
have had sexually related complaints filed
against them in the past two years in his
commentaries. Here's what Harvey
learned from reviewing the complaint
against Foy Campbell:

* "SAFP" is the acronym for "Substance
Abuse Felony Punishment."

WHAT ELSE IS BURNET CISD
NOT FULLY DISCLOSING?
How much money is BCISD raking in
annually, $21 million or twice that
amount, $42 mil?

According to the Burnet Chamber of
Commerce website, the "Public School
Budget" is "$20,788,200." But according
to the Texas Education Agency, BCISD's
total expenditures for all funds for the
most recent reporting period (2004-05)
were "$41,988,164."

Questions being faxed to BCISD
supe Jeffrey Hanks today:
o "Why did you hire Foy Campbell?"
o "What did you know about Foy
Campbell's history in Lampasas and
when
did you know it?"
o "Did Foy Campbell fully complete his
employment application?"
o "Did you do or cause to be done a
criminal background check on Foy
Campbell including fingerprints before
hiring him?"
o "What is your annual budget"?

I will post the district's response if any
when received.   It is my sincere hope
that Hanks will save his taxpayers some
money and answer these simple and
straightforward questions himself rather
than involving Walsh Anderson's
employment law attorneys.

Foy Leighton Campbell's State Board for
Educator Certification page shows that
he possesses a Secondary Mathematics
certificate for grades 6-12, valid through
Dec. 31, 2007, and the notation that "This
individual is currently under review by the
SBEC Professional Discipline Unit."
This must be a comfort to Paige and her
family.

Friday Night Lights–Out!
Former Burnet High School Coach Sued for
Sexual Assault upon a Minor
By Harvey Klee
Posted July 31, 2006

It wasn’t one of Foy Campbell
Jr.’s most sterling moments, although he had several of
them in his illustrious career. As a football coach in the
local school district he was a hero on campus, admired
and looked up to by his colleagues and students alike.
High moral standards were expected of him both on and
off the field. After all, he was the coach. Not just any
coach but one of the football coaches of the Burnet
Bulldogs – one of the most successful teams in the
conference from Central Texas. It was 2003 and once
again they found themselves in the playoffs heading for
the state finals as they had the year before.

Campbell had more to celebrate that Tuesday night than
just a winning season. He was engaged to Rikkie Love,
a teacher at Burnet High School, and was soon to be
married. His friends cooked up a bachelor party for
Coach Campbell, sort of a last fling at the single life
before exchanging marriage vows of lifelong fidelity.
According to court documents, around 10:00 p.m. as
Campbell was driving under the influence of alcohol on
highway 29, he spied a couple of girls from Burnet High
School driving down the same highway. He signaled
them to pull over in an uninhabited and unlit area. What
follows is abstracted from a sworn complaint filed July
25, 2006 in the United States District Court, Western
District of Texas, Austin Division.

Once they had pulled over, Campbell invited the two girls
to take a drive in his new truck. Campbell said he would
let Veronica, the 18 year-old and driver, to drive his truck.
However, he coerced the female passenger, 16 year-old
Paige, into his truck by saying she could either wait by the
side of the highway in this dark and deserted area until
they came back or go with them. Paige didn’t have a
driver’s license or even a learner’s permit and was
unable to drive home by herself. Besides, Veronica was
Paige’s cousin and older; she felt reasonably safe in
getting into the truck.

Once inside the truck, however, Campbell forced Paige to
perform fellatio on him in spite of her spoken refusals
and pushing him away. Campbell was older and
stronger than Paige and held a position of authority over
her as a coach at the High School. She conceded,
thinking it the only way she would be able to get home.
Campbell’s conduct is bad enough but what followed, in
my opinion, borders on criminal irresponsibility by the
school district and several of its employees.

Paige’s aunt notified Nick Prewitt, Assistant Principal of
Burnet High School, as to what had happened to her
niece. Alleged in the sworn complaint filed in this matter,
he stated, “This should be kept quiet because we (are) in
the playoffs and this could hit the news media and not be
good for Paige or the school.”

Two days later, Paige and her mother appeared at a
meeting called by school officials. Jeffery Hanks,
Superintendent of the Burnet Consolidated Independent
School District; Ed Middlebrooks, Assistant
Superintendent of the BCISD; Craig Spinn, Principal of
Burnet High School; and Prewitt were present. These
four school representatives were all males. The female
school counselor, who called Paige’s mother
encouraging her to call Principal Spinn, did not attend the
meeting. In fact, no victim’s advocate, nurse, or anyone
familiar with assisting child victims of sexual assault
attended the meeting which lasted over an hour and
twenty minutes.

Following the meeting, Principal Spinn told Paige’s
mother that Child Protective Services would be notified
and would contact her about the incident as per school
policy. Paige’s mother asked the school to provide
counseling for her daughter. Child Protective Services,
however, has never contacted Paige nor did the school
arrange counseling for her.

Aggravating the situation further, Spinn told Paige’s
mother that he was aware Campbell had engaged in
sexual relations with a student in the Lampasas school
district during his prior employment in that district and
that it had been “swept under the carpet” when Burnet
High School hired him. As it turned out, Campbell had
engaged in multiple instances of sexual misconduct with
Lampasas students in 2001, yet he was hired by BCISD.

Matters didn’t come to a halt following this high level
meeting with school administrators; Paige was assigned
to a class taught by Rikki Love, who by then had married
Campbell. Paige immediately got leave from another
teacher to go to the office to get her class assignment
changed. She didn’t want to be in a class taught by the
wife of the man who sexually assaulted her. In the
hallway, Paige was approached by teacher Denise Love,
Rikki’s mother and now Campbell’s mother-in-law, who
called Paige a “slut.” Both Rikki and Denise were later
overheard talking about Paige, calling her a liar and
stating that they “didn’t care who heard them” talking. The
harassment continued. Paige was assigned to take
classes from teacher Frank Love, Campbell’s father-in
law. The school refused Paige’s mother’s request that
she be reassigned.

Criminal charges were brought against Campbell to
which he pled guilty but only after the charges were
reduced to that of a Class “A” misdemeanor. He was
placed on 30 days probation, fined $1,000 and $198 in
court costs. This is the extent of the penalty paid by
Campbell for sexually assaulting a 16 year-old child even
though the prosecuting attorney submitted evidence of
"Multiple instances of sexual misconduct, inappropriate
sexual behavior and improper relationship between and
educator and" two students in Lampasas County, Texas,
where Campbell was previously employed.

No penalty has been paid by the Burnet Consolidated
Independent School District, its administrators or
teachers, however; although they knew or should have
known of Campbell’s propensities before he was hired. It
appears they chose to blame the victim after Campbell’s
assault against Paige became known. The District along
with the administrators and teachers mentioned herein,
and of course Campbell, are all named defendants in the
lawsuit.

Employment at BCISD seems to be a family affair and
perhaps explains why the teachers and administration
take on a bunker mentality when any of their own comes
under attack. Football may rule in Texas but it shouldn’t
trump the welfare of our children.

www.kleekal.com

Is this a small city? Is this
where Citizen Kane's "Rosebud"
sled wound up? No. It's Burnet
High School's gym. Really.

Burnet HS football coaches

Frederick Deussing (Photo--KTUU-TV)

When Dan Barber, the Pennsylvania investigator on the Edgar Friedrichs
case (see Dec. 19, 2006 report below) forwarded an article about an assistant
principal's arrest last year in Anchorage on twelve counts of possessing
thousands of pictures and movies (theme: adult men raping young
children, including babies and toddlers), he pointed out that this case has
all the hallmarks of a preferential pedophile, which group he calls the
worst of the worst. So I Googled the arrestee, "Frederick Deussing" and
"Alaska." The results were a dozen or so stories about the arrest, not

Sean Doogan (KTUU-TV)
Police say they will be dealing with
the aftermath of this crime and trying
to contact thousands of as-yet
unidentified children who, police say,
appear on Deussing's computer
being forced to do unimaginable
things.
Detective Mark Thomas, a cyber
crimes investigator for the Anchorage
Police Department, said the images
on Deussing's computer were
among the most graphic he had ever
seen.
Police say the images of child
pornography discovered on
64-year-old Deussing's computer
depict children as young as
1-year-old being raped by adult men.
Detectives say both the sheer
number--thousands of images--and
the nature of Deussing's alleged
collection were hard to imagine, even
for the most seasoned officers.

FRED Deussing:
Father, husband, educator

FREDERICK Deussing:Arrested
for possessing child porn

Pre-Arrest FRED

Post-Arrest FREDERICK

Pre-arrest Fred's life
appears to have been
ordinary, pleasant even, except
for the great numbers and
distances of the moves, all but one
in education: Philadelphia to New
York, to Vermont, to Colorado, and
then north to Alaska.

Son with fish
(PHOTO--Fred
Deussing/
Juneau Empire)

There's the boy-
with-fish photo
(edited at left) of Fred
Deussing's young
son with his first
chinook salmon a few
years back, the photo
published in the local
paper because Fred
sent it to them.
Elsewhere, a
patriotic post-911
comment from the
ex-Marine and his
then-wife (there's a
marriage license later
to another bride):

Although my family are blessed to
live in remote, tranquil little
Eskimo village far above the Arctic
Circle, we intensely feel the pain
and sorrow all Americans suffered
on September 11th, and continue
to share in their anguish and pray
with them for His healing and
direction as our nation reunites as
'...One Nation, Under God,
Indivisible...'
Fred & Lori Deussing - Noatak, AK

* From "Attack on America
Guestbook #4"

'Camelot by the Sea'
In 1995 Fred Deussing was
approved as Principal/Teacher at
Nanwalek (grades K-12, student
population 63). A year later the
following biographical sketch of
Fred was published in "Sharing
Our Pathways, a newsletter of the
Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative--
Alaska Federation of
Natives/University of
Alaska/National Science
Foundation."

Fred Deussing is originally from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and
entered the teaching profession in
1970 after serving four years in the
United States Marine Corps Air
Wing. Except for a six-year hiatus
from the teaching profession, when
he was employed as a
manager/stockbroker, he has
been an educator in Pennsylvania,
New York, Vermont, Colorado and
Alaska for the past twenty years.
Prior to his appointment as the
principal/teacher at Nanwalek, he
enjoyed teaching science to
students in Galena. Fred, his wife
Lori and their three-year-old son...
thor- oughly enjoy spectacular
surroundings, and all the many
new friends they have made in
their "Camelot by the Sea".

But even after landing in Alaska,
Fred Deussing appears to have
continued to been on the move,
from one school to the next.

Career notes
There are random school board
minutes from around Alaska such
as this one from the Kenai
Peninsula Borough School District
in Soldotna:

Saying all the right things
Mr. Fred Deussing, Chapman
Elemen- tary principal, stated that
he has an enrollment of 121
students. He cited parent support
as one of the main reasons why
Chapman students perform
incredibly well. He stated that the
school goal is to foster a genuine
love of reading among students
and to enhance their reading skills
across the curriculum capitalizing
on their multiple intelligences He
reported that the staff instituted the
Reading Mastery Intervention
Program with primary students.
(April 1999 School Reports)

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
(PHOTO/Peninsula Clarion)

Life in Alaska
No one could be faulted for
moving to Alaska. Look how
beautiful it is:

The penultimate
pre-arrest mention of Fred
on the Internet was last January
from Bonner, Montana--on the
Alaska Staff Development
Network log-in page. There is no
explanation as to why an
employee of the Alaska Staff
Development Network was in
Montana during January. The 16th
was a Monday.

The Jeremy Bell Act:
Rethinking my earlier
conclusions
If it will help stop the movements
through our schools of serial
pedophile educators, perhaps we
need it after all.

Moving along to last
October
Another school proudly welcomed
Fred to their education team;
although this was a Christian
school, his other experience
appears to have been almost
entirely in the public education
sector.

Heritage proudly welcomes our
new faculty and staff. We are
beyond joyous to add these top
notch professionals to our
educational team!
Faculty Additions
Fred Deussing
Assistant Principal/ P/T Teacher

Frederick Deussing in court last
week (PHOTO--Bill Roth/
Anchorage Daily News)

much else--surprising for a career educator. Prior to the arrest, Mr.
Deussing appeared to have existed in a void. Did he perhaps also go by
"Fred"?

What opened up next was Frederick Deussing's other life,
the life he lived before the arrest. Meet "Pre-Arrest Fred" and "Post-Arrest
Frederick."

Here's how local media covered
Frederick's arrest and court
appearance last week:

Megan Holland (Anchorage
Daily News)
Child porn snares teacher
IN COMPUTER: Police say the level
of violence is worst they've seen.
A former principal and longtime
educator in Alaska has been
accused of possessing some of the
most violent images of child
pornography Anchorage police say
they have ever seen.
Video and still photos seized from the
computer and from other electronic
devices in the Independence Park
home of the accused man included
bestiality and bondage involving
babies and young children, police
said.
Other violent images in his collection
included a video depicting a woman
being killed. Police were uncertain
whether the slaying was real.
Frederick Deussing, 64, was booked
into the Anchorage jail and made his
first court appearance there
Wednesday on 12 counts of
possessing child pornography.
Deussing had most recently been an
assistant principal at the Heritage
Christian School. He started there in
the fall and resigned for personal
reasons in December, an
administrator for the school said
Wednesday.
Deussing became the target of an
investigation in November when
computer repairmen alerted them to
the computer images, according to
documents filed by prosecutors.
Before Anchorage, Deussing had
been an educator throughout the
state. He held positions in Galena,
Noorvik and Anderson, according to
his resume, which police also found
on his computer.
He was employed by the Kenai
Peninsula Borough School District
from 1995 until 2000, as both a
principal and teacher in Nanwalek,
and as a principal in Anchor Point,
according to a representative for the
district.
Police said that in November,
Deussing took his Apple laptop to
CompUSA in South Anchorage for
repair. While working on the
computer, a technician found the
images. The technician happened to
be a full-time computer specialist
for the FBI and was moonlighting at
the retail store.
Ultimately, police seized several
computers belonging to Deussing
and found thousands of pictures of
boys and girls, many of them infants
and toddlers engaged in sex acts
with adults.
Detective Mark Thomas said most of
the images were downloaded from
the Internet. He did not know if any of
the children were Alaskan.
One video was an animated child sex
abuse training video to be shown to
children to introduce them to having
sex with adults, prosecutors said.
Patrick Hadley, administrator of the
Heritage Christian School, a South
Anchorage school with 175 students,
said he was surprised at the charges.
"My goodness, I need to pray for
him," he said. "It's an awful thing to
be in the middle of, regardless of
whether he's guilty or not guilty."
The father of at least two children,
Deussing was also a junior and high
school physics teacher at the
Heritage Christian School.
Thomas said Anchorage police have
seen an escalating level of graphic
child pornography over the past year.
It seems that every time police make
a bust, the material is worse than the
last time, he said.
The trend is not unique to Anchorage,
Thomas said; crimes against
children investigators across the
country are seeing an increase in
younger and more violent child
pornography.
"These (perpetrators) are getting
bored of the 10- and 12-year-olds;
they want them younger now," he
said. "It's getting worse and worse."
The link between those who possess
child pornography and those who
commit sexual crimes against
children is well established, Thomas
said.
Deussing has not been charged with
sex abuse.

Last October Alaska Superior Court Judge
Michael Wolverton sentenced former principal
and state DOE executive Fred/Frederick (more
about the name below) Deussing to six years in
prison with three suspended, and five years'
probation upon release, plus Deussing will have
to register as a sex offender. Attorney Lisa
Reynolds, said that with the suspended time and
good behavior her client Deussing could be out
in two years. (SOURCE--James Halpin/Anchorage Daily News)

Why I've been following this case:

In the next
county over,
less than a
half-hour from
my home,
Burnet
Consolidated
ISD has employed
not one, not two, but
three separate
educators who
allegedly sexually
molested students,
all in the past two
years.

How can this be,
three incidents in
two years in one
small, 3,000-student
school district?

Fred Deussing in court (PHOTO--Phil
Roth/Anchorage Daily News)

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Burnet CISD (TX) parking lot:
Forget the kids--is this really
what it's all about?

COMMENT: I did not point out to Himmel the irony that the school district that caused the
act to be passed in the first place was already out of compliance with the act's reporting
requirements. I myself would have thought Himmel would have wanted to be first out of the
starting gate, with all of the necessary paperwork at the ready; as it is, it appears the district
was dragging its heels.

Friends, here is a range of stories all revolving around a common "Pass the Trash" theme. They go from one involving merely money -- my own former
superintendent, who lost his credentials over his refusal to turn over a big restaurant receipt, to a coach-student-sex incident in a nearby town, to three
examples from Florida to Alaska of what longtime investigator Dan Barber calls "preferential pedophiles," two of them becoming murderers of students.