Public Trust Busting
Kathleen Bowler, a former teacher at Witherspoon Middle School in the Princeton Regional School district was given a four-year suspended sentence for having cybersex with students. Bowler, who taught "modern living," had pleaded guilty in December to two counts of endangering the welfare a boy and a girl, then 13.
Steven C. Cunningham, a Jersey City lawyer who works for the ACLU, earned a two-year suspension of his license for chatting online about sex with what he believed was a 12-year-old boy. “During the sessions, Cunningham “described, in lurid detail, certain sexual acts that he hoped to perform on the boy and sex acts that he hoped to teach the boy to perform on him, inviting the child to "get together in New York.”
Cunningham pled guilty to attempted endangering the welfare of a child, an act that “reflects adversely on his honest, trustworthiness or fitness a lawyer,” on Dec. 13, 2005, and was sentenced to parole supervision for the rest of his life. One member of the Supreme Court of New Jersey’s Disciplinary Review Board voted to disbar Cunningham, three to suspend him for one year, and five for two years
Steven C. Cunningham, a Jersey City lawyer who works for the ACLU, earned a two-year suspension of his license for chatting online about sex with what he believed was a 12-year-old boy. “During the sessions, Cunningham “described, in lurid detail, certain sexual acts that he hoped to perform on the boy and sex acts that he hoped to teach the boy to perform on him, inviting the child to "get together in New York.”
Cunningham pled guilty to attempted endangering the welfare of a child, an act that “reflects adversely on his honest, trustworthiness or fitness a lawyer,” on Dec. 13, 2005, and was sentenced to parole supervision for the rest of his life. One member of the Supreme Court of New Jersey’s Disciplinary Review Board voted to disbar Cunningham, three to suspend him for one year, and five for two years
Labels: ACLU Lawyer, Endangering Child Welfare, Teacher
