English teacher pleads to sex with student
A former English teacher pleaded guilty Monday under a new D.C. law to sexually abusing one of his students. Thomas M. Irvin, 48, was a teacher at H.D. Woodson High School in March when he sexually abused a student during the school day in a bathroom at the school, prosecutors said. He faces a likely sentence of up to two years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender. He is the first conviction under a D.C. law that went into effect in January that prohbits school officials from engaging in a sexual act with a student enrolled at their school who is under the age of 20.
Teen pleads to zoo attacks
A 16-year-old pleaded guilty to felony charges stemming from a pair of knife attacks against another teenager at the National Zoo. Mshairi Alkebular, of the District , was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors said Alkebular used a knife in an attack inside and outside the Smithsonian’s National Zoo during an Easter Monday celebration. Outside the zoo’s entrance, Alkebular’s group surrounded a 14-year-old and punched and kicked him. The boy fell to the ground, and Alkebular pulled out his knife and stabbed the teen four times in the torso, prosecutors said.
D.C. youth offender escapes from airport
A juvenile offender escaped from the custody of D.C. officials at the Baltimore airport, and officials are still looking for the youth, District officials said. Department of Youth and Rehabilitative Services officials said the 18-year-old got away from an agency worker around 4:30 p.m. Sunday shortly after his plane landed at the Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. The youth was being transported from a psychiatric treatment facility in Salt Lake City, Utah for a hearing back in the District, officials said. The incident is at least the sixth escape from a DYRS facility or custody since April.
Scott McCabe
