September 6, 2007, Clinton, South Carolina: Former Bell Street Middle School teacher Allenna Williams Ward admitted to having had sexual encounters with five of the school's male students aged 14 and 15. Ward pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three lewd acts on a minor.

Police began investigating Ward in 2007 after officials found a note she wrote to one of the boys. She was fired from the school on February 28, 2007.

UPDATE: On February 19, 2008, Allenna Williams Ward was sentenced to six years in prison for three criminal sexual conduct counts.

• Topix.com: Allenna Ward News
• IslandPacket.com: SC teacher sent to prison for 6 years for sex with students (February 20, 2008)
  • "A former teacher who admitted to sexual encounters with teen boys was sent to prison Tuesday for six years despite testimony of a psychiatrist who said Allenna Ward is not a pedophile, but rather a childlike victim suffering from personality disorders and a repressed childhood."
• Head-On Radio Network: Teacher Admits She Had Sex With 5 Students (September 7, 2007)
• WYFF Greenville: Ex-Teacher Says She's Not Guilty Of Sex Charges (April 3, 2007)
• WYFF Greenville: Laurens Teacher-Sex Cases Get Racial Undertones (March 30, 2007)
• WYFF Greenville: Attorney: Teacher Accused Of Sex Crimes Told Student To Keep Quiet (March 8, 2007)
• WYFF Greenville: Teacher Accused of Sex Crimes Out Of Jail (March 4, 2007)
• WLTX.com: Teacher Accused of Having Sex With Five Boys (March 1, 2007)
• The Crime Library: Allenna Williams Ward Arrested For Having Sex With Multiple Students (March 2, 2007)