News 2010

Beaverton lacrosse coach arrested on multiple sex abuse counts

By Wendy Owen, The Oregonian, June 15, 2010

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Student exchange agency:  Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE)
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Ukranian students claim exploitation in job program

August 9, 2010, Submitted by:  Ramon Herrera, WWAY News Channel 3

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Sponsor:  Council on International Educational Exchanges, Inc.  (CIEE)
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Kevin Ricks' career as teacher, tutor shows pattern of abuse that goes back decades

The Washington Post
Josh White, Blaine Harden and Jennifer Buske, Sunday, July 25, 2010

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Student Exchange Agencies:

                American Scandinavian Student Exchange (ASSE)

                EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF Foundation)

Note from CSFES:  Former exchange students hosted or supervised by Kevin Ricks are encouraged to contact Captain Art Dennis of the Manassas City Police Department:

Telephone:  703-257-8001

Email:  ADennis@ci.manassas.va.us 

You are also free to contact: Committee for Safety of Foreign Exchange Students:

Telephone:  760-583-9593

Email: Complaint@csfes.org or to Danielle Grijalva, directly:  DGrijalva@csfes.org

There is strength in numbers and CSFES commends your bravery.

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NEWSCHANNEL 3  Centreville, Michigan

July 16, 2010

Exchange student faces deportation, host mother faces felonies

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Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact:
Deputy Jay Parker at 269-467-9045 ext. 313

or

Attorney John McDonough via email McDonoughj@stjosephcountymi.org

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Professor Promoted People to People Junket Without University Approval

Latest gaffe by for-profit promoters hawking 'educational' travel

By  Lisa Wade McCormick, June 13, 2020
    ConsumerAffairs.com

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Louise thrown out of the U.S. - was alleged that she had been drinking beer

June 11, 2010  TV 2 Nyhetene
By Heidi Venaes

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18 year old Louise Berge enjoyed much of her stipend in the U.S. Until she suddenly was thrown out of the U.S.  A picture of her beside a beer bottle is the main evidence.

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Back in Trondheim are the parents, Frode Berge and Eline Blom Hoen, and ask themselves, what is the real reason for the emergency repatriation?
Frode Berge has been a faithful member of Rotary, an organization that promotes ethics and morals. Now he has taken leave from Rotary.

- They break them with their own ethics and morality, for what we have learned is that Rotary in the United States risks serious liar! Berge is not gracious after reading the reasons for which his daughter 18 years in haste was repatriated in January this year.

Can not find the reason

When their daughter came home bursting into tears earlier this year, the couple began to look for the reason. They thought that Louise probably had committed some youthful sins. They found none.

- They have four prohibitions with the letter D, "says Louise, the students will relate to the" no drinking, no driving, no dating, no dope. " I broke none of the restrictions.
But on a blog there was a picture of Louise standing next to an opened beer bottle.
This is used as main evidence.

Difficult to reach

In addition, says Louise Randoph of Rotary that on several occasions was difficult to reach for the host family. A family that was otherwise a reasonably good match.

- It is true enough that I was unavailable to them sometimes, but I knew not that they had to reach me several times in one night. I was out with friends and had sent them SMS messages about where I was. But they did not reach me at any time, which made them afraid.

- Eline Blom Hoen, she is mother to four. We know that young people are not "hands on" all the time in relation to the use of mobile.

Reputation Spread

- Anyone who knows anything about high school understands that there are many rumors going, philosophizes Louise. Perhaps the rumor spreading is the cause here? We exchange students were taken aside by the principal and told that we should adjust our behavior. There was a rumor in the small town in Vermont that we "held wild parties", which was not true!

Louise was with a few days notice taken out of the family, almost "detained" in a foreign place or so the parents perceived it, and sent home. With an explanation that the family does not accept. 

- In addition, crimes were committed, they have taken pictures of Louise's PC, "says Frode Berge. Receiving support from their own local club, Rotary in Trondheim.

Approaching harassment

District Governor of Rotary Mid-Norway, Asbjørn Norberg, is not gracious in his description of the organization in Vermont, USA.

- We support Louise fully in this matter, and think the way she was treated for approaching harassment. It takes very serious reasons for repatriation, and such a reason we do not find here.

The bank manager in Trondheim is proud of most of what Rotary does. But not this. - Here some acted wrong, fundamentally wrong according to our ethics and our rules, "says Norberg.

Rotary in Trondheim has decided that Louise will receive 15,000 kroner as a plaster on the wound.

Student placement agency:  Rotary
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Host father convicted of sex abuse

May 21, 2010  

Submitted by Laura Rillos  KVAL.com KVAL TV
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Student Placement Agency:  AYUSA Global Youth Exchange
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Trial begins for Junction City man accused of sexual abuse
By Jack Moran,  The Register-Guard, May 19, 2010

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Student Placement Agency:  AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

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THE ARKANSAS LEADER
Friday, April 16, 2010      Top Story:  Student's nightmare over

 

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Child Porn Charges Filed Against Arroyo Grande City Councilman

Posted: Apr 12, 2010 10:42 AM PDT Updated: Apr 12, 2010 5:38 PM PDT

Ed Arnold Jr.

ARROYO GRANDE -- Child pornography charges have been leveled against an Arroyo Grande city leader, who already faces a list of felonies.

Legal troubles are compounding for Councilman Ed Arnold.

In addition to burglary, assault and domestic violence, Arnold is now accused of possessing and producing child pornography.

The new charges stem from the investigation that followed his arrest in December for beating a woman, after breaking into her home.

"The investigation is still ongoing," said Chief Steve Annibali, Arroyo Grande Police Department. "There is a lot of information that came from that forensic investigation."

In January, police seized a computer at Arnold's house.

According to court documents, filed by the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's office on Friday, a forensic search of that computer revealed pictures of naked girls.

The documents also state that detectives found a video showing a 16-year-old girl -- a foreign exchange students -- showering in a bathroom at Arnold's home.

The video was allegedly taken from a hidden camera.

"I have received no evidence of this allegation other than what's contained in those documents," said Ilan Funke-Bilu, Arnold's attorney. "The documents refer to a video -- I have not seen it."

Arnold's attorney says his client was not the only person who had access to that computer.

Arnold is expected to answer to the new charges in court on Wednesday.

"I can tell you that the plea will be not guilty," said Funke-Bilu.

As for Tuesday's city council meeting, Arnold's attorney says he expects the councilman to be there.

Back in January, Arnold plead not guilty to the original five felony charges he faced.

Student Placement Agency:  AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

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Popular Manassas Teacher Arrested

Accused of Inappropriate Conduct With Teenager

Host dad charged with abuse | James McClintock pleads not guilty to illegal sexual contact with a 17-year-old foreign exchange student

February 12, 2010

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Student Placement Agency:  AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

Host father accused of sex abuse involving exchange student

Woman pleads guilty in Pennsylvania exchange-student scandal

By The Associated Press

Exchange Program Coordinator Deals with Feds