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Sex Allegations Swirled Around Md. Man Before By Ernesto Londoņo, The Washington Post, November 27, 2006

 

Student Exchange Organization:  AYUSA International

DA Declines Suing Host in Exchange Saga Program of Academic Exchange PAX

Jeffrey William Hodges III has hosted at least 18 foreign exchange student EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

Foreign exchange students not getting what they pay for Council on International Educational Exchange CIEE and Worldwide International Student Exchange (WISE)

Rockville Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Exchange Student AYUSA International

Exchange Student Gets Rude Welcome to America EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

A STRANGE EXCHANGE Student Dealings Program of Academic Exchange PAX

Exchange Student Claims She Was Target of Fraud AYUSA International

After Rocky Start, Exchange Student Enjoys Vacaville Experience Program of Academic Exchange PAX

Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

Man Accused of Sex Assault on Exchange Student AYUSA International

Exchange Students Scammed International Student Exchange ISE

Court Makes Child Pornography Downloads a 20-Year Felony

Exchange Student Host Accused of Sex Assault AYUSA International

Needed:  A Home Away From Home AYUSA International

Family's Quick Decision Turns Out Optimistic AYUSA International

Students are En Route to the United States and Need Homes Last Minute AYUSA International

Foreign Students Arrive in Boise, but Program Organizers Still Need Families AYUSA International

Riverside Resident Gets Five Months in the Case Involving a Danish Exchange Student AISE

Former Teacher Pleads Guilty in Molest Case EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

Mayor Attempting to Find Jobs for Stranded Russian Students Center for Cultural Interchange CCI

Teacher Charged with Sex Abuse of Exchange Student AYUSA International

Man Who Hosted Students is Predator, Police Say EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

Exchange Student Says Host Filmed Her Youth for Understanding YFU

Exchange Student Coordinator Arrested ERDT/SHARE!

Japanese Exchange Student Raped in Oxnard, Police Say FLS in Oxnard

Exchange Student Says She was 'Shocked and Frozen

More Details Emerge in Child-Sex Inquiry

Veterinarian is Charged with Sexually Abusing Boy

Ex-Naples Priest Faces New Sex Abuse Suit Pacific Intercultural Exchange PIE

Suit Raises Questions About Liability in Study-Abroad Programs

Rotary Under Attach, Exchange Student Sex Abuse

Former Exchange Student is Awarded $649,000 ASSE

Foreign Students Placed Through La Jolla Firm

What a year -- Experiences of Exchange Students  

Exchange Students New Target of Greed

Ex-Minister Pleads Guilty in Deal Sentended to 90 Days in Jail

Man Admits Spying on Student

Assault Charge Man Will Not Get To Clear His Name

 

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    DA Declines Suing Host in Exchange Saga

    By Julie Kay//Staff Writer//The Reporter, Vacaville, CA, September 6, 2006
     
    The 30-year-old Vacaville woman investigated on suspicion of stealing money from and behaving inappropriately with an exchange student she hosted last fall will not be charged with any crime, according to the Solano County District Attorney's Office.
     

    And, while complaints against the exchange organization that placed the student have been filed with the U.S. State Department and another oversight group, the New York-based PAX will likely avoid penalty. "I'm extremely disappointed..that someone can get away with this," said Vacaville Rotary Club member Lauren Osborne, who befriended the young man from Ghana during his time here. The young man, whose name is not used in this article to protect his privacy, spent last year as a student at Vacaville High School. He excelled in his classes and played on the school's soccer team. His first few weeks were tough. PAX originally placed the then-17-year-old in a Trower neighborhood home Rotary Club members describe as "dilapidated." Within weeks, the young man told a teammate and a school counselor that his host mother there had stolen his money.

     

    In October, the young man moved to the home of Michelle Dickey, who had volunteered to take him in. The Rotary Club also "adopted" him, taking him sightseeing and providing him a monthly stipend. At first, the exchange student's story seemed one of early misfortune and a happy ending.

     

    But at the end of 2005, information surfaced which propelled the case into the hands of the Vacaville police as well as those of U.S. State Department officials. Since then, the young man's allegations have traveled through two separate corridors of justice, yet no known punishment has been levied. In December, Dickey discovered inappropriate e-mails on her computer from the first host mother to the young man. She confronted the student, who responded with embarrassment but eventually agreed to go to police to report the alleged theft and inappropriate behavior, Dickey said.

     

    According to police, officers videotaped interviews with the young man, Dickey, and the first host mother, obtained copies of bank records, and confiscated the original host mother's computer for evidence. Officers made multiple unsuccessful attempts to locate the host mother again, they said. They eventually handed the case over to the district attorney for further investigation. Last month, district attorney officials said they had closed the case, lacking sufficient evidence to prosecute it. Meanwhile, the young man's case was simultaneously making its way through another justice system, one administered by the U.S. State Department, whose Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs oversees the nation's exchange visitor program.

     

    Danielle Grijalva, president of the nonprofit Committee for the Safety of Foreign Exchange Students, had learned of the young man's case through an article in The Reporter. In June the Southern California woman filed a complaint with the State Department on his behalf. Grijalva filed the same complaint with the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel, a Virginia-based foundation that evaluates exchange organizations yearly to decide whether they will be included on its annual list of approved programs. More than four months later, Grijalva has received no information on the status of her complaints.

     

    No matter how frustrating the shroud of secrecy may be, the advocate who has filed complaints on behalf of scores of exchange students throughout the United States understands that it is standard procedure in these cases.

     

    According to a Nov. 2 e-mail from CSIET Executive Director John Hishmeh, "the details of the evaluation of applying organizations is considered to be confidential and restricted to communications between CSIET and the given organizations." CSIET's track record, though, is of very rarely excluding any exchange organization it evaluates from its list. Despite repeated phone and e-mail inquiries during the course of a week, State Department officials did not respond to questions about its complaint procedure.

     

    PAX President Libby Cryer, meanwhile, has steadfastly defended her organization, refused to reimburse any stolen money, and denied any wrongdoing. Cryer admitted this week she knew about the e-mails to the young man from the first host mother, but defended her decision not to report them to the State Department, despite federal law which requires the reporting of questionable behavior on the part of host family members. "PAX staff, both the community representative and senior staff in the national office, spoke personally with [the exchange student] to confirm that he did not wish to pursue this matter," she replied in an e-mail to Reporter staff last week.

     

    Community representative Nancy Major, however, had a different account, saying she had no further contact with the exchange student after she reported the e-mails to her supervisor.

     

    But even this contradiction is beside the point, said Grijalva. The law states clearly that all inappropriate behavior on the part of any host family member must be reported to the State Department, regardless of whether the student asks for it to be reported or not.

     

    Dickey expressed outrage over the way PAX has handled the situation. "I think it's a disgrace," she said.

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Julie Kay can be reached at schools@thereporter.com.

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Jeffrey William Hodges III has hosted at least 18 foreign exchange students.
 
 
!!!   Note:  Jeffrey William Hodges III was an International Exchange Coordinator with EF Foundation.  If you are a former exchange student who was hosted by this man, we ask that you please contact CSFES immediately   !!!
 
 
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Foreign exchange students not getting what they pay for.

TWIN FALLS — Holim Wang didn't know what to expect when he came to the United States two years ago, but something didn't seem quite right when he and three other Korean exchange students found themselves sleeping on the floor of a trailer home in Jerome. 

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Student exchange organizations:  Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and Worldwide International Students Exchange (WISE)

 

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ROCKVILLE MAN CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING EXCHANGE STUDENT, by Stephanie Siegel, Gazette.net, October 4, 2006

 

http://www.gazette.net/stories/100406/wheanew214306_31951.shtml

 

Name of student exchange organization to follow.**

 

**As of October 5, 2006, The student exchange organization has asked the Maryland County Police Department to not release its name at this time.

 

CSFES Update:  November 27, 2006

 

Name of student exchange organization:  San Francisco-based AYUSA International

 

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EXCHANGE STUDENT GETS RUDE WELCOME TO AMERICA, by Gayle Perez, The Pueblo Chieftain, September 21, 2006

 

Student Exchange Organization:  EF Foundation (Educational Foundation for Foreign Studies Program)

 

Exchange student gets rude welcome to America, by Gayle Perez, The Pueblo Chieftain, September 21, 2006

 

Seventeen-year-old German native Volkan Deniz applied to be a foreign exchange student in the United States for the experiences he would gain from spending a year abroad.

 

"I like to learn about new cultures and new countries," Volkan said in an interview Wednesday.  "I wanted to come to the United States to learn more about the country and the people."

 

Since leaving his home in Schalksmeuhle, Germany on Aug. 15, Volkan has had quite the experience.

 

Volkan said he initially requested to live with a host family in California where he had hoped to learn to surf.

 

But the day before he left Germany, Volkan learned that he was being diverted to Colorado.

 

He arrived in La's Animas where he waited for a host family to be found for him through the Educational Foundation for Foreign Studies program.

 

"They told me that they didn't have any more spots open in California, so I came to Colorado," he said. "I guess I won't learn to surf."

 

It didn't take long for the foundation to find a host family in nearby Lamar.

 

But the family quickly declined to host him in their home once they learned Volkan was a Muslim.

 

"They stated I couldn't stay with them because of my religion," said Volkan, who was born and raised in Germany to Turkish parents.  Volkan remained in Las Animas awaiting another host family.  In the meantime, classes were beginning in most area school districts.

 

During a trip through Pueblo en route to picking up another exchange student from the airport, Volkan heard about a contest on a local radio, called in and won 15 gallons of gasoline.

 

While at the gasoline station to claim his prize, an employee overheard Volkan talking about his situation.

 

the employee, Gary Dall, said he had hosted another German exchange student the past school year and agreed to take in Volkan on a temporary basis.

 

"He had already missed a full week of school and we knew he needed to be enrolled in school," Dall said.

 

Volkan moved to Pueblo and enrolled at South High School, where he is adjusting to the school and his classmates.  He also is a member of the school's soccer team.

 

Although he is doing well at Dall's home, there are several circumstances that prevent him from staying there long term.

 

Dall said his previous exchange student left on June 19 after a 10-month stay and he wasn't ready to host another student this soon.

 

"It's a very emotional experience," he said.  "When he left it was like losing son."

 

Also, Dall said that Volkan's family had requested he live in a traditional family home with other children.  Dall does not have any children.

 

"He's not a problem for us.  He's a fine boy and a lot of fun to be around, but he really needs to be in a home where he has peers," Dall said.

 

Volkan agreed, adding that he had requested to be with a family with children.

 

"I would like to be with somebody my own age so we hang out and do things together," he said.

 

Volkan said he wants to remain at South to complete his senior year.

 

In spite of all he has gone through in his short stay in the United States, Volkan doesn't plan to leave before his stint ends in June.

 

"I think this is all part of the experience," he said with a smile. "I've never thought about leaving.  It would destroy the whole experience if I were to go back now."

 

Dall said anyone interested in hosting Volkan for the remainder of the school year can contact him 671-2749.

 

 

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A STRANGE EXCHANGE Student shortchanged by shady dealings, by Julie Kay/The Reporter.Com -- 07/15/06

 

A 30-year-old Vacaville woman accused of stealing money from an exchange student she hosted last fall is being investigated by the Solano County District Attorney's office on suspicion of grand theft and felony misconduct, authorities said.

 

In the meantime, the exchange organization responsible for the student's placement has refused to refund his money, asserting the student "handled his personal spending money inappropriately."

 

Joseph Kessi, 18, arrived from Ghana last September to attend Vacaville High School, where he placed on the soccer team and excelled in his classes.  The young man was featured in The Reporter after leaving the home where his host mom reportedly had stolen his money and after having been "adopted" by Woodland's Michelle Dickey and the Vacaville Rotary Club.

 

Dickey provided Kessi room and board without compensation throughout the school year, while rotarians gave Kessi a monthly stipened and took him on a variety of sight-seeking adventures.

 

The article touched only briefly on Kessi's experience in his first host home.

 

"He said he wanted to put it all behind him and pretend it never happened," said Dickey.

 

Dickey and other Rotarians say Kessi told them his parents borrowed from family members to pay the $7,000 total program cost.  He arrived in the United States with $1,200, he said.  Shortly after his arrival, his first host mother convinced him to buy a television and DVD player, which they used in her home, he said.

 

She advised him to put his money in a bank account but told him he couldn't open one without a social security number, Kessi told Dickey.  She then offered to open an account for Kessi, into which he deposited his remaining money, Dickey said.

 

The woman also called Kessi's parents, telling them she could get Kessi into the University of California, Davis if they sent her $500.  Kessi's parents had an American uncle wire the money to her; Kessi never saw it again.

 

After hearing Kessi's story, and later discovering what appeared to be evidence of felony misconduct, Dickey and Kessi filed a report with the police.

 

Police videotaped interviews with Kessi, Dickey, and Kessi's first host mother.  Vacaville Police Detective Bob Horel, who handled the case, said authorities obtained copies of bank records and confiscated the host mother's computer for evidence.  Having reviewed these, the police attempted to located the woman, but were unsuccessful, said Horel.  Police then handed the case to the Solano County District Attorney's Office for further investigation of possible grand theft and felony misconduct, said Horel.  Accounding to the DA's office, the case is still under investigation.

 

The organization which originally placed Kessi, the New York-based Program of Academic Exchange (PAX), said it will accept no responsibility for what happened.

 

In a July 11 e-mail addressing the situation, PAX president Libby Cryer said her organization "clearly and unmistakably advised the student, both verbally and in writing, that PAX rules specified that a student should not put money in a joint account."

 

"While we have regrets whenever a PAX student makes a costly mistake, we also make it very clear that students must abide by program rules and must accept responsibility for their own actions when they don't," Cryer continued in the e-mail.

 

Cryer wrote that she "spoke regularly and at length with Detective Horel."

 

"Detective Horel concluded that there was no case for legal action in this matter," Cryer continued.  "He passed the case along to the district attorney, who, in turn, concluded no legal action was in order.

 

"PAX finds no reason to reimburse any amount to the family of Joseph Kessi (sic) and does not intend to do so."

 

In a telephone conversation Friday, Cryer declined to answer further questions on the situation, saying that the e-mail she sent contained a thorough explanation.  Asked about differences between her's and Horel's accounts of the progress of the case, Cryer said her information was based on her understanding of what Horel said.

 

Dickey said she was "absolutely shocked at (PAX's) response."

 

"Putting the fault on Joseph...'Oh he shouldn't have opened a joint checking account,'" she said.  "I think what's so frustrating is he was completely victimized and nobody's taking any responsibility for it at all."

 

Danielle Grijalva, who directs the Committee for the Safety of Foreign Exchange Students, based in Oceanside, filed a complaint about the issue with the State Department in June.  Its investigation is under way. 

 

Student exchange organization:  Program of Academic Exchange (PAX)

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Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
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Vacaville High School exchange student Joseph Kessi and his host mom Michelle Dickey have avoided talking about Joseph's imminent return to his native Ghana.  It would make him too sad, Joseph says, given the kindness and adventure he's experienced here.
 
Watching the 18-year-old's eyes light up ashe speaks about his time here, one would hardly guess at the torment the tall, soft-spoken young man endured when he first arrived.  Now, as he prepares to return home, Joseph said he feels thankful for the odd set of circumstances which sowed him the worst, and then the best, of American culture.
 
The talented student and athlete arrived here in August to fulfill a dream - to live with an American family and attend his senior year of high school here.  But that vision quickly crumbled.
 
"I didn't have a good family," Joseph said simply last week, as he sat on a couch in the house he calls home.
 
"According to Vacaville Rotary Club members who befriended Joseph, the young man was initially placed in a dilapidated home on McClellan Street.  It quickly became apparent that the woman living there wasn't interested in cultural exchange.  She stole all the spending money Joseph had for the year, then tried to get Joseph's father to send her more."
 
At first, Joseph didn't know where to turn.
 
"I didn't have any friends I could confide in," he recalled.
 
Fortunately, he quickly became a popular member of his school's soccer team.  He told a teammate about his situation, who told his mother, who told Vacaville's Dickey.
 
The mother "was telling me he was a really nice young man and needed to find a home, " recalled Dickey, who has a son the same age living with his father in Santa Cruz.  Dickey agreed to take Joseph in and take care of his expenses, even though she had never even met him.
 
"I was thinking that I hoped someone would do the same for my son in the same situation," said Dickey.  "I live near the high school.  I had an empty bedroom.  I thought it was the right thing to do."
 
Joseph's spirits rose the moment he walked into Dickey's house.
 
"When I came I knew it was a better place," he said, smiling at Dickey.  The two hit it off with surprising ease.
 
"Michelle makes sure I'm OK" said Joseph.  "She protects me.  She buys me things like food and clothes."
 
Joseph, said Dickey, is kind and polite, but still a typical teenage boy.
 
"Even though he's from Ghana, people are people," she said.  "He gets completely immersed in (video game systems) Xbox and his PSP.  He'll hear the garage door opening and jump up from Xbox to go do his chores."
 
While Dickey provided Joseph a good home, her ability to show him all the sights of California was limited.
 
That's where the Vacaville Rotary Club stepped in.  Club member Lauren Osborn, a friend of Dickey's brought Joseph's story to the club, looking for a way to help Joseph out.
 
The Rotarians responded eagerly, said club member Bill Ruth.
 
"Our Rotary Club adopted him," he explained.
 
For the rest of the story, please refer to the archives: http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_3899314
 
Student exchange organization:  PAX - Program of Academic Exchange
 
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MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO SEX ABUSE, Lexington Herald-Leader, April 6, 2006

 

A Berea man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old foreign exchange student. Paul Stone, 54, plead guilty Monday in Madison Circuit Court to third-degree sodomy and was recommended to serve one year in jail, the Madison County commonwealth's attorney's office said. Other charges of third-degree rape and third-degree sexual abuse were dropped, the office said. Sentencing will be April 27. In February, Stone was indicted for sexually abusing the exchange student. Police said the teen was with the family one or two months before the incident was reported in December 2005 to a teacher.

 

Student Exchange Organization:  EF Foundation for Foreign Study (EF)

 

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MAN ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT ON EXCHANGE STUDENT, by Madelaine Vitale Staff Writer  Published: February  9, 2006



Edward Gibbons, 35, is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old girl on numerous occasions between October 2004 and February 2005.

 
AYUSA International Global Youth Exchange, a nonprofit high school exchange program, placed the girl in Gibbon's home, the prosecutor said.  Authorities arrested Gibbons, who works at ShopRite in Egg Harbor Township, at his job Wednesday morning.
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
 
CSFES Update:  September 6, 2006
 
Man admits to sex with exchange student, by Lynda Cohen, Press of Atlantic City, September 6, 2006
 
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
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EXCHANGE STUDENTS SCAMMED, February 5, 2006, by Meghan Rubado of The Post-Standard
 
"They feared if they didn't give him the money, they'd be sent back to their home countries."
 
The students were from :  ECUADOR, THAILAND, COLOMBIA, GERMANY, CHINA and SOUTH KOREA.
 
Christopher M. Seals, 35, was an area representative of the International Student Exchange organization, city police said.  He is accused of meeting the students as they arrived at Hancock Airport from Sept. 3 to October 31, then telling them he needed to hold on to their money. 
 
He told the students he would give them the money as they needed it, but instead kept most of the cash, police said.
 
The students attended Nottingham and Henniger high schools, but three moved to homes and schools outside Onondaga County after they complained of poor living conditions, Buske said. 
 
Student exchange organization:  International Student Exchange (ISE).
 
 
 
To read about Brian Lee Hill facing three counts of eavesdropping by installing a video device, a two-year felony, for snooping with a hidden camera on male teenage exchange students using the shower, click the following link:
 
 
 
 
The host parent of a 16-year-old German exchange student remained in the Wilson County Jail on Wednesday after the teen complained she was being forced to have sex with him, authorities said.
 
Timothy Jordan, 29, was arrested last week after the girl and a representative with the exchange student organization that sponsored her alerted authorities of the allegations.  Jordan, who lives in Sutherland Springs, is being held on a sexual assault of a child charge in lieu of $100,000 bond.
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
 
 
 
The problem is, the family Hao Chan is living with right now can't house him for the whole hear, so local AYUSA coordinator Jessica Swisher is looking for some help.  Student is from Taiwan.
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
 
 
 
Having skipped the months of screenings normally used to match families with students, the Brewers had a lot to learn before welcoming home their newest family member.  They worked with AYUSA International, which coordinates the Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program.
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
   
Note from CSFES:  Hosting a foreign exchange student should never be a "quick decision."
 
 
 
We had just days to decide to host a foreign student through AYUSA (Academic Year USA)
 
Student exchange organizatin:  AYUSA International
 
Note from CSFES:  Host families should never be given "just days to decide."
 
 
 
Organizers of AYUSA International are seeking help in placing Mohammad, along with several other students who will arrive later this month. 
 
"We have four students flying into Boise in the next two weeks who do not have an identified host family.  The students will need to stay in a temporary home, usually with a AYUSA representative," said Jodi Miller.  AYUSA International regional director.
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA International
 
Note:  It is against the regulations of the United States Department of State for an exchange student to also live with his/her representative as stated:
 
In the US Department of State regulations Section 62.25 (d)(3) "Ensure that no organizational representative act as both host family and area supervisor for any student participant whom that organization representatie may host."
 
 
 
Goodhead of Riverside was sentenced to five months in federal prison in 2003 after he pleaded guilty in US District Court to misdemeanor sexual abuse involving a 16- year- old Danish boy who stayed with him.  The abuse occurred in 2002 during a visit to Yosemite.  
 
Student exchange organization:  AISE
 
 
 
A Murrieta man pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting a female foreign-exchange student who was living in his home.  "The defendant once told the victim that when he saw her foreign-exchange photo that he considered it a challenge, even before she got here, to have sex with her."  Hansen said.
 
Student exchange organization:  EF Foundation for Foreign Study.
 
**(Please Note:  Information provided to CSFES was in error.  EF Foundation for Foreign Study is the organization responsible for this placement and not AFS. 
    CSFES would like to extend our sincere apologies to AFS for this error and for any inconveniences this may have caused.)**
 
 
 
"These students were victimized beyond belief," St. Augustine Beach Mayor Frank Charles said.
 
The students traveled to the United States through an international exchange program called The Center for Cultural Interchange.  Each of the students paid $2,500 for the trip, which was supposed to give them work experience in the United States.
 
Eighteen of the students were found crowded into two unfurnished two-bedroom apartments without food Friday by the St. Augustine Beach Police and the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.  More arrived Monday, bringing the total to about 30.
 
Student exchange organization:  Center for Cultural Interchange
 
 
 
A biology teacher at Gaithersberg High School was arrested on charges of sexually abusing an exchange stuent, Montgomery County Police said Wednesday.  Andrew T. Powers, 27, and his wife were the host family for the unidentified 17-year-old girl, according to police.  Powers allegedly went into her bedroom on Monday and engaged in what police call inappropriate sexual contact.  They also say he had a habit of walking around naked in the house and touching the girl's buttocks. 
 
Student exchange organization:  AYUSA (Academic Year USA).
 
 
 
A 71-year-old Ohio man, was sentenced 2-1/2 years behind bars for several sex offences involving a 17-year-old Vietnamese exchange student who stayed with him in 2003.  The youth reported that his host father reported that his host father gave him nude massages, fondled him and forced the youth to shave the man's pubic hair.
 
Student exchange organization:  EF Foundation for Foreign Study.
 
 
 
After she found a video camera under blankets in her bedroom, a 16-year-old foreign exchange student thought it was left there inadvertently.  Allegan County sheriff's Detective Chris Koster said it was a disturbing way to mark the girl's stay in the United States.  Koster testified the defendant appeared to implicate himself by capturing his own image as he backed away from the camera in the doll house.  Recordings captured the girl undressing, he said.
 
Student exchange organization:  Youth for Understanding.
 
 
 
Doyle Meyer, 35, was arrested by the Sherwood police department and arraigned in Sherwood District Court Tuesday, May 24, on rape charges after accusations were made by two male foreign exchange students.  One victim said that between early January and the end of February of this year, Meyer had coaxed him into a sexual relationship.  The boys said Meyer initially would give Weinberg massages and over the course of time gained the victims' trust.  Meyer talked him into lying in bed with him naked, and eventually had sex with him.  The victim provided an audio CD containing a telephone conversation between the two.  In the recording, police say, Meyer could be heard saying he shouldn't have had sex with the boy.
 
Note:  another German boy came forward after reading article.
 
Student exchange organization:  ERDT/Share
 
 
 
Japanese exchange student raped in Oxnard, police say.  "It's probably one of the worse I've seen.  The fact that she's a visitor here makes it terrible.  She doesn't speak the language, she doesn't know the area."  Detective David Klug of the Oxnard Police Department.  
 
Student exchange organization:  FLS in Oxnard, California.
 
 
 
A 17-year- old German girl testified Wed that Wayne Trustee Robert Gault molested her while she lived in his home as a foreign exchange student.  The teen testified Gault repeatedly fondled her beneath her clothing while they used the Internet to look up the Web site of the girl's former school in Germany.
 
Note:  Another foreign exchange student came forward January 13, 2001.  A second foreign exchange student from Finland came forward.  She, too, was fondled by Gault but never reported the allegation to authorities.
 
 
 
Larry Dale Floyd used the computer screen name "freevacation_formoms" and called himself "Rick" from Oklahoma.  "I knew he had had exchange students staying with him for about 15 years, " Beebe said.  "It was when that came to my mind, and it kind of freaked me out."  He also became interested when "Marsha" mentioned that her friend had a 3-year-old daughter, and a month-old boy, according to the affidavitg.  Floyd was interested in the young children because "this is the age that they wouldn't talk and tell," the affidavit states.
 
 
 
A veterinarian and Rotary Club exchange student coordinator who is charged with six counts of criminal sexual abuse is expected to surrender.  Dillon, exchange student coordinator...molested the boy, a student from Europe, three times from January until May.  This student was from Denmark.
 
Student exchange organization:  Rotary.
 
 
 
When their son said he had been sexually abused by Father Willie in the rectory of St. Ann Catholic Church, the Naples couple was dumbfounded.  They turned to another priest for help.  He told them to keep quiet, for the good of the church.  In return, they were promised the Rev. William Romero would leave St. Ann and never again work as a parish priest or in unsupervised settings with children.   A former St. Ann's altar boy is the latest accuser of William Romero, who also faces a Miami criminal probe.  When reports of his troubles as a priest surfaced last year, a California-based exchange program removed two high school students from Romero's home.  But the former priest continues to host foreign students on his own, he said in a June interview.
 
Student exchange organization:  Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE).
 
 
A student who says she was raped last year in Japan, on a program run by Earlham college, raised those issues in a lawsuit she filed in federal court last month.  Lawyers and study-abroad directors say the suit, in which she is seeking $3-million from Earlham and the other organizations that ran the program, marks the first time that a student has sought damages for a sexual assault abroad.
 
 
 
 
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $649,000 to a former foreign exchange student who claimed the program that placed her wi
 
th a host family did not do enough to prevent her from having a sexual relationship with her host father or to discover or stop it once it started.  The jury also awarded $10,000 to the girl's parents.  Their relationship and resulting stresses led her to attempt suicide and to cut her arms several times.
 
Student exchange organization:  ASSE.
 
 
 
Instead, the 16-year old says, she found herself sharing a home with another exchange student and six children in a filthy, crowded house with exposed wiring and insulation bursting from the walls. 
 
Student exchange organization:  AISE (American Intercultural Student Exchange)
 
 
 
Mikko was willing to go abroad for a year if he was placed in a city of over 100,000 inhabitants, with the chance to play soccer.  He was sent to a town of 258 people in Iowa, where soccer ws not played.  the town had been founded by people released from a juvenile penitentiary, and life definitely reflected this:  Mikko's host family included a mentally handicapped son, a heriod addict son, and parents with multiple problems.  The first host family that was offered to Ilona for the year 1996-1997 was a Moroccan immigrant family in Northern France.  She visited the family over the summer prior to her departure and was horrified.  The single mother of the family was a fortune teller who made house calls for a living, and was paid in food.  A thick cloud of smoke hung in the flat, the floor was covered with cement, the walls were torn, there was dog excrement in the hall, and it smelled of sewage both inside and outside. 
 
 
 
She arrived in Orange county in September 1990, excited at the chance to live with a typical American family and attend Dana Hills High School.  Nishimura's dream did not come cheaply.  She said her restaurant-owner parents paid $15,000 to a Japanese company that places students in US schools so their teen-age daughter could come to California.
 
Nishimura's first taste of American home life quickly turned sour.  She said her "host mother," selected by the placement agency, had a boyfriend and another roommate in a two-bedroom apartment.  Nishimura, then 16, slept on a mattress on the floor of an open loft that offered no privacy.  Although the placement agency paid the post family $450 of her parents' money a month for room and board, Nishimura said she often did not have enough to eat.  She said her host mother, an unemployed model, terrified her by smoking marijuana in the apartment and by driving her around when drunk.
 
 
 
The former Salem minister had faced 15 years in prison for having sex with a teen-age exchange student. 
 
 
 
PERTH man has admitted installing a hidden video camera in a bathroom to spy on a teenage exchane student but says he was trying to catch her using drugs, not see her naked.
 
 
 
A father-of-two accused of sexually assaulting a 14 year old French student is angry he may never be able to clear his name.
 
 
BOARD SAYS DOCTOR FILMED STUDENT IN BEDROOM, Author, Rod Boshart, Gazette Des Moines Bureau, November 20, 1993.  COMPLAINT:  HIDDEN CAMERA RECORDED EXCHANGE STUDENT IN CEDAR RAPIDS DOCTOR'S HOME. 
 
DES MOINES -- A Cedar Rapids doctor has been charged with unethical conduct by a state licensing board that alleges he videotaped a foreign exchange student in her bedroom at his home without her knowledge or consent in 1989.  The state board has the authority to impose civil penalties of up to $10,000 and/or suspend or revoke his license or otherwise discipline the Cedar Rapids doctor.
 
 
CONSTABLE ARRESTED IN CHILD SEX RING, Author Darren Barbee; Star-Telegram Staff Writer, For-Worth Star-Telegram, July 30, 2005. 
 
A longtime Denton county constable who had hosted foreign exchange students drove to Colorado, apparently intending to have sex with a child, police said. 
 
 
OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT SAYS MUKWONAGO CLERK TOUCH HIM INDECENTLY, Author: Mark Lisheron and Betsy Thatcher, Darryl Enriques of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report; Journal Sentinel staff, July 26, 1996. 
 
The village clerk-treasurer has taken sick leave this week as investigators look into the allegation, contained in curcuit Court documents, that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old foreign exchange student. 
 
According to an affidavit attached to the warrant, the student from Spain, who had been staying with the Kahls, said Kahl touched him indecently during a trip to the cottage in late March and in a La Crosse motel room earlier in the year. 
 
 
THAI TEEN'S STATEMENT NOT ALLOWED -- STUDENT HAS LEFT U.S.; SEX-ABUSE TRIAL STALLS, Author:  Christy Harris, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, July 23, 1991. 
 
A judge ruled Monday that the videotaped statement of a 17-year-old girl who claims a local optometrist sexually abused her can't be used as evidence at his trial.  County Judge Edward Miller said Wayne Pharr's attorney didn't have enough time to prepare for her statement which was taken June 6.
 
Pharr, 47, was charged May 30 with battery and performing a lewd and lascivious act on a foreign exchange student who was living in his home.  The girl has returned to Thailand.  Pharr, who was convicted in 1983 of abusing two boys, voluntarily committed himself to a mental institution, attorneys said.
 
 
WOMAN FACES FINE OR JAIL IN ABUSE OF FOREIGN TEEN, Dateline:  SHREVEPORT, September 9, 2001. 
 
A Shreveport woman, who for years has sponsored foreign teen-agers in her home, must pay a fine or go to jail and write an apology for battering a Ukranian woman. 
 
 
EXCHANGE PROGRAM LIGHTLY REGULATED IN TEXAS --  STUDENT'S NIGHTMARE SHOWN FLAW IN SYSTEM, Author Mark Smith, Staff, houston chronicle, December 19, 1993. 
 
PALACIOS -- When Elena Hidalgo, a teen-age exchange student from Spain, arrived at the Palacios home of her U.S. hosts, she was in for a big, unpleasant surprise. 
 
The couple, parents of five children, were financially strapped.  Their home was invested with mice and cockroaches.  And, they educated their children at home, rather than sending them to public schools -- something Hidalgo found unorthodox.
 
"All homes in America have rats and roaches," the exchange program representatives told her, according to records at the matagorda County Sheriff's Department.  "She would just have to get used to it."   
 
Student exchange organization:  California-based American Intercultural Student Exchange.
 
 
CONVICTED SEX ABUSER UNDER NEW SCRUITINY -- TAZEWELL INVESTIGATORS TURN OVER VIDEOTAPES TO PEORIA AUTHORITIES, Journal Star (Peoria, IL) April 16, 1999. 
 
PEKIN --  A Morton man convicted in Tazewell County of sexually abusing a foreign exchange student is being investigated in Peoria.