Colo. Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Student, Threatening Him If He Resisted Advances

Photo: Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office A Colorado teacher was arrested last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting a student, PEOPLE confirms. An anonymous student reported the alleged activity throughSafe2Tell, a tipline that allows Colorado students to report illegal activity in their schools. According to the police report, the school’s head track coach confronted Porter after hearing about the tip. She allegedly confessed to him. “She said ‘I f–ked up’ and that she was ‘in a real bad place right now,'” the coach told police, recalling what Porter had allegedly told him.

Colo. Teen Gets Life Sentence for Sexually Assaulting and Then Killing 10-Year-Old

Photo: Thornton Police DepartmentA Colorado teen who molested a 10-year-old girl before bludgeoning her to death in 2017 acknowledged his guilt in court recently, and learned a life sentence will be imposed during his sentencing hearing next month.Aidan Zellmer, 16, pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Kiaya Campbell on June 7, 2017, in the city of Thornton, Colorado, PEOPLE confirms.As part of his plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop a sexual assault charge as well as an additional count of first-degree murder, court officials tell PEOPLE.

Colo. Teen, 17, Is Slain in Car Before Longtime Friend Kills Himself in Suspected Murder-Suicide

Photo: GoFundMe On Jan. 14, Mya Pena, 17, got into 18-year-old Samuel Hoffman’s car after school. The pair had been lifelong friends, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, theDenver Post,Highlands Ranch HeraldandKUSAreport. Less than a half an hour later, police believe Hoffman killed Pena while parked in a parking lot near Mile High Academy in Highlands Ranch, where she went to school. Her cause of death was not immediately clear.

Colo. Teen, 17, Was Slain in Family Home in 2017 — Now FBI Thinks It Was Possibly a Hate Crime

Maggie Long.Photo: Facebook Federal investigators have re-classified the 2017unsolved murder of 17-year-old Maggie Longin her family’s Colorado home as a possible hate crime. Long was reportedmissing on Dec. 1, 2017after she didn’t show up to an evening concert at her high school. That same night, her remains were found in her burned down Bailey home. However, authorities now think Long may have been targeted because she was Asian American. It’s unclear what evidence federal investigators have collected that led them re-classify the case.

Colo. Volleyball Coach Says He Was Forced to Quit His Job at Christian High School for Being Gay

A Colorado man claims he was forced out of his job as a volleyball coach at a religious high school due to his sexual orientation. Inoke Tonga, 30, said officials from Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch confronted him last week about whether he had posted about being gay on social media, hewrotein an Aug. 21 Facebook post. Tonga, who first joined the school as an assistant coach for the boy’s volleyball team last spring, toldCNNthat during the meeting he expected to be offered the team’s head coach position that opened up over the summer.