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Sh*t got a little too hot for teacher at a Missouri school after one of her students discovered her past — as a porn star!

Missouri science teacher Tera Myers has been put on administrative leave with no plans to return to her job after admitting a previous career in porn!

Myers requested the leave from her job at Parkway North High School Friday after a student approached her about her past. School officials had no knowledge of the work she did under the name “Rikki Andersin” despite the fact she’d previously been suspended from a Kentucky school and appeared on “Dr. Phil” about it.

“Out of respect for her privacy and that of her family, the district has agreed to accept the teacher’s request to be placed on administrative leave for the remainder of the school year,” a Parkway news release said. Myers will be paid through the end of the school year.

Myers was hired after passing standard background and reference checks, according to the district. A Parkway spokesman said Tuesday that because the teacher’s involvement in the porn industry did not break any laws, it wasn’t revealed in the background checks.

The spokesman said she was “almost positive” that Parkway had called Myers’ previous school in vetting her and that the district had had no idea of the teacher’s previous suspension or the reasons for it.

Myers could not be reached for comment.

Myers, 38, was in her fourth year of teaching in the district. She also had served as a girls volleyball coach at the high school.

In 2006, she was suspended from Reidland High School in Paducah, Ky., after a student obtained a copy of an X-rated film she was in and showed it to other students. At the time, Myers went by the name Tericka Dye.

She decided to fight her suspension and reapply for her job. News coverage at the time showed support from teachers and parents, as well an emotional plea from Myers, but her contract was not renewed.

“Anybody who’s been in my classroom can tell you how much I love teaching and how much I love these students, and that should be what matters more than anything that I’ve done in my past,” she told reporters.

Later in 2006, Myers told her story on the “Dr. Phil” television show, informing the popular psychologist that she had appeared in her first porn film at the age of 22, while a homeless mother of two, according to the “Dr. Phil” website.

“Doing pornographic material has ruined my teaching career and my life,” she said, according to the website. “I was broke and wound up meeting some strippers who introduced me to stripping. I was making a lot of irrational decisions, porn only being the worst.”

Myers, who later earned a bachelor’s degree from Murray State University in Kentucky and at one point served in the Army at Fort Lewis, told Dr. Phil McGraw that she suffered from bipolar disorder and that when she did the films, she was exhibiting erratic behavior.

“I was not who I am today,” she said. “I’ve gotten on medication. I’ve found God. I’ve gotten an education. I’ve done everything I could possibly do to prove that I’m a different person now. … As a teacher, I can exemplify what it means to change.”

Myers told McGraw that her reviews as a teacher had been ‘superior” and that she missed teaching.

“I just don’t understand how you can take a teacher who has put so much into it and suspend them for something that is 11 years in the past,” she said, according to the show’s website. Myers’ Parkway North Web page had yet to be taken down Tuesday. It made no mention of her situation. It included a Bruce Lee quote she posted: “A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”

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At least 18 men and boys have been charged in connection with the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.. The suspects, aged between 14 and 27, are accused of taking part in the rape last Thanksgiving in an abandoned mobile home in Cleveland, Texas. Investigators confiscated mobile phones from some of the suspects, after it emerged videos of the alleged incident were circulated around schools, court documents showed. A friend of the alleged victim alerted school officials December 1 after recognising her friend engaged in sexual acts in a video.

It is alleged that the victim was invited to join one of the suspects in a mobile home, before other men were invited in, including a relative of the man who owned the mobile home. The sixth-grade victim has since been withdrawn from school. She has apparently told investigators that up to 20 men were involved in the alleged rape.

The victim is thought to have been taken away from her mother and relatives and put into protective care for her own safety. Speaking to the Houston Chronicle, the alleged victim’s mother said she had been advised to move from the area due to the pressure of the trial. Sherry Fletcher, whose 20-year-old son Devo Shaun Green is among those charged, spoke to the network about her son’s arrest.

She said: ‘It just seems like a dream. ‘I just hope everything comes out well, because some of these kids are innocent.’ On Friday, Cleveland police announced that four students in the school district had been arrested on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.

Cleveland school authorities say those arrested included an 11th-grader, 10th-grader, ninth-grader and a middle school student. The arrests include two players on Cleveland’s state-ranked basketball team. Due to the sheer number of arrests, the case has divided the community, with local people not sure who will be arrested next.

Police have stressed that the investigation is ongoing and have not ruled out further breakthroughs and more arrests before the case comes to trial. Some of those charged are from local Cleveland high school, while all 18 are understood to be from the town.

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