Feds snare retired Claiborne principal in child-sex sting

I keep think that these preverts go into the teaching perfession just to molester chidren.

Which principal was it?!?!?

Another thing to add to Claiborne County. It is full of teachers that are child molesters. Jeff Davis was a teacher. Charlie Hopson was a teacher. Did Jeff Davis or Charlie Hopson get any prison time? Rumor was that Charlie Hopson was molested boys and girls? Anything to that?

the article said his name was joseph wayne jennings, and that he retired from being principal at clairfield elementary school in 2007.

GREENEVILLE - A retired Claiborne County principal is behind bars after he allegedly showed up at a Morristown motel for what he believed to be a sexual encounter with an 8-year-old girl.

Joseph Wayne Jennings, 53, of New Tazewell was arraigned today by U.S. Magistrate Dennis Inman on a four-count criminal complaint, charging him with various sexual crimes including attempted enticement of a minor for sexual purposes and child pornography charges.

According to a complaint drafted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Smith, Jennings retired in 2007 from the Claiborne County schools district where he worked as a principal at the Clairfield Elementary School.

Smith said Jennings also worked as an instructor for at-risk children through a non-profit program and has been working part-time as a sales clerk for Toys R Us in Knoxville.

According to the complaint, Jennings had been engaging in sexually explicit conversations on the Internet with an Ohio woman in May. She became alarmed when Jennings began telling her about alleged sexual encounters with young girls.

"He was a teacher and principal and had a lot access to underage girls and apparently still does," the woman wrote in a complaint she filed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

That agency, in turn, determined that the screen name being used by the man with whom the Ohio woman was chatting belonged to Jennings, the complaint alleged.

Knoxville Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Detective Tom Evans was contacted. He eventually took on a personna of a divorced mother with an 8-year-old daughter.

The complaint alleges that when Evans, posing undercover, began chatting online with Jennings, Jennings immediately made inquiry about having sex with the 8-year-old phantom girl.

Jennings was arrested Wednesday after he showed up at the Holiday Inn in Morristown. The complaint alleges he brought a video camera and a digital camera to record the encounter he allegedly expected.

Inman ordered him held without bond pending a Tuesday detention hearing.

More details as they develop online and in Friday's News Sentinel.

Unreal wrote:

Another thing to add to Claiborne County. It is full of teachers that are child molesters. Jeff Davis was a teacher. Charlie Hopson was a teacher. Did Jeff Davis or Charlie Hopson get any prison time? Rumor was that Charlie Hopson was molested boys and girls? Anything to that?

Charlie did his time,(the only one) and is a productive member of society. Let's leave him out of this.

Jeff has left this world so please leave him out also.

Joe was always a weirdo and i hope he gets what he deserves.

well what is all the stink about anthony meyers!!!

yosemite wrote:

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Charlie did his time,(the only one) and is a productive member of society. Let's leave him out of this.
Jeff has left this world so please leave him out also.
Joe was always a weirdo and i hope he gets what he deserves.

With all due respect, Charlie may appear to be a productive member of society but I wouldn't trust ANYONE that has even been accused of molesting a child around my children.

yosemite wrote:

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Charlie did his time,(the only one) and is a productive member of society. Let's leave him out of this.
Jeff has left this world so please leave him out also.
Joe was always a weirdo and i hope he gets what he deserves.

So what you are saying is if you do your time and are a productive member of society you are no longer a child molester!!!!! I think not. Joe was a "productive member of society". I bet he felt like a kid in a candy store. Principal at an elementary school, volunteer for at risk children and part time clerk at Toys-R-US!!!! Yep, these phedophiles are "REAL PRODUCTIVE"!

Get real you either are a child molester or you are not. No in betweens! And being a productive member of society does not have a DAMN thing to do about!

Jeff maybe no longer here but he WAS a child molester and he WAS a teacher!!!!!!!!!!

Enough said. Dont mean to dance on your good ole buddies toes!

yosemite wrote:

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Charlie did his time,(the only one) and is a productive member of society. Let's leave him out of this.
Jeff has left this world so please leave him out also.
Joe was always a weirdo and i hope he gets what he deserves.

So what you are saying is if you do your time and are a productive member of society you are no longer a child molester!!!!! I think not. Joe was a "productive member of society". I bet he felt like a kid in a candy store. Principal at an elementary school, volunteer for at risk children and part time clerk at Toys-R-US!!!! Yep, these phedophiles are "REAL PRODUCTIVE"!

Get real you either are a child molester or you are not. No in betweens! And being a productive member of society does not have a DAMN thing to do about!

Jeff maybe no longer here but he WAS a child molester and he WAS a teacher!!!!!!!!!!

Enough said. Dont mean to dance on your good ole buddies toes!

This is not the first time Jennings has been in trouble for this sort of thing. If I remember correctly, there was some trouble at the H.S. he was a principal of. LOTS of pedophiles in the school system that never were caught. LOTS of pedophiles in Claiborne County period!! What about George Baltrip & Rick Shipley? They're still employed in the school systems???

Peace wrote:

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With all due respect, Charlie may appear to be a productive member of society but I wouldn't trust ANYONE that has even been accused of molesting a child around my children.

All I am saying is that this post was started concerning Joe Jennings.

As far as the question of trust, do you trust a recovered alcolholic with your liquor cabinet key?

But that having been said, Charlie did do his time. If he had murdered someone, did his time, came back into society and from all accounts, had abstained from getting himself in a situation where he might have to kill again, would you bring his name up on here everytime there was a murder in Claiborne County?

As far as Jeff, I was raised not to speak ill of the dead. I think his biggest crime was falling in love because he continued to love this girl as she became a woman. You could make a movie about it and my wife would be crying because their love forced them to endure redicule.

I am no one's judge, I would just think we could stay to the subject and the individual at hand. If there are people within the school system who are still doing this, then yes, let's bring that out in this forum.

Reliving the past serves no real purpose.

shoffner lied on tv he was friends with jennings and all the perverts that work for the schools and the county

yosemite wrote:

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All I am saying is that this post was started concerning Joe Jennings.
As far as the question of trust, do you trust a recovered alcolholic with your liquor cabinet key?
But that having been said, Charlie did do his time. If he had murdered someone, did his time, came back into society and from all accounts, had abstained from getting himself in a situation where he might have to kill again, would you bring his name up on here everytime there was a murder in Claiborne County?
As far as Jeff, I was raised not to speak ill of the dead. I think his biggest crime was falling in love because he continued to love this girl as she became a woman. You could make a movie about it and my wife would be crying because their love forced them to endure redicule.
I am no one's judge, I would just think we could stay to the subject and the individual at hand. If there are people within the school system who are still doing this, then yes, let's bring that out in this forum.
Reliving the past serves no real purpose.

Pedophilia is not something you do once and it is cured. The only cure is the grave. Anyone that abuses a child will never stop until he/she draws their final breath. Nothing but a waste of air and should all be shipped to an island that is uninhabited by any human/animal or anything that could possibly be harmed or better yet, just hung!

No Pedophile Allowed wrote:

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Pedophilia is not something you do once and it is cured. The only cure is the grave. Anyone that abuses a child will never stop until he/she draws their final breath. Nothing but a waste of air and should all be shipped to an island that is uninhabited by any human/animal or anything that could possibly be harmed or better yet, just hung!

WOW!

No Pedophile Allowed wrote:

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Pedophilia is not something you do once and it is cured. The only cure is the grave. Anyone that abuses a child will never stop until he/she draws their final breath. Nothing but a waste of air and should all be shipped to an island that is uninhabited by any human/animal or anything that could possibly be harmed or better yet, just hung!

Agreed. The only thing they deserve is a quick trip to the morgue.

yosemite wrote:

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All I am saying is that this post was started concerning Joe Jennings.
As far as the question of trust, do you trust a recovered alcolholic with your liquor cabinet key?
But that having been said, Charlie did do his time. If he had murdered someone, did his time, came back into society and from all accounts, had abstained from getting himself in a situation where he might have to kill again, would you bring his name up on here everytime there was a murder in Claiborne County?
As far as Jeff, I was raised not to speak ill of the dead. I think his biggest crime was falling in love because he continued to love this girl as she became a woman. You could make a movie about it and my wife would be crying because their love forced them to endure redicule.
I am no one's judge, I would just think we could stay to the subject and the individual at hand. If there are people within the school system who are still doing this, then yes, let's bring that out in this forum.
Reliving the past serves no real purpose.

Well said

I honestly don't see how anyone could do anything with a child. This man is a sick freak. They should lock up all child molesters and not let them out, I don't believe they could be truly cured. The schools need to look closer when hiring these people and re-look at some of the ones that have been employeed there for a while. It is everyone's job to protect the children.

ArmySis82 wrote:

I honestly don't see how anyone could do anything with a child. This man is a sick freak. They should lock up all child molesters and not let them out, I don't believe they could be truly cured. The schools need to look closer when hiring these people and re-look at some of the ones that have been employeed there for a while. It is everyone's job to protect the children.

Sick, perverted evil. That is exactly what it is. There is NO CURE FOR PEDOPHILIA but the grave. They are really and I do mean really good at what they do. They know exactly how to trick the children and many times the child will not tell for sometimes years. The school systems have no way to know who is/isn't going to harm a child. Also, just heard on the news tonight that another sunday school teacher got arrested for molesting an eight year old girl in her Sunday School class HE was teaching.

yosemite wrote:

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All I am saying is that this post was started concerning Joe Jennings.
As far as the question of trust, do you trust a recovered alcolholic with your liquor cabinet key?
But that having been said, Charlie did do his time. If he had murdered someone, did his time, came back into society and from all accounts, had abstained from getting himself in a situation where he might have to kill again, would you bring his name up on here everytime there was a murder in Claiborne County?
As far as Jeff, I was raised not to speak ill of the dead. I think his biggest crime was falling in love because he continued to love this girl as she became a woman. You could make a movie about it and my wife would be crying because their love forced them to endure redicule.
I am no one's judge, I would just think we could stay to the subject and the individual at hand. If there are people within the school system who are still doing this, then yes, let's bring that out in this forum.
Reliving the past serves no real purpose.

That depends on the subject matter. Often pedophilia runs in the family. Google it and you will find the real facts. Still say all pedos should be HUNG!