Brett J. Smith has been repeatedly accused of assaulting children and using several different names to hide his past. It remains unclear how he passed a background check.

Evergreen Park substitute teacher fired after history of child molestation allegations, including Naperville District 203 ...

BALTIMORE -- A state report found that Public and private school officials lacked training on background checks, which allowed a former Baltimore County teacher with red flags to be hired and rehired.

It took Annalie Peterson and a friend a couple of dollars and a few minutes on a background check website to find what her old high school apparently had not. Mark Kosloski — Peterson's former ...