CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CN) - An elementary schoolteacher sexually abused students for years, made them watch pornography and bestiality on school computers, and made them drink his semen, which he called "pirate juice," two families claim in court.
In separate federal complaints, the students and their guardians ad litem claim the teacher, Michael Andrew Alexander, threatened to kill students and their families if they told anyone about the abuse.
The students, N.C. and L.B., sued Alexander and the Burke County Public Schools Board of Education. Former elementary school principal Wendi Barber is also named as a defendant in N.C.'s complaint, and guidance counselor Linda Bradshaw is named as a defendant in L.B.'s complaint.
Alexander is serving a 49½-year sentence in state prison. Sheriff's officers arrested him in June 2012, based on FBI reports that linked him to a child pornography ring in Europe, according to the federal complaints.
"Throughout his 12 years as a BCPS teacher, defendant Alexander was allowed to excuse young girls from other class and school activities and keep them with him long enough to engage in sex with them, and, among other atrocities, create and distribute child abuse images," one complaint states. "L.B. was made to drink concoctions containing his [Alexander's] semen, which he called 'pirate juice.' Upon information and belief, defendant Alexander used school computers to upload, download, copy and distribute sexually deviant images of the children to a worldwide audience of sexual degenerates and child-pornography enterprises."
The other child, N.C., states in his complaint: "In June 2012, the European Police ('Europol') intercepted a child pornography syndicate operating in Spain and discovered child abuse videos and images taken of children in Burke County Public Schools ('BCPS') that had been distributed worldwide. The children were filmed inside elementary school classrooms, causing Europol agents to immediately contact the U.S. Embassy and the FBI. State and federal agents moved swiftly to arrest a third-grade teacher at BCPS's Hildebran Elementary School ('Hildebran'), defendant Michael Andrew Alexander. Defendant Alexander has since been sentenced to almost one-half century of incarceration for horrific misconduct.
"Throughout his 12 years as a BCPS teacher, defendant Alexander used his position as a public school teacher and his access to public school students to abuse students by making them look at disturbing pornographic images on computers at school, including forcing them to view images of women and animals engaged in explicit sex acts.
"Also throughout his tenure with BCPS, defendant Alexander was allowed to excuse young students from other class and school activities and keep them with him long enough to engage in sex with them, and, among other atrocities, create and distribute child abuse images. Some of his students were made to drink concoctions containing his semen, which he called 'pirate juice.' Upon information and belief, defendant Alexander used school computers to upload, download, copy and distribute sexually deviant images of the children to a worldwide audience of sexual degenerates and child-pornography enterprises.
"N.C. was a student in defendant Alexander's class when defendant Alexander isolated N.C. from the rest of the students and forced him to view, alone with defendant Alexander and on school computers, images of women and animals engaged in explicit sex acts. N.C. was so disturbed by the images defendant Alexander showed him that he went home from school crying and told his father, M.C., that defendant Alexander had shown him the images."