Former Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps spoke out in an interview that aired Friday on ABC's 20/20 -- her first public comments since being sentenced to five years in prison last month.
She was convicted of 16 felony counts of having sex with student athletes, including a group encounter that was videotaped.
Correspondent Deborah Roberts asks her what part of inappropriate did she not get?
"It's not that I didn't get it," Colleps said. "I should never be able to teach again."
But Colleps also said that she didn't believe she deserved prison. She said all the students were 18 or older -- consenting adults.
Her husband, Christopher, also had some interesting comments.
A third-grade teacher in northeast Parker County was arrested this week after admitting to a Texas Ranger that she had been using methamphetamine in the mornings before class for about seven years.
Vickie Bruce, 46, was confronted by investigators Tuesday at school.
Texas Ranger James Holland said in an arrest warrant affidavit that Bruce admitted to using meth "before going to work for the last seven years 'off and on.'"
Tarrant County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday said they seized dozens of eight-liner gaming machines and thousands of dollars in gambling money in raids at two addresses in Blue Mound.
"Through our investigation we were able to identify two game rooms that were paying cash to customers in violation of gambling laws and we put those locations out of business," Simonds said. "We got 50 machines and I think we can safely say we also got somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000 in cash."
A Fort Worth police officer has been placed on desk duty while the department investigates allegations that he took inappropriate photographs, police officials confirm.
"There is an investigation and we are looking at potential criminal charges," said Sgt. Pedro Criado, a police spokesman.
Criado would not provide additional details but KDFW/Channel 4 reports that the officer was working off-duty at a retail store when he was accused of using a cellphone to take photos up female shoppers' skirts.
Former Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps insists she's not a sexual predator but says she feels like a victim after students she engaged in group sex with took a sex video without her consent.
Colleps speaks out for the first time since being sentenced to five years in prison last month in an interview with 20/20 that airs tonight at 9 p.m. (central time) on WFAA/Channel 8.
Colleps, who turned 29 on Thursday, was convicted of 16 felony counts of improper relationship between an educator and student. She remains in the Tarrant County Jail awaiting transfer to prison.
Prosecutors say Colleps had sexual relations with five of her students, including a group sexual encounter with four which was videotaped on one of the teen's phones. The video was shown to jurors during the trial.
"I felt like I was victimized in that video, because I did not, I never gave my
consent for it," Colleps told 20/20.
In the interview, Colleps also said while teachers having sex with students may be wrong and immoral, she does not believe having sex with consenting adults should be illegal. All of the students were 18 or older.
Colleps has appealed her convictions. Her appellate attorney has also filed a motion for a new trial, court records show.
Two Fort Worth men have been indicted on capital murder charges in the June shooting of a 17-year-old girl during what apparently was a robbery gone wrong at a Tanglewood-area home.
Terrance Laron Crumley and Curtis C Fortenberry, both 21 and former football standouts at North Crowley High School, were indicted last week by a Tarrant County grand jury in the death of Claudia Hidic, (shown here) also of Fort Worth.
Hidic was shot in the head and died on the back steps of an acquaintance's home on Overton Park West near Tanglewood Elementary during what police said was a gunbattle that erupted during a robbery masterminded by Hidic, who reportedly posed as hostage.
If you're new to this case, read Dianna Hunt's update, which discusses the indictments and provides plenty of background and a link to a Star-Telegram video made last summer with Deputy Managing Editor Lee Williams and Senior Police Reporter Deanna Boyd.
And on Thursday night KDFW Fox 4 reported that a teacher at an elementary school was arrested for having drugs on campus.
Vicki Bruce, who teaches third grade at Reno Elementary School, "kept meth wrapped in tin foil in a photo album in her purse," according to investigators mentioned in the Fox 4 report.
Fox 4 also reported that an arrest warrant affidavit stated Bruce told Texas Rangers "she utilized methamphetamines before going to work for the last seven years on and off."
A Grapevine man has been found guilty of threatening and yelling racial slurs at an African-American worker from TXU Energy.
Thomas Fann reportedly commanded his pit bull to kill the worker in the 2010 incident, according to testimony in his two-day trial that ended earlier this week.
Fann, who told police he was a "southern boy" who didn't like black people, was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered him to pay court costs and a fine of $735, complete anger control counseling, take a substance abuse evaluation and perform 24 hours of community service.
Mexican marines Thursday displayed to the news media an alleged gangster believed to be a breakaway commander known as “El Taliban,” who had split with the brutal Zetas crime group.
His real name is Ivan Velazquez Caballero (shown here).
His arrest marks a major achievement likely to change the contours of gang-on-gang violence in parts of northern and central Mexico, perhaps allowing the Zetas gang, one of Mexico’s most powerful, to overcome a bloody internal feud and march on rivals near Mexico’s capital.
In other cartel news, Mexican authorities have ordered 12 federal cops to stay in jail as a criminal probe deepened into why they ambushed a U.S. Embassy vehicle last week in a hail of bullets that left two Americans wounded.
“We are asking for this detention to have the time necessary to carry out an exhaustive investigation,” Attorney General Marisela Morales said.
An armored Toyota SUV belonging to the U.S. Embassy was cut off by another vehicle carrying armed men, who opened fire when the embassy vehicle tried to flee.
