MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — A former central Iowa high school educator who taught for 30 years has been imprisoned for distributing child pornography. The Times-Republican reports that Glen Sedlacek, of Marshalltown, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in federal prison. He’d pleaded guilty in October after prosecutors dropped two other counts. Prosecutors say Sedlacek had numerous computer files containing pornography of children younger than 12, dating back to March 2013.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose also ordered Sedlacek to make restitution of $6,000 to a female minor identified as Lily and $3,000 to a girl identified as Chelsa. Prosecutors say the two had appeared in porn films he’d viewed in his Marshalltown home.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 27-year old Dylan Michal Frazier, of Malvern, was arrested Tuesday in Malvern. Frazier faces charges that include Possession of a Controlled Substance – Child Endangerment, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His bond was set at $3,300. On Wednesday, Mills County Deputies arrested 33-year old Michael Paul LeDuc, of Mineola, for being a Fugitive from Justice. LeDuc was being held in the Mills County Jail without bond. And, On Thursday, 24-year old Daniel Cortes-Curiel, of Hawarden, was arrested on a warrant for Probation Violation. He was taken into custody in Douglas County, NE., and held in the Mills County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

The cause of a fire that reportedly occurred in the attic area of a home northwest of Brayton, is being investigated. Firefighters from Brayton responded to 3144 Goldfinch Place a little after 8-a.m. today (Friday). Mutual aid was requested from the Exira and Atlantic Fire Departments.The upper level of the home sustained damage. No injuries were reported. The Audubon County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.

CLINTON, Iowa (AP) — A former high school teacher in eastern Iowa who sent nude photos of herself to a student has been given two years of probation. Clinton County District Court records say 32-year-old Ramsey Hinkle also was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and was ordered to register as a sex offender. She’d pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation by a school employee.

The records say Hinkle admitted sending the photos to a 17-year-old boy while she was a teacher at Central DeWitt High School in November and December 2015. The boy told a police officer that emails he exchanged with Hinkle were sexual in nature. He reported that they talked about having sex but didn’t because he was too nervous to follow through on the idea.

(Radio Iowa) — Hunter safety courses for middle schoolers in northeast Iowa, which drew national attention, are now underway in the North Butler and Clarksville districts in Butler County. Administrators announced in November that hunter safety, including firearms safety, would be implemented into the P-E curriculum for 7th and 8th graders. Steve Martin, a naturalist with the Butler County Conservation Department, is helping teach two classes daily and says students have to absorb a lot of information in the course. “The biggest challenge is probably having to do just one day at a time when we typically have done it, the entire course, over the course of two or three days and longer times so things kind of flow a little easier,” Martin says. “So, it’s been a little bit of a challenge just to make sure we get enough time on each topic that needs to be covered.”

Martin says they will teach nine different chapters on hunter safety as required by the Department of Natural Resources over the next several weeks. Topics include ethics and responsibility, preparation and survival skills, and firearms training. “We teach them about firearms and how they operate and then basic shooting skills, basic hunting skills, and most importantly, probably, how to safely handle firearms,” Martin says. “Even if they’re not going to be hunting and they happen to come into a situation where firearms might be present and that allows them to have an idea of the safety rules that they need to follow.”

Students will not fire live ammunition, nor will they use real firearms during the in-school hunter safety training. “We have dummy ammunition that we use to teach them how to safely load and unload a firearm,” he says. “Again, the firearms we use are inoperable as far as being able to be fired. They were designed without all the parts needed to fire.” The hunter safety training will run through the first week of March in the North Butler district followed by four weeks in the Clarksville district. Parents were able to sign waivers opting their child out the class if desired. Hunter safety courses, while part of the junior high curriculum, are optional for high schoolers in both districts.