Longview, TX Teacher sentenced May 23, 2002
Mark David Ladish, 41, a Longview fifth-grade teacher, (noted in first sentence as a Catholic school) was sentenced to 35 years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two of his students, 10 years for indecency with a child, and 5 years for possession of child pornography. "The two girls that Ladish admitted to assaulting were in his fifth grade class and were about 10 or 11 at the time the offenses occurred."