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Teacher sex case
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Was reading this article this morning:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/22/earlyshow/main1429564.shtml
I can't believe that this teacher managed to walk away scot free after having sex on a number of occasions with one of her 14 year old students.
I can't for the life of me understand why the courts have let this one go. If it was a male teacher then he would be locked up straight away and declared a menace to society (and rightly so) but this woman is not?!
Whether the boy agreed to have sex with her or not, her actions were inexcusibly wrong. She abused her position of power.
At the end of the day, whether she is a woman or a man, the case involves letting an adult have sex with a minor and get away with it. How can the courts let this happen?
What are you thoughts?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/22/earlyshow/main1429564.shtml
I can't believe that this teacher managed to walk away scot free after having sex on a number of occasions with one of her 14 year old students.
I can't for the life of me understand why the courts have let this one go. If it was a male teacher then he would be locked up straight away and declared a menace to society (and rightly so) but this woman is not?!
Whether the boy agreed to have sex with her or not, her actions were inexcusibly wrong. She abused her position of power.
At the end of the day, whether she is a woman or a man, the case involves letting an adult have sex with a minor and get away with it. How can the courts let this happen?
What are you thoughts?
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I don't see what harm at all she has caused - no doubt the boy will have immense kudos among his peers.
So if a 14 year old girl had had sex with her male teacher, she wanted to do it and she would probably get a pat on the back from all her friends because he was good looking that would be ok too?
When I was 14 I'd have sold my soul to the devil to have sex with a woman who looked like that - but I'm sure plenty of 14-year-old girls fancy their teachers as well, still doesn't make it right for the teachers to take advantage of that and shag them.
The boy didn't want to testify, the boy's family didn't want to testify. What's more important- the feelings of the victim, or dragging something through court?
She wouldn't have had charges dropped if the boy truly was "raped" as the moron on CBS was trying to claim.
He didn't exactly seem an unwilling partner in all this. Sure, she abused his and his family's trust, but it wasn't rape, for both technical and moral reasons.
The boy consented, therefore it isn't rape or equivalent to rape. It's illegal to have sex with a minor, but it isn't rape.
As for the case, it doesn't seem the boy was raped. She broke the law by having sex with him, but there was nothing else.
Yeah, you are.
You can consent at any age to sexual intercourse.
Under the age of 13, this consent counts for nothing. If you penetrate a girl's vagina and she is under the age of 13 you are liable for the same tariff as if you had raped her.
between the ages of 13 and 16, you can be convicted of having sex with a minor. This is where the girl has consented to sex, but she is younger than 16, so consent is irrelevant. This has a maximum sentence of, I believe, two years in prison.
A woman having sex with a boy attracts different crimes and tariffs, as a female can not rape a male. It, again, is illegal to have sex with a minor, and the 13 age limit does apply again in terms of deciding the seriousness of the crime.
basically this woman didn't rape the boy because a) he consented, b) he was old enough to give consent and c) he's a male and she's female.
It's obviously different in this case, as it is a US case not a UK case. But the same basic principle still applies.
theres quite a difference between statutory rape and rape
That's what I don't get, why should that make a difference?
I agree that the boy wasn't raped, but why should the fact that she's a woman make any difference?
But why is it not the same?
I think we've all agreed that the boy wasn't raped, so the idea of penetration can't be used. But her having sex with him was just as bad as a male teacher having sex with a girl who "wants" to have sex with him.
I think it is as serious and as bad as if the situation were reveresed.
Yeah, I think that's true.
I think a lot of it is down to the view that people have of men being the sexual predetors and women having a passive part to play in sex, which is just wrong.
i was nine at the time.
i decided she was bigger than me so what could i do but let her have her wicked way a couple of times a week ...till i met her 11 year sister who was much prettier.
this thread got me to thinking of the female teachers i usd to fantasise about having sex with at secondry school.
fair point