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Ex-Montgomery teacher sentenced to 40 years for sexual abuse of children
Washington Post ^ | 8/28/15 | Donna St George

Posted on 08/29/2015 6:08:03 PM PDT by markomalley

A former Montgomery County music teacher was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Friday for sexually abusing 14 young children at an elementary school.

At the hearing, Lawrence W. Joynes spoke publicly about his actions for the first time and described himself as ashamed, frightened and remorseful.

“I’m so sorry I betrayed your faith and your trust in me,” said Joynes, a 27-year veteran of the public school system, addressing his former students in a statement. “I never, ever meant to harm any of you physically or emotionally. For any damage, any shame, any trauma that I’ve caused, I apologize from the depths of my soul.”

A teacher at 11 schools over his lengthy county career, Joynes pleaded guilty in May to sexually abusing students at New Hampshire Estates Elementary in Silver Spring, where he placed girls in sexual poses and made video recordings of them — movies he edited with sexually explicit captions, according to police and prosecutors.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: education; moralabsolutes; pedophile; schools
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1 posted on 08/29/2015 6:08:03 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Well, “The Lord Loves A Hangin’”.

Just sayin’...


2 posted on 08/29/2015 6:09:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: kiryandil

A millstone and the depths of the sea are the biblical prescription.


3 posted on 08/29/2015 6:10:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

I’m sure the Lord would be pleased with both. I know I would be. :)


4 posted on 08/29/2015 6:12:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: markomalley

11 schools over 27 years...

Nobody noticed a thing?

I find that hard to believe...


5 posted on 08/29/2015 6:15:36 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: markomalley

WaPo probably wouldn’t have posted this if the teacher was homosexually molesting little boys.


6 posted on 08/29/2015 6:16:15 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: markomalley

Now if we could only start putting Marxist college “professors” in prison for the mental abuse they inflict upon the children who go to college.


7 posted on 08/29/2015 6:18:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: markomalley

They left this guy alone with little kids?

8 posted on 08/29/2015 6:19:38 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Popman

11 schools meant exactly that -they DID know what was going on and just kept moving him along to the next school when they did - just like they would move a priest onto the next Church and school....someone in the school system should be accountable for this monsters actions as well.


9 posted on 08/29/2015 6:24:57 PM PDT by MaskedMan
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Oh they gonna love that soul patch in the pokey...


10 posted on 08/29/2015 6:26:38 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Oh boy. Not in a million years. The cover of this book reflects the pages inside.


11 posted on 08/29/2015 6:44:37 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Oooooh...those fun-loving “educators”.


12 posted on 08/29/2015 6:47:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

His face tell a lot about his depravity. Shoot him.


13 posted on 08/29/2015 6:53:08 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: markomalley

Puke.


14 posted on 08/29/2015 6:54:24 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: markomalley

If only they could marry......


15 posted on 08/29/2015 7:12:29 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: markomalley

For any damage, any shame, any trauma that I’ve caused, I apologize from the depths of my soul.”

You DONE?...

Awright wheres the rope...


16 posted on 08/29/2015 8:32:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: markomalley; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Well, he’s worked in 11 schools, but is copping to abuse in only one of those schools. So, as they say, these kids are the ones we KNOW about . . .

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


17 posted on 08/29/2015 8:42:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Ewwwwwwwwww........


18 posted on 08/29/2015 9:14:51 PM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: FlingWingFlyer
” For any damage, any shame, any trauma that I’ve caused, I apologize from the depths of my soul.”

Bull!

He has effectively ‘killed’ every one of those kids, even though he left them breathing.

Their lives are destroyed.

There is NO amount of “sorry” that can fix that.

If they publicly chainsawed his evil ass and all the kids got to watch, *maybe* they'd feel a little better.

19 posted on 08/29/2015 10:04:30 PM PDT by Salamander ('Cause We're All Kinds Of Animals Coming Here. [Occasional Demons, Too])
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To: kiryandil

If you can’t afford to send your kids to a private/parochial school (better yet home school) you can’t afford to have kids..

Public schools = child abuse.


20 posted on 08/29/2015 11:09:51 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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