Posted on 11/30/2007 11:38:43 AM PST by day10
LAKE MARY, Fla. -- A Seminole County middle school teacher was arrested Friday after deputies said they discovered her inside a vehicle shortly after she had sex with a 14-year-old boy.
Jennifer Tarkenton, 34, of Lake Mary, was arrested on three counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a child 12 or older by a person over the age of 18.
Tarkenton is a teacher at Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Lake Mary, according to Seminole County sheriff's investigators. Deputies said they believe that the boy is a student at the school.
According to a Seminole County sheriff's report, deputies responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle at about 10 p.m. Thursday in the area of 800 Banana Lake Road in Lake Mary. Deputies said a woman, later identified as Tarkenton, and a 14-year-old boy were inside the vehicle.
The boy told deputies that he and Tarkenton had sex inside the vehicle after she picked him up at his house, drove to a nearby pharmacy and purchased condoms.
"The bottom line is we have an adult in the position of trust. We have an adult in a position of authority. (This) should never happen," Seminole County sheriff's Lt. Dennis Lemma said.
Seminole County school district officials told Local 6 News that they will send letters to parents of students at Greenwood Lakes Middle School regarding the incident.
Tarkenton was transported to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility, where she later posted a $10,000 bond.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with Local6.com for more on this story.
I’m sure my best bud would do the same thing.
However, he’s also the one to point out the threads that are doing the worst slamming.
I think “I’d do her” or “I’d hit it” is just the crass way kids talk online, and it is seen enough that adults unfortunately pick it up. I agree that it isn’t exactly the best way to express one’s attraction towards a woman, but I think if most guys really think they’d be invited into the woman in question’s bed just by wanting her, they are delusional.
You said it. I didn't. And what's more, accompanying all the rest that you posted, I don't really think many people were passing this off as merely humor.
You started posting on this thread out of disgust. You didn't see any humor here, but of course your posts were intended to be humorous reactions the the Freepers who treat women so badly here, those women go and vote liberal.
Uh huh.
We are too stupid. Although I am a prolific Freep poster and have been around a while....I am too stupid to understand.
I'm not going to write on this matter anymore buy hooo...boy, I can write, yes I can. Because it's not that important to me.
Here's what I understand...when these female teachers get caught bedding a young adolescent like this unfortunately, and hey, I "get" it, the length and severity of their punishment is based on their looks. We must remember Deb LeFavre, who I wrote about extensively on my Blog even though I'm too stupid to understand you wild and crazy guys.
Deb LeFavre got virtually NO punishment even though she was guilty as sin of teasing young adolescent boys for her own big-assed ego. Don't even remind me that the kid she bedded down didn't testify....his parents were furious but when they were told by prosecutors that not much would come from his testimony, they chose not to put their son through it.
While uglier female teachers seducing young adolescent males tend to get harsher punishments although they're always way less than a male teacher would get if he seduced a young female adolescent. Thus the joke about the "guilty" and/or "not guilty" based on her looks. I get that humor and unfortunately, it's very true.
Although JMack thinks I'm too stupid, many consider me right intelligent.
Women set the tone for a society. Women set the standards for if a world were populated only by males...impossible I know but I'm making a point...it would be a pathetic world indeed.
Males left on their own will often joke loudly, fart in public, and tell dirty jokes. Nothing wrong with that. But females are a bit more sensitive to this kind of thing and frankly it's damn mean to keep referring to a woman judged by her looks alone and whether or not a guy will "do" her...especially in the company of other women. That kind of thing might be okay when with all guys but it's thoughtless to act like this around other women. Your mileage may vary but I've talked to a lot of conservative females on this forum besides Najida here and you'd be real surprised how they feel about that locker room talk. Yeah the NAGS are gone, morphed to the Lesbian rights group, but that isn't permission to act like boors.
I'd never want a thread pulled on any level based on my insulted sensibilities on this forum but I reserve forever my right to state my piece.
You, JMack, can state yours, and you have.
As of now, we must agree to disagree. Which is fine with me. I shall always consider jock locker room talk small and mean in mixed company and it's safe to assume that all Freeper threads will be read by the eyes of both sexes. I state my piece, the mean males post pictures of Helen Thomas and allege that I am so fat and grotesquely ugly that no man, not even their own handsome selves...would "do" me.
If you think you can outwrite me....ain't gonna happen. I shall move on now before what few brains I have fall out of my head.
LOL...........NO! vote LIBERAL? HELL, NO!
I will clear this up — comments like “I’d hit it” OR “guilty”/”not guilty”........it makes men look like they are not good fathers who would subject their sons to sexual abuse. I realize men like to appear macho.....blah, blah......BUT gees......enough already......ya all sound like a bunch of DUers sometimes and NOT a decent conservative man I’d want to marry and raise a family with.
Any implication that a FReeper man being a bore would drive me to vote LIBERAL is insane.
She is gutsy to even raise the topic — this does not mean I agree with everything she stated on the thread........just that she raised some points I agree with and she stood her ground. Took some guts. Give her SOME credit for it.
Then you missed the point, again.
Everything I’ve posted is like I always post....95% serious with 5% sarcasm. Again, read my posts, ALL of them.
I’m fighting for far more than you are. I’m trying to convince women who hug trees that conservative me are really the ‘good guys’ that I know them to be.
That freedom is worth a bit of hardship, that women ARE valued and equal in conservatismland. That yes, we don’t only care about the unborn kids, but the born kids. We aren’t hypocrits who act all holy one minute and molest kids the next. That we aren’t stupid throwbacks.
And so these threads just bring out my own bit of frustration and sacastic bite. Because it’s like “CHIT! I do hope Julie didn’t pick today to visit the site”.
Because if she did, she just might call me a liar.
I’ll be honest with you, your post to me sounded as if written by a liberal interloper. I had completed half a response to your comments when I finally came to the place where I said to myself, “This person seems to be so far left that it isn’t worth it to respond.”
Those blanket comments about men didn’t sound like they came from a female Freeper. Going back and rereading them, they still don’t. You made some fairly pointed comments there.
I’ll ask this then,
If we women were to post some of the threads I see on ‘chick’ sites here....
With the same ‘I’d hit it’ and even darker stuff, what kind of treatment do you think we’d get?
(Think about it)
Double standards?
Please check the threads I posted.
Heck, I can even give you names of long time female freepers who feel pretty much the same way (if you don’t read them on those threads that is.)
I’ve been around for a very, very long time and yes, the it ebbs and flows, sometimes the crap is worse than others. It seems to be going through an especially bad cycle now.
Yeah,
double standards,
seems to be a common theme.
I don’t think your friends would identify themselves in group of women like the female mentioned in the initial article. Do you think they would? I’m just curious, because that’s what you’re peddling here.
The comments the men made were related to a female rapist. Just how many of those are you bringing to the forum, that the men here should be careful not to offend?
I’m sure you have. I looked at your date. You’ve been here five years. I’m sorry we got off to a wierd first exchange. You take care.
As I always say when the walking erections around here give female pervs a pass:
I used to fantasize about my better-looking teachers. Then I grew up.
Again,
a whoosh!
We pick and choose. If this thread was the only one of its kind, no problem. But there is a consistant theme of, erm,
‘male bonding’ so to speak on so many threads in all varieties, like I mentioned.
Again, check out the threads I posted as examples (and note, I’m a minor player if at all on them).
It’s more the volume and consistancy of theme I’m pointing out. And it’s getting old. That’s all— this thread is just one more nail in a long like of spikes in the road.
You take care,
and contrary to popular belief,
I’m going home to cook supper for the guys in my life right now :)
That’s pretty much my take as well. It’s not a joke.
I’ve seen boys and young men manipulated by women who either engages in sex with them or act like they will until they get what they want.
Believe it or not, some mothers get a friend to pay attention to their sons to manipulat the boy during a divorce. I’ve seen it happen.
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