I hear Mr. Slugger is a very caring and understanding individual.
That's Cindy Sheehan's hometown, right?
Sheehan's old home town. Bet this guy keeps his pension under all outcomes.
If he did it, hang the bastard.
If he didn't do it, hang the bastards that put the false accusers up to it.
What?!? No pictures? /sarc.
What?!?! This isn't legal and/or endorsed in San Francisco yet?!?! How else will they get kids screwed up enough to be "one of them" later in life? No doubt an oversight in the S.F. law, to be changed soon...
If only teachers were allowed to marry ...
Mr Straight Razor would gladly help the poor man lose a little bit of, ahem, weight.
Isn't this the way BJ Clintoon started?
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? With kids having access to all sorts of information these days, I can imagine a scenario where a couple of girls are angry with him for some reason or frankly just don't like him. They would cook up a believable story and take it to their parents who then call the cops. Once they realize what they have done, they are afraid of the consequences of telling the truth so they stick by it.
When I was a kid (admittedly a long time ago), male teachers were not common until junior or senior high school. A male teacher in an environment with young children has to be somewhat apprehensive as at any time he can be accused of sexual misconduct and it boils down to he said-she said. Such a case happened in ABQ a year or so ago.
False reports do happen and they can ruin the otherwise good name of a repspectable person. I'm not saying that proven molesters should get a break, they shouldn't. But let's not assume that he automatically did it, either.
What exactly did this person do? Be very specific and document with factual evidence, the actual actions which he is accused of doing.
DO NOT allow this story to be based upon "things left to the imagination" without any factual information to support the allegations.
I once supported a loving mother of five kids in a sexual abuse case. She was criminally charged for third degree sexually abuse (the worst kind) by a neighbor mother.
The "crime" that she was accused of; was patting a little boy on his butt, with his clothes on!
Seriously, she was facing many year in prison, and could have lost her own children, if this court case was not handled properly.
We were ready for a major legal fight in court that day, but the prosecution started to offer deals.
The one thing that they would not back down from, was preventing her from being around these boys ever again. To insure that, they were willing to place this woman in prison for many years.
The sexual abuse of these children was the legal charge on that date, but it had been modified many times in the months prior to this court date.
1) Originally, she was charged for having a hand-gun in her home and showing it to these children, and that is when the police were first notified. That is also when I got involved.
2) That was not working, so they then went after her religion. She was harming these children by teaching them her beliefs about God. Actually, this almost worked and the District Attorney got involved.
This is when Anne asked for my help and I got serious about supporting her. When the District Attorney was willing to file criminal charges against a woman because of her religious beliefs, I got involved BIG TIME!
3) The religious aspect was not working, since I rapidly mobilized people from all over the Nation to support Anne. The DA rapidly realized that this was not going to work.
4) Finally, she charged Anne for sexually abusing these boys, and used the episode of "patting then on their butts" as evidence.
Guilty!
On the day of her trial, it took me several hours to convince her to plead guilty to these charges It was was her best option, once I realized how much the DA wanted to send her to prison.
I worked out a deal with the DA. She would only get probation and that all court records would be expunged after two years. The alternative, was time in prison and the loss of her own five children.
Anne plead guilty that day and everyone obeyed the terms of the compromise. I drove her home after court, and knew that I had just saved a family. Two years later, all court records were expunged.
Anne was innocent of these charges and never spoke to me again. I do not blame her. To her, standing up and pleading guilty for something that she knew was not wrong, was the actual crime.
I knew what the DA was prepared to do that day, and I absolutely know that I saved her and her family.
Sometime, life is not simple and you are forced to make difficult choices. Anne was never guilty of sexually abusing those boys, and we all knew it.
To channel recent threads here: Yes, but was he hot?
For every preteen boy that fantasizes about his hot female teacher, there is a little schoolgirl crush on a much older male teacher. Adults must act like adults and do the right thing. Male or female, these peoples behavior is disgusting. Period.