Woman Accused Of Sex W/ Student Severely Beaten

KUTV-2 Salt Lake City ^ | July 3, 2006

[sully777]

KUTV) SOUTH JORDAN A former high school teacher accused of having sex with a student was severely beaten inside her home.

Thirty-year-old Melinda Lee Deluca told police she came home Friday afternoon and was alone when she was jumped from behind. Police said she was beaten so badly that she was flown by medical helicopter to the hospital from her home in South Jordan.

Deluca was recently accused of having sex with one of her students at Copper Hills High School in West Jordan. Police believe the assault could be related to the charges.

“It does appear that this is related to the incident in West Jordan with her teaching position at Copper Hills High School," said Lt. Matt Evans with the South Jordan Police Department. "It doesn't appear to be a random event.”

"I hope they find out who did it and I hope they put them away. Underage or not – nobody deserves anything like this,” said one neighbor who didn’t want to be identified.

Police are not saying wether the two suspects were men or teenage boys.

[sully777]

South Jordan woman Melinda Lee Deluca beaten months after student sex allegations

[sully777]

Ex-teacher accused of abuse

By Pat Reavy and Wendy Leonard
Deseret Morning News Friday, February 10, 2006
(Source: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635183358,00.html)


      A former teacher at Copper Hills High School has been charged in court for allegedly having sexual relations with one of her students.
      Melinda Lee Deluca, 29, was charged in 3rd District Court with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, both second-degree felonies.
      Deluca taught American Sign Language at the school. She was hired in 2001 and fired when school officials were made aware of the investigation into her alleged conduct in December, according to the Jordan School District.
      The student, now 17 but who was 16 at the time of the alleged incidents, told police Deluca invited him to her house, near 4900 West and 9100 South, on Oct. 25 during school hours and they had sex, according to court documents.
      Then, sometime between Nov. 1 and Nov. 15, the student said he again met up with Deluca, this time in his car at a park near the high school, 6000 W. New Bingham Highway, court documents state. Four other juveniles said they saw Deluca and the student kissing in his car, according to court documents.
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      The teen's parents, who asked to remain anonymous to protect the identity of their underage son, said he was coerced into doing what he did with Deluca. They said they believe he was abused because he "wasn't mature enough to make a decision" in the matter.
      "She's the adult and he's the child, no matter how you slice it," his mother said. "You cannot have an affair with a child. The terminology is not possible. It's abuse." She said her son acknowledges what happened and is trying to get his life back to normal but wants to maintain his privacy.
      "People have a right to know what's happening in the schools," she said. "We send them to school thinking their teachers are fighting with us in the war against drugs, gangs, sex and all the things we know they face. We assume they have the same agenda as us, and when that trust is breached, it's devastating."
      The Jordan School District declined comment on the case, noting that it was a "personnel issue."
      Deluca was issued a summons to appear in court at a date yet to be determined.
      This is the second incident in three weeks of a Utah educator being accused of inappropriate relations with a student.
      A substitute teacher in the Tooele District was arrested in January after allegedly having sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy

[sully777]

Googled this using her full name:



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[ccmay]

It was the third of june
On that summers day
Well I became a man
At the hands of a girl
Almost twice my age
And she came to me
Just like a morning sun
And it wasnt so much
Her words as such
As the way they were sung
It was the way they were sung

Desiree
Oh, desiree
There I was found
By the sweet passion sound
Of your loving song
Time was right, the night was long
Remember, desiree
Oh, desiree
Somehow I knew
I could only have you
til the morning light
If only for that single night
Sweet Desiree, you make it right

[Cobra64]

Maybe her husband didn't like his wife banging a boy.

[Paleo Conservative]

At first I thought it was the Kingdom of Jordan.

[CBart95]

People in positions of trust have a sacred obligation to honor that trust in all their thoughts and actions at each and every heartbeat.

Death for betrayal is too kind. The damages and the permanent suffering that they have wreaked on innocents is impossible to make reparations for. Punishment and penalties ought to be severe and without end.

[martin_fierro]

Ping

[Rastus]

What is it about June and songs about women with boys?

---
Summer (The First Time)
Bobby Goldsboro

Was a hot afternoon
The last day of June
And the sun was a demon
The clouds were afraid
110 in the shade
And the pavement was steaming
I told Billy Ray
In his red Chevrolet
I needed time for some thinking
I was just walking by
When I looked in her eye
And I swore it was winking

She was 31 and I was 17
I knew nothing about love
She knew everything
So I sat down beside her on the front porch swing
And wondered what the coming night would bring

The sun closed her eyes
As it climbed in the sky
And it started to swelter
The sweat trickled down the front of her gown
And I thought it would melt her
She threw back her hair
Like I wasn't there
And she sipped on a julep
Her shoulders were bare
And I tried not to stare
When I looked at her two lips

And then she looked at me
I heard her softly say,
"I know you're young
You don't know what to do or say
But stay with me until the sun has gone away
And I will chase the boy in you away."

And then she smiled
And we talked for a while
And we walked for a mile to the sea
We sat on the sand, and a boy took her hand
But I saw the sun rise as a man

Ten years have gone by
Since I looked in her eye
But the memory lingers
I go back in my mind
To the very first time
And feel the touch of her fingers

Was a hot afternoon
The last day of June
And the sun was a demon
The clouds were afraid
110 in the shade
And the pavement was steaming
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According to the video at the site, she taught sign language. I wonder if the boy was deaf. It would be a leap from that to suggesting that he was a special needs student, but that might explain the ferocity of the attack on her if family members truly believed he was incapable of spurning her advances.

I don't know. I'm the last one to defend these teachers who have relations with underage boys, but I don't think she deserved to be attacked. The funny thing is, if it had been a male teacher with an underage girl, I might be inclined to think he did.

[Darkwolf377]

Death for betrayal is too kind. The damages and the permanent suffering that they have wreaked on innocents is impossible to make reparations for. Punishment and penalties ought to be severe and without end.

You can't possibly be a heterosexual male.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't think she deserved to be attacked. The funny thing is, if it had been a male teacher with an underage girl, I might be inclined to think he did.

You're just being rational is all.

The conservative version of being PC is pretending that there is no difference between a man seducing an underage girl, and a boy being seduced by an attractive adult woman.

Sorry, folks--there is a difference, any straight male knows it, and getting on one's high horse and pretending there isn't doesn't change that.

[DTogo]

Me too, but the Deluca name wasn't jiving. The beating of a female, yes, the name, no.

[LWalk18]

Obviously, someone in this boy's life felt that her actions were heinous enough to insist upon prosecution and to attack her in this home. It isn't merely PC- the boy's parents see her as a child molester and a predator. If anything, the old double standard makes it worse when female teachers seduce their male students because all of those hormones make them more vulnerable.

[CBart95]

Is this a simple case of the "guilty dog barking first"?

Or are you that secure in your own masculinity?

It figures that all the fragile psyches would creep out of the woodwork on word of zero tolerance for insane practices.

Speak that we may know you.

[Dallas59]

Beating a woman over anything seems very crude and unacceptable...even if she was giving the kid drugs. Had this been a male teacher and female student...The teacher may have not made it to ride on a Care Flight...

[Darkwolf377]

Is this a simple case of the "guilty dog barking first"? Or are you that secure in your own masculinity? It figures that all the fragile psyches would creep out of the woodwork on word of zero tolerance for insane practices. Speak that we may know you.

What the hell are you babbling about?

[Darkwolf377]

So someone beating her up PROVES her original crime was heinous?

What if she's not guilty?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Awwwwwwww, the fellow needs the woman to "make him a man." I can think of at least one other song like that too. Dumb.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You mean libertine

[Lancey Howard]

It was the third of June
Another sleepy, dusty, Delta day.