I'm not paying taxes to support a school system where predators in positions of authority have the pick of the crop to exploit. Not on my dime. Not with my children. Hopefully the parents sue the pants off the teacher and the school system - that'll help stop it.
And those of you who imagine how charming it is to be seduced by a teacher are forgetting what high school is really like.
This is a crime against a young person, and against his family and against all of us who pay the salaries of these vile lowlifes to educate our children. Our kids can't read, write, or do math and here's one more clue as to why....
The law should provide the ultimate disincentive for child rape ... but in today's world, lawyers write laws to make it easy for fellow lawyers to win cases. They don't write laws to secure justice.
The guilty often walk free.
Twisted laws protect the guilty and abandon the innocent. And vigilantism is the outcome.
The law must be reformed and liberal judges thrown out or society will descends into anarchy.
Hear, hear. Truer words were never spoken.
And the deviant teacher certainly needs to be punished.
All that said, I would have given my right arm to be "abused" by a beautiful, sexually insatiable 29 year old female teacher when I was in high school. That is true of 97% of teenage boys, and it will never change.
Your comments hit the bullseye. And not just for this particular type of crime.
Everyone likes to crow about "all teenage boys would give their eyeteeth to be introduced to sex by a woman twice their age". Sex is not just for recreation. Actions like this teach boys - who grow up to become men - how to use and exploit women sexually, that commitment and lifelong relationships mean squat.
Sex without love and commitment is bestial behavior. It hardens the heart, and teaches people to see other human beings as meat to be used and tossed away like refuse when they're done.
It demeans all individuals involved, it increases the crime of abortion, it breaks up marriages, and eventually ruins society - witness the numbers of feral humans, bred in irresponsibility, raised by single mothers with a series of "boyfriends" hanging around.
Training boys to view sex as casual recreation that has nothing to do with marriage and lifelong fidelity is extremely destructive. Those of you touting the "Playboy philosophy" should think deeply about this.
Every religion in the world states that sex is for marriage. There are many reasons why deviating from this law is destructive. Think of "Brave New World". Illicit meaningless sex was mandated; commitment and fidelity were considered mental illness and criminal.
Right , righteous and admirable rage at the perpetrators and those lame brains who would dare defend or justify coddling the insane types who grievously harm our children.
Thank you for your articulate position on these issues.
You represent the will of the heartland of America.
This wasn't justice, it was vigilanteism.
Vigilantes are anarchists and as far to the left as one can get.
You have been at FR for a long time and I appreciate your anger at the situation, but a just society is not one in which individuals meet out punishment for those who break the law.