[coconutt2000]

A 35 year old man, a teacher and a coach, should be able to keep his hands off his students. If consensual, they could've waited until after her graduation to consummate their relationship. It wouldn't be the first time. There are many high school teachers married to former students. Is this relationship heading toward marriage?

If the victim had been a confused boy, and the teacher/coach were a gay man, would you feel the same?

Parents shouldn't have to worry about their daughters or sons being seduced or pressured into sexual relationships with teachers or coaches. For every consensual relationship we might hear about, there are numerous less consensual relationships involving the abuse of authority.

And your example of an assistant store manager and a customer is a bad example. You would've been better off making the 18 year old high school student an employee.

[JamesP81]

If consensual, they could've waited until after her graduation to consummate their relationship.

It is not for the government to decide who can have a relationship, and when. What they could've done is immaterial and irrelevant.

[newgeezer]

Parents shouldn't have to worry about their daughters or sons being seduced or pressured into sexual relationships with teachers or coaches.

As I said originally, if a teacher, coach, any school employee is caught so much as propositioning any student, do whatever is administratively necessary to keep him from ever being in the position to do it again, anywhere.

BUT, although it is unquestionably a deplorable thing, it is not a crime for a 35-year-old man to have a relationship with an 18-year-old woman. There is no question that, if she was a willing participant and was not coerced by his authority, he does not belong in the sex offender registry.

He may very well belong in some national school employee offender registry. But, surely you can see how putting this guy and others like him in the sex offender registry waters down the registry such that it has the effect of making it less of a stigma for everyone who's in there for actual, heinous crimes.

And your example of an assistant store manager and a customer is a bad example. You would've been better off making the 18 year old high school student an employee.

I did. But, you still didn't answer the question(s):

So, if instead of being a teacher/coach, let's say he was a 35-year-old "assistant manager" at a convenience store and had a relationship with an 18-year-old customer. Would he belong in the registry? If she were an employee instead of a customer, would your answer change?

Are you saying that guy belongs in the sex offender registry?