Posted on 10/05/2006 8:01:19 AM PDT by freepatriot32
NEW YORK - A middle school math teacher was arrested on charges he raped a 14-year-old student when she went to his home for tutoring, police said Wednesday.
Horace Bedeau, a teacher at Intermediate School 392 in Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree rape and criminal sexual acts for engaging in sexual encounters with the student in his kitchen and his son's bedroom in August 2006, according to the city schools' commissioner of investigation.
Another student, a boy, was in the apartment at the time but was separated from Bedeau and the 14-year-old girl, city officials said.
Bedeau's lawyer, Donald Vogelman, said he was innocent.
"My understanding is they did know each other, but he denies having sexual intercourse with her," Vogelman said.
Bedeau, 50, was reassigned to administrative duty during the investigation. The Department of Education said it was outraged and was seeking to fire him.
Students and neighbors were shocked at the charges.
"He was a good teacher," his former student Ebony Paschall said. "He did everything right. He never came on to any student when I saw him."
Bedeau was arraigned on Wednesday night and was being held on $10,000 bail. He could face seven years in prison on each of the charges if convicted.
So is: "Too short for prison"
Judge Rules Sex Offender Too Short Prison; Gives Probation Instead
Only if the Teacher is a Republican. If the Teacher is a Democrat, then.....well.....Hastert must still resign.
What did Hastert know and when did he know it?
Thanks for the picture. Benito is second from left and his mistress is third. Looks like he is still "intact".
I agree that his denial rings true. I do not, though, think that a teacher should be tutoring students in his/her own home with all of the cases of teacher-student sex that have come out. It's bad policy. A teacher wants to tutor a kid, great ... do it at the library.
"I always wanted to coach Little League. But, not the way this country is. All it takes is one screwed up kid, or a kid with a screwed up parent, or a kid with an overzealous therapist. One word from the kid and your life is over. Doesn't matter how obviously untrue it is. Your picture is on the front of the local paper the next day."
You might be able to coach in a homeschool league where you know the parents, know the children, and can evaluate for yourself whether their heads are adequately screwed on. Even so, common sense measures like never allowing yourself to be completely alone with the kids make sense in these cynical times.
Honor and trust are becoming more of a valuable commodity these days.
"He was a good teacher," his former student Ebony Paschall said. "He did everything right. He never came on to any student when I saw him."
The most ridiculous item of the day.
Yeah, rapists don't usually do that where people can see... unless that idiot consders rape a come on...
Oddly enough (or maybe not so oddly), the two men I have met over my lifetime who most hated women had both been molested by adult women when they were around 12 or so. One had been bedded by his foster mother, and the other by a female friend of his mother's.
One of the men was gay - and I have met numerous gay men who, while they didn't hate women the way these two did, had been molested by adult women when they were boys - and the other was bisexual but despised women. So much for that male fantasy.
"Oddly enough (or maybe not so oddly), the two men I have met over my lifetime who most hated women had both been molested by adult women when they were around 12 or so. One had been bedded by his foster mother, and the other by a female friend of his mother's.
One of the men was gay - and I have met numerous gay men who, while they didn't hate women the way these two did, had been molested by adult women when they were boys - and the other was bisexual but despised women. So much for that male fantasy."
I don't doubt that these actions can have a damaging effect on boys.
If I had my way they would all be treated the same regardless of their gender.
But there is a double standard regarding sexual matter...there always has been. I'm just acknowledging reality.
I don't think a male judge is going to treat a beautiful busty blonde the same way he'll treat some man who does the same thing to young girls.
No, that's true about the judges (assuming the offender is a beautiful busty blonde in the first place, which I doubt that either of these women were).
But the thing that irritates me is all these stupid comments by men who, in retrospect, think it would have been cool to have an adult woman groping them or forcing them into some kind of sexual act when they were kids. It's obviously not a good thing.
"But the thing that irritates me is all these stupid comments by men who, in retrospect, think it would have been cool to have an adult woman groping them or forcing them into some kind of sexual act when they were kids. It's obviously not a good thing."
Immature men are always going to make stupid comments.
Unfortunately there are many men who never outgrew the adolescent tendency to objectify women and fantasize they only exist for their sexual pleasure.
And so they will still look at cases like this and think "wouldn't it have been nice."
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