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Dowling Teacher Charged with Sexual Exploitation
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9665654 ^ | 1-13-2009

Posted on 01/13/2009 4:15:18 PM PST by joshhiggins

A Dowling High School teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her students. Twenty-seven-year-old Erin Marie Rohwer has been charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee.

The student she's accused of have a relationship with, is an 18-year-old male. Rohwer was arrested at her home Monday night. She was taken to the West Des Moines police station, where she posted a $5,000 bond and was released.


TOPICS: Education; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: guilty; naughtyteacherlist; publikskoolz; rape; sex; teacher
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To: mountaineer1997

What? See an ophthalmologist. She’s guilty unless she’s really, really good at what she did.


21 posted on 01/13/2009 4:52:21 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: mgstarr

Looks like she might be not guilty. Must have more pics.


22 posted on 01/13/2009 4:55:59 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Is that the Trunchbull?


23 posted on 01/13/2009 5:02:22 PM PST by 31R1O ("Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."- Immanuel Kant)
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To: 31R1O
Yep!
24 posted on 01/13/2009 5:08:16 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: joshhiggins; jasoncann; JRios1968; martin_fierro

Jury finds her guilty but commutes sentence due to age of “victim”


25 posted on 01/13/2009 5:09:10 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: mgstarr

Who squealed on her?


26 posted on 01/13/2009 5:13:30 PM PST by y6162
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To: joshhiggins

guilty with a small ‘g’ with the option of upgrading to a large G pending further deliberation.


28 posted on 01/13/2009 5:20:17 PM PST by reagan_fanatic ("You got that, camera guy?")
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To: goldi
Some states do not permit sex between a student and a teacher, even if that student is 18 and legally an adult. It’s all about power and the fact that someone in authority (a teacher or an administrator) can have an adverse influence over a student — “You either have sex with me or I’ll fail you.”

Does that carry over into criminalizing relationships between college professors and students? If not, why not? What is the difference between an 18 yo high school senior and an 18 yo college freshman?

Even though I'm a father with daughters, my attitude is that there needs to be an age where you consider a young person to be a complete, self-responsible adult, and 18 sounds like a good age.

29 posted on 01/13/2009 5:23:50 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
MYE EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GUILTY...KEY...THROW

30 posted on 01/13/2009 5:24:07 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: mgstarr


31 posted on 01/13/2009 5:39:39 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: newbie 10-21-00

She gets a count of “guilty” for every chin she has.


32 posted on 01/13/2009 5:42:13 PM PST by library user (Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
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To: PapaBear3625

I don’t know if colleges have a policy regarding relationships between students and their professors. Some states do regarding high schools. The onus is on the people in authority — teachers, administrators, not the 18-year-old student.


33 posted on 01/13/2009 5:44:33 PM PST by goldi
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To: GQuagmire
Jury finds her guilty but commutes sentence due to age of “victim”

Nah, she's Guilty. And she looks like Miss Beulah Ballbreaker.


34 posted on 01/13/2009 8:57:10 PM PST by JRios1968 (Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
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To: river rat

If 18 is the legal age of consent, I don’t see a problem. Only if it started before the age of consent.

And it’s irrelevant if you think the age of consent should be higher.


35 posted on 01/13/2009 10:42:12 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: exist

Most companies I’m involved with just order the separation of the two to prevent supervisor-employee conflict. Firings don’t occur even in reality.

I don’t see any merit of illegality based on age difference. Again, the guy is ‘legal’ because he’s 18 = at or above the age of consent.


36 posted on 01/13/2009 10:45:54 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: PapaBear3625

I think 18 is pretty much the standard. I’m agreeing with you. I don’t see illegality here. It’s maybe ‘against policy’, but not illegal.


37 posted on 01/13/2009 10:47:55 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: AlmaKing
There is more involved here than “age of consent”...
There is also the issue of “teachers” preying on their students...

If “teachers” wish to be thought of as “professionals”, they first need to behave as professionals.....and keep their peckers in their pants around their students.

The fact you didn't pick up on that - makes your comment and opinion “irrelevant”..... Right?

38 posted on 01/14/2009 12:20:01 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: AlmaKing
"Firings don’t occur even in reality."

You must work in a low class parallel universe..

I've personally fired adult managers, having affairs with adult employees who reported directly to them.... It had nothing to do with age or marital status - it had everything to do with maintaining the integrity of the Manager/Employee relationship.

This occurs frequently in businesses that take Management and Personnel responsibilities seriously.....

39 posted on 01/14/2009 12:30:50 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: JRios1968
HOLY BAR LEAGUE SOFTBALL PLAYER!!!
What did this broad teach,wrestling and diesel engine repair?
40 posted on 01/23/2009 12:11:48 PM PST by JonyRotn
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