Posted on 03/07/2009 5:02:29 PM PST by traumer
Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said.
On Friday, the Davis County Attorney's Office filed first-degree felony charges of rape and sodomy on a child against Linda R. Nef, 46, and Valynne Bowers, 39.
Nef, a Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser, and Bowers, who teaches math, each confessed to having sex with the student, said Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett. Until recently, the two teachers did not know about each other's relationship with the same boy, Pickett said.
The charges Valynne Bowers were filed after Nef arranged a meeting with police on Thursday and admitted having sex with the boy for more than a year, Pickett said. Their sexual relationship allegedly began in October 2007 and lasted until December 2008, he said.
During the meeting, Nef revealed Bowers' relationship with the boy, Pickett said. Bowers allegedly began having sex with him in December, and she also has acknowledged the relationship, he said.
Nef was booked into the Davis County Jail on Friday afternoon and has her first court appearance scheduled for 1:30 p.m. March 27.
Bowers also was arrested and booked into the jail on Friday, Pickett said. She later appeared in court, where she waived her right to a preliminary hearing and Advertisement Click to learn more... Quantcast was ordered to stand trial. A felony arraignment in her case is scheduled for 9 a.m. March 16.
Nef, who began her career with the Davis County School District in 2004 as a physical education teacher at Taylor Elementary School, resigned from her post at the junior high on Monday, said school district spokesman Chris Williams.
Bowers was placed on administrative leave while district officials conduct their own investigation. Bowers has taught in the district since 1996 and was an elementary school teacher for nine years before she transferred to Bountiful Junior High in 2006, Williams said.
"So far, there is nothing to indicate that there are any other students involved, or any other faculty or employees involved," Pickett said.
In separate conversations, the boy and the two teachers began discussing personal problems, Pickett said. That led to text messages, including ones involving sexual matters, then phone sex and the alleged sexual assaults, Pickett said.
The investigation so far indicates none of the alleged sex acts occurred at the school, Pickett said. Instead, the teachers allegedly went with the student to homes, parking lots or parks in Bountiful, Woods Cross, Farmington and Kaysville.
Can they avoid the charges if they both marry him?
Well, one would have to consider the possibility that the boy played a role in bringing about the situation. It is a social convention to consider 13-year-olds as naive innocents, but any junior high teacher will tell you some of them get up to all sorts of tricks.
“In separate conversations, the boy and the two teachers began discussing personal problems, Pickett said.”
It would be interesting to know who initiated the conversations, and exactly what sort of personal problems the boy described to the teachers. If they were the same age, it might be what many would call a pick-up line.
Looks like somebody hit Nef in the left eye.
My son is 12. Believe me, I know.
Does his sack have hair?
Bill Clinton in the making. So that’s one kid who is assured a seat on Student Council and Honor Society. Not only that, but it’s great training to become a politician.
If we don’t have a wholesale change in our public brainwashing system, there is little or no point in assuming that we will not be the Communist States of America within the next ten years.
Could be the result of eye makeup and crying.
On one eye?
Damn kid's a bigamist!
Inquiring minds need to know: How does a woman commit sodomy on a male? On further thought, I probably don’t want to hear the answer.
Or they put them in the same cell...
Sodomy has a broader legal definition than you think...
The one on the left, the chair. The one on the right, parole after 10 years.
I don't know how Utah handles it, but if you're that ugly in Florida as a female teacher, you'll get jail time.
They weren’t kidding when they called the place “Bountiful”, were they?
Guilty. Guilty.
In Utah? I think they’re facing hard time.
I believe the definition of sodomy also includes oral sex.
Exactly.
Unless you are the president, of course...
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