Posted on 02/07/2005 8:17:20 PM PST by wardaddy
A Warren County elementary teacher faces a maximum 100 years in prison if she's convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
Only news two was in Fentress County as 27-year-old Pamela Rogers Turner was arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape. District Attorney General Dale Potter said that Turner, a physical education teacher and coach at Centertown Elementary, had an ongoing sexual relationship with a male student. Potter said that some of the incidents even took place at school and at the boy's home, where the teacher reportedly lived a short while.
"Most of the time, we try to prosecute them as harshly as possible when it comes to sex crimes involving children. As far as this case, we intend to prosecute it to the fullest extent possible. As far as saying that she will get an x amount of time or anything like that, that will probably be determined by a judge," said Potter.
men and women look at this quite different when it involves a younger boy and older girl.
Me either....but my wife sure does not share that sentiment.
My wife does not trust her gender much.
I like your wife *lol*
Yes....it is viewed quite different in reverse....why she was living at his house is rather odd.
Still a big story locally here in Middle TN this morning....on all the news.
why?.........cause she's cute.
As a retired teacher, I resent your statement. I taught for 30 years and NEVER knew of any questionable behavior between students and teachers.
I do see where conduct has changed for students and teachers, as society has become sexually explicit in all areas. Still, I think these are isolated cases of sick teachers.
Re: your post. Man, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
Yes, it was on WKRN.
I've got it bad, got it bad, got it bad!
Great tagline, by the way!
I think you may want to read a definition of 'pederast' before posting next time.
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Disctionary defines pederasty as, "anal intercourse esp. with a boy[,]" and a pederast as, "one that practices pederasty."
That pretty absolves the lady of pederasty. Keeps it for the fudge packers.
Dang Bill....I thought the word was for either sex. I see it's only for mature men who go after early pubescent boys.
I guess there is no specific exclusive term for women. What about dykes who like very young girls?
On Hannity & Colmes now.
Weird. Mrs. Bourbon and I were discussing this just last night.
My pet theory is that both sexes are locked into believing adolescence is the peak of their existence on Earth, primarly because of a tremendous cultural overemphasis on the importance of sex to one's being. Nowadays, it seems once people grow out of adolescence they spend the rest of their lives yearning for it and trying anything to recapture it, whether that means ponying up for round after round of plastic surgery to staying on birth control until age 38.
For some women, I think this yearning is not so much sexual as it is sentimental. It seems to me these women are desperately trying to rediscover the thrill of teenage courtship. I mean, if you look at all of these stories about these women, the women seem far more interested in having long, clandestine 'soul-baring' telephone conversations with these boys than wild sex (e.g. the now infamous 'pinky promise'). The sexual element of these incidents strikes me as strictly secondary.
Not to minimize this criminal activity in anyway, but I really think that a particularly sinister and delusional form of nostalgia is what is really behind this.
Now, another thing...
When I was growing up middle-aged women were uniformly hot-to-trot for masculine men. Men like Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds or later Mel Gibson. Then about 10 years ago middle-aged women starting cooing (publicly!) over the likes of Leo DiCaprio (someone who was in reality about 20 years old, but looked all of 14). This astounded me and troubled me at the time, and I remember joking on it pretty hard. But maybe it was a signal that something really strange was coming down the cultural pipes?
Keep in mind the movie that got America's moms percolating over Leo was roaringly nostalgic and thoroughly sentimentalized in and of itself. People may have thought Titanic was about a colossal ship going down in the North Atlantic, but it was really the story of a 90 year-old woman reminiscing about her own first sexual encounter. Again, this encounter was especially thrilling as it was both clandestine and socially transgressive (recall that she was "upper class" and poor Leo, a veritable sans culotte).
I know this may sound a little nutty, but I just can't shake the feeling that these two cultural trends are related. When a nation's moms go ga-ga over Leo, can mixed-up, sentimentalized stautory rape be too far behind?
These teachers are just looking for naive sperm donors.
That reminds me of the Onion article that came out in the wake of the Jon Benet Ramsey murder--"Ugly Girl Killed: Nation Unshaken by Not-So-Tragic Death."
I still wonder why this scenario is a lauded rite of passage. If it were a male teacher and a teen girl, I bet the men on this thread would want him strung up.
LOL - you weren't old enough. But I'm shocked you woulda sided against the hillbilly if you could!
I agree with you. I never, I REPEAT NEVER, had a teacher look anywhere close to this good.
For that matter, I none of the female students looked that good either !! LOL
Because it's different for boys than for girls.
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