Posted on 02/12/2005 4:20:32 AM PST by MisterRepublican
Female teachers accused of sex crimes against underage male students have been grabbing headlines lately. Many of them are young and beautiful, their stories sordid and intriguing.
But to law enforcement, they're something else — criminals who have committed statutory rape against a minor.
This week alone, two cases have hit the news: Cops say one Texas teacher, Kathy Denise White had sex with a 17-year-old, and Tennessee teacher Pamela Rogers Turner had sex with a 13-year-old boy.
They join at least three other recent cases: Florida teacher Debra LaFave, 24, is expected to plead insanity to charges she had sex with a 14-year-old student, according to her lawyer; California teacher Sarah Bench-Salorio, 28, allegedly molested two boys when they were 12 and 14; and 33-year-old California teacher Rebecca Boicelli was arrested last month on statutory rape and related charges after DNA tests confirmed that a former student fathered her 2-year-old baby when he was 16.
All of them follow the trail laid by Mary Kay Letourneau , whom the media tracked again last year when she was released from prison after more than seven years. The former Seattle teacher said she’s still in love with her now-21-year-old student (who was 12 when she was 34 and fathered the first of the two children they had together); the pair have since reportedly gotten engaged.
Law enforcement officials and sociologists wonder whether there are really more of these cases, or are they just getting more press?
"Certainly the reporting of these kinds of things do prompt other reports," said Tom Eveslage, a journalism professor at Temple University. "It gets a little bit more sticky when we start talking about [whether] this justifies the media going gaga over all these kinds of stories."
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imagine a black male teacher and a white schoolgirl, something tells me the sentences you will see these women get will pale in comparison to what a male teacher or those involved in an interracial affair would receive.
actually i remember when i was in highschool our attractive african american junior varsity girls basketball coach made it with one of the girls on the team and the school kept it verrrry quiet, aware of the media attention it would probaly receive. i only knew since i was on the school paper and instructed not to mention it. i sold out ;(
Did they teach you about the shift key in high school?
Damn, it's 4:39 am here and the last thing I'm worried about is how my typing looks right now. Is this better? I'm not writing a letter or anything.
You are writing to communicate. There is no excuse for laziness.
He may just be a fan of e.e. cummings.
Yes there is. I was born that way. I think I need government assistance.
A free pony would be nice.
Wow, you wake up on the wrong side of the bed or what??
Hot For Teacher
(Words by Van Halen)
Oh, wow, man, I said
Wait a second, man
What do you think the teacher's gonna look like this year?
Whoa!!!
Uh!
Oh yeah!
T-T-teacher stop that screamin'
Teacher don't you see?
Don't wanna be no uptown fool
Maybe I should go to hell
But I am doing well
Teacher needs to see me after school
I think of all the education that I've missed
But then my homework was never quite like this!
Ow! Got it bad,
Got it bad,
Got it bad,
I'm hot for teacher!
I've got it bad, sooo bad
I'm hot for teacher!
Hey, I heard you missed us
We're back! (Hey!)
I brought my pencil
Give me something to write on, man!
Whoa!
Uh!
Ooo-oo-ooo
I heard about your lessons
but lessons are so cold
I didn't know about this school
Little girl from Cherry Lawn
How can you be so bold?
How did you know that golden rule?
I think of all the education that I've missed
But then my homework was never quite like this!
Whoa! Got it bad,
Got it bad,
Got it bad,
I'm hot for teacher!
I've got it bad, sooo bad
I'm hot for teacher!
Whoa!
(Guitar Solo)
Oh man, I think the clock is slow
(What are you doin' this weekend?) I don't feel tardy
Class dismissed!
Ooh-yeah!
I've got it bad,
Got it bad,
Got it bad,
I'm hot for teacher!
Whoa!
Oh! Ooh, yes I'm hot
Wow!
Oh my God!
Woo!
I can't believe that I am going to be lectured for not using mixed case on a forum post. I use cad and draft all day and use all upper case on everything I do so dammit now i'm going to use lower case. here i go, lower case. this me relaxing and using lower case.
Sorry, fresh out of ponies.
Would you settle for Unlimited Credit, Ultimate Wisdom and Free Lunch? :)~
" Would you settle for Unlimited Credit, Ultimate Wisdom and Free Lunch? :)~"
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no such thing ;)
had to
hehe, cheers.
On the ball reply...
ee cummings ....A proponent of a sort of new math approach for literature....like phonetic spelling, a failure.
# 10....An example of government education
Good Heavens, another CAD jockey!!
Good thing he wasn't a priest. Might've been an issue.
I haven't been out of bed yet, but I still have the respect for others to write in a manner which can be easily read.
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