Posted on 09/29/2005 6:26:54 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
A 16-year-old who videotaped himself having sex with his 31-year-old teacher and looked at photos of her naked is not a victim, the married mother of two says.Amber S. Jennings, 32, who admitted this week that she e-mailed photos of herself naked to her former student, also criticized the boy's mother who reportedly said she wants to cash in on the incident with a civil suit.
``It is just unfortunate that she would go so far as to ruin her son's life in order to profit,'' Jennings told the Worcester Telegram and Gazette this week.
Jennings pleaded guilty this week to disseminating harmful materials to a minor and was sentenced to two years probation.
Jennings told the paper she's writing a book about the case.
Jennings met the boy while teaching English at Shepherd Hill Regional High School in Dudley.
Authorities say they started out as friends but things heated up in late 2003 when the boy was 16.
The two started having sex, videotaping their romps and e-mailing naked photos and messages to each other, according to court documents. The boy told authorities the sex was consensual.
``It was just an idea I had to tape it,'' the boy told authorities, according to court documents.
Jennings admitted this week that she e-mailed naked photos of herself to the boy.
The affair lasted until July 2004, when the victim's mom asked him about an online chat with Jennings.
Jennings, who has two young girls, lives in a secluded lakefront home in Sturbridge. She declined comment last night.
Jennings underwent a psychiatric evaluation in January and it was determined her risk for future sexual violence is ``very low, if not nil.''
During the same evaluation, she told the doctor her marriage to Russell Jennings, her high school sweetheart, was ``somewhat strained as of late.''
Under the new agreement, Jennings pledged to stay away from the victim and surrender her license to teach public school in Massachusetts. She must undergo evaluations and treatment as a sex offender.
This is gonna be a fun thread...
There's the "no-sh*tter" of the week!
Um, yeah.
Whoa...
[Dang...and I was stuck with teachers like "Bull" Smith 5'x5'x5'who was rumored to have been severely beaten with ugly sticks as a child.]
Anyone who sees this 16 year-old boy as a "victim" is clueless. Unless he is retarded or has mental problems, he is no victim.
Nevertheless, the teacher broke the law and should be prosecuted.
"...determined her risk for future sexual violence...."
How did normal, consensual sex get to be defined as violence?? Makes no sense.
This is nothing new and it only seems to be on the rise. Because 20 years ago these thing were kept quiet. Now these are national stories.
Ditto.
So, I did the next best thing a married a hot teacher.
We've been married 15 years and she still fizzles my shizzle. Fashizzle.
Stories like this make me angry. Where the heck were these teachers when I was in school. All of mine were so ugly they had to pull a sheet over theirselves so sleep could slip up on them.
Um, yeah.
I can't imagine how lame that book would be . . .
So, Biff the 16-year-old and I had sex. It was fun. But it was probably wrong, because he's way younger than me. Um, so how's it goin'?(200 pages of drivel/filler)
"Jennings underwent a psychiatric evaluation in January and it was determined her risk for future sexual violence is ``very low, if not nil.''
Yeah, right. WAS she charged with violence? If not, this is a meaningless evaluation.
One wonders how Jennings will feel about affairs between teachers and students when her little 'uns reach High School...
That said, if I were a 16-year-old male student, I would have no problem with it. But that's the problem, isn't it?
Statutory rape of a child. Rape = violence.
How come this never happened to me when I was sixteen. Although when I was in school teachers did not look good.
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Jennings told the paper she's writing a book about the case.
Let me get this straight, it's wrong for the mother to make money from a civil suit, but it's perfectly alright for Jennings to make money off the case by writing a book about it?
......she must be a democrat.......
Looks like your typical Democrat female...
A real good point. The guy I feel the worst for in this story? This idiot's husband. Imagine how that poor slob must feel?
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