Posted on 01/26/2006 7:05:55 PM PST by NeoCaveman
The attractive new substitute teacher at Strongsville High School proposed a novel incentive to her class of special-education students: Improve your grades and win a dinner date with the teacher.
No one says the contest was fixed, but the winner was the 17-year-old captain of the football team, Steven Bradigan.
Dinner at the Dairy Queen was nothing special, but what happened afterwards was enough to melt his ice cream. In the car in the parking lot at Westfield SouthPark mall, Bradigan said the 36-year-old teacher, Christine Scarlett, wrapped her arms around him and tried to kiss him.
"I said, 'Whoa!' and pushed her away, and she started to cry," Bradigan, 20, recalled recently.
They both eventually composed themselves, he said, then spent the next half hour making out - a version of events Scarlett denies.
That was in November 2002, and began a sexual relationship that continued off-and-on for more than two years, with stolen moments at school, rendezvous in Scarlett's home and the birth of a son.
Now, Bradigan is pressing a custody case in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, and has sent warning letters to the Strongsville schools and Police Department threatening a lawsuit.
He accuses them of negligence for failing to pursue a criminal investigation of Scarlett.
"They asked her if she had sex with my son, and she said, 'No,' " said Lawrence Bradigan, Steven's father.
"That was the extent of the school's investigation."
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How come I'm not surprised.....
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Damn he ugly.
She looks like a gal who could have gotten a normal adult guy.
Okay. What am I missing with this picture? Special Ed class and the captain of the football team is in it? What kind of signals was he calling?
I'm guessing he was an honorary captain.
Only until he realized she has the mentality of a 12-year-old.
Honorary because he knew what "pass" to catch?
No, he has a hearing problem and a learning disability. If you are dyslexic, blind, deaf, etc that qualifies you for special ed, on of my kids had a speech problem and that qualified her for special ed. There are many disabilities that fall under the special ed umbrella.
"I said, 'Whoa!' and pushed her away, and she started to cry," Bradigan, 20, recalled recently."
She started to cry? This woman is truly pathetic. Has she tried the bar scene?
Exactly.
Oh come on.
The guy's a well developed, hunk of a young man. Not a child.
She's an opportunist, not a predator.
He pulled the condom out of his wallet, not out of her purse.
From the Official Girl's Playbook:
Rule 14. When boy rejects you, turn on the tears. Seven out of ten times, you will be able to reverse his rejection.
Perhaps if they want to have consensual sex and get away with it, they should both claim that he attempted to rape her but that, at the moment of penetration, she consented. Then we could see if suddenly he could, under the law, revert to being the victim. Or maybe they'd be accused of raping each other.
As Dennis Miller said in his HBO special:
"When I was in school, I wasn't allowed to bang the erasers!"
I personally know this guy referenced here and he is a very nice guy. He loves his son and that is the only important fact. Maybe no one here knows that the teachers husband, who is unable to produce children of his own, was in on the whole thing and now fighting for custody of the victims son. This teacher should have known better, not only because she was his teacher but also because she is an adult.
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