Posted on 04/20/2006 12:05:42 PM PDT by Caleb1411
Highland Heights, KY -- A university professor who was forced to resign after leading a group of pro-abortion students in vandalizing a pro-life display has attacked pro-life advocates in a private email to the students involved. The email also encourages the students to "make it hard" for police investigating the vandalism to find them. News of the email is surfacing just hours after Northern Kentucky University professor Dr. Sally Jacobson issued an apology for her actions.
Jacobson apologized Tuesday evening in an interview with a local television station, but told the NKU student newspaper she will no longer grant interviews on the advice of her attorney.
Meanwhile, Jacobson emailed the pro-abortion students involved in the vandalism and urged them to obtain attorneys and to resist being charged by police in the matter. She worries and charges will aid the pro-life movement.
"If you are named, my advice is to get your attorney to plead you down to a misdemeanor," she wrote, according to The Northerner student paper. "The well-funded Right to Life groups that are pushing for this need felony convictions, I believe, in order to file civil suits for damages."
Jacobson also told the students about the current investigation the NKU police department id conducting, even encouraging the pro-abortion students to make it difficult for police to locate them.
"In the meantime, the campus police continue their investigation," she said. "If you have not yet been interrogated, you do not have to talk to them without an attorney. You can make it hard to find you. Again, I am so sorry."
Jacobson and the students involved could face as much as a Class D felony for their actions. Charges have not yet been filed against those involved in the destruction of the pro-life display but NKU Officer Rob Yelton told the student paper they are forthcoming.
"The [pro-life] group has indicated that they are willing to press charges," he said.
However, The Northerner reported that the bulk of the charges will be directed at Jacobson.
"At this time, we don't anticipate the students being charged," Lt. Col. Jeffrey Martin said. "They were intimidated by an authority figure into believing that this was not a criminal act."
Commonwealth Attorney Jack Porter, the local prosecutor, will make the final decision on the charges, and the officers indicated they thought he would grant the students immunity but charge Jacobson for her part in the vandalism.
Jacobson clearly hopes this is the case, according to the paper, as she wrote the students that she wants to help them avoid prosecution.
"I want to do everything I can to keep any of you from being specifically named," she said. "And I am very sorry I got you involved in this."
Jacobson, whose classes have been given to other professors to complete for the semester, also warned the pro-abortion students to stay away from her office on campus.
Obstructing justice?
I certainly hope so.
Someone needs a hug.
That was the first thing that popped into my mind, but IANAL. I wonder if one of our FReeper legal eagles could give an opinion?
And she is also STUPID! She emails students...that she is supposedly trying to "protect"..and implicates them. She basically "outs" them...not that they will be charged. That sounds doubtful. But she should have been fired for just being stupid.
I wonder if he'd say the same thing if they had torn down gay rainbow flags.
Wouldn't that be delicious. Now that Joe Scheidler's been cleared of those bogus charges, let's arraign someone worthy of facing that kind of prosecution.
"she said. "If you have not yet been interrogated, you do not have to talk to them without an attorney. You can make it hard to find you." Jacobsen to pro-abort students
Idiot....after outing them via e mails now you encourage them to avoid the authorities ...you foolish blinded donut loving weeeeeeetch.......
Maybe so......quite very possible...
Advising her co-conspirators how to avoid prosecution and game the system... Why she's acting like some kind of Racketeer (that's it!)... Like some Racketeer with Influence over a Corrupt Organization...
Actually, from this article it isn't totally clear that she did lose her job. It says she "resigned". Later in the article it states that her teaching duties have been reassigned to other staff members and in the final sentence it says that she warns the pro-abortion students to stay away from her office. Sounds like she still works at the university but isn't teaching for the rest of the semester. She still has an office and they are probably just hoping the furor dies down by next semester. Either that or she'll just do research work and not teach.
Doesn't she have papers to grade?
I agree. Go after the students too, they were old enough to know better. Why the kid gloves? These aren't six year olds. Although my daughter was better behaved at 3 than these creeps.
The cow should be fired, then jailed. Period.
RICO didn't fit Joe Scheidler, but it might fit the professor.
. . ."It [RICO] was never designed to deal with demonstrations," said G. Robert Blakey, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, who drew up the law when he was counsel to then-Sen. John McClelland, D-Ark. Blakey, who argued on behalf of Scheidler and the Pro-Life Action Network in the lower courts, said he was surprised when RICO was used against demonstrators. "This is not pro-abortion or anti-abortion. This is about whether this behavior, civil disobedience, up to trespass, is extortion. The answer is 'no,' " Blakey said.
Actually, it seems like the same kind of proper thinking that bars university professors and other staff from dating college students over 18 years of age. The authority figure has leverage.
Not anymore! < /snort,snicker,chortle!>
Isn't this called something like "criminal conspiracy"? This woman is really, really stupid...
Here's an example of the offering by the liberals:
I am a '91 NKU alum and I say good for Dr. Jacobsen and the ladies with her. A religeo-politically motivated, 400 cross mock cemetary has no place at a secular university. In the real world no one gets all sad-eyed at these bleeding heart displays, and suddenly declares "By gum I'll never kill another baby, and I'm gonna praise Jesus and convince all my friends too." These displays are pure melodrama; they convince no one. They change nothing. They exist only to spark "debate" (i.e. argument) between two groups of people who will never agree. They provide no information; they are "fighting words" and nothing more. Are the silly sods who put up this stupid display (while wiping their weepy eyes at the though of all dem kuuute widdle behbies) really suprised that someone called them on their theatrics? Dr. Jacobsen and her students answered ridiculous theatrics with cartoon violence. Again, good for them.
Amazing how supposedly educated people can be this stupid.
idiot do what idiot be
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