The boy is reported to have an IQ of 50.
Posted on 07/10/2008 12:53:47 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
NEW YORK -- A Dutchess County special education teacher has been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old disabled student.
Teacher Mandi Weeks, 27, was arrested on Monday in Queens. She admitted to having sex with her student at the Devereux Foundation NY Center for the past month, according to police.
Weeks is being charged with two counts of rape with a child under the age of 21 and two acts of acting in a manner to injure a child under the age of 17.
The student was in the school’s residential program and lived on campus. He had been home on break for the last two weeks. Weeks lives in upstate New York and the reason for her commute to Queens Monday is still being questioned; sources said she may have been visiting her brother in Brooklyn.
The alleged sexual assault was discovered Monday when the student went missing and returned home on his own. His mother called John O’Keefe, Executive Director of the Devereux Foundation NY Center, and he directed her to call police. The alleged relationship between the student and teacher came to light during the investigation.
Weeks was hired to work as an educator at Devereux Foundation NY Center in Red Hook in February 2007. She came highly recommended from references, O’Keefe said.
The Devereux Foundation NY Center said it is fully cooperating with police. The school said it is examining if she had any other types of relationships with other students at the school.
The boy is reported to have an IQ of 50.
She has taken teacher-student depravity to a new level. Perhaps she felt that she was performing a charitable service. Her appearance cannot sway me from a guilty vote with imprisonment and sexual predator therapy as punishment.
Pity sex?
No matter what she looks like, she is guilty because of extenuating circumstances...
Looks like a big guilty to me.
Guilty on both counts..........
Now she can use her teaching skills to help fellow inamtes in prison.....
Pity sex?........From which one?............or both?.........
What’s with all these student teacher sex stories?
And what’s with so many of them being female teacher, male student?
I know we’ve broken lots of barriers in the past 40 years, but do we really need to normalize student teacher sex? Are there that many female teachers out there who think it’s ok to have sex with a student?
“Pity sex?”
I considered that thought for a moment, but I doubt it. This seems like more of an “absolute control” kinda thing. This wacko wants to be worshipped and, by having sex with a disabled student, she could likely ensure that he would worship her.
So? This generation has been aculturated to believed that sex is no big deal—it’s just another body function like eating or sleeping. What’s the big deal? /sarc
Obviously it was because she could relate to him on an intellectual level.
Probably not—I never met one who thought it was ok. That’s partly why it makes news. On the other hand, we have a whole generation coming up who think: If you want to do something it’s really ok, sex is no big deal, there is no difference between adults and children. We should probably be surprised that there is not more of it.
susie
She was definitely on the receiving end of his pity.
If you want to do something it’s really ok, sex is no big deal, there is no difference between adults and children.
That’s what I was getting at, and you said it better than I did.
And I think part of it must be not making a distinction between who the adults are, and that these students are still legally children.
Some behavior and attitudes are taboo for a reason, in my opinion.
I agree. I used to see it a lot in my students (they would tell me, if they got angry with me, that I wasn’t their friend and I would reply “Exactly—I’m your teacher.” Always shocked them) and then there were the teachers who wanted to be cool. Interestingly, I was well liked, but I didn’t work at it. I wanted to be an authority figure, not an old teenager.
susie
Yeah, I could see that... He probably felt bad for her .
This particular case aside, can someone, anyone tell me just exactly how a healthy male between 13-18 is in any way harmed by having sex with his female teacher? I was a teen in the 1950’s and can promise you I would have considered myself among the luckiest persons on the planet to have been able to get it on with some of the teachers in our school.
So what IS the harm done to these guys? geez teenagers as we all know spend 75% of their waking ours trying to get laid and the other 25% thinking about getting laid. Where does this “damage” occur? What exactly does the older woman do that causes trauma in the youth?
Help me out here.
“No matter what she looks like, she is guilty because of extenuating circumstances...”
She’s guilty mostly because of her face.
It's the harm that happens to the other boys in class. When one of your buddies gets to have this, it can permanently damage one's self esteem forever...
Debra Lafave
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