Posted on 10/15/2009 10:59:59 AM PDT by Colofornian
ROY -- The same day a 47-year-old Ogden High School teacher was accused of having a sexual relationship with a then 16- or 17-year-old former student, a Roy Jr. High teacher has been accused of the same thing with a former jr. high student.
"They're victims. They're preyed upon. They're manipulated. They're not, by societal standards, mature enough to make some of these adult decisions on their own," said Roy police Chief Greg Whinham said. "We've been in this weird world where we're having one a week become the headline in the paper. There's definitely a problem."
Ogden police and the Ogden City School District are investigating allegations of an inappropriate relationship between an Ogden High teacher and a student who graduated in 2008.Whinham said 45-year-old Ken Taylor, a technology and wood shop teacher at Roy Jr. High, manipulated the girl into having sex with him.
The Weber School District learned of the alleged relationship at the beginning of September and immediately put Taylor on administrative leave. Taylor resigned 3 days later.
"It's always a shock," said Weber District spokesman Nate Taggart. "Teachers need to meet a higher expectation in the way that they are dealing with their students."
Taylor was a teacher at the school for five years, and the district had never had any problems with him before.
The now 17-year-old girl was a student at Roy Jr. High, and Chief Whinham says the relationship may have gone on two to three years.
"In the event that you have a young person, no matter what their belief system is, if they're having sexual relationships with a person my age, that's not right," Whinham said.
Roy police filed six felony counts of unlawful sexual activity with a child against Taylor.
In the Ogden High School case, the alleged victim--who is now of age--is reportedly living with the teacher in question.
Police said it was yet another case in the news, that of a 62-year-old Layton High School teacher who married an 18-year-old former student that prompted the Ogden investigation.
Sounds like the teachers are on the Obama Czar Training Track.
Yeah, just like the press & the left can’t seem to mention that 0bama is a cocaine snorting drug dealer,
but can’t seem to forget about Rush’s addiction to prescription pain killers.
What?...No double standard and a wink-wink?
The NEA and UN can sexually molest children all day. It is no indication of a “pattern of behavior” or evidence of a “culture of corruption”.
That’s the talking point anyway.
Could run for mayor in Portland.
He should have been a movie director instead of a shop teacher.
Finally the world is right again. It’s MALE teachers with female students, the way it has always been...
I always suspected chicks dig guys with missing fingers.
No, it's not. Schoolboys don't get pregnant when their teachers molest them.
Schoolboys don't get pregnant when their teachers molest them.
I guess I don't understand your point here.
Are you saying that the severity of the crime of "rape of a minor" should be based on the victim's ability to get pregnant? Is it a lesser crime if a girl is raped by a man who has had a vasectomy in your mind?
I’m just explaining the double-standard.
Please don’t take my comment as excusing it.
Please don’t take my comment as excusing it.
OK, thanks for the clarification. I did jump to a conclusion there. Typing is a poor form of communication sometimes - without any body language, I missed your meaning.
You are now officially off my "Ememies List" (just following The One™'s model).
:-)
“Could run for mayor in Portland.”
Nope, he’s not gay.
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