Posted on 07/02/2010 11:58:26 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
On Wednesday at 10:40 p.m. law enforcement officers from several agencies were working a detail in the area of Highway 84 and White and Parker Road in Stanfield. A white SUV pulled off of the roadway near where officers from the Gila River Police Department were working.
Using night vision goggles from a distance, the officers observed two individuals in the vehicle appearing to have consensual sexual intercourse. Prior to the officers making contact, the male and female got out of the vehicle and began to argue.
The officers later learned that the male subject was only 14 years old, and the female was identified as 26-year-old Andrea Martinez, a schoolteacher with the Stanfield Elementary School District and a former teacher of the victim.
Both individuals admitted to having sexual intercourse with each other prior to being contacted by officers. Additionally, the victim reported that he had sexual intercourse last month with Ms. Martinez.
Martinez was arrested by Pinal County sheriff's detectives and will be booked this afternoon into the Pinal County Adult Detention Facility.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu stated, "It is very upsetting that an adult would take advantage of a child, especially when the adult is placed in a position of trust such as Ms. Martinez. I am very thankful that PCSO detectives and the officers from the Gila River Police Department worked quickly together to put Ms. Martinez behind bars."
The Stanfield Elementary School District was notified of the arrest and is cooperating fully with the investigation.
OK, where did you get the photo of my husband??? ;)
Hi honey! A waiting martini and a foot massage as soon as I get home, right? An stop picking on these FReepers about silly things like the “Guilty” “Not Guilty.” OK sweetie?
I can’t help myself! ;)
Well then I will tie you up and give you a good spanking when I get home.
To me tho, as a parent (of sons) and as a teacher, it’s an issue of a teacher taking advantage of their position (no pun intended). Do you send your kids to school to be hit on by teachers? Do you want a teacher treated differently because she’s a female? How do you write laws to say, sure its ok for a female teacher to have sex with her students but not a male teacher? What age is then appropriate? I don’t know if it harms a boy (it likely depends on the kid, the situation, did he feel like he had to, and really, are all boys the same in that regard? Being a female, I can’t really say, I simply don’t know, and I bet all men can’t even speak for all men, I mean, is every guy here ready to say there aren’t some encounters they wish they had not had or are they happy with every one of them?).
At any rate, I still say, teachers need to keep their hands off of kids and if they can’t, they need to find another occupation. Period, end of story. And, I have a concern about men who don’t get that. I really do. And I bet, if the man has a 14 year old son and his son’s female teacher has sex with that son, I suspect that man will change his tune. But maybe I’m wrong.
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