Posted on 05/15/2011 11:51:00 AM PDT by rawhide
A PE teacher falsely accused of molesting a 12-year-old schoolgirl has spoken of his pain at telling his children he was going to be arrested.
Sean Lanigan was pulled out of a class in Fairfax, Virginia, and told he was going to be arrested for allegedly carrying out the offences.
In reality his 'crimes' had been invented and the schoolgirl bore a grudge against him.
Despite being cleared of all the offences, the teacher’s $125,000 legal fees still haven’t been repaid by the state and he is struggling to get his life back.
The young girl claimed that the teacher had taken him into the gym and said he was going to ‘treat her like a Queen’ and briefly groped her.
This line, it turns out is a lyric from one or her favourite music bands, the Ataris.
He had told his ‘victim’ off for being abusive on the school bus and the girl apparently told her friends: ‘Mr Lanigan’s a jerk. I’m going to make him pay.’
When it came to trial, the jury took only 47 minutes to decide he was not guilty. Such a short deliberation in a child sex abuse case is extremely rare.
They described it as an ‘easy decision’ since ‘there was no evidence.
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If I were a different person, perhaps I wolud go into teaching, keep my nose squeaky clean and if the allegations came I would sue everyone involved, parents, school system, cops, social workers and then retire to Maritinique.
But I am not that kind kind of guy.
I was only thinking of recouping monetary loses to avoid financial ruin. 125 grand is a lot of dough and would ruin most folks.
That’s is not a school. It is an asylum for deranged individuals and an indoctrination center for budding Fascists. A person would have to be a fool to return there voluntarily and expose themselves to that type of duress for absolutely no return.
If there is no objective record of what happens in the room, how will those kids ever learn what is actually racism and what isn’t ? Only by reviewing an objective recording, unedited and with timestamp on each frame, can discussion happen. Otherwise it is up to each person’s recollection and interpretation through the filter of their own prejudices.
On the Chinese question, it probably has to do with some implied slight that you called on them because you expect them to be smarter than the non-asians and didn’t give the non-asians a chance.
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