This case just tells me that there is a lot of mental disease in this country.
The whole story is sad. Her husband was abusive and extremely adulterous, they struggled constantly to make ends meet, and the boy's father was in prison for armed robbery.
All indications were that she never acted inappropriately with another student.
She is childlike in interviews and truly seems to be mixed up. While she violated the law and legally committed child-rape, I think her greatest crime is irresponsibility and violation of the teacher-student trust every parent should be able to count on.
Law is a double-edged sword - It punishes for results rather than intentions. This is normally a good thing, however I have come to believe there was no malice in what she did...Just stupidity, selfishness, and a whole lot of messed up rationalization that makes her unfit to rejoin society. She should spend a long time under psychological treatment before she's let loose.
I do think, however, she deserves pity rather than venom. Not as much pity as the children victimized by this fiasco, however. That is the saddest story of all...