Sex with student alleged (Biloxi, Mississippi)

Sun Herald ^ | 1/22/2008 | MARY PEREZ

[redrunner]

BILOXI -- A 27-year-old teacher at Biloxi's alternative school was released on $50,000 bond after being charged with sexual battery of a teenage male student at the school, police said Monday.

The complaint against Rebecca Bogard of Woodland Park Drive, Biloxi, was filed by the student's parent, said Capt. John Miller of the Biloxi Police Department. She was arrested Friday by the Biloxi Police on one charge of sexual battery on a male under the age of 16 and taken to the Harrison County jail.

Judge Albert Fountain set her bail at $50,000, and she was released the same day.

"This is her first year to teach at the alternative school," said Biloxi School Superintendent Paul Tisdale. Bogard is a science teacher at the Center for New Opportunities on Pass Road; she previously taught at one of the district's elementary schools for about three years.

She is a 1998 graduate of Biloxi High School.

Tisdale said he has informed the school board of the charges against Bogard. He will meet with the board attorney and the district's personnel director today to determine what action should be taken.

[JRios1968]

Not Guilty

[tortdog]

I am opposed to this.

(For the record.)

[samtheman]

Do they really think they’re going to get away with it? Are they really that stupid?

I personally see a big difference between an adult male having sex with anyone underage (deserving of a long prison sentence) and an adult female having sex with a teenage boy. But maybe that’s because I think back to when I was a teenage boy and how much I would have welcomed the opportunity myself.

Regardless of that, the law is the law and should be respected by all. Especially teachers. How stupid can they be, thinking they’ll get away with this?

[domenad]

I snorted coffee on my monitor thanks to this comment.

[San Jacinto]

I’m going with Innocent on this one.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Now that I will have to take exception to. She may be “Not Guilty,” but she sure ain’t “Innocent”.

[OSHA]

Not guilty!

[swain_forkbeard]

‘Innocent’, no. But ‘Not Guilty’, for sure.

[Incorrigible]

Not guilty!

[Thombo2]

Oh well.At the very least,she can kiss her teaching career goodbye.Why would an attractive young woman,with her life and career ahead of her do such an assinine thing?

[savedbygrace]

“Rebecca enjoys shopping, running, and spending time with her niece, Anna Claire. Her favorite thing about CNO is the faculty and students.”

Well, yeah.

[day10]

[llevrok]

I can see a business opportunity to get the horny male teachers coupled with the horny female teachers and leave the kids out of things.

[Revolting cat!]

Sentence her to teach in my homeschool!

[Revolting cat!]

Sentence her to teach in my homeschool!

[Revolting cat!]

Sentence her to teach in my homeschool!

[Right Wing Assault]

She looks like the type that could take a portly turn all of a sudden.

I bet her momma weighs 350. She's already got the wrinkles in her neck where her quadruple chins are going to go.

[WackySam]

Absolutely, positively, not guilty.

[TexasNative2000]

Rebecca enjoys shopping, running, and spending time with her niece, Anna Claire. Her favorite thing about CNO is the faculty and students.

From the school website.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I can see a business opportunity to get the horny male teachers coupled with the horny female teachers and leave the kids out of things.

Won't ever happen. Teachers who have sex with their students are on a power trip and unable to have a relationship with another adult. That is why they prey on kids who are under their control.