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No Jail Time for Arlington Teacher Charged With Raping Students

Mastodon - Mon, 2012-09-10 00:13

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'(Arlington, TN) There will be no jail time for an Arlington teacher who admitted having sex with two of her students.

That has people wondering if the punishment fits the crime.

A judge ordered Stacy Hopkins to have no contact with the two students with whom she had sex when she was a teacher at Arlington High School.

Not only can she not teach here anymore, she cannot have a job with anyone under the age of eighteen.

A judge gave Hopkins four years of probation after she plead guilty to two counts of aggravated statutory rape, but she escaped jail time.

Some people like Cathy Park think the sentence shows a double standard in the courtroom, “If this were a case where it was a male on a young female or if the children were younger, I think it would have been much more harsh.”'