California Agriculture Teacher Given 5-Month Sentence, Had Sex With Underage Student

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-04-03 01:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'Merced, CA – Melody Carter-McCabe was arrested and retained on a $250,000 bail last summer for allegedly engaging in a relationship with one of her students. The 27-year-old carried on a yearlong sexual relationship with a 15-year-old beginning back in 2010. McCabe was the boy’s mentor in the Future Farmers of America program.

The Livingston High School agriculture teacher initially faced up to 12 years in prison if convicted, as she had been charged with nine felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor.

However Monday, after McCabe pled no contest to the charges, a judge sentenced the former educator to five months in the Merced County jail. She is scheduled to report to the jail on Thursday to start her detainment and will be given credit for any time she’s already served leading up to the sentencing. After release, McCabe will be under a five year felony probation but will not have to register as a sexual offender.'

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... the sentence if she'd been male and the student female (or male, for that matter). Critical detail is just that the teacher was male. That buys years in jail. Female violator? Months, if any time at all. Maybe probation, too. Sometimes, but not always, a req't to register as a sex offender. But not in this case.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-04-03 02:02