Female Teacher Accused of "Sex" With Teen

“She helped me a lot when I went through a lot of struggles last year,” said student Robert Rojas. “I don’t blame her for what she did.”

Say what? Is that just an ignorant kid's flawed logic, or is it indicative of some sort of learned bias? On the other hand, even if the roles were reversed and some female students backed up a male teacher who had been accused, the media would probably not print the positive comments.

-Axolotl

The law should really stay the hell out of cases like this no matter the gender of the purpetrator. Sex isn't the worst thing in the world and at 17 either a male or female is pretty well aware of what sex is and has probably done a fair bit of experimenting.

I get the problem with teacher student relations because of the abuse of power but really, this should not be criminal regardless of the genders of the teacher. The teacher should be sacked because they violated their professional code of conduct but it should really be up to the school board and community not the courts to handle this.

I just don't think it helps anyone involved to be dragged through the legal system over a consentual affair with a post pubessant teenager. Costs more money then it's worth to police it and prosecute it.

...that had the sexes been reversed, the male teacher certainly would be in a great deal of trouble and no one would question it. As it is, a 17-YO male student having sex with a female teacher is viewed as being unprofessional behavior on the teacher's part but not widely viewed by the avg. person as criminal, despite what the law says. That's why the boy's mother said what she said.

Also, there is the matter of "power distribution". It's a bad idea and for good reason if people start sleeping with their supervisors at work, consensual or not. Companies often have policies aginst "direct report fraternization" of this kind, and very defensibly so. The rel'p between teacher and student is much the same.

If they were really that hot for each other, they should have waited til he was out of school (ie, one more year). Then it would have been fine. As it is, it was not, and should be treated as the abuse of position and criminal act it was.

Unlike some of the other bimbos who have committed this crime, she isn't a perky sensual looking blonde. And don't think for a minute that looks don't matter. It would be hard to prove in a court-of-law; however, I bet if someone did a study they would find correlation between looks and punishments awarded in these cases. The worst harm here is the kid will probably have psychological problems; especially when it comes to authority figures. If he ends up being accused of abuse or rape in his future, he can forget about using this as a defense. Only females get to play the get-out-of-jail-free abuse card!

It's hard to say if he'll have any lasting psychological problems as a result of this. I certainly concede that it is a possibility. I just think that being dragged through the 'justice system' over this may make things worse in cases like this regardless of the gender of the young person and older person.

I definately think it is wrong for teachers to be sleeping with their students and I am not really in favour of workplace affairs of any sort wether of equal position, seperate departments, or supervisor/subodinant. To easy for things to get messy.

I just think that much like workplace affairs, these things do happen, and they should be dealt with in a similar mannor (if not a little harsher as I would not want a teacher who had an affair with a student to be simply moved to another school), but not be dealt with in a criminal fashion.

I get that there has to be a cut off point where it becomes criminal but I do not think 17 or 18 is the right age for that point to be.

I don't know, I just think we need less behaviors as crimes not more. I think pre-sex crime mania days that we live in today, even a male teacher and female student would have been fround upon but not locked up. I would rather see things get a little more sane when it comes to telling people who they have raped and creating victims where there may well be none.

Society is teaching us not to look at crimes committed by women. We are supposed to overlook their faults. They are good girls who never do anything wrong, the moral compass of society. But it's amazing the new perspective you get when you start to think for yourself. The low-life you uncover when you take the trouble to turn over a rock and take a look.

Are all these female teachers really sexually abusing their students? It must be pandemic. But no-one believes it's going on, so no-one bothers to look or think about it. If a child complains that a woman has abused them, everybody laughs. It's a joke. And yet, here it is in black and white.

Our legislators are not going to take notice voluntarily. We are going to have to take them by the collar and push their faces in it before they will see the evidence.