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by Jordan Yerman | June 2, 2007 at 09:14 am
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Did you really need me to tell you that? Some people evidently did, and I was too late... Whilst some could argue that a sixteen-year-old is ready for sexual relations (such is the age of consent in most of the world), the exacerbating factor here is the relationship between the people involved: teacher and student. A teacher is in a position of trust, and violating that trust is a serious issue. Also, even if the student is sixteen, or eighteen, or whatever, the teacher will still be quite a bit older and more experienced, in which the relationship becomes predatory.
A middle school teacher was arrested Friday on charges he engaged in a two-year sexual relationship with one of his students, which included sexual encounters at the school.James Darden, who taught eighth grade at the Thomas Jefferson Middle School, was being held at the Bergen County Jail on $250,000 bail.
Darden, 36, of Cliffside Park, was ordered not to have any contact with the teenage girl.
But wait, there's more...
[q
url="http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-49782sy0jun02,0,7997504.story?coll=dp-news-local-final"]A
33-year-old former Suffolk high school teacher is facing as much as a
year in jail after she was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a
17-year-old male student, police said.
Carrie Ann Bishop turned herself in to Chesapeake police Thursday
evening after finding out she was going to be arrested, said Chesapeake
police officer Christi Golden.
Bishop, who taught Spanish and coached junior varsity cheerleading
at King's Fork High School, has been charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
Police say Bishop had consensual sex with the student in her
Chesapeake house multiple times between August and October of last year.
His parents first reported it to police last month, Golden said.[/q]
A
New York teacher and a teacher's aide are in trouble with police after
allegedly performing sexual acts on two teenage boys from a school for
troubled children.Teacher Rebecca Becker, 28, and teacher's aide Maria E. Zurita, 28,
are charged with rape after allegedly taking 16-year-old students from
their school during the Memorial Day weekend and then having sex with
them at a New Windsor home.Both educators work at a school run by McQuade Children's Services,
which serves children referred by social service, family court and
school district authorities from seven counties north of New York City.Advertisement
"Sexually explicit and inappropriate" letters Becker wrote to one of
the students were discovered in one of the boy's rooms after the pair
went missing over the weekend, according to New Windsor Detective Sgt.
Michael Suttlehan.The letters were turned over to police by school officials who said they believed one of the boys might be at Zurita's home.
The two were charged with third-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
There's a point where it becomes pedophilia, though:
[q
url="http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/7801226.html"]A
former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty Friday to having sex
with an 11-year-old student and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a
prosecutor said.
Wendie Ann Schweikert, 37, was arrested in May 2006 and charged with
criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a
minor. The case inflamed racial tensions because the student is black,
and some black residents had argued that the teacher was getting
lenient treatment by the courts.
She pleaded guilty and read a three-page apology to the victim, his
family, E.B. Morse Elementary School and the community, Laurens County
prosecutor Jerry Peace said.
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at 05:18 on August 14th, 2007
A great compilation of facts, Jordan!
Much to think and talk about...