Teacher Accused of Statutory Rape and Other Offenses

[AXOmom]

Another point on a middle schooler asking for alcohol and for the record I also agree that whether they did or didn't has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the sex abuse charge and in NO WAY makes them even .00001% at fault for it.

I've taught middle school and high school age students for most of my career. Not once has a student come to me or any teacher I know and asked for alcohol. Do they want it? Yes, they do. Do they find it? Yes, they do, but they don't randomly ask teachers, and I'm assuming that's because they know that the results of that query would not be good.

That would lead me to believe that IF they did ask this teacher, she had already crossed enough lines that they believed she was the type of person that might do it. I don't know if she's guilty, but that would seem to be typical behavior for a sexual predator. Generally, they work like a fisherman - they know what the fish wants, they put it on a hook, wait for it to bite and slowly reel it in before the fish know what's happened.

Personally, I think she knew exactly what the typical 14-17 year old boy would want, she led them to believe she was the "cool, laid-back" teacher who might be willing to provide it, and then she had them where she wanted them like any other sexual predator. In other words - she groomed them. If that turns out to be what happened it doesn't matter whether or not they asked for alcohol, it doesn't matter if they were 11 or 17, and it shouldn't matter that they're boys and she's a woman - she should be locked up like any other skeezy, perverted, middle-aged sex abuser.

[*winter*]

Originally Posted by AXOmom

I've taught middle school and high school age students for most of my career. Not once has a student come to me or any teacher I know and asked for alcohol. Do they want it? Yes, they do. Do they find it? Yes, they do, but they don't randomly ask teachers, and I'm assuming that's because they know that the results of that query would not be good.

That would lead me to believe that IF they did ask this teacher, she had already crossed enough lines that they believed she was the type of person that might do it. I don't know if she's guilty, but that would seem to be typical behavior for a sexual predator. Generally, they work like a fisherman - they know what the fish wants, they put it on a hook, wait for it to bite and slowly reel it in before the fish know what's happened.

Personally, I think she knew exactly what the typical 14-17 year old boy would want, she led them to believe she was the "cool, laid-back" teacher who might be willing to provide it, and then she had them where she wanted them like any other sexual predator.

EXACTLY. I think it's an odd request. I bet if someone would ask the other middle-school teachers in the school "did these students ever ask you to buy them alcohol?" the answer would be "NO!" Why THAT teacher? To me, it seems the answer is clear- she is a predator and was blurring lines long before this happened.