Is This Becoming An Epidemic? Teacher from LI held in statutory rape of student

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

(A year ago, there was a 24 year old woman teacher in my son's high school who was dismissed for inappropriate behavior with a 15 year old male student. The school has an automatic alert system and sent out calls to all of the student homes in the district to inform parents.)

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liteac3012820173may29,0,5830272.story

A woman from West Babylon is in custody on rape charges after she repeatedly had sex with a 14-year-old student after hours at the Queens school where she teaches, prosecutors said.

Melissa Weber, 27, "engaged in sexual intercourse" with the student in a second-floor classroom of MS/IS 8 in Jamaica on seven occasions between April 13 and May 14, prosecutors said Thursday.

Weber, a social studies and homeroom teacher, told the victim, "Don't tell anyone. I could get arrested and I could lose my teaching license," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a news release.

The teacher is being held pending arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on seven counts of second-degree rape, 14 counts of third-degree sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child, prosecutors said.
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[Ian David]

1. If we paid them more, we'd get teachers who don't take the job just for the sex. n/t

[Ian David]

2. I have a solution.

When a teacher is considering having sex with a student, they should post on Craig's List asking if any adults would like to have sex with them.

That way, they can have sex with an adult, instead of the kid.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. I agree with both of your recommendations.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

4. Coincidentally, we're having the same issue in our neck of the woods

check out www.wwaytv3.com and www.starnewsonline.com

[underpants]

6. Richmond VA football coach- 5 counts turns out it was with 2 girls

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/TUCK20_20090519-223605/268771/

Now, Henrico County police say William Macgregor "Mac" Leighton, 31, faces decades in prison if convicted of five felony charges stemming from a relationship with an underage female student at Tucker that authorities say began that same October.

"We believe the relationship began in October; it came to our attention earlier this year," Henrico police Lt. Doug Perry said.

Leighton surrendered to Henrico police yesterday morning and remained in jail last night without bond. He is expected to make an initial appearance today in Henrico Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

Police said two of the charges allege that Leighton sent text messages from a cell phone soliciting pornographic material from the student. Three additional felony counts allege Leighton took indecent liberties with the same minor while in a custodial role.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Not an epidemic, no, because previous teachers have been really hot.

This is, perhaps, the beginning of a new epidemic.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. That's my take on why MSM hasn't reported these incidents. I started and deleted a reply

about the fact that these teachers aren't the classic "hot" chicks whom students would love to screw.

[BlooInBloo]

8. No, it's just that local news gets covered as national news these days....

Especially if it's titillating.

[melm00se]

9. some jobs/careers

attract folks who have a prurient interest in the population with whom they will be interacting.

For pederasts, schools provide a rich hunting ground so satiate their desires.

[seabeyond]

10. with the internet fuzzy line between adult and teen sexual world of play

i would say this is jsut gonna get more and mroe. we have our kids jumping into adult sex world with both feet and the adult love it and dont hold themselves accountable. free for all

[Strong Atheist]

11. To answer your question: Yes, all teachers are rapists...

:eyes:

:sarcasm:

[get the red out]

12. We just didn't talk about it "back then", wasn't polite!

A lady in her 40s just won a large settlement against the school board in my city for being sexually abused by teachers years ago. http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=10416398&nav=men

I am about the same age as the lady who won the suit, but grew up in a very small town in eastern Kentucky (live in Lexington now). And when I was a teenager there were rumors flying around among us kids that the head of the local school board was having sex with several teenage boys he employed at his business. Some of the information came from the best friend of one of the boys straight to me in a very matter of fact way, like it was ok and should just be common knowledge. We never believed adults around us would believe such a thing possible, though we believed what I was told because several of us had thought the guy's actions toward these other kids we knew were not quite right from our own observation. I don't think anyone with any power in that town, in that era, would have wanted to look very close because of what they might have found and then had to do something about. It would have meant discussion of uncomfortable issues. My best friend's father suspected the guy himself from something he saw the man in question do toward a teenage boy at a youth activity he was chaperoning, and he told us about it, but he never went to any authorities to report it.

I wonder how many cases years ago were never prosecuted because people simply didn't have the mental ability to conceive of it then; or the guts to make it public. Any kids involved would have probably been more worried about what any adults they confided in would have thought of them, rather than thinking something could be done to stop the abuse. I think keeping all things sexual out of public discussion for so long has allowed a lot of predators to roam free.

[okieinpain]

13. hey sorry, but kids today are not like kids from 20 years ago.

I tell my sons all the time I don't know how they made it through school with the way young girls are developed, and i imagine a lot of these female teachers feel the same way about the males.