It's not just for teachers: Female psychologist, 32; boy, 14

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=677430&newsdate=4/4/2008
Psychologist pleads not guilty to rape

By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer
Last updated: 11:05 a.m., Wednesday, April 2, 2008

TROY -- A 32-year-old psychologist Wednesday pleaded not guilty this morning to felony charges of raping a 14-year-old Tamarac High School freshman on days she was counseling him.


Jennifer A. Hastings of Sand Lake was arraigned before Judge Patrick McGrath. She and her attorney, Steven Coffey, did not comment after the court appearance. Hastings, who quit her $52,426-a-year job as a court-assigned counselor for the teenager, is free on bail.

Last Friday she was indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury on second-degree rape and criminal sex act felony charges and endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse misdemeanors. Police said the relationship turned sexual during September and October last year. Trysts allegedly occurred at the Brunswick school, in a parking lot across Route 2 from the school, in Schodack and Colonie motels and at Hastings' Sheer Road home.

She allegedly took the boy to a hotel in Colonie but has yet to be indicted by an Albany County grand jury.

 

Poin --
Beat cop on the wild side.

 

BORRRRRIIIIING!

Give me some hot teachers for a change.

 

"Shelly, this is Brunella at the desk. There's a boy down here to see Fawn!"

 

Nice....

 

It probably seems especially creepy because she's his psychologist. Her ability to manipulate someone is probably well above that of a teacher or Patty the Daytime Hooker.


That said, where were all the horny older chicks when I was in high school, dammit?

 

I think that is exactly it. This kid is sent to this woman for help and her response is to take advantage of him. Plus, he's only 14.

I sometimes wonder about these stories of a guy being "emotionally scarred" by having sex with a teacher when he is 16 or 17 years old, but this is a whole different matter.

 

My cousin killed himself in high school because he was jilted by his same-age girlfriend.

My best friend had a knife to his wrist when his girlfriend dumped him. I'm sure everyone has stories of a buddy being emotionally dependent.

I imagine the percentages get higher in these types of relationships.

I think it's wrong to assume that many of these boys are only getting sex from their teachers or, in this instance, their psychologist. I'm sure many of them are emotionally dependent.

There's lots of emotionally unstable boys who could hurt themselves when they're eventually discarded by an older woman - "the best thing they ever had."

 

Most of the psychologists I know are whack jobs whose personal lives are a mess.

 

How does that make you feel?