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Poindexter alert: Arrested teacher to challenge sex with student law.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by JayFarrar, May 16, 2008.

  1. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    If she's not HIS teacher, I think she can raise a hell of a legal fuss.
     
  2. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    The law says "with a student," not "his or her student." Seems cut and dried.
     
  3. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    That's why you take shit to The Supreme Court.

    To ... moisten the issue.

    18-year-old is an adult in our culture.

    There is plenty of legal argument.
     
  4. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    On first glance, she had a faint Johansen-esque cast to her face.
     
  5. fremont

    fremont Member

    Even if she loses her suit, the kid's still her little brother.
     
  6. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    No, because there's always the possibility that she may become his teacher. And the authority figure role is constant. Any teacher at a school can discipline a student, or not discipline a student, as the case may be.
     
  7. AgatePage

    AgatePage Active Member

    Similar trial plays out in Atlanta -- and the teacher wins, based on state law. http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/it-s-gross-but-232336.html?imw=Y
     
  8. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    I had an old high school friend of mine who was arrested for pulling this crap--he was 26 and a substitute teacher, she was 17. I heard the news and wasn't surprised. He would poke anyone with a pulse.

    I haven't talked to him in 10 years so I never got his side of the story. Always wondered...
     
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