Recently a 28 yr. old teacher and well respected head football coach in my county, was caught having sexual relations with a 16 yr. old female student. She was willing. Anyway, he has resigned and now faces 3 different serious offenses in court. By the way, the 16 yr. old girl has a very bad reputation.
Now a 25 yr. old female teacher has resigned at another local county high school after it was found out she had sexual relations with a 17 yr. old male student. She also faces 3 serious charges. I know the 17 yr. old student well.......he is a good athlete, well known, very mature, and lets say.....no saint.
Question: should one or both be registered sex offenders if found guilty in court? I don't know the laws as to what constitutes naming a person a sex offender.
I imagine they will be, but I'm not so sure that they should.
This is where I have a fault with the sex offender registry. . . Say a 19 year old kid is having sex with a 16 year old girl. No big deal, right? But the dad doesn't like the kid, decides to press charges for statutory rape, the kid is found guilty because the girl is underage. His name goes on the sex offender list with the rest of the child molestors and sexual predators and every time he moves somewhere new, that follows him if anyone in that community cares enough to look up the list on the Internet.
I don't think it's right.
Save the sex offender registry for rapists and child molesters.
That doesn't make the actions of those teachers right... they should be fired. But I don't think they should serve jail time unless it could be proven that they used their position of authority to pressure the kids into having sex.
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You know, this brings up an interesting thought. Would you be angry at the guys banging your daughter and congratulate your son for scoring with an older woman? Both situations are illegal right? Do we feel more protective of girls than of boys? I ask this because I place myself in the shoes of a parent that their 16 year old daughter is out banging the teaching and coaching staff and would be very outraged at these guys - to the point where I may have to do "something" about it. On the other hand, if this happened to my son, I would more than likely beat the daylights out of him letting him know how stupid of a thing he was doing and the dangers he's flirting with, but really wouldn't be all that mad at the woman. Yeah, I'd be mad at her sure, but not the same anger I'd have against the guys doing this to my daughter.
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Illinois law makes 18 the minimum age at which teachers and their students may legally have sex. Age 17 does not apply to teachers or any other schoolemployee in a "position of authority" over the minor.
There's the law.
BTW, Many States have what is called a Romeo and Juliet laws,which would negate an example like Ben's.
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Bob, it's a double standard for sure but one that I think is natural and would be shared by every father on this board. We tend to be more protective of our daughters. I think the main reason for that is, when it comes to sexual relationships, we generally think of males as persuers of sexual relations and not girls. Of course that isn't true; girls can certainly play the main role in bringing about these types of relationships. We just don't tend to think that way.
If it were my 16-year-old daugther, I would be furious. . . With BOTH of them. I would be especially furious with the teacher, I know. But I hope I would have enough self-control to stop and realize that, at 16 years old, a girl is plenty old enough to make her own decision and if she picked the wrong one, it is likely tha the main reason is because I failed in parenting somewhere along the line, or that she simply made a terrible decision, or both.
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A person 16 or 17 may consent to sexual activity with a person not more than 59 months (4 years 11 months) older. For example it is illegal for a 21 year old to have sex with a 16 year old; it is illegal for a 22 year old to have sex with a 17 year old. Also it is illegal for any school employee to hav consensual sexual contact with a student between age 16 and high school graduation, so age 16 does not apply to school employees.
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