not again...

[delSol]

unreal, time and time again, ugh!

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,146797,00.html


Tenn. Teacher Accused of Sleeping With 13-Year-Old Student

Wednesday, February 09, 2005



McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — A Warren County elementary teacher has been charged with having a sexual relationship with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy.

Pamela Rogers Turner (search), 27, was charged Monday with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape (search). All the charges involved the same boy.

Turner teaches physical education and coached girls basketball at Centertown Elementary, a Warren County school with grades kindergarten through eight in McMinnville.

District Attorney General Dale Potter said investigators believe some of the offenses happened at the school and some at the boy's home.

Turner lived at the boy's house "for a brief period of time when she was moving from residence to residence," Potter said Tuesday. The boy's parents knew she was living there but didn't know anything about a sexual relationship, Potter said.

Potter declined to comment on the nature of the relationship between Turner and her student, but he said investigators discovered multiple acts of sexual intercourse.

"It's attracting attention because it's a female teacher, and that's a little out of the ordinary," Potter said. "But for us, a sex abuse case is a sex abuse case."

Turner was recently divorced from Chris Turner, who is the head boys basketball coach at Warren County High School, according to the Southern Standard newspaper in McMinnville.

Turner was arrested Monday in Clarkrange, her hometown in Fentress County about 55 miles northeast of McMinnville, Potter said.

Conviction on all counts could be punished by up to 100 years in prison. But Potter said it was more likely that a conviction would mean a minimum of a year to several years in prison.

Arraignment was set for Feb. 23.

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[gal3m]

Geez...can these people not find others of their own age to sleep with (or at least over 18)? :rolleyes: Some people are just screwed up in the head....

[Tadbit]

Every time I hear about one of these episodes, it makes me sick.Plain and simple this is not right. You'd think a teacher of all people would know better, but I guess there are some people out there that just don't know or care what they are doing to these kids emotionally. I have heard about two male teachers in just the past month who have done the same thing. Makes you wonder if they don't get into the teaching field just so they can get close to these kids. Maybe there should be strickter guidlines for teachers, but I think because good teachers are hard to find, (due to a lack in pay) that schools are desperate and take what they can get. Just a thought. :eek:

[DAVESBABYDOLL]

Good Lord :rolleyes:

[iluvmybaby]

My lil bro is 13 this Friday, it makes me sick to think about a teacher seducing an innocent teenager, they are just becoming aware of themsselves and their bodies so it makes them easy prey

[YYounghouse]

sick.
sick
sick.

I read in a teacher mag. recently that the reson behind the "surge" in female on male "incidents" is directly related to those females being abused by authority figures when they were young.( doesn't make it right) One part really stood out for me- it was something to the effect of " The victims we feel so sorry for now, so often turn out to be the predators later." and
" The predators we hate, were so often victims we would have cried for." This is a crime that creates offenders.

sad
sad
sad
sad

[schsa]

This is no different to me than a pedophile. Any adult who takes advantage of any child should be jailed. Pure and simple.

[joni1269]

I heard about this one the news last night, and sadly I wasn't suprised. This is becoming all too common. Sick.

[YYounghouse]

This is no different to me than a pedophile. Any adult who takes advantage of any child should be jailed. Pure and simple.

they ARE pedophiles
same law
same crime.

yuck.