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Recently, in Marshfield, Missouri an female ex-teacher got sentenced for having a lesbian sex affair with a 14-year old student. The interesting twist is that you don't hear a whole lot about lesbian sex crimes, especially involving minors.
http://www.ky3.com/news/local/exteacher-heads-to-sex-offender-program-likely-followed-by-probation/21048998_36843614
Now, this ex-teacher is getting off very light. She will be sent to the Sex Offender Assessment unit for evaluation before the judge makes his final decision in whether to grant her probation. For those of you who do not know, the SOAU is pretty much a joke unless you have mental illness or developmental disabilities. For those who do not, it is guaranteed they will get a recommendation for probation.
Although it is suppose to be a 120-day evaluation, it is very unlikely she will spend more than a week, maybe two if they are over crowed in the program and then she will be sent back to the diagnostic prison she came from to await the judges decision, which usually happens fairly quickly. If the judge says yes, she will be out of prison inside of a month from when she went into prison.
Under the terms of the contract that the mental health folks operate to conduct the evaluations, they are required to recommend the court deny probation for anyone with mental illness or developmental disabilities regardless if they are a high risk or not. Thus, the system and those running it are predisposed against the person and the courts are kept in the dark about this fact.
The courts are kept in the dark because (1) the courts do not know about the contract provision and thus that they are getting a tainted evaluation report and recommendation, and (2) the sex offender is not permitted to address the court about the evaluation, evaluation, and to aid in their defense to obtain probation.
http://www.ky3.com/news/local/exteacher-heads-to-sex-offender-program-likely-followed-by-probation/21048998_36843614
Now, this ex-teacher is getting off very light. She will be sent to the Sex Offender Assessment unit for evaluation before the judge makes his final decision in whether to grant her probation. For those of you who do not know, the SOAU is pretty much a joke unless you have mental illness or developmental disabilities. For those who do not, it is guaranteed they will get a recommendation for probation.
Although it is suppose to be a 120-day evaluation, it is very unlikely she will spend more than a week, maybe two if they are over crowed in the program and then she will be sent back to the diagnostic prison she came from to await the judges decision, which usually happens fairly quickly. If the judge says yes, she will be out of prison inside of a month from when she went into prison.
Under the terms of the contract that the mental health folks operate to conduct the evaluations, they are required to recommend the court deny probation for anyone with mental illness or developmental disabilities regardless if they are a high risk or not. Thus, the system and those running it are predisposed against the person and the courts are kept in the dark about this fact.
The courts are kept in the dark because (1) the courts do not know about the contract provision and thus that they are getting a tainted evaluation report and recommendation, and (2) the sex offender is not permitted to address the court about the evaluation, evaluation, and to aid in their defense to obtain probation.
And the eval is just wrong! Why won't they allow people to address it?
It is this disparity in sentencing that bothers me.
The lady in the article did not receive, in my opinion, a particularly light sentence for her crime. People might read this article and think that this young lady got off with just a slap on the wrist, but I do not agree.
She has lost her teacher's license, which is a huge blow to her. She worked hard for her degree and now she can no longer use that degree; this will impair her financially for the rest of her life. Whether she should have lost her teacher's license is not the point here. The fact is that she did and it will be something on her mind for many years.
She will now have to register as a sex offender. This is no small task as we can all attest. The article even mentioned a possible probationary term, and sex offender probation is very difficult.
We have a bad habit in this country in rendering out sentences that have lifetime, perpetual punishment for offenders. These sentences which result in a lifetime punishment serves no real purpose----it is bad for the offender and bad for society in general.
Speaking of the difference in terms of the sentence only. look at what this woman received. My friend frogpond from this very board alerted me to this case. They not only threw the book at this young lady, but they threw the entire library at her.
http://tinyurl.com/nasw58r
The two cases, while not exactly alike, are similar enough that there is no reason for such a disparity in sentencing. And yes, the double standard between a man and a woman in these situations only makes the sentencing differences more obvious.
Our criminal justice system and court system is certainly on life support.
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Losing her teacher's license is not part of the sentence. It is required by law and taken away by the state board that licenses teacher's. It is the natural consequence of her conduct, and one that men sustain no less, as they should.
As far as the evaluation program. Missouri government officials do a whole lot of really dirty and fraudulent things to make sure sex offenders with mental illness and developmental disabilities stay locked up for as long as humanly possible. Concealing things from the court is status quo business in Missouri where it involves sex offenders with disabilities.
Yeah, after I posted my reply, I understood that the being placed on the sex offender registry and losing her teaching degree was not part of the sentence, so you are correct.
Her sentence is indeed much, much lighter than a man would ever receive. That is obvious.
But I think anyone convicted of a sex offense will undoubtedly suffer greatly if for no other reasons than the collateral damage from the offense i.e. the registry, many times lifetime registration, and possibly other factors such as losing any professional licenses.
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I just read that a man in AZ (a Sex offender sentenced to a zillion years) committed suicide (supposing he wasn't strung up and the officials are saying it was suicide)(assuming he didn't commit suicide at the thought of dying in prison but over how he was going to be forever mis-treated by other prisoners and guards alike) even (assuming he wasn't a Bible beater who killed himself because he thought he deserved to die) ? Where is the justice?
As far as LDS Utah is concerned...male homosexual no matter what their crime get long sentences because they are endangering not only the freedom but the baptism and next life possibilities of everyone concerned ( even the children in same sex marriages are excommunicated never mind the families of male same-sex sex offenders)
However...in general in the US
1) Young Boys who are "treated like girls" by males are expected to believe that being vulnerable to rape means they wanted it / chose homosexuality and were "girls/ homosexual" anyway so what's the fuss?
2) Young girls "treated like girls" / raped (but not lucky enough to get a shot-gun wedding)are told they wanted it, caused it by flirting ( aka lying little sluts) so...what's the big deal.
3) Young boys molested by a female are told they "got lucky" and should brag about their conquest because they were "initiated" had b*lls enough to start treating girls like girls early on...hence the frontier tradition of taking your son to a local whore house ?
4) Young girls "treated like girls" by an older woman must have wanted to engage in ( lesbian) sex all along? But then since in Utah they hate homosexuals en mass but law makers seem confused by same or young marriage/ or same sex anything there probably wasn't a law on the books against a woman sleeping with a young girl without benefit of penetration. Who would ever have thought???
(just like years ago in NV a guy stole a body from a funeral home and had sex but there was no law against necrophilia at the time in NV so they had to charge him with theft..)
Might as well laugh as cry (or commit suicide rather than be repeatedly raped in prison in AZ?) .LOL