Teacher goes to jail for sleeping with student

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And what do you think would have been the sentence if it had been a male?

 

This was a comment about that case from where I got this piece:

 

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If anyone doubted the inequality in the legal system between men and

women...well, this is PROOF. If any silly chick says we are exagerrating,

this is clear and open proof. No two ways about it, no doubt about it.

 

Women are a privileged class in America, period. There is a different

standard for them in the legal system.

 

Women are allowed to rape little boys and get off with a slap on the wrist.

Loud and clear.

 

Women are allowed to rape little boys in America.

 

That should be the headline.

 

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Teacher goes to jail for sleeping with student

28-year-old to serve nine months for relationship with 13-year-old

 

MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. - A former elementary school teacher pleaded no contest

to having sex with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy, and has been

sentenced to nine months in jail.

 

Pamela Rogers Turner, 28, entered the plea Thursday, allowing her to avoid a

trial on 28 charges of sexual battery and statutory rape.

 

Turner, who had taught physical education and coached girls basketball for

two years at Centertown Elementary, had trouble speaking as she tried to

enter her plea to four counts of sexual battery stemming from encounters at

the school.

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She was accused of having sex with the boy at his home and at the school,

which runs from kindergarten through eighth grade, between November and

January.

 

“I can’t even talk,” she told Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley.

 

Supervised probation

After Turner is released from jail, she will be on supervised probation for

the rest of an eight-year suspended sentence. The judge also ordered her to

surrender her teaching certificate and said she would be registered as a

child sex offender. The sentence prohibits her from profiting from the case

and does not allow interviews.

 

District Attorney Dale Potter has said Turner lived at the boy’s house “for

a brief period of time when she was moving from residence to residence.”

 

The mother of the teenager in the case previously described Turner as a

family friend and said she hoped there would not be a trial. Potter said

Thursday that was part of the reason for the plea agreement.

 

Turner was a college homecoming queen and basketball player who once

appeared as a bikini-clad promoter for a professional wrestling match. Her

husband, Chris Turner, filed for divorce in January, at the same time she

was indicted.

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