No Mention On Ab....

[agchristie]

Could it be because she is not a highly paid footballer?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3599297/Married-geography-teacher-27-sex-16-year-old-pupil-car-six-month-affair-started-propositioned-giving-lift-home.html

[mikey4444]

She deserved all she got. Teachers are in a position of trust, and she betrayed that position....big time.

[anneasquith]

Well you have mentioned it now.

[anotheoldgit]

No and no mention of her being a paedophile either.

Yet another example of how females in such cases are treated more lenient than males.

[Togo]

Well done for raising the post ag. I am sure that had a male ABer done so, he would have been tainted by the more strident as a typical male chauvinist. Only a 12 month sentence mind.

[agchristie]

Is this case somehow any lesser than the Johnson matter. She is/was a teacher as Mikey says.

Where is the wider media comment too?

Where is the discussion about the child's behaviour? (again, refer to Johnson).

Why did Adam Johnson, child groomer, stir up so much debate and howls of 'injustice' and 'derision'?

[Prudie]

Anyone, of any age, who has sex with a 16 year old boy is NOT a paedophile.

[ummmm]

What Prudie says...

[Togo]

//Cox – known as Miss Dunlop until her marriage during the grooming campaign – met the boy when he was 13.
She would give him sweets but initiated a sexual affair after he turned 16.//

Calculating too.

[anotheoldgit]

Prudie

Try telling that to the newspapers.

/// Disgraced paedophile footballer Adam Johnson to be jailed today for up to 10
years ///

[jno]

Johnson had sex with a 15-year-old, didn't he? I don't call that paedophilia, but it's under age. This case wasn't.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....I agree that this stupid and calculating woman isn't a paedophile in the dictionary definition of the word, but its obvious to everybody that she is an abuser.

If she had been a male teacher, grooming a 13 years old girl, there would be far more uproar about the affair.

[anotheoldgit]

It was still sex with a child apparently.

/// The married teacher, who last month admitted five counts of sex with a child in her charge, ///

[Islay]

sigh!

I do wish that the media and some on here would learn the correct usage of the word paedophile!

[DTCwordfan]

So do I, Islay, so called intelligent folk often getting the definition wrong. However, in this case it did begin with grooming from aged 13, the case getting it bang on with 'sex with someone under her charge' - effectively, teachers take on a care of 'in loco parentis' with their charges.

[agchristie]

I know each case has to be judged on its own merits but my point remains that the reporting and reactions are very different when an 'ordinary' person is involved compared to a celebrity or more well known person. The implication being that a more well known person is expected to behave differently or somehow must be perceived as being treated unfairly.

[jno]

a different charge from the one Johnson faced, aog. The age limit for ths particular one - involving being in a position of trust - is 18. Johnson just faced a regular charge of underage sex, which involved the usual age of consent, 16.

[agchristie]

AOG > Yet another example of how females in such cases are treated more lenient than males.

Maybe because in this case Cox pleaded guilty to five counts and thus received a lesser sentence.

In contrast, Adam Johnson, denied two of the charges against him and was even rebuked by the judge for his attutude during the proceedings.

[AB Editor]

Hi AG - you've mentioned it, that's very much the point of this section. We encourage people to add good headlines for the news story they want to comment on. Please give it a go next time rather than casting aspersions on the congregation!

[-Talbot-]

There is no difference in a scumbag grooming a 10 year old or a 13 year old they are both paedophiles in my dictionary.

[agchristie]

Ed - my apologies for the weak headline. Certainly wasn't my intention to be accusatory towards the AB community and can see on reflection that my choice of words could have been far better.

Point taken and will do better next time.