Why Was This Female Paedophile Not Sent To Jail?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4148038/PE-teacher-31-affair-15-year-old-schoolboy.html

If it had been a male teacher, I am sure that he would have been sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence, and quite rightly so.

[anotheoldgit]

Meaning of “paedophile” in the English Dictionary.​

/// someone who is sexually interested in children ///

Who can be described as a child.

/// England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland each have their own guidance for organisations to keep children safe. They all agree that a child is anyone who is under the age of 18. ///

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-protection-system/legal-definition-child-rights-law/legal-definitions/

[andy-hughes]

As I understand it, the term 'paedophile' is used to describe someone who has a sexual interest in a pre-pubescent child -

Pedophilia - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children..

[jno]

and yet the age of consent in Britain is 16, so "child sex" is legal here?

The boy in this case was 15. That is less troubling than if he'd been 13, which is less troubling than if he'd been 3.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// AOG - he groomed her. That's the difference. ///

All depends on what is classed as grooming, don't you think that this teacher not only groomed her pupil, but like the footballer used her position to do so?

Or do you have a more romantic explanation for their 'togetherness', such as "their eyes met over a crowded classroom and that was it, love at first sight".

Pardon me while I wipe the tears from my eyes.

[mikey4444]

Oh God....here we go !

[mikey4444]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

You chose Wikipedia, yet I chose the English Oxford Dictionary a slight difference maybe?

[Islay]

Within law enforcement in order to be classed as a paedophile the victim has to be 13 and under over that the abuser is not classed as a paedophile.

This has been explain to you several times AOG that I know of!

[jno]

careful, aog, you're trolling your own thread.

Yes, there could have been an element of grooming in this case. But we will probably never know because the panel who banned the teacher seems to have heard only her own side of the story, and with no court case we won't hear the boy's.

[mikey4444]

"Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.[1][2] Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12,[3] criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.[1] A person who is diagnosed with pedophilia must be at least 16 years old, but adolescents must be at least five years older than the prepubescent child for the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophili"

Its disappointing AOG that this has been explained many times before but you still refuse to take it in !

[Mamyalynne]

It's not wise to compare cases and use 'what ifs' - wiser to let those with all the facts make the decisions.

Of course we may disagree with them but comparisons get us nowhere.

[anotheoldgit]

Here's the difference approach.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1478977.html

[Islay]

What is that supposed to prove AOG?

[EDDIE51]

The pupil refused to press charges!
So she has not been convicted or even charged with any criminal offence! so there is no sentence as there is no conviction.
She has just been banned from teaching by her professional organisation.

[EDDIE51]

It really would help if you actually read articles before posting your views on here!
I do not condone what she did, but as there was NO criminal conviction or even a charge how was it possible for her to be put in prison?

[Deskdiary]

Granted it's going back to the late 1990s, but Graham Rix had consensual sex with a 15 year old, who was just shy of her 16th birthday and was described as mature for her age. She arranged to meet him the night before a Chelsea match at his hotel.

I seem to recall there was the suggestion that she had told Rix that she was older than 15.

He served six months in Wandsworth.

I accept the devil is in the detail, but at first blush the two situations appear similar.

[youngmafbog]

Seems many on here are more worried about the use of the word paedophile than the crime of a teacher abusing an underage child.

I dont see that plod would have to wait for charges to be pressed by a schoolboy. That doesn't sit quite right.

[mikey4444]

YMB....I don't really understand that bit either. Perhaps New Judge could give us the benefit of his knowledge here.

[dannyk13]

YMB
If the schoolboy won't press charges then there is no evidence.