Would A Male Teacher Have Got Off So Lightly?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2598934/Infatuated-woman-teacher-26-took-16-year-old-pupil-hotel-break-sex-school-training-weekend.html

[dave50]

Let's stop pretending it's exactly the same offence whether it be male teacher on female pupil or the other way round. It isn't. Any boy at 16 who finds themselves fortunate to be having sex with an attractive older teacher is going to think all his Christmas's have come at once and to put her on the sexual offenders register is just plain ridiculous.

[ummmm]

It's not about that, Dave.

[hc4361]

And he was taking indecent photos of her when she was under 16.

[EcclesCake]

Why doesn't that premise also apply to a girl?

[hc4361]

dave, I'm sure there are 16 year old girls who feel the same but whether it is boy or girl it is wrong for a teacher to get involved with a pupil.

[pixie373]

It's that thought by dave which is why this happens. We are much more protective of girls and assume boys want it, and girls are persuaded into it. Old-fashioned, but many still think that way.

[emmie]

does seem strange to me, as had she been a male teacher surely he would have gone to jail.

[hc4361]

Emmie, the much older male teacher in my link didn't go to prison, despite taking indecent photos of his 15 year old pupil and having sex with her at 16.

[emmie]

she broke the rules, it should be an absolute rule, no teacher, pupil fraternisation, sexual misconduct, that doing so will land you in jail, male or female, teens do get crushes, but the teachers are supposedly the adults and have a duty, responsibility to handle this properly.
and if she hounded the boy then don't see why she isn't doing time.

[emmie]

then he should have done.

[Old_Geezer]

Where were these teachers when I was 16 ?
Still maybe they realised you can't trust a 16 year old to keep mum.

[hc4361]

Surely you'd left school by the time you were 16, OG. Probably down a pit or up a chimney or something :D

[jno]

it says in the article "She had previously admitted four charges of abuse of trust – sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 17."

Presumably in the case of teachers and pupils the age of consent must be 18. On the whole, I think that makes sense - an 18-year-old might well be at university.

[sp1814]

I'm going to try and write this, without using any offensive terms...here goes.

I think the reason why the law treats female teachers differently from male teachers when they have committed the same crime, is that deep down, the law is reflecting what so many seem to think.

A 16 year old lad who comes home and reveals that he has had sex with his 25 year old (female) teacher will not normally get the same reaction if the sexes were swapped.

Boys and girls are just not treated the same.

There is no female equivalent of the term 'sowing your wild oats'.

Blokes who sleep with many woman are called studs.

Women who sleep with many men are called something quite derogatory (and there are many different words for these women).

Therefore it's not a great leap to the idea that male teachers and female teachers will not be treated the same when engaging in sexual relations with teenagers in their charge.

Perhaps the reason why it's not equitable, is because *we* are not equitable.

Also, in this case, the relative ages of the teacher and the boy may have had a bearing.