Very Surprised This Teacher Is Not In Prison

[hc4361]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714108/Paedophile-primary-school-teacher-sniffed-tickled-pupils-feet-sexual-thrill-walks-FREE-court.html

[hc4361]

pixie, I imagine most parents have tickled their children. I used to blow raspberries on my children's bare bottoms and tummies when they were very little. That is not the same thing at all.

Children do not have to be hurt, disturbed or frightened to be victims of sexual assault, neither do adults.

[pixie373]

No? What constitutes abuse, then? I am trying to genuinely think about it, without a knee-jerk reaction, but i can't see tickling a child's feet as abusive. I think it's sad that we are at the point we can't give a child a comforting hug, for instance. Where do we stop?

[Orderlimit]

"What constitutes abuse, then? "

This particular case is about sexual abuse, the unlawful and indecent assault of children by touching their feet for perverted self-sexual gratification. For this serious offence, its about why he was touching them.

These predators are extremely dangerous, their perversions are likely to escalate and they are unlikely to ever be fully rehabilitated.

[Canary42]

None of the teachers who spanked me when I was a child have been prosecuted (and nor would they have been had I tried to) - but I would have much preferred they had tickled my feet.

[hc4361]

Pixie, had he asked your permission to tickle your child's feet for sexual kicks would you have given it?

Canary42, were the teachers who spanked you doing so with the proper authority of the school and within the law at that time? I do know of a teacher who was spanking boys' bare bottoms for sexual thrills who got a prison sentence.

[Canary42]

I'm 72 - you do the maths.

[ludwig]

I don't think he abused the children. There could well be teachers out there that get a pervy thrill from teaching algebra, but that doesn't mean we should jail them for doing it.

[pixie373]

....as Ludwig says. If they asked to do anything for sexual thrills, my instinct would obviously be to say no. However, if a friend or family has tickled my child's feet, i would not feel offended in any way. The motivation is purely adult interpretation. It's the effect it might have on the child that matters and i think finding out your teacher had been imprisoned for it would cause more stress and confusion to the child.

[anotheoldgit]

Along with most I totally agree with jno, although rather strange and something that should not have been carried out by someone in his position, it is not sexual assault, no matter what was going through his mind when he carried these acts out.

If ticking and smelling a child's feet is a a paedophile sexual act, then most parents would now be on the sexual offenders list, because how many have not tickled their children's feet or smelt their child's socks and uttered the word pooh!!!!!! causing much amusement to their child.

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// I do know of a teacher who was spanking boys' bare bottoms for sexual thrills who got a prison sentence. ///

How did they know what the teacher was thinking about when he spanked the boy's bare bottoms?

[hc4361]

Because the teacher had his own trousers round his ankles at the time, AOG

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// Because the teacher had his own trousers round his ankles at the time,
AOG ///

Then why didn't you mention that fact at the time?

Sorry but I am now thinking that you have made the whole of it up?

[pixie373]

I didn't know that either!