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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, three years in prison, amongst far more frightening predators, is really going to teach him a lesson. [/quote]

Yeah three years in prison plus a lifetime as a registered sex offender (no future jobs with kids or really any responsible job at all) is no joke. People just want to see the villain of the month tortured to death on live TV and nothing short of that satisfies them[/quote]

Let’s be real - he’s not going to do 3 years. Maybe he’ll do 1.5 years. When he gets out, he may be able to teach again because employers don’t always check references.  So may be he doesn’t teach in a public school system, but he teaches at a private Christian school in Alabama, where they think nothing of older men dating young women (so not a big deal that you can even run for Senate with that kind of background - Hello Roy Moore).  Many will say that one girl was 18 and it was co sensual so it wasn’t a crime. Some will say the other girl was 17 and so what he did wasn’t a crime in their state, etc.  Or maybe he will teach in an international school.

I’m not saying that what happened to these girls wasn’t a crime - it was.  But, as a country, we don’t have laws to prevent it adequately in all states, let alone have a community attitude that supports women when they speak up and investigates and prosecutes (Hello MD - where we argued for some legislation to criminalize coach-student relations and it was held up in committee with an anonymous hold).

If you think three years in prison plus lifetime sex offender status is akin to being tortured to death, you are part of the problem - the problem that slaps these predators on the wrist, if at all, and then only after extreme persistence on the part of reporting women.

Hopefully that is changing. [/quote]

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