Posted on 02/21/2005 8:05:45 PM PST by wjersey
Riverside, N.J., Feb. 21, 2005 — Sources say the 14-year-old boy having an affair with a teacher is cooperating with police, but is reluctant to divulge details for fear of getting her in more trouble. Action News has been told the boy is in love with the teacher, who is ten years older, and that the two even talked of marriage.
Gail Nottie/STORE OWNER: "I can't understand it, I can't see what a women would see in a child."
People are still in shock about the arrest Friday of a substitute teacher at Riverside High School for allegedly having an affair with a fourteen-year-old student.
Twenty-four-year-old Angela Stellwag, the daughter of Delran Mayor Joseph Stellwag, has been charged with sexual assault. Police say the two met in 2003 at Beverly City school when he was an eighth grader, and Stellwag was a substitute. Students there say there was lots of talk.
Mychalynn Bryant/STUDENT: "He would always stay after school with her and like people just started getting suspicious."
Gabrielle Hensley/Student: "One time I was at Sub Shack and I seen them up there, and they were making out in the car, and 'Wow'."
Efforts to contact Stellwag and her attorney were unsuccessful authorities have seized e-mails and love notes between the teacher and teen as evidence.
Attorney Mike Riley represent the boy and his family and says the fourteen-year-old is having a difficult time.
Mike Riley/VICTIM'S ATTORNEY: "The young man is not in a position where he has the legal capacity to give legal consent.... The shock of this relationship being exposed, the intense news interest in the relationship, the fact that he obviously has feelings for this young lady. It's a very distressing and disturbing situation he finds himself in."
At the deli down the street from Riverside High, people are shaking their heads.
Sal Notte/STORE OWNER: "Now whether she's guilty or not, I don't want to judge anybody, but it's just a horrible thing that happened."
Hey, she's just trying to get her "Biography" on A&E, like LaTourneau. I mean, hey, they we're in love, right?
Male or female, a pedophile is a pedophile.
Say what?!?!?! I do not see the connection between this and Islam, was this teacher Muslim?
Yes that's what I don't understand. I would not want this for my son. It's not God's best.
Does look a little different, tho.
My guess is there are far more predators and pedophiles in today's public schools, so many it will make the Catholic Church priest scandals pale in comparison.
Course, this national scandal won't get the light of day in the lamestream media, since teachers unions are all controlled by the DemonRats.
Good grief. We actually have someone defending this? Teachers and students having sex?
Incredible.
So it would be ok with you if this female teacher were a lesbian and trying to make out with your 14 year old daughter or neice?
The standards are different. Men do stuff, women have stuff done to them. Different gender roles are a hallmark of Christianity. Making all standards identical is biologically impossible and an abhorrent push toward androgeny.
If you want religious context, I am Catholic and Christ saves both sexes for their bad choices. We're all expected to fall and be redeemed.
Besides.. the feminazis want equal treatment under the law, right?
I would be very interested in seeing their course studies from college and looking for commonality, my personal guess is one of the social science courses.
Even if we ignored the fact that the kid IS a minor, this falls under the definitions of Sexual harassment since the ability of a teacher to influence the kids grades, thus future, is implicit in her position.
"What the hell is going on?"
It's that time of the millenium.
God no.
Teenage male + 20-something female = OK. Any other combination should be (stay) a crime.
That's some kind of joke, right?
That's a lameass excuse for excusing immorality in boys. You need to go back to religious education and learn about chastity. You can't have it both ways.
No, I don't think that is why they would increase, assuming they are increasing. You might say porn is a cause or an effect though.
This type of idiotic statement is actually enabling to a pedophile ...
No, not a pedophile
Men are different than women.
Not another one!
Fer cryin' out loud! Do we need to issue 5hp Briggs & Stratton powered "marital aids" to every graduating education major?
not a pedophile and men are different women... I don't get it. You don't think women can abuse boys?
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