DO NOT JAIL THIS WOMAN!
Posted on 08/01/2006 7:01:16 PM PDT by Rodney King
A Conway Springs High School teacher's assistant has been charged with unlawful sexual relations involving a 17-year-old student and with furnishing alcohol to minors, the Sumner County prosecutor said Tuesday.
The charges accuse Amy D. Pierce, 30, of Conway Springs, of unlawful sexual relations, a felony, Sumner County Attorney Shawn DeJarnett said.
There is no indication the activity outlined in the charge occurred on school grounds, but the 17-year-old is a male student at the high school, DeJarnett said. Unlawful sexual relations is a lower-level felony essentially defined as a situation where a person abuses his or her authority. The sexual relations occurred this past spring semester, he said.
According to DeJarnett, Pierce also is charged with furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor for illicit purposes, a felony. And she is charged with three misdemeanors: unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol or cereal malt beverages and two counts of furnishing a cereal malt beverage to a minor.
The charges, filed Monday, allege that some of the crimes occurred during a party at Pierce's house, he said.
Pierce, who has been ordered to appear in court Aug. 31, couldn't be reached for comment.
No one else has been arrested.
Conway Springs school superintendent Clay Murphy said Pierce has been a teacher's assistant contracted through a special-education agency -- Sedgwick County Area Educational Services Interlocal Cooperative No. 618.
She has been a special-education paraeducator at Conway Springs High since August 2004, said Larry Clark, director of special education with the cooperative. He said he couldn't comment on her current job status.
I'll reserve judgment until I see the woman's picture...
Don't we have to see picture to see if she should be jailed? Seems to be the standard these days.
I admit it- I'm gender biased.
It bothers me a lot less when the student is a 17 year old boy.
courtesy ping
student fantasy ping
Picture? Then I will know what justice she shou;d ne getting.
'should be getting.'
DO NOT JAIL THIS WOMAN!
What's a "special-education paraeducator"? </straightline>
She should demand a Jury Trial!
Because the teacher is in a position of authority and because it is illicit and illegal, it may seem "ok" and "just being a cool young guy" the reality is it affects young boys just as negatively as young girls. It can cause them emotional problems, not the least of which is difficulty in later relationships.
It is a gender bias that does not take into account the reality of male /female relationships and their healthy development. We can joke and make snide remarks now, but for the young man, the problems come about later in terms of anger, rage and just not understanding why he has problems having a happy marital relationship. Then, no one is laughing or snickering.
If the teacher is hot, I'll curse my bad luck for not having been born 15 years later. But if the teacher is an Uglo-American, I'll want her to be jailed for life.
DO NOT JAIL THIS WOMAN!
I won't.
>>We can joke and make snide remarks now, but for the young man, the problems come about later in terms of anger, rage and just not understanding why he has problems having a happy marital relationship. Then, no one is laughing or snickering.<<
That describes a very different experience than I've heard men talk about with respect to an earlier experience with an older woman.
usually, the name Amy implies hot, kinda like the name Heather. (but hey, it is not %100)
'No one else has been arrested.'
Darn, I was hoping for a party time scenario.
It does vary...but the teacher/student relationship makes all the difference.
LOL - oh baby baby baby.
Fire up the electric chair!
That is a term I haven't heard before, but FR Spell-check has two versions, para-educator and para educator. Referring to FR Spell-check is the closest I can come to a gag line, hope it's good enough.
"Special education" usually refers to teaching developmentally disabled students, and I suppose a "paraeducator" would be a teachers aide. The designer job title is probably to suit the terms of a federal taxpayer funded grant, to maximize the number of certified (that means NEA represented) positions funded by said grant. Just a hunch.
As has been said upthread, there is a double standard, and I'm not too het up about this at all. I'd have to see a picture to know about this one, but when I was 17 there were a handful of 30 something teachers and other staff at my school I'd have done in a heartbeat. They wouldn't have had to give me any cereal malt beverages, but I probably would have accepted any that were offered.
Yup, she's guilty
If you're a rightly constructed 17-year-old boy, you don't need one. If it's offered, you'll take it.
Sentence her to weekends - at my place!
She's surrounded by lots of balls.
Unless I'm in the cell too....
Did you have a picture in that post? I don't even get the evil red X on it if you did.
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