Posted on 08/04/2006 9:44:23 AM PDT by Smogger
No one would dare try to paint all teachers as molestors as they have tried to paint all Catholic priests.
If only teachers were allowed to marry.
If only teachers were allowed to marry.
LOL! Thank you, you made my day!
The scathing indictments of the Catholic Church were mainly for the cover-ups and enabling the molestors to continue.
As for this case, something is very, very wrong with the way children are being raise, when over 100 in this age range are molested by a single teacher before one child finally reports it. My scathing indictment here is for the parents of all the kids who didn't report it. Since this guy was teaching a 10 year old in the case we know about, it's doubtful that any of his substitute teaching assignments were at the preschool level, so we're talking abotu children of an age that they should know this is way wrong and needs to be reported. Maybe some of them did tell their parents, and the parents ignored it. Mega-scathing indictment for any parents in that category.
And no, I'm not ignoring the fact that the perv is the chief offender here, but if a society is going to raise children in a way that the overwhelming majority of them won't sound the alarm when a perv does this sort of thing to them, that society is rolling out the welcome mat for pervs.
He'll be free in less than a year, the way the government runs things he will fall through the cracks.
As far as I know, there is no public school teacher child molester database within the US, never mind internationally. I'll go out on a limb and attribute this to the NEA.
Actually, when my mother started teaching many years ago, female teachers were not allowed to marry. If they did they were fired. Explains why there were so many "old maids" in the ranks of teachers when us old folks were younguns.
Given the first definition of molest, I think it's possible to molest millions. Al Franken annoys me everytime I see him on TV.
1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy.
2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity.
Executions are too good for these creeps
Uh, it's not *that* Ontario.
why would anyone want another Ontario?? One is too many =o)
Dear GovernmentShrinker,
"The scathing indictments of the Catholic Church were mainly for the cover-ups and enabling the molestors to continue."
This fellow molests upwards of a couple of hundred kids, and you think no one at all in his places of employment had any idea whatsoever that something's not right?
The fact is, estimates are that there are perhaps 100,000 children per year molested in public schools. Do you think that in large numbers of these cases there isn't someone looking the other way? That strains belief.
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In some cases there are no doubt people looking the other way. But not people who publicly hold themselves out to be guardians of Catholic/Christian faith and morals. I think it's perfectly normal for people to be more appalled by a Catholic bishop or archbishop actively covering up child molestation and helping arrange tranfers of known molestors to new locations where they'll have access to more victims, than by some public school educrat not bothering to report suspicions.
In this particular case, the guy didn't have "a place of employment", he was working in many different schools on an irregular schedule as a substitute teacher. In that situation I don't find it hard to believe that none of his temporary or permanent superiors knew about his activities, especially since we're talking about a school district or districts where apparently over 100 elementary and/or middle school aged children can be molested without a single one of them reporting it to a parent who would in turn call police and raise a massive ruckus.
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