Music teacher Helen Goddard jailed for lesbian affair with pupil

The Times (London) ^ | September 21, 2009 | Times On Line Story Monkey

[gimme1ibertee]

And the UK wants to lower the age of consent to 13???????

Well,muhammad took 6-year-olds to bed,and since the UK is being taken over by Muslims.....Who's to say what the age of consent may end up being?

[Wyatt's Torch]

Definitely Not Guilty. All she needs is some sex therapy.

That should lick the problem she has.

Agree and LMFAO!!!

[gimme1ibertee]

A convicted sex offender is permitted to contact the victim.THAT'S what's wrong with it-lovers or not.
She was a underage victim at the time of the offense.
I guess what i'm saying is,why even register this person as a sex offender if all is forgiven and the offender and the victim decide to resume a relationship? Sounds dumb to me.

[GraceG]

Age of Consent should be Equal to age of first drivers license / alcohol/smoking. It should be a rite of passage to adult hood. Personally I think all of the consent legal etc ages should be 18 with conditions.

You graduate from High school, you are an adult. Either that or make the legal ages be Graduation day from high school if you are already 18 or your 18th birthday if you have already graduated. If they fail to graduate they have to wait till they are 20 or 21 years of age.

Give kids an incentive to at least Graduate!

[the scotsman]

Again, you make the mistake of equating everything to America.

16 is also the permissible leaving age in Britain for education. You can leave school at 16, and either work or go to local college. Or stay on either one or two more years (’5th and 6th year’ in Scotland and NI,’5th and 6th form’ in England and Wales) and complete higher level exams which allow passage to university or advanced college courses.

The age of smoking is now 18 here, but only changed recently from 16.

Driving?.....17 is the earliest.

So here in Britain:

16-—legal to have sex (straight or gay), legal to work, legal to leave education, legal to go to college, legal to get married without parental consent in Scotland (consent needed in rest of UK), legal to join the armed forces (cannot serve in a war until 17 though) or police (as a junior cadet)

17—legal to drive, legal to go to university

18-—legal adult, so you are free to drink, rent a property, get a mortgage/credit card/loan etc etc etc....

[the scotsman]

Oh, I agree.

I am just pointing out the loophole in the law that probably informed the judge’s decision. Probably a case of they wanted to, but the law says they cant.

[Hot Tabasco]

and where the heck was she when I was in high school

In bed with your ex-girlfriend......

[Candor7]

Staccatto triple tonguing at that. Ever hear flight of the bumble bee on a trumpet? Never put two Lezbeans in a room alone with a trumpet, no matter what their ages.It only leads to excessive, uncontrollable hornliness.

The defence lawyer blew the wrong horn.

[Sender]

uncontrollable hornliness

Probably just a one-note stand.

[Candor7]

LOL. Yes, but not a Johnny One note! A Jenny one note, more like.

Thank goodness they were not trombone players.