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Former Teacher Gets 38 Years for Having Sex With Student ("This court does not recognize gender")
The Lakeland Ledger ^ | Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | Peter Jamison

Posted on 12/11/2013 6:24:41 AM PST by Sam's Army

Calling her "a parent's worst nightmare," a judge sentenced former Hillsborough County schoolteacher Ethel Anderson to 38 years in prison Monday for performing oral sex and other lewd acts on a 12-year-old boy she tutored on weekends.

Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe's severe punishment of Anderson seemed designed to send a message in a county that has attracted disproportionate attention for sex scandals involving female educators. The most notorious of them, Debra Lafave, managed to avoid incarceration completely after pleading guilty to sex with a 14-year-old boy.

"There are those that believe that nothing's wrong if the defendant is a woman and the victim is a male," Tharpe said Monday. "This court does not recognize gender. If it's proven, as an adult, that you had sex with a child, you can expect to go to prison."

(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: ethel
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1 posted on 12/11/2013 6:24:41 AM PST by Sam's Army
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To: Sam's Army

Ethel?

Guilty. Just based on having a grandma name.

~shudder~


2 posted on 12/11/2013 6:27:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Sam's Army

Let me get on here before the juvenile guys who say the kid was lucky. As a woman who raised four boys, I would like to slap this horrid animal for stealing this boy’s childhood.


3 posted on 12/11/2013 6:27:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.--Is 40)
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To: Sam's Army

GUILTY


4 posted on 12/11/2013 6:28:21 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Sam's Army

The pretty ones only get 1 year or 2 at most...she got 38 years...and if you look at her picture on the link, indeed she earned 38 years....


5 posted on 12/11/2013 6:29:35 AM PST by apillar
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To: Responsibility2nd

6 posted on 12/11/2013 6:30:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sam's Army

She got spanked....and probably liked it.


7 posted on 12/11/2013 6:30:26 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: Bigg Red

As a father of two boys who live in the same county I am glad she’s going away for a long time.

Its probably better for her daughter as well.


8 posted on 12/11/2013 6:30:40 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sam's Army

Guilty. Off with her head.

9 posted on 12/11/2013 6:30:55 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Sam's Army
I know of a whole lotta teachers, guidance counselors, cops, and juevenile officers who would be serving thousands of years if this were the 70's.

I wonder what they think?

10 posted on 12/11/2013 6:30:59 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: bmwcyle

From the looks of her, i would think she would have been charged with attempted cannibalism.


11 posted on 12/11/2013 6:31:17 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Sam's Army

OMG, My eyes, my eyes where is the ice pick at!!!


12 posted on 12/11/2013 6:31:31 AM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD)
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To: MrB

OK, so she was NAMED after her grandma. Still yuck.


13 posted on 12/11/2013 6:31:44 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: MrB

If she dropped 100 lbs, she might actually be not guilty.


14 posted on 12/11/2013 6:31:52 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Call me Ethel...”


15 posted on 12/11/2013 6:32:28 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sam's Army

“I love the idiots who complain about the double standard and say we should punish these female teachers the same as we would male teachers. If the male gym coach has sex with a fifteen-year old girl, she will be mentally and emotionally scarred for life. The only damage to a fifteen-year old boy who nails the music teacher after class is carpal tunnel from getting high-fived by his buddies.” - Adam Carolla


16 posted on 12/11/2013 6:33:08 AM PST by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: apillar

She probably would have gotten less time for killing him.


17 posted on 12/11/2013 6:33:15 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: Sam's Army

I never realized how many female pedophiles there are until these reports started coming out.


18 posted on 12/11/2013 6:34:38 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: MrB

“And I yelled ‘DON’T LOOK ETHEL!’, but it was too late, she’d already gotten a free shot.”


19 posted on 12/11/2013 6:35:34 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Sam's Army
Extended coverage from The Tampa Bay Times seeks to remind us that the perpetrator is actually a "victim" as well:

"Anderson was suspended without pay from her job at Mango Elementary School after her arrest in March 2012, according to Hillsborough school officials. She resigned later that year. Before her career foundered in scandal, she had been a rising star, earning a teaching award in 2011.

Anderson had gotten to know her victim as his first-grade teacher. The sex acts between the two took place at her Riverview home during tutoring sessions.

Anderson — appearing without makeup and in a baggy prisoner's jumpsuit, a stark contrast to her sharply tailored appearance at trial — wept as she asked Tharpe to think about her own promising past and her daughter's future before imposing his sentence.

"I keep telling myself this is not my life," she said. "I'm a mother, I'm not a monster. … There must be something in me that shows I'm worthy of mercy."

Anderson's father, Jesse Harris, said his granddaughter asks about her mom every day when he picks her up from school. "It's always the same: 'When is my mommy coming home?' " A psychologist who had treated Anderson before her arrest said she had bipolar disorder. But Tharpe was unswayed by these appeals"

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/former-hillsborough-teacher-sentenced-to-38-years-for-sex-with-student/2156270

20 posted on 12/11/2013 6:35:51 AM PST by Sam's Army
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