I find it very difficult to believe these HS ‘boys’ were really “forced”. Yes, there is something a little whacked with this gal and clearly “HS teacher” was not the best career choice, but I don’t think 14 years in jail is the right answer here. If those ‘boys’ end up scared, it will be because they are having their activities dissected by the shrinks, Mom, Dad and the press. No one wants that.
This is actually a very good example of "anarcho-tyranny".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny
Sam Francis wrote: What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny – the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through "sensitivity training" and multiculturalist curricula, "hate crime" laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
And he also wrote: The laws that are enforced are either those that extend or entrench the power of the state and its allies and internal elites ... or else they are the laws that directly punish those recalcitrant and "pathological" elements in society who insist on behaving according to traditional norms – people who do not like to pay taxes, wear seat belts, or deliver their children to the mind-bending therapists who run the public schools; or the people who own and keep firearms, display or even wear the Confederate flag, put up Christmas trees, spank their children, and quote the Constitution or the Bible – not to mention dissident political figures who actually run for office and try to do something about mass immigration by Third World populations.
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Now, you'll have to bear with me on this. Obviously, the young woman DID commit an abuse of trust, for which there are laws.
HOWEVER: "Altice had been facing four trials and 14 felony charges — including rape, forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse, unlawful sexual activity with a minor and dealing in materials harmful to a minor — stemming from sexual relationships with three former Davis High students who were 16 or 17 years old at the time."
This is an example of prosecutorial "charge-larding", where the prosecutor has so many tools that he throws them all against the wall to force the VICTIM (yes, I said VICTIM) to submit to the State's Will.
The VERY SAME prosecutor(s) will stand there and explain to the rest of us peasants why they can't POSSIBLY find any prosecutable charges against abusers like Lois Lerner, Hillary Clinton or John Koskinen.
I know for a fact that Lois Lerner committed a foot-high stack of felonies when she shipped IRS information to other Executive Branch departments. Hillary Clinton and her little email scheme? Same deal.
John Koskinen perjured himself in the face of Congress.
Any prosecutions? Nah, they're much too busy throwing the book at Brianne Altice...
A year in the county hoosegow to remind her of her (former) duty to the education of the youth, and 2 or 3 years probation.
Quit wasting time and taxpayer dollars indulging the prosecutor's & The Jester's System's prurient interests.
I kind of agree with mad puppy that The System is going to end up doing more damage to the young lads than she did.
No, those boys weren’t forced by any stretch of the imagination. Back in my day, there was a teacher who looked very much like this one who did half the boys in HS. Not saying it’s right and proper behavior but the boys had bragging rights and there was no public outcry.
But then there wasn’t public outcries over a male coach and the priest with their female students. Both of those pairs were exclusive and eventually married.