Sex offender??

Today I read that a female music teacher (26) was sentenced to three things.
1) jail (15 months!!!)
2) humiliation and the subsequent social troubles
3) she's being placed on a sex offenders list.

Now what would this horrible person have done to deserve this punishment. After all, murderers, gangsters and rapists frequently get punishments only a factor 3 higher...

She had an affair with a 16 year old student.
Thats it.

The student admitted initiating it, admitted liking it, and admitted that the whole damn affair was consensual. So who exactly are we protecting from this awfully harmful teacher? The girl, who lost her innocence before her 18th?

Ok, please raise your hands if you remained a virgin untill you were of age please... Ah, you sir, in the back, congratz!

Or are we protecting the conscience of the parents. Those poor heartbroken parents who were so attentive that they didn’t notice anything for half a year? But now they can say that "they stood up for their daughters’ honour!"

Quite frankly, if i were the daughter, Id feel awful. Someone I had a love affair with (i.e. someone I had/have warm and intimate feelings towards) is ending up in jail (15 months amongst rapists, thieves and murderers!!! she'll get out in 2011!!), seeing her career, name and privacy destroyed, and is hurt to the bone.
Now we have two options.
1) The daughter is heartbroken. She feels guilty, has lost a lover, doesn’t feel supported in her choices and has been "cut down to her underage size!! "you do what I say dear girl", says dear, loving Dad." etc etc. Who the hell does she think she is making decisions (at the frightfully young age of 16. Which is also when people are expected to be able to choose their career path for the rest of their lives...)about who she shares her OWN body with?
That’s for the judge, the law, and her parents to decide, surely?!
Must be a pretty traumatizing experience for a 16 year old, or not?

2) She's not feeling that way. In this situation that would, in my book, make her a bad person. If she can through her choices contribute to another’s pain and misfortune without feeling bad, she's not the kind of child Id consider a "nice or good kid", and I wouldn’t think much of her upbringing either!

So, who did we help here?

Society. They have a clear conscience now that they've punished this "deserving" bad doer!

The parents. They too can rest assured that although they haven’t spared a thought for the long term effects on their daughters mental health (a guilt complex won’t help her succeed in life. A cuddle on the other hand might), the neighbours know that it WASNT THEIR FAULT!!

And that’s what this is allllll about. The parent can walk down the street with their heads held high, at the price of two young ladies piece of mind.


Helen Goddard, you are in my opinion guilty of stupidity, bad judgment and a lack of self discipline. But none of those things are a crime. You are being made an example out of, though the means of this unjustified and disproportionate punishment.

I feel sorry for you.