The female teachers who sexually abuse their students
THIS week, a 26-year-old married, successful science teacher was arrested in Florida after she allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old student.
Police say the woman, Stephanie Peterson, sent nude photos and also sold the teenage boy marijuana, and was charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious battery and one count of transmission of harmful materials to a minor.
Last month, a former Texas high school teacher, Alexandria Vera, who was impregnated by a 13-year-old but had an abortion, got a 10 year sentence and was thrown behind bars after pleading guilty to having sex on multiple occassions with the teenager.
And let’s not forget the most famous case of all — sweet faced Mary Kay Letourneau, who was embroiled in a Seattle rape scandal that shocked the world.
In 1996, the then 34-year-old Seattle primary school teacher was busted having sex with her 12-year-old student, Vili Fualaau.
The mother-of-four was sentenced to seven years behind bars following the rape, and put on the registered sex offender list for the rest of her life.
But following her release, the pair continued their relationship — and to date, have been married, divorced and share two children together.
According to figures obtained under Freedom of Information, more than 100 women were convicted of sexual offences in the United Kingdom in 2015, a trend that’s almost trebled in the past decade, The Conversation reports.
Alarmingly, that figure was mostly made up of school staff — including teachers, aids and head of schools.
So what is going on in the minds of these women? What could make them cross a line and prey on vulnerable youths?
In a piece written by Andrea Darling from the criminology department at Durham University in England and published by The Conversation, these examples of sex offenders often don’t fit the “mould of what many consider a predatory paedophile”.
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Maybe all teachers should be banned from coming within a 1000 feet of a school that would solve the problem. Right politicians?
One thing I ll agree with is there flawed feelings and thinking which caused them do what they did ,It’s my opinion those reasons are the same reasons men offend. Both need professional help and guidance ,not shunning,marking and social abuse.
Don’t “fit the mold”? Why? Because the mold their mind envisions has a p*nis? Guess what, folks, female teachers screwing their students make up a sizable subset of active sexual offenders. I don’t use the word predator because I don’t believe the boys are unwilling therefore not being “preyed upon”. Illegal though, still.