LA: After admitting sex with 3 boys, substitute teacher spared jail and barred from class only two years
There is something wrong with the justice system when a female teacher gets probation and is only barred from teaching for two years. Had the teacher been male, I’ll bet he would have gotten 20 years for each victim.
Below is the story from USA Today:
After pleading guilty to having sex with three underage teenagers and sending lewd messages, a substitute teacher in Louisiana was spared jail and could even be headed back to the classroom, New Orlean’s station WDSU reports.
As part of a plea deal, 34-year-old Heidi Domangue Verrett pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. When she was arrested in 2016, the Terrebonne Parish instructor faced three felony charges, according to the report.
A district judge then suspended Verrett’s six-month jail term and sentenced the substitute teacher and teacher’s aide to two years of unsupervised probation and ordered her to pay $900 in fines, Houma Today reports. She did not have to register as a sex offender.
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I couldn’t believe what I was reading… I’m under the impression that committing any sexual crime is automatically placed on the registry. How can this be true???? Was it posted on April 1st?
I don’t believe the sentence was lenient. My problem is that, as stated above, the outcome is entirely different and disproportionate when the genders of the participants in similar situations is reversed. Personally, I think all sentences under these circumstances should be similar if the sexual contact was consensual.
Teenagers are horny as hell. Always have been, always will be. Very few would pass on a chance to indulge in their crushes on adults. For those that do, the argument that they are “emotionally scarred for life” is a very thin one at best. They might be heartbroken when the relationship ends, but that’s a pretty far cry from the trauma that the victim industry portrays as typical. To say that the teens are basically too stupid to know if they want to have sex or not is an adequate substitute for lack of consent is nonsensical, particularly in districts where DAs want to try minors as adults in other crimes. Nature decided when the human body is ready for sex – puberty.
I’m not saying sex between adults and teenagers shouldn’t be illegal or punished when discovered. I’m only saying that the adults in these circumstances are normally guilty only of poor judgment, not raging pedophile perverts, regardless of the gender of the adult or the teenager. I join the segment of society that wants to string up actual rape and sexual assailants against non-consenting victims of any age or gender, or those that prey on prepubescents. But considering all adults who have had sex with teenagers regardless of circumstance follows the same reasoning as considering all black people Crips or Bloods.
Thank you for your logical approach. It truly gives me hope.
Here’s my issue. If the teenager I exchanged inappropriate text messages with had murdered his parents, the state would have tried him as an adult.
BUT, when it comes to sexting and pursuing his best friends mom “a milf” by his designation..and oral sex, he is considered a child and deemed unable to make these decisions himself.
What I did was WRONG. I got wrapped up in the flattery and selfishly wanted more attention.
Should my life be ruined because of it? Scarlet letter for life painted with the same brush as pedophiles who prey on babies? Considered as scary as people who rape or kidnap? I mean, really?!
Never been in trouble in my life, married to the same man for 25 years, made one stupid, selfish mistake and I went to PRISON!! But the prison was nothing. The real prison started when I came home.
They are adults when it works for the state and children when they need to win a conviction. How can it be both ways??!!
My son received 9 years for online solicitation [of an undercover cop], plus a lifetime on the registry. Two weeks later, the same judge gave probation [no jail term] to a female who had a 6 month long affair with a 13 year old neighbor. She too was placed on the registry.
At the time, I thought this was not justice, and it is not. Looking back, i think both my son and the woman should have received the same probation sentence with the exception of the registry registration.
😳 Did she have sex with the judge too or what??
6 month jail term for statutory rape? (Suspended for probation) Or were the “teens” 18 or 19?
Wondering what the reasoning is here. Doesn’t make sense at all, unless the “teens” were 18 or 19.
People who did not have sex with teens get sent to prison for years, when they are trapped in sex sting operations. But someone who does actually have sexual with a teen (even more than one) doesn’t have to go to prison?
I’m hoping there is a lot of information missing about this story. Otherwise, yes, this is very f%#+d up! And this would just be more proof of how we have some very f%#+d up people working in the system.
Reading the article she has sex with two students, ages 15 and 16, and sent “lewd photos” to a third student, who was 13. If a man did this, EVERYONE ON HERE knows the man would have been vilified, sentenced to MANY years behind bars, and register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. This just goes to show, as the trend has been, the majority of women who sexually assault underaged boys get treated differently than men.
Dang skippy a man would have been absolutely crucified!! On that principle alone I think she deserved the full monty a man would have gotten: 25 years per victim, lifetime supervision, lifetime GPS and lifetime registration as a child predator.
My view is black-and-white: Either apply these horrific laws to everyone who commits these types of offenses or abolish them across the board.
Will, your suggestion to apply the laws equally across the board may seem a bit over the top to some but you are 100% correct. Some citizens are men; some are women; and some just aren’t for sure, but we are all citizens none the least, and laws should apply to all. I’m even a bit in favor of sex offender laws including enticement. The way some men and women dress is downright disgraceful. I see on TV the way some of the students dress in school, and their dress would embarrass a ‘Naples streetwalker’. The Bible tells us that if we look upon a person in an immoral way, then we have the same as committed an immoral act with that person. The more we act as gentlemen and ladies the better our society will get. I don’t know if we will see that in our lifetime.
The theory that the way a person dresses would be considered enticement, and could be used as a defense for criminal actions of a rapist or assault is reprehensible at best. A person should have self control, even if someone else were walking naked down the street. My initial comment on this wasn’t to say that the woman should have had the book thrown at her either. My point is that she was treated differently simply because she was a woman. This means that people out there, i.e. prosecuters, lawyers, jury members, judges, etc., don’t see a woman doing this to be as bad as a man. They see the woman as a person who made a mistake that was dumb, but didnt necessitate their life to be ruined forever. So THIS is how a man should be treated. I’m not saying 3 years probation for anyone having sex with a minor is the right call, but some sense of basic intelligence should be used.
We all know that 20 or 30 years ago the concept of a early or mid teen boy having sex with his teacher was almost a right of passage. And a girl of the same age seducing her neighbor or teacher was not unusual at all. Hell dozens of movies were made about these same things. But now things have changed. Men are vilified for this, and women are pretty much given a slap on the wrist.
Sometimes we get what we ask for.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/mesa-lawmaker-seeks-more-leeway-on-sex-offender-registration/article_d1d47ae8-549d-11e9-9b38-33a8789f1147.html
Women often are payed less than men for doing the same job. Apparently, the justice system follows that trend. I have seen many cases like this over the years involving females getting lighter treatment than males, dating back to 1997 with the Mary Kay Letourneau case. It also seemed to me that the prettier the teacher was, the less time she got. Watched an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s show once where the audience was actually laughing as a female teacher recounted her “romance” with an underage student. To Oprah’s credit, she silenced her own audience by pointing out that they wouldn’t be laughing if it had been a male teacher having sex with a female student. For those who didn’t click through the entire USA Today article, it was based on this original which has a bit more detail.
http://www.wafb.com/2019/04/04/parents-outraged-over-light-sentence-substitute-teacher-who-had-sex-with-students/?fbclid=IwAR33eZmseKHo3OFb514_UA2POEcX_qlY40nIaIYygyoPkLdBPw5VaL93T8U