hardly makes headline news anymore? My DH was telling me about a teacher text messaging a student. When I tried to find it, I was shocked at what all I found. 1/11/08 -- Pennsylvania teacher w/ 14 yr old http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/11/teachers.charged/index.html 1/30/08 -- Mississippi teacher w/ 15 yr old boy: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0130082biloxi1.html 2/8/08 -- Illinois teacher w/ 15 yr old boy http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/15455071.html 2/19/08 -- Arkansas teacher w/ 18 yr old boy (provided alcohol too) http://www.kfsm.com/global/story.asp?S=7895738 2/21/08 -- Virginia teacher sends indecent photos to students http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/national_world&id=5971535 2/27/08 -- NJ teacher w/ 17 yr old girl http://www.nj.com/centraljersey/index.ssf/2008/02/ewing_teacher_accused_of_sex_w.html I don't even know which story my DH was talking about since there have been at least 3 reports of inappropriate text messaging between teachers & students happening since January alone. :neutral: And if all that isn't bad enough, I saw a story about a TA having a motel party with some students one night and wanted to read up on that. It was on Fox news so I was able to find that one but when I googled it, I found another story that was almost identical, except it was a male TA instead of a female. Are our teens safe anywhere or with anyone anymore?
Why do you say these days? Don't you think this has always occurred? Possibly even at higher levels; we just have better informational tools now to expose this stuff.
And yet, ANOTHER ONE! She is all smiles for her mugshot. What in the world is going on with these people?
I don't think this is a new thing. The internet & media just make it easier to find out about these things. This is a clip from today's paper: Teacher admits guilt in enticing boy online A 48-year-old Aiken man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to enticement of a minor and transportation of child pornography. Timothy L. Brumit, an English teacher at Batesburg-Leesville High School in Lexington County, will be sentenced in June. He faces 10 years to life in prison on the child enticement charge and five to 20 years on the child pornography charge. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia, between Jan. 2 and Jan. 23, Mr. Brumit communicated online with a person whom he believed to be a 13-year-old boy living in Stafford, Va., but who was actually an undercover detective with the Dumfries (Va.) Police Department. Mr. Brumit sent more than 600 files containing pornographic images and movies depicting boys under the age of 12 to the detective during 15 online chats, the government said. Mr. Brumit tried to get the "boy" to leave his family and come to South Carolina to live with him, instructing the boy to bring his original birth certificate, Social Security card and laptop he was using.
