Another Female Teacher 'Incident'
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@3TrueFans and @alarson , you two have the same menstrual cycle? Mods need to put you both in timeout.
I knew someone who's child went through something like this and certainly knowing more of the details (and this person was never arrested) made my skin crawl. There was some small town stuff going on (i.e. had to beg the police to look into it).
It seems a lot of folks on here are defending the teacher or "making sure they have enough to arrest." If you look at what they were charged with, the language of the law is: “any sexual conduct with a student to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the school employee or the student.” Iowa Code § 709.15(3)(b ).
Seems some are applying standards that are based on their own experiences/thoughts...but if you are not a school employee, you wouldn't be arrested for this...but she sure can be and sounds like some of the initial info they had was enough to look into it. from the complaint:
"We discovered that there was inappropriate contact going back and forth electronically by several different means and then some of that contact really was showing kind of a grooming undertone to it, which raised our concern level and we began to investigate deeper," said St. Jason Hentz, of the West Des Moines Police Department.
Don't disagree about strong evidence, but that isn't the Dowling Catholic's call. It is the Police/DA's call.
This doesn't just apply to Dowling but all school administrators. If they have an inkling of an issue they should involve police. Applies even at the college level. Might have saved Baylor, PSU, ect. a lot of legal issues.
Wonder if it was a Nunn if it would have been reported or transferred to a school in Eastern Iowa
You couldn't be more wrong, twenty or thirty years ago, what you are saying was true, but not today. Too many schools have been sued and too many administrators have lost their jobs trying to cover this type of crap.
Today if you are doing this crap, no school is going to turn a blind eye and let you walk away, they are calling the police and they letting them handle it, as they should.
Just give the legislature another session or 2. It won't be a problem then .
Their last name has no bearing on the case. If it was a nun, there would be even more harsh consequences these days.
The story I read said the teacher admitted to having sexual contact with the student at least 5 times in her classroom, so I'm not sure what you're so arguing about here.
Nearly every state has that law. Why so many pedos get caught over the internet all over the place.
WHO story says Ballard, Iowa. It’s a school district name and creek but I don’t think it is a town.
Ballard school district is Huxley and the other small towns south of Ames.
High school is in Huxley so should say Huxley, Iowa. I think Slater and Cambridge have elementary schools and Kelley is also in the district. Just typical for our Iowa news outlets.
Ballard is Huxley, Cambridge, Slater. Definitely fine journalism work by WHO.