Parenting Daily

Well, if we haven’t heard enough about these cases yet, there’s another one: female teacher charged with having sex with a minor student, possibly two. Every time I hear these stories, my (figurative) jaw drops. As my parents can attest, I was never attracted to high school boys even when I was in high school. I’ve always been more interested in men older than me, though the age difference has gone from 5 and 6 years older down to months now that I’m in my 30s. At any rate, the idea of being 60 years old, like Adrienne Laflamme, and having sex with a 17 year old and possibly a 14 year old is just beyond comprehension to me. But, perhaps, that is why I am not a pedophile. What makes this particular story even more nauseating, if that’s possible, is that this woman was a teacher at a juvenile detention facility. So you’re teaching kids who, for the most part, are already very distrustful of authority and then this woman abuses that further by raping these kids. There are also allegations of drug use during the trysts. I don’t know what to say. Having worked for so long with staff in facilities of this type, I explained over and over to parents that the staff can be trusted, their kids will be safe, etc. But it’s one story like this that will erase all of that from everyone’s minds. It’s a crap deal for these kids, especially. Who are they ever going to trust? Sad sad and sadder.

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