We had a story similar to this one a few years ago - female teacher having intimate relations with a 'tweenage' boy. I went to the Faculty of Education (Teacher's College) with a woman who lived next door to the above teacher who decided to have relations with her 12 year old student. The teacher was found guilty, went to jail and married her student upon release. My classmate told me that they are from a small town and while at first the woman was seen as an outcase, slowly her crimes were forgotten and she was reintroduced to the community. I am not sure what is worse, the crime the teacher made or the town accepting what she did.
And here is a more recent one:
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What do you think would happen if a male teacher who repeatedly had sex with a 12 year old girl was out of prison and was doing this, while married to the girl he molested?
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There is a definate double standard with male and female teachers. There was another story in the paper years ago about a male high school teacher who had three of his female students accuse him of having sexual relations with them. Of course he went to court and ended up losing his license to teach - even though he had a solid alibi (his fishing buddy was a police officer) for many of the supposed 'encounters' and he was not even in town (at his cottage fishing). And while I do not recall what the justice system did to him, career wise he was ruined. The real kicker to this story though is that a year after his sentencing, one of the girls felt 'really bad' for making up the whole story up and confessed everything. Unfortunately the stigma of being with the girls was set and he will never be a teacher again.