Double Standard for sure
The following articale from Fox News discusses the double standard in punishment for men and women who commite a sex crime with minors. Anyone who pays attention at all will agree that there is a definate double standard for women who are in a position of authority and have sex with a underage male. An effect that as a society we have let get out of control. one can say its the old Mrs. Robinson effect.
Teacher Sex Scandals: Double Standard?
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Cases of female teachers caught having sex with male students have made the headlines recently. But some experts think it's only the tip of the iceberg as they contend boys are less likely to report sex crimes than girls.
"Boys just live in a world, because of our society, that doesn't really code sexual exploitation of them by a female as very serious," said Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft.
Click in the box to the right to watch a video report by FOX News' Jonathan Serrie.
What experts debate is whether that social double standard translates into a legal one. Some legal analysts say the courts are more likely to show mercy to female teachers than their male counterparts
When it comes to sentencing for these kind of crimes, men and women are not created equally. Women get predominantly lighter sentences than men do for child molestation and for abusing children in a sexual way," said FNC legal analyst Lis Wiehl.
Nicole Pomerleau (search), a high-school English teacher in Charlotte, N.C., admitted she had sex with a 16-year-old male student. She did not get prison time and did not have to register as a sex offender.
Pomerleau's attorney said her sentence of two years' probation was not lenient given the circumstances of this consensual, albeit illegal, relationship.
"We pled guilty to a felony. We forfeited a teaching certificate. And she forfeited her way of life," said defense attorney Robert DeCurtins.
Victims-rights advocates argue that sex with a minor is a serious crime, regardless of the gender of those involved.
"I think the punishment should be the same. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or a man teacher. It doesn't matter if you are a priest or a soccer coach. The penalty should be the same, man or woman," said John Walsh (search), host of "America's Most Wanted."
It is a problem and as a Male I am positive that any young male who has sex with his female teacher/ nieghbors wife, ect is not going to tell except to his friends about his conquests. It is treated more as a right of passage for a young man to have sex with an older woman then as a crime. This is how it is looked at and treated. Even in when it is reported and brought to court. The judicial bench male and female look at this as a right of passage and hand out a double standard on punishment. Now if a Male teacher has sex with a young female student he is a perverted old man and is put away for a while and registerdd as a sex offender. In Mary Loutrino's case many people around the nation do not think of her as apervert (which she is ... com'on she had sex with a 12 year old thats sick!), but a romanticly misguided woman in which true love prevailed with her marriage last night to her victem.
Any man who marries a woman 20 years his juinor he is looked at as desperate and going through a midlife crisis. So is there a double standard , YES.
SUBNOTE. any RICH elder woman who are looking for a middle aged man in good shape, cute and cuddely stud write me ..... lol
Teacher Sex Scandals: Double Standard?
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Cases of female teachers caught having sex with male students have made the headlines recently. But some experts think it's only the tip of the iceberg as they contend boys are less likely to report sex crimes than girls.
"Boys just live in a world, because of our society, that doesn't really code sexual exploitation of them by a female as very serious," said Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft.
Click in the box to the right to watch a video report by FOX News' Jonathan Serrie.
What experts debate is whether that social double standard translates into a legal one. Some legal analysts say the courts are more likely to show mercy to female teachers than their male counterparts
When it comes to sentencing for these kind of crimes, men and women are not created equally. Women get predominantly lighter sentences than men do for child molestation and for abusing children in a sexual way," said FNC legal analyst Lis Wiehl.
Nicole Pomerleau (search), a high-school English teacher in Charlotte, N.C., admitted she had sex with a 16-year-old male student. She did not get prison time and did not have to register as a sex offender.
Pomerleau's attorney said her sentence of two years' probation was not lenient given the circumstances of this consensual, albeit illegal, relationship.
"We pled guilty to a felony. We forfeited a teaching certificate. And she forfeited her way of life," said defense attorney Robert DeCurtins.
Victims-rights advocates argue that sex with a minor is a serious crime, regardless of the gender of those involved.
"I think the punishment should be the same. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or a man teacher. It doesn't matter if you are a priest or a soccer coach. The penalty should be the same, man or woman," said John Walsh (search), host of "America's Most Wanted."
It is a problem and as a Male I am positive that any young male who has sex with his female teacher/ nieghbors wife, ect is not going to tell except to his friends about his conquests. It is treated more as a right of passage for a young man to have sex with an older woman then as a crime. This is how it is looked at and treated. Even in when it is reported and brought to court. The judicial bench male and female look at this as a right of passage and hand out a double standard on punishment. Now if a Male teacher has sex with a young female student he is a perverted old man and is put away for a while and registerdd as a sex offender. In Mary Loutrino's case many people around the nation do not think of her as apervert (which she is ... com'on she had sex with a 12 year old thats sick!), but a romanticly misguided woman in which true love prevailed with her marriage last night to her victem.
Any man who marries a woman 20 years his juinor he is looked at as desperate and going through a midlife crisis. So is there a double standard , YES.
SUBNOTE. any RICH elder woman who are looking for a middle aged man in good shape, cute and cuddely stud write me ..... lol
