Wow this is sick ~ my poor little sister

[Freyja]

OMG. That´s horrible.

 

[MsDisney23]

That is so sad! We once had a HS teacher who got arrested on drug charge's.

 

[momof2inPA]

In our archdiocese, everybody who has any direct contact with children has to do a course on child abuse and sexual predators, and undergo a background search to be sure that they are safe to be with the children. We are Catholic, of course. I am not sure this is true all over the country, but, in our archdiocese, it is.

Oh, I'm Catholic, too, and I've also taken the course. I believe it's standard, nationwide (Note: Did you realize some of the people on the video the use are just actors?)

The only reason I brought up the priests is because some people act like Catholicism somehow breeds sexual predators.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Sometimes though, people get charged with crimes they didn't do. I played serious tennis when I was younger. I had the same coach for 10 years. He was openly gay and had a great relationship with all his acadamy students. We used to go to away tournaments all the time. We would rent 2 bedroom condos. He would make the boys sleep in one room and girls in the other and he would sleep in a chair in the middle... absolutely NO funny business was gonna happen.

Imagine my surprise about a year after I quit tennis, I was 19.. and saw on the news he was arrested for sexual acts on a minor. We immediately knew he did not do it. There were complete lies about our tennis trips... stuff that my sister and I know did NOT happen, we were there! We wrote letters to the judge and if it had gone to trial would have testified in his behalf. But all in all, he took a plea bargain. Now I know that it was stupid of him because it made him look guilty. But with the plea bargain he did not have to go to jail... he was on probation and couldn't work with children. The boy who made the complaint word would have been enough to put him in jail although there wasn't any physical proof! He quit teaching tennis, he had to register as a sex offender. He paints houses now :-( I was very close with him for 10 years, I was there on the trips they were saying stuff happened.. he did NOT do it.

This is one of the main reasons I chose not to go into teaching. To many situations that could cost you a job and your reputation. I don't remember the specifics, but there was a gym teacher around here in the metro Boston area that was accused of sexual misconduct on a student. He was removed from his position and after an investigation it came out that the student didn't like him. Well, he got his job back, but at a different school. So now he is forever haunted by this.