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Teachers and their students
Aug 5, 2008 | 6:38 AM
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How many more of these stories are we going to hear?  Where teachers have sexually molested or assaulted their students.

I read a post last week where one said that both the student and the teacher shoud be faulted for this kind of behavior. 

Where, would anyone see that a 5th grade student  or any child under the age of 17 should know better than the adult?

In my opinion, a young teenager, male or female, tend to go along with it because of "first time crushes".  I know that we all, at one point or another, have had a crush on a teacher.  But, for the teacher to pursue or take advantage of any student, should be the only one to blame for something like this.  The teacher is suposed to guide our children in the right direction.  Not corrupt them for possibly the rest of their lives.

Does anyone here find that you might find it harder to trust teachers today?

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Former teacher, husband plead guilty  

HOUSTON  --  Rather than go to trial, a former fifth-grade teacher and her husband went before a district judge to plead guilty to assaulting school children, facing between five to 99 years or life in prison, officials said.

 

Brandy Lynn Gonzales, 28, sobbed quietly while pleading guilty on Monday to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child.

Johnny Gonzales, 33, also pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to a story in Monday's edition of the Houston Chronicle.

The charges against Brandy Gonzales involve four students in the same fifth-grade class and a fifth boy from a different class in 2004 at Piney Point elementary, where she was a teacher.

Assistant District Attorney Denise Oncken has said the students alleged that Gonzales would touch them under desks during class.

The sexual contact escalated when Gonzales would meet the boys at a movie theater. Prosecutors said the boys' parents would leave them at the theater with Gonzales, thinking she was a good teacher.

The former teacher is accused of sexually assaulting one of the boys at her apartment. The husband also allegedly performed sex acts on the boy, according to Oncken.

The couple was arrested in December 2006.

A pre-sentence investigation has already been held. State District Judge Michael McSpadden is scheduled to sentence them in October.

 

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Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 7:36 AM

It is sad that you really can't trust anyone anymore. Whether it be in the schools, churchs, etc.

But I wonder if this has always gone on and it has not been reported before because of various reasons. I think children are more apt to speak up now than before.
luvmykid read my blog
Aug 5, 2008 | 7:41 AM

I agree with you, Bella. But, I think now, the children speak up more because they know that they can be protected.

It is just sad that it has to happen before they say something. I believe its the intimidation at first that keeps them from saying something sooner.
Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 7:50 AM

Also depending on the age they might think that it was their fault and that they are the ones that did something wrong. They are taught to look up to these people as adults and authority figures.

Also parents are more aware and do look for the signs that something is wrong now. Whereas before the parents wouldn't dream that something like this could happen to their child.
luvmykid read my blog
Aug 5, 2008 | 8:01 AM

True.

Even at my son's teenage years, I still fear when he takes off walking alone or is stays behind with a coach or any adult. I know that I shouldn't, but, when you read all of this stuff on a daily basis, it is scary.

Even to my sons 14 years, I always tell him the does and don'ts. Though he hates hearing it and rolls his eyes...he listens.
Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 8:09 AM

It is really sad. You used to just have to talk to them about smoking and drugs. And now you have to talk to them about this. It is a difficult task to warn them about everything that is out there but yet try to keep them from not trusting anyone and let them know there are some good people out there.
furbie read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 8:55 AM

You're both right as rain - there's no way to know who you can trust anymore.

People that we trusted years ago ( ie: preachers, doctors, judges, teachers, and the like ), are now as bad as anyone.

There's such a thin line from right to wrong, that crooked lawyers can get people like this off, too easy.

No punishment, they will issue, will be harsh enough to offset the damage they've done to those kids !
Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 9:13 AM

Those kids are damaged for life. They will have big time trust issues and normally will have low self esteem.

I think the law should be somewhat more harsher for those who commit such horrendous acts when they are in their respective roles as a role model for these children.

I mean they have the hate crime laws. In this day and age they need to have some kind of law specifically targeted for people who are respected in the community and who parents trust. It is such a controvery when something like this happens with a person you think you can trust. There should be a law in place for this.

There are special laws for hate crimes why not make a special law for people who prey on children in these professions. I see no difference. People in hate crimes are targeted becase of their race. People in this incidence or targeted because they are children.

The difference is that people in hate crimes can defend themselves and take action. Children who are abused and taken advantage of in this way are scarred for life. They are not allowed to have a normal childhood.
luvmykid read my blog
Aug 5, 2008 | 9:23 AM

Exactly, Bella. Especially when the one committing these crimes against kids are suposed to be the ones that we trust our children to for 8 hours of a day and maybe even longer when on trips.

Makes you wonder what they would do to their own.
Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 9:31 AM

What worries me is do these people have kids????

I don't have a problem with porn or anyone who wants to see it. It is OK unless you act on it in a negative way.

Anything involving children is SO wrong. Porn and kids. NO FREAKING WAY.
terrellmom read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 12:01 PM

I wonder if people have always been this immoral and demented or have they become that way over time. Like 100 yrs ago was child molestation so prevalent and just not spoke about or were people less depraved then compared to now.
luvmykid read my blog
Aug 5, 2008 | 12:26 PM

I wonder that same thing, TM.

I mean, I have watched movies where some people just felt that it was better to keep quiet about stuff like that to save face of the family. Not trying to understand what the child was going through just so that no one would look down on your family.
terrellmom read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 12:58 PM

luv, when i was little and my uncle was a perv it wasn't spoken about. so i almost bet it was even more NOT spoken about years before that. I think God has a special place in hell for pedophiles
luvmykid read my blog
Aug 5, 2008 | 3:32 PM

That is horrible, TM. I hope that no one in your family was hurt.
Bellafisk read my blog view my photos
Aug 5, 2008 | 5:35 PM

Me too TM.
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