They’re 18 for Gods sake

Yeah, I don't know Roger. I only read the article that was linked, so I'm not quite sure why she's getting jail time if all of the students were over 18- although she was in a position of trust which she abused pretty much as ridiculously blatantly as anyone possibly could.

Maybe there's some legal caveat about that.

I think if you read what I said, you'd see that I said I didn't understand why she was getting jail time.
I am not advocating jail time unless she tied these boys down and raped them. But I do think she should lose her teaching certificate for life - and be barred from working with children or vulnerable adults in any capacity.

I don't know where this 20 year figure is coming from.

The five-month affair included an overnight stay at her home and a romantic weekend in Paris.

Their forbidden trysts remained a secret until the school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, received an anonymous tip-off about what was happening.

Care workers were immediately contacted and police alerted.

When officers raided the teacher's housing estate maisonette in Thornham Street, Greenwich, south east London, they arrested the 26-year-old and seized various sex toys including vibrators and "fluffy handcuffs".

Goddard, a former child music prodigy, admitted six sample counts of sexual activity with the girl between February and July this year.

The disgraced teacher, wearing a white blouse and a black waistcoat and trousers bowed her head and repeatedly wiped tears from her eyes as Judge Anthony Pitts said: "This is a difficult case.

"The evidence showed you were having a full-on sexual relationship with the girl for many months.

"She has made it clear that the sexual contact between you was consensual and she says in her statement that in fact it was instigated by her.

"But the particularly aggravating feature evident here of course is that you were her music teacher throughout this period and from well before the sexual relationship started."

That meant a relationship such as theirs remained illegal until after the girl turned 18.

Jimmy Edwards

I am not advocating jail time unless she tied these boys down and raped them.

A young Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson went missing in 1977, in Ewell, Surrey, after he was abducted from the steps of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A few days later a freed Anderson made a report to the police that he had been abducted, driven to Devon, and imprisoned against his will, chained to a bed in a cottage, where Joyce Bernann McKinney (b. August 1949) — a former Miss Wyoming World— had abducted, attempted to seduce, and then raped him. The case became known by many sobriquets, including "The Mormon sex in chains case" and "The Case of the Manacled Mormon."

I have a daughter and a son - I don't want any teachers using boys or girls as sex toys.

Okay, so let me get this straight...you're saying that you don't see anything at all wrong, morally or otherwise, with a teacher, who is also a married twenty-eight year old mother of three, engaging in group sex with her students?

My guess: She reveled in it...probably had a long-lasting, extremely intense orgasm...perhaps several of them. The young men probably had several extremely intense orgasms also.

Who determines what is and what is not moral?

Yeah, I don't know. I just know I was taught it is immoral to be selfish and self-serving, especially when you have children depending on you.

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My guess: She reveled in it...probably had a long-lasting, extremely intense orgasm...perhaps several of them. The young men probably had several extremely intense orgasms also.


Ha, ha - funny. And those orgasms cost three children their mother - although maybe they're better off in the long run if that's what she puts ahead of their welfare.

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Who determines what is and what is not moral?

Yeah, I don't know. I just know I was taught it is immoral to be selfish and self-serving, especially when you have children depending on you.

This woman betrayed a trust, and she knew at least that what she was doing was in contravention of the ethics of her profession. Frank, you are peddling some of the most ridiculous and disgusting bullshit here. What she did can be condemned on the bases i've already mentioned, as well as on the basis that she acted selfishly for her own gratification, apparently without regard to the consequences.

Then you come along with all this bullshit about what society used to do. Leaving aside that i haven't seen you provide one shred of evidence that that was once true, hoary old tradition is hardly a basis upon which to reocmmend a practice. People used to conquer their enemies with bloody war, kill all the men, rape the women and sell the survivors into slavery. Do you find that moral because it was once culturally acceptable? Really, Frank, you've gone off the deep end on this one.