Teacher gets probation as sentence

I think she got off way to easy. It is stuff like this that makes me want to consider homeschooling my kids. Although I don't think I could handle homeschooling them.

I don't understand how a teacher could see a student as someone to potentially sleep with. Do they pick them as they come in? If she didn't sleep with him, as it only says s*xual misconduct, then she probably got what she got because there wasn't actual s*x. If there were she'd of been charged with rape.

I think she is getting off way to easy also. The laws are so messed up these days. The victim usually gets nothing out of it and the perpetrater has every right to get the sentence reduced. It just isn't fair that they can get off for doing a crime so easy.

I think teachers need to be held accountable for their actions. I don't think that was enough of a punishment for her. I hate when I hear these things as it makes only one more reason we have to worry about our children in school.

she may have gotten off easy, but I think the judges and stuff are starting to realize they have other people that need those jail cells for rapes or murder. I am by no means saying what she did was ok. America's jails are getting crowded, and some people are given probation to save the jail cell for someone else.

There is a tendency to treat female offenders differently than male offenders on the supposition that the teenage boy somehow desires this contact. Of course, there is no such supposition about females who are 'contacted' by male perpetrators or boys 'contacted' by other male perpetrators. It does seem, on the surface of it, unfair. However, I think that female offenders tend to be less violent -- less about abusing or harming the subject of their attentions. In her photograph, she seems less like male offenders. She's young, attractive, and bought gifts for the boy she 'contacted.' ( http://badbadteacher.com/teresa-engelbach/ ) I can only guess that the sentence reflects the degree of eebie-jeebies that judge has given the defendant in the case. In order to really weight the appropriateness of the sentence, I'd have to have more of an idea about how the boy felt about what occurred. The degree of distress he feels would be paramount.