The law has to be universally applied, we can't have one set of rules and laws for one while having another set of rules and laws for the other, it wouldn't work.
You mean a couple a year??
When teachers start training, it is carefully explained to them that by engaging in a sexual relationship with any of their pupils either when teaching them or for a period of (if memory serves) 2 years after they cease to be their teacher, they will be breaking the law, this is because they are in a position of trust, additionally in most of the cases, they are also committing statutory rape, again a situation which they are well aware of.
Depends on the case.
The case of jeremy Forrest was made such big news and his sentence of 5 years is far too long. The witch hunt against him is disgusting.
The main thing is they are banned from teaching or any job that involves working with people under 18 for life, like Jeremy Forrest.
Hi Tony
Teachers and others do have a "duty of care" to minors. It is a perversion to breech this so the law should be upheld.
Best wishes.
If the teachers are having sex with minors it can be called rape even if consensual.
Is it pointless in locking these teachers up? the amount of students who run away with their teacher in the UK and the courts lock the teachers up and what message does it send to students? if students keep doing it, is it time to change the law or blame the students as well not only the teachers?
