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2impendingdoom ago

I hope this is the standard...

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170115/teacher-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-sex-with-13-year-old-student

A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that started with Instagram messages between her and the boy blossomed into a romance - one that the boy's family approved of.

A judge in the 209th District Court in Houston said during Vera's sentencing hearing on Friday that he does not believe the former English teacher is a danger to children or a classic pedophile, the Houston Chronicle reported. But Judge Michael McSpadden said he wants to send a message to the community by giving Vera some prison time.

"We want our educators to teach our students," McSpadden said, according to the Houston Chronicle."We want them to keep their hands off students."

Vera, an eighth-grade teacher at Stovall Middle School in Houston, was arrested in June and initially charged with continuous sexual assault of a child, which carries a maximum of life imprisonment. Her sentence was capped at 30 years after she pleaded guilty....

Jem777 ago

Thank you for that work. This the next plan. To place P under LBTGQ... or some other letter. Everyone pay attention to the pattern. First it is a crime, next it is a "Disorder" (see NYT article, CNN) then it just misunderstood "gender fluid" woman trapped in man's body, now "child trapped in adults body." We have to keep at it there is no turning back. I wish there was

MolochHunter ago

i think it a salient point in history to ask the libertarians (of whom I have counted myself my whole life until now) at what point does liberty become depravity? Everyone's so damn focused on who history's next Hitler is gonna be, but after Pizzagate I'm wondering who the next freakin CALIGULA is going to be

VieBleu ago

I can't get behind libertarians because they are fine with wrecking the environment and having absolutely no regulation on polluters in the name of business and free enterprise. Just as an aside. Other than that I agree with your comment - who is the next Prince Jeffrey? I wonder if the US isn't experiencing the same kind of rotting from within empire that preceeded the fall of Rome.

Melitica ago

The libertarian ideology is "all Americans should be free to live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit as long as they do no harm to another."

Freedom from excessive government interference...which to some people means, freedom from rampant EPA regulations which block development of housing because of a 13 foot cave which houses a unique sub-species of an endangered cave beetle.

To others it means, not being forced to pay additional fees for a "smart" electric meter which will allow higher utility charges during ill-defined "peak" usage hours....because global cooling...um....warming...drought...climate change.

It doesn't include "wrecking the environment" but it does include freedom from personal taxation for global pollution...as in, freedom from carbon tax or the enlightened "value added tax."

VieBleu ago

What it ends up meaning is businesses and corporations have no oversight and thus pollute freely and indiscirminately to make or save a buck, and worker rights and safety goes down the tubes. I'd rather have too much regulation than none if those are the only two choices. LIbertarians want to throw out ALL regulation on business, don't be naive. and yes, don't build another row of cheap tract houses and wipe out a cave, beetle, fine with me. Thats where I stand on it and don't care to argue. Thx

MolochHunter ago

That's funny - libertarians generally include Ferals - who are the most strident environmentalists of all, and traditionally it has been 'conservatives' who are more pro-business /laisses-faire capitalist

Whatever their sins and blind spots, environmental damage hasn't seemed to be one of them in my experience

VieBleu ago

Thats because it is rarely discussed and hasn't been able to be put into practice to repeal ALL regulation on businesses, which is the libertarian wet dream.