High court hears arguments on ban on teacher/student sex
(Hartford-AP, Sept. 22, 2006 8:00 AM) _ The state Supreme Court has heard arguments that the law that bans teachers from having sex with students is unconstitutional.
The law is being challenged by a former New Haven high school teacher convicted of sexually assaulting two of his students.
The lawyer for Van Mckenzie Adams told the high court yesterday that teachers have a right to have sexual relations with students who are 16 or older. Attorney Richard Emanuel, says the state law under which the teacher was convicted is unconstitutional and "overly broad."
Adams, who taught Latin at Hill Regional Career High School, was 40 at the time of the events. The students in the second-degree sexual assault case were 16 and 17.
But Assistant States Attorney Bruce Lockwood argued on behalf of the state that a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student "cannot be consensual" because of the power and authority teachers have over students.
There is no indication when the high court will rule.
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NO, NO, NO!!!!
I don't care what the legal age of consent is, teachers NEVER have the right to have sex with their students. It's the same principle as the doctor/patient relationship. Many of their patients are of legal age but they don't have the right to have sex with them.
Hate to say it, but its NOT conservative judges who are letting pedophiles off with a slap on the hand. Liberial judges, apointed by democrats are doing these things. Vote Democrat, get more decisions like this. This is not a Republican issue. Conservatives veiw a pedophile as a criminal. Its the Liberals who want pedophile treated as a misdemeanor.
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