Those now taking a closer look at Kelsey Peterson, the teacher who fled to Mexico with her younger to the point of being illegal boyfriend to avoid having to deal with any of the icky legal trouble she was facing, have been hit with a bolt of lightening.... it isn't the first time this woman was using the school yearbook as a dating service.
Back in August, the rumor around Lexington Middle School was that 25-year-old math teacher Kelsey Peterson had a boyfriend a 13-year-old former student. People had complained to administrators three months earlier that Peterson spent too much time hanging out with the kids. When new complaints reached administrators linking her to the student in August, her principal gave her a verbal warning, but that was it.
Love the last line... 'that was it'. No official punishment, no turning to the police to help investigate a potential criminal act. Nothing, other than a little bitty warning.
And to think she didn't learn her lesson, I suppose we should be shocked. Or, for those of us with more than half a brain- we ought to be demanding a better explanation from the principal as to exactly
WTF is wrong with this picture.
Experts who study sexual misconduct by teachers says district officials should have seen a bad situation when they first fielded complaints, and done more.
"If a school district has reason to give warning, you conduct an investigation," said Robert Shoop, director of Kansas State University's Cargill Center for Ethical Leadership. "You don't just say 'Be a good person,' and then go about your business as if nothing has ever happened. You have to pay attention to what's going on."
Amazingly, it doesn't take experts to know that a grown woman, fielding the student roster for anyone who may be boyfriend material, has a serious problem. Not just legally- but mentally.
Of course, I'm sure the school will attempt to do their very best at fluffing this case to the point that all blame shift away from them... schools are good at that, with all the practice they have. But, maybe, perhaps just once they ought to sit down and consider practicing something more meaningful- like actually protecting children from the predators they employ.
On another related note, it seems that the victim, who shouldn't have been in the country to start with,
might have earned his entire family visas.
A 13-year-old illegal immigrant who fled to his native Mexico with his schoolteacher amid a sex scandal may be able to return to the United States under a new visa the government began granting the week before he vanished.
The visa helps illegal immigrants who are victims of sex crimes. If the boy, who has spent most of his life in Lexington, Neb., qualifies, he could stay legally in the United States for four years and eventually apply for permanent residency. It also would extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18, if they applied for it.
Hopefully the left wing crowd which believes in rewarding those who break our country's immigration laws with citizenships, and offering sex offenders cushy treatment programs rather than actual punishment don't pay too much attention to this new information. I can just imagine them now, lining up to match illegal alien children with pedophile teachers... after all, it'd be a win win for everyone in their minds.
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