Second female teacher in as many months charged with child seduction at Indianapolis high school

(Original Post 2-18-10)

For the second time in two months, a female employee at Indianapolis' Pike High School was charged with child seduction, a Class D felony. After school officials contacted Indianapolis police and after questioning the night of February 17, 40 year old Taine Abdullah was charged with an illegal sexual relationship with a 17 year old special needs student today.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Abdullah was an instructional assistant who tutored the boy after he returned to school in January. Police said that in one of three encounters, Abdullah performed oral sex on the boy and then texted him about the encounter, later asking him to delete the text because she could get in trouble for what she had done.

Investigators said that in a Feb. 5 incident, the boy skipped school and stayed at Abdullah's house, where they fondled each other.

"She admitted that she knew what she had done was wrong," according to the affadavit. Lieutenant Jeffery Duhamell stated why Abdullah was charged with child seduction when Indiana's AOC is normally 16. "She's a person of trust and he's a student, and that's supposedly how they met, and, basically, that crosses the line and becomes a criminal act."

Abdullah, who has worked as a teacher's aide at Pike High, has been removed from the classroom, according to officials. She's being held on $30,000 bond. Besides Abdullah, former coach Sara Strahm has been charged with the same crime for a relationship with a player on her girls' basketball team.

(Update 2-24-10) Abdullah pled not guilty at her arraignment yesterday. Her bond was reduced to $500, allowing her to be placed on house arrest until trial. Her attorney, Jack Crawford, described the conditions of house arrest.

"The judge was very firm. She cannot have any contact - she cannot even pick her daughter up at school or drop her off at school. She's gonna have to make different arrangements while this case is pending and that's understandable. The charges are serious. They involve young people, so while these charges are going on, she must avoid young people."

The reason Abdullah can't pick up or drop off her daughter is because she was fired from Pike High and barred from going onto the premises. She still has supporters from her church.

"She needs all the support she can get," said Anthony Chapman, a church member. "I'm not discounting the fact that she's made a mistake. But at these times it's important to have support of your church family."

Her church members have a message for the student and his family involved in this case. They're hoping the student's family can look past the alleged conduct.

"Hopefully they can find it in their heart to forgive. Its about forgiveness and reconciliation and in America you have a lot of high profile cases and celebrities who make mistakes as well as common people," said Chapman.

Abdullah faces 1 to 3 years in prison if convicted as charged.

Catholic priest who fathered child suspended from ministry

A priest exposed as being the father of a now 22 year old son was suspended yesterday by the Catholic Dioscese of Superior, WI by his superiors. Father Henry Willenborg was suspended immediately, according to spokesman Richard Lyons. "He is to step down from active ministry and any involvement in church events until we have a chance to clarify the information that was in the New York Times article today," Lyons said.

Father Willenborg fathered Nathan Halbach after an "affair" with his mother, Pat Bond, currently of O'Fallon, MO, which started back in 1983.  The seduction came after he led a Catholic women's retreat. Father Willenborg led Pat aside for a kiss, beginning five years of intimate sexual exploitation, leading to Nathan's birth and the breakup of her existing marriage.

In public, they were both leaders in their Catholic community in Quincy, Ill. In private they functioned like a married couple, sharing a bed, meals, movie nights and vacations with the children.


Eventually they had a son, setting off a series of legal battles as Ms. Bond repeatedly petitioned the church for child support. The Franciscans acquiesced, with the stipulation that she sign a confidentiality agreement. It is now an agreement she is willing to break as both she and her child, Nathan Halbach, 22, are battling cancer.

Ms. Bond retained a lawyer, and the Franciscans gave her $1,000 toward the costs of the birth that were not covered by insurance, and $505 toward baby furniture. The Franciscans further agreed to pay $600 a month for the baby’s first 10 months, until Ms. Bond could return to work in a travel agency, and after that $350 a month in child support until Nathan turned 18. It added up, after bank and legal fees, to about $85,000 paid in a lump sum.

The Franciscans also agreed to pay half of Nathan's University of Missouri tuition until he turned 21 and "extraordinary medical expences" until age 23 and it is thair refusal to do so which led the victims to tell their stories.

According to Nate, "Father" Willenborg never functioned as a father to him, just as a priest. “I’ve always called him Father Henry — never Father, never Dad. I always felt he picked religion over me.”

Most tellingly, the "relationship" ended after another woman showed up to Bond's house and told Pat that Father WIllenborg had been seeing that second victim even since high school. Soon afterwards, the Franciscans sent Willenborg to this order for treatment.

The exposure was assisted by SNAP, who met in St. Louis yesterday, where the regional Franciscan head is based. SNAP wants the Franciscans as well as the Superior Dioscese to pay the 22 year old's medical expenses.

Teacher gets a year of probation for sexual relationship with 16 year old girl

By Darcy Gray - The Hutchinson News - dgray@hutchnews.com

A former Hutchinson High School basketball coach and teacher was sentenced Monday in Reno County Court to one year of community corrections for having sex with a 16-year-old female student.

Bradly S. Specht, 35, who appeared Monday before Reno County District Judge Tim Chambers, had pleaded no contest and was found guilty in May of the single count of unlawful sexual relations.

Specht avoided a possible six-month stint in jail when he was sentenced to community corrections, an intensive form of probation, which was part of a plea agreement revealed in court Monday by Assistant Kansas Attorney General Jason Hart.

When given the opportunity to speak in court, Specht solemnly described the incident as “life-changing” and “something I’ll never get out from under.”

Specht, who also had been a physical education teacher at Hutchinson High School, said he’d apologized to some of his former colleagues and students he had seen since his arrest in March. He also offered “condolences to the victim” and her family.

Chambers said he had not received any statements from the victim, who did not appear in court Monday.

“I can only speculate the effect it will have on the rest of her life,” Chambers told Specht.

After telling Specht he had caused “denigration to a profession that’s an honorable profession,” Chambers ordered him to write a letter of apology to all teachers at Hutchinson High School for the undue publicity the school and its teachers had received.

The case led to “bad effects on a profession that should not be subject to this activity,” not only for Hutchinson High School teachers but for teachers across the state, Chambers said.

Other requirements Chambers ordered Specht to follow, as part of the plea agreement, included no contact with the victim and registering on the statewide felony offender list for the next 10 years.

While Hart requested Specht attend a sex offender treatment program, Charlie O’Hara, the Wichita attorney representing Specht, questioned whether that was necessary. O’Hara noted Specht had been cooperative with authorities.

“His background as a coach and teacher has obviously been destroyed by this,” O’Hara said Monday. “He’ll never be able to do that again.”

Chambers ordered Specht to undergo an evaluation and attend whatever treatment is recommended to be appropriate in the case.

Specht and the female student first kissed in November 2008 in Specht’s office, according to details of the case previously released by Hart.

The contact later escalated in the office and adjoining film viewing room, and Specht began sending suggestive text messages. From December 2008 through February, the pair met several times during lunchtime at Dillon Nature Center in Hutchinson and at Specht’s home.

Officials learned of the relationship after the girl confided in a friend, who alerted the girl’s parents. The parents contacted school officials Feb. 25, who called police. Specht resigned his teaching and coaching positions that same day.

Specht initially was booked into jail on suspicion of eight counts of unlawful sexual relations, but the attorney general’s office filed only a single count. The case was referred to the attorney general because Specht’s sister once was an attorney in the Reno County District Attorney’s Office.

Jail guard sentenced to 60 days jail, sex offender restrictions after "affair"

A Missouri jail officer was ordered to undergo 5 years of probation, sex offender treatment, and 60 days in jail after a sexual relationship with an inmate turned into marriage. 29 year old Tara Hewkin, of the St. Louis suburb of Warrenton was sentenced by Circuit Judge Keith Sutherland yesterday after being convicted on March 26 in a bench trial. Sentencing was delayed to give probation officers time to prepare a report.

Hewkin began working at the jail as a corrections officer in April 2007. David Latham, 34, was one of several federal inmates being housed in the Warren County jail in the fall of 2007. On Oct. 15, 2007, jail staff found a cell phone in Latham's cell. Officers determined it belonged to Hewkin.

Hewkin admitted to police she gave Latham the phone so he could stay in touch with her. She told police she and Latham were involved in an intimate relationship. She reported that on three occasions she and Latham had sexual contact, once in the laundry room of the jail and the other times between the doors of two cell pods.

Latham was convicted on marijuana charges and sentenced to 5 years in USP Leavenworth. Besides the conviction, as a sex offender, Hewkin cannot live within 1000 feet of schools or day care centers.

Former Navy Chaplain sentenced to 10 years for sexual exploitation of young female sailors

Former Navy Chaplain Lt. Shane Dillman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and discharge from the Navy for taking sexual advantage of young Navy sailors he was supposed to be ministering to. The sentence, handed down yesterday by Capt. Moira Modzelewski, must be affirmed by the commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic Rear Adm. Richard O'Hanlon.

Dillman admitted to multiple affairs with women but pleaded not guilty to rape, fraternization, and making a threat. After a 4 day trial, only the making a threat charge led to a not guilty verdict.

Dillman, a married father of three, was a Pentecostal minister endorsed by the Coalition of Spirit-Filled Churches. He has been on administrative duty since the charges were filed.
Charles Gittins, his civilian lawyer, said before sentencing that Dillman, 37, had been affected by ministering to more than 800 injured Marines while stationed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

A defense witness, psychologist Don Lewittes, said Dillman likely suffered from "vicarious traumatization," and began feeling dead inside. The sex was a means of trying to feel alive, Lewittes theorized.

When Dillman spoke at his sentencing hearing, he apoligozed to his family, the Navy, and God, saing that it was an honor to have served as a chaplain for a dozen years.

Lt. j.g. Bill Geraty said that the a sentenced in Dillman's statement, "I'm sorry the circumstances have taken ministry opportunities away from me," showed that the defendant showed a lack of remorse and a focus on his own losses, not the impact of the crime on the victims. Geraty also explained that the pattern of friendship leading to sexual involvement was "not a case of 'Whoops, I stepped over the line.'

"This was calculated...When Marines and sailors go to a chaplain for solace," he said, "they do not expect to enter the wolf's lair."

Female North Carolina teacher sentenced to 3 years probation for sex with 17 year old student

Julie Miller Culbertson, 38, was formally sentenced to 3 years on sex offender probation yesterday for having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old high school student. In North Carolina, the regular AOC is 16, but teachers are prohibited from sex with students at any age, including 18 or over. Besides the probation, Culbertson was ordered to pay a $1000 fine, perform 200 community service hours, and she is permanently prohibited from working with students again.

The former East Henderson High School teacher started work as a health occupation teacher on October 8, 2004, teaching grades 10 through 12. According to Sheriff Rick Davis, the investigation into the relationship started May 2007, with a citizen’s tip. Culbertson resigned later that month, and she was arrested in front of school system headquarters. Davis said, “It appears that the abuse has been going on for several weeks prior to the arrest.”

According to Assistant District Attorney Beth Dierauf, Culbertson’s guilty plea occurred in July, when she served a month in jail before release in August. Her formal sentencing was yesterday in Chief Resident Superior Court Judge Mark Powell’s courtroom.

Though the 17 year old victim wasn’t there, her father, a Hendersonville police officer, lamented the fact that as a law enforcement official, he protected others but could not stop his daughter’s molestation.

“It’s a shame that in my 24 years in law enforcement I have protected strangers, and I couldn’t even protect my own daughter,” he said while sobbing.

Culbertson was remorseful about the incident and addressed the court and the victim’s family.

“There are no words to express the pain I have caused my family and the victim’s family,” she said. “My actions did not come from a predatory intent, but were wrong.”

Culbertson’s attorney, Roy Neill, said that he believed his clients actions were due to a change in medication at the time of the incident.

“Julie is college educated and has no criminal record,” Neill said. “She has been married for 16 years and has two young children herself. There is still no excuse for this.”

Judge Powell, while sentencing, denounced Culbertson’s conduct.

“Every person is terribly flawed, I am too. If I could send you to prison I would. Be careful about this situation. People know about it and will be quick to accuse you.”

A quote from Mediaskeptic, of Teachers & Trash Education is below:

She pleaded to the felony charge which gives her a criminal record for the rest of her life.It also means she'll never teach anywhere. Ever again. And it is likely that she will find professional employment difficult, if not impossible.The bonus was that the victim did not have to testify, which, from a parent's point of view, is a good thing.Those are things that the victim, the victim's family and the prosecutor consider when determining charges.

Jen Gonzales, Payton UT teacher, sentenced to 6 months jail, 3 years probation for sleeping with proctor son

Jennifer Gonzalez of Payson, UT was sentenced yesterday to 6 months in jail and 3 years probation for the seduction of a 16 year old boy that she was supposed to mentor as her proctor son. (A proctor son in Utah is like a foster son elsewhere, except the proctor child is intended to be reunited with their original family.) Judge Samuel McVey, who presided over the case, also ordered her to complete a sex offender treatment program and pay a $975 fine and possible restitution for counseling.

She was arrested after her husband Richard came home from work and found her and the boy with candles and oils, both with their pants down. The teen ran into the bathroom with his pants down and Jenn who was topless, pulled her pants up.

Richard pulled out a 9 mm handgun at both parties, threatening to kill Jenn and ordering the teen out of the house. For that, he was sentenced last month to 18 months of probation for threatening or using a dangerous weapon in a fight. The couple filed for divorce in May. Jenn pleaded guilty to 2 counts of attempted criminal forcible sexual abuse, a 3rd degree Utah felony on June 4. (Jen's original charges were 2 counts of criminal forcible sexual abuse, a 2nd degree felony). Richard pleaded no contest on June 14 to his charges and served 20 days in jail.

Judge Samuel McVey heard arguments from deputy county attorney Mariane O'Bryant why Utah's Adult Probation and Parole's recommendation of jail time should be followed. The argument was that Jenn was in a position of trust, and that he believed he was in love with the teacher.

"This individual, as well as many of our teenage victims, thought that he was in love with this individual... and frankly did not disclose to us everything that happened until it was clear there was no relationship." Prosecutors were told about sexual contact which was more frequent than stated in his initial statement.

The mother and grandmother of the boy urged Judge McVey to jail Jenn, stating,

"Jenn, the day you first took [my grandson] home from the detention center I gave you one of my most precious possessions...He needed someone to love him and take care of him, but instead of being a parent for him you took this time to work on him so you could satisfy your own sexual urges and make yourself happy at his expense. He trusted you. We all trusted you. We asked him to care for him as a mother, not a lover."

Defense attorney Mike Esplin said that Jen Gonzales was in sex offender treatment since her arrest, and that she needed probation with GPS to keep the 2 jobs she had been working since she was fired from her position as a teacher at Mt. Nebo Junior High School. She taught 6th and 7th graders with behavioral problems at the Cornerstone Unit, an alternative program.

McVey, in sentencing, denied Esplin's request, stating that Jen's position of trust, as well as the 15 year age difference, meant that "regardless of whether he, as a matter of fact, consented to this, as a matter of law he was incapable of consenting....You were in a position of responsibility, entrusted by the state of Utah and society in general to provide appropriate supervision for this minor- That obviously did not happen."

Wisconsin woman banished for sexual relationship with 17 year old

AMERY (AP) - A former teacher's aide who had sex with her daughter's high school classmate has been banished from her western Wisconsin hometown. A judge ordered Brenda K. Baillargeon, 40, out of Amery for the next 15 years after she repeatedly violated court orders to stay away from the now 17-year-old boy.

Polk County District Attorney Daniel Steffen said the sentence was appropriate given that Baillargeon had contacted the teen at his home, work and elsewhere in the city of about 2,800.
"It's not common," he said. "But where there's a clear victim and a threat, it is done."

Baillargeon also was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail.

Judge Molly GaleWyrick told the mother of four that if she had any contact with the boy during her banishment, she would spend at least five years in a state prison.

"He relied on you to say, 'Stop, this is wrong,' " GaleWyrick told Baillargeon. "He is blameless. You are not. You were 39 and he 16. It is not too much to ask what you were thinking."

Judges have discretion in sentencing and terms of probation, and Baillargeon's punishment could have been worse, a Hamline University School of Law professor said.

"She has found it difficult to discipline herself, so this is just another way of accomplishing that," said Robin Magee, who teaches criminal law and procedure at the St. Paul school. Baillargeon must register as a sex offender after entering no-contest pleas to sexual assault and child enticement.

She did not look at the victim's mother or family, even when she addressed them during the sentencing hearing.

"I do realize what I did," she said, "and I am very sorry for the hurt it has caused. I do apologize to you in public. I think that shows I am trying to be remorseful. I am not a sexual predator who seeks out young boys."

The teenager's mother got a restraining order after becoming suspicious about the relationship last fall. Over the course of seven months, Baillargeon had sex with the teen at his home, at his grandfather's cabin, on a bench at a nearby park and at her cabin near Amery, Steffen said. She also took the boy on trips and sneaked into his home in the early morning hours for sex, court records said.

After Baillargeon got a divorce, she and the boy planned to marry and move to NC where the teen wanted to become a Nascar mechanic.

There have been other cases of banishment. A child molester was banished from his Minnesota neighborhood in 1992. In 2003, a small Alaskan village gave a troublemaker with a history of drunken violence a one-way ticket to Anchorage and told him not to come back.

California police chief faces almost 3 dozen charges of rape

Former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gunderson was charged with more counts of spousal rape, bringing the total number of counts he's facing to 33, including 30 felonies. Humboldt County Superior Court Judge John Feeney ruled April 30 that Gunderson be held over on 19 counts, but Gunderson's wife, the victim of the alleged rapes, testified, leading to 14 more counts of spousal rape. Gunderson plead not guilty to all charges.

Gunderson's latest victim, who he married, testified that he raped here while she was under the influence of sleeping pills or other drugs once a month between 2005 and 2007. A second victim, Gunderson's ex-girlfriend, testified that he raped her at gunpoint while forcing her to move from the living room to the back bedroom of the home he then shared with her back in 1999. Judge Feeney reduced the kidnapping or transporting a second victim with the purpose of committing rape to forcible rape with the use of a firearm because he felt the kidnapping was incidental to the rape of the then girlfriend.

For Monday's arraignment, [District Attorney Paul]Gallegos left in the original kidnapping charge.

”We think the evidence warrants kidnapping,” he said. “We respectfully disagree with the court.”
During the arraignment, Gundersen's attorney Russell Clanton retained the right to file a motion to dismiss some or all of the charges.

Gundersen appeared in a red jump suit, indicating he is being kept in isolation at the Humboldt County Jail, and was re-fingerprinted during the proceeding.

The former police chief was arrested Feb. 8 on suspicion of spousal rape, and now faces 26 counts of spousal rape with the use of an intoxicant, and charges of violating a court order, attempting to dissuade a witness of a crime, possessing a controlled substance without a prescription and possessing a submachine gun and a pistol with an attached silencer.

Gunderson is being held in the Humboldt County Jail on $1.25 million bail. Jury selection for his trial is scheduled to start June 30. Gallegos estimated that Gunderson's jury selection for the trial will take a week and a half, but Clanton said, "I think we're looking at anywhere from 20 to 30 court days, including jury selection, at a minimum.”

Gunderson was dismissed from his job as Blue Lake police chief May 5.

Counts 1 through 26: Spousal rape with the use of an intoxicant, one count for each month from January 2006 through February 2008, a violation of California Penal Code section 262 (a) (2)
Count 27: Attempting to dissuade a victim or witness of a crime, a violation of California Penal Code section 136.1 (b) (1)
Count 28: Possession of a machine gun, a violation of California Penal Code section 12220 (a)
Count 29: Possession of a silencer, a violation of California Penal Code section 12520
Count 30: Kidnapping a second victim to commit rape, a violation of California Penal Code section 209 (b) (1), with a special allegation of using a firearm, a violation of California Penal Code section 12022.5 (a) (1)
Count 31: Violating a court order, a violation of California Penal Code section 166 (a) (4)
Count 32: Possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, a violation of the California Business and Professions Code section 4060
Count 33: Disclosure of information without permission, a violation of California Penal Code section 1808.45

Rape victim shares her story of victimization by an ex boyfriend

Annie, a North Carolina woman, was raped by an ex boyfriend after five years and a child with him. While with him, she suffered verbal and physical abuse, and he became HIV positive. The woman looks back and says,

"Truthfully, I didn't know I had so many things going on," she said. "Not only was I a victim of rape, but also of mental and verbal abuse. So, it's a variety of things that go along with rape; it's not just rape alone."

The domestic violence she suffered were nothing compared to what would happen next:

In Annie's case, her rapist came to her place of employment under the guise of bringing their daughter to the doctor's office. Instead, he showed up without Annie's children and eventually forced his way into the driver's seat in her car, she said. He then took her to another location and raped her.

Then, more than one week later, he broke into her home and tried to murder her, she said.
However, for Annie, the horror of the situation didn't end there: Her rapist is HIV positive.

"He knew he was HIV positive, and I did too," she said. "He tried to inject me with the virus, but I'm negative. I don't have HIV. I've been tested and re-tested so many times."

To help her get through all she's experienced, Annie got in touch with a local domestic violence and sexual assault crisis center, SAFE in Lenoir County. The organization exists in the county to help victims of physical and sexual violence, Assistant Director Carolyn Fields said.

"We act as advocates and try to do everything we can do to help her (the victim)," she said.
Fields said one of the problems with sexual assault is that it is a "hidden crime."
"It's a lot easier to get away with that sometimes," she said.

Statistics back up Fields' assertion: According to the N.C. Council for Women, only 46 percent of victims reported their rapes in the state in 2002. Though Annie reported her rape to law enforcement, she said she didn't know much about the legal process.

Annie went to the police, but the time that to her rapist's conviction was three years. She also didn't want to get her child's father in trouble.

"I didn't know anything about a protective order. I kept calling police on the regular about him. I kept trying to get him out of the house on the regular."

"This is my child's father, and I don't want to get him in trouble. I tried to protect him for the child. A lot of mothers try to protect the father for the child, but he ends up hurting her."

Being in the courtroom wasn't easy for Annie. She said it was "difficult" to talk about her rape and attack because she'd tried so hard to put it all behind her.

"It was like opening up something that had just happened all over again. I don't feel like he got enough time for what he done because I still have to live with these scars, this abuse, the rape, everything he did to me."

Annie’s experience is typical, according to Fields.

"The person often feels they're being re-victimized when the go through the court system. That's why some men are able to rape over and over and over again."

Another factor to consider is that the rapist, coercer, or sexual predator with an adult victim uses grooming tactics to convince the victim that they are in love. Yet another factor is that “real rape” as defined by laymen and lay women, only includes strangers jumping out of the bushes at night. If all of the above elements are not in place, then the sexual attack isn’t considered real rape.

After the rape, Annie feels that she’s been given a second chance to be the mother that she could be, but her feelings about men have changed. She won’t give a man a second chance to abuse her, at least for a while.

"I have a special chance to enjoy my kids. They are my priority... God gave me a better chance to be with my children. I'm happy, I'm content with my kids, but I'm hurt to think about what occurred, what happened to me. It put a damper on me about trusting men. It will take a lot for me to ever trust one. You just don't look at them the same way.

"But, it's going to be a hard process. It's going to take some time."

According to Johnson-Hostler, each rape victim deals with her sexual attack differently.

"Clearly, the way a rape victim deals with rape is specific to that victim," she said. "There's not a cookie-cutter response for victims of rape."

Acquaintance (or “partner”/spousal rape victims) often blame themselves, when in reality, rape is always the fault of the rapist, no one else.

Annie said she wanted to tell her story for several reasons, one of which is the stigma attached to rape victims.

"I feel like somebody should talk about it," she said. "It's something that you are ashamed of, but I didn't do it to myself: Somebody done it to me."

Now, she said, she's trying to put her rape behind her, and she hopes talking about her experience will help even "one person out of a thousand or a million" to not go through the same thing.

And the biggest lesson Annie said she learned?

"A woman don't need a man to stand up on her own two feet."

Learning about exploitation from teacher/student sex part 2

When boyfriends/husbands are convicted of rape, stalking, or kidnapping, there were no real relationships, but adult intimate sexual exploitation. Simply victims and victimizers. Encounters which lead to criminal charges are no more "relationships" than the teacher and the 17 year old student or the pedophile and the 7 year old boy. If a 20 year marriage ends in rape charges and a rape conviction against the husband, there was no romance, but two decades of grooming, manipulation, deceit, and intimate sexual exploitation. Adult, married status does not change this fact in the least.

When sexual assault charges occur, there is a victim and a perp. Any "relationship" the parties had pre-assault was simply an opportunity for the offender to groom, then violate his victim. Any sex the couple had before the criminal act was exploitative. Whether it's a teacher and a student, a doctor and a patient, or "partners" and spouses, the offender scouted out, obtained access to, groomed, then violated his victim(s). Criminal charges are only brought to court when they are founded.

When a conviction is obtained, the courts are saying that there was a sexual victim and a sexual offender. It doesn't matter whether it's the teacher and 17 year old student, the boss and the employee, or even the husband and the wife. It matters to the courts that a law was broken, that the victim needed justice, and that society needs to be protected from that person.

When a teacher has illegal sex with a student, it doesn't matter whether a student is under 18 or over 18, whether the student was in "love" or not when charges are filed. When a therapist has sex with a patient, or a prison guard has sex with an inmate, it doesn't matter to the law what "consent" if any the victim and perp had before the sexual assault charges. It only matters within the court system that a sex offense occured, and how to punish the perp and heal the victim.

A predatory teacher and a predatory husband is subject to the same SO listing and same SO restrictions if they occur in the same jurisdictions. They may be in the same SO groups and have the same restrictions on the Internet and contact with kids. In Michigan, they will be charged with the same crime - CSC 3. This is why status before victimization does not matter.

Prison guard gets a sweet deal - 2 months jail, 3 years probation

A former prison guard who sexually assaulted an inmate in a blanket room at Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women's prison in central Wisconsin has been sentenced to 2 years probation and 3 months jail with work release privileges.

Dustin M. Schultz, 20, of Brandon, was convicted in September of second-degree sexual assault by correctional staff for having sexual contact with the 26-year-old woman last May.
Schultz was sentenced Monday in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court. He was granted work release privileges and ordered to report to jail March 7.

Defense lawyer Michael Sias said that Schultz was being "groomed" and "worked" by the inmates and described Schultz as being naive and flattered by the inmate's crush on him.

Kaye Watkins, who prepared a presentence investigation report, said the victim and another inmate who stood watch during the encounter had "approached him in order to get some perks."
Schultz apologized to the court and expressed his desire to put the incident behind him.
"I know what I did was wrong. I've regretted it every day since," Schultz said. "I'm ready for this to be over with so I can try and get on with my life."

If this was a 20 year old and a 13 year old girl, he would not have been sentenced to just 3 months in prison. The same reasoning and lack of values behind asult/minor sex is behing guard/inmate sex. People without power do not groom those with it; it's vice versa.

Definition of exploitation (from this blog):

"To exploit someone is to make use of him or her for one's own ends by playing on a weakness or vulnerability. Those with power have the inherent potential to exploit those without power."Sexual Exploitation in Schools: How to Spot It and Stop It." p 7

Shauna the sexual exploiter screws over soldiers

A woman has been held without bond for the past three weeks after charges that she married men, then left them without divorcing her previous husbands. Shauna Marie Keith, 27, is currently facing bigamy and fraud charges in Georgia.

Shauna’s mother, Cindy Gibson, who lives in Gresham, OR, told Good Morning America that she was expecting this.

"This is somewhat of a shock, but I've been expecting this. For the last five or six years, I've gotten random calls from men saying, 'I think I am married to your daughter.’”

Gibson told "GMA" her daughter suffers from Munchausen syndrome, a disorder where a person tells fictitious stories about their health or background in order to gain sympathy and attention. "People with factitious disorders act this way because of an inner need to be seen as ill or injured , " the Cleveland Clinic says about the condition on its Web site.

"If the world she's living in doesn't fit her needs, she creates another reality," said Gibson.

Authorities count at least five marriages starting in 1999 to men stationed at bases from San Diego to North Carolina. Some of those marriages ended legally, but in others, she just left. Keith, who is currently pregnant, has three children, two of whom Gibson legally adopted.

Georgia authorities say that Keith's reality has included leaving her military husbands financially and emotionally devastated and abandoning at least three children to be raised without their mother. Walton County Sheriff's Office Detective Jim Mayes counts seven names, five different Social Security numbers and three dates of birth used by Keith since 1999At least three times, Mayes said, Keith has been married to two men at the same time.

Mayes began investigating Keith in early January, shortly after she was married to a staff sergeant Marine at a Christmas Eve ceremony in Georgia. After a doctored license and other evidence of identity theft was discovered, suspicious family members called police.

On Jan. 4, a warrant was issued for Keith’s arrest — her birth name is Shauna Marie McDonald. The next day, Keith was picked up in Beaufort County, S.C., just miles from the Parris Island Marine Corps base. She was staying with another Marine when authorities found her.

Shauna was returned to Walton County January 11th. She currently faces bigamy and fraud charges, and is being held without bond because she is considered a flight risk.

During Mayes' investigation, which included interviews with Keith and conversations with Gibson, Mayes says a timeline emerged showing at least five marriages that began in 1999 when Keith married a Navy sailor based in San Diego. Keith gave birth to her first child during that marriage, which ended in divorce. A California court, Mayes said, gave full custody of the child to the father. Keith then reportedly married a member of the Air Force stationed at Fort Carson, Colo. She became pregnant during that marriage and the child was ultimately adopted by Gibson, Mayes said. That marriage was legally dissolved after Keith left the man.

In August 2006, Keith married again, this time to a soldier stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. Sometime around that date, Mayes said, she gave birth to a third child, whose father remains unclear. That child was also adopted by Keith's mother. Soon after, she left that husband without a divorce, Mayes said, adding that the soldier has continued to work to get military officials to annul his marriage to Keith.

Just months later, in January 2007, Keith allegedly married a fourth military man, this time someone met at Fort Riley, Kan. In that case, the Army soldier found out that Keith was still legally married to the third husband from Fort Knox and the Army annulled the marriage, Mayes said.

After that, Keith met her most recent husband, a Marine Corps staff sergeant stationed at Cherry Point, N.C. After talking online, they met and subsequently married in a civil ceremony Christmas Eve in Walton County, Ga.

While Shauna had never actually enlisted in the military, she had obtained a military issued card which allowed her to go on and off bases without any suspicion. Shauna faces possibly more fraud charges.

There was never any love, and never any caring. The marriages were a sham, and her husbands were the victims of a sexual predator and exploiter.

Dr. Bob Shoop, the specialist in teacher/student sex abuse, calls it intimate sexual exploitation.

(Shoop, 2004, Sexual Exploitation In Schools, page 3)

The modus operandi of the intimate exploiter involves leading the youngster to believe the educator has a genuine desire for a mutually committed intimate relationship. The immature youngster is often mesmerized by the belief that a charming, smart sophisticated, attractive adult is interested in him or her.

Regardless of the sincerity of the adult’s motivation, the intent is irrelevant; the impact of the behavior is exploitative.

The same processes can be defined for sexually exploitive relationships between adults outside an education or other fiduciary setting. It is my view that most bigamous, abusive, and otherwise dysfunctional adult relationships have this type of exploitation.

All of Shauna’s victims believed that they were into an mutually committed intimate relationship, otherwise, they would not have married her. While the military men which Shauna exploited were not kids, and were not students, they believed that a young attractive woman were into them for their military service and their high moral vaules and sense of duty. Indeed, the sense of duty led one victim to take full care of his child after Shauna abandoned the child. yet the same exploitation inherent in teacher/student sex occurred.

Factors include

1) Hormones – the sex drive of a male under 40 is not that much weaker than that of a teenager.
2) The desire to settle down and have kids, which she exploited for her own purposes.

3) Power imbalances between the exploiter and the victims, where there is no formal power difference, but the foreknowledge that she would cut and run acts as a power difference.

There are a lot a comments about this case. Some comments are from parents of grown sons who are trying to deal with other exploiters, some blame both the (alleged) victims and Shauna's mom, and others shed more light on the situation.

Statement from Shauna's family:

Our family has been deeply saddened by the developments in the life of our daughter, Shauna Keith. Shauna has long suffered from Munchausen (facticious) syndrome, but only within the past few years did we become aware of this little-known disorder.

Unfortunately, she would not respond to our requests to receive medical and psychiatric help. We have been working with the police and child protection services in several states for the past five years sharing with them what little information we received on Shauna’s whereabouts. We are relieved that Shauna is now incarcerated in hopes she can make retribution for her mistakes and eventually receive the help she so desperately needs.

Our greatest hope is that no one else, especially husbands and children, will be harmed or heartbroken by her actions. We hope the families who have been hurt can find it in their hearts to forgive her. We ask the news media to please respect our privacy at this time as we search for ways to best help those affected by this ordeal.