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Teacher sex scandal/abortion exposed after student uses the story in an essay

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Escape Goat

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Calm down, guys. SC age of consent is 16 and its only illegal if the student and teacher go to the same school. How about that logic, eh? Sucks for him. He almost got away with it but someone just had to express themselves.


A former high school band teacher in North Carolina was arrested on sex charges after a young woman wrote in an essay in her college newspaper that he got her pregnant — and took her to get an abortion — when she was his student.

The essay, "I had an affair with my high school teacher," used some fake names but identified the Winston-Salem school, and the principal there tipped off authorities. It was originally written for a composition class at North Carolina Central University and appeared in the campus paper this month as part of an annual special section.

The piece, which describes a relationship that started when the student was 17 and her teacher 24, begins with a chilling description of the abortion.

"The sound of the vacuum still rings in my ears almost three years later," she wrote. "He had taken me to Greensboro because he was scared of someone from school or anyone catching us together at the abortion clinic — didn't want anyone 'getting the wrong idea.'"

The teacher, Terry Lamar Jones, now 28, turned himself in on Monday and was charged with 64 felony counts of sex with a student, each one punishable by 15 months in prison. He was jailed on $500,000 bail.

Jones' attorney, David Freedman, said: "People are quick to judge in matters when people are charged, especially when a teacher is accused of having a relationship with a student."
The woman, now a college junior, used her real name in the essay, and it was published along with a photo, but The Associated Press is not identifying her because police consider her a victim of a sex crime.

Repeated attempts to reach her were unsuccessful. She changed the name of her former teacher, as well as that of another student she said had a sexual relationship with him, and all but one reference to her alma mater, Parkland High.

Investigators refused to give details about their investigation, saying only that they spoke with the student last week.

Jones left the Winston-Salem school system in November 2008. Freedman and district officials would not give details about his departure, saying only that he had no demotions or suspensions and submitted a letter of resignation. He had been a band teacher since last year at a middle school in Durham, a position he resigned the day after he turned himself in.

The age of consent in North Carolina is 16, but Jones was charged under a law that specifically makes it a crime for a teacher to have sex with a student at the same school.
It is a misdemeanor if the teacher is less than four years older than the student, and a felony if the teacher is four or more years older.

There was no indication in the essay that the woman wanted to see her former teacher arrested or otherwise punished.

The essay, published April 13, created a sensation on campus, with students clamoring for copies of the paper. A day after it came out, more than half of the 4,000 copies were stolen from receptacles around campus, the paper's faculty adviser said. It is not known who took them.

"A lot of people want to read it, but they can't get ahold of it for themselves," said Ashley Griffin, editor of The Echo. "It's really a pretty big deal over here."

The relationship began in October 2007, the student wrote, when Jones invited her to his home to review band videos on the Internet. She said the two kissed that night, but she left in a big hurry to make curfew.

"It was as if he wanted me as bad as I had him that entire year," the student wrote. "I drove home wide-eyed and full of energy. Who in their right mind would ever believe that I had almost had sex with our band director?"

She said things quickly turned sexual, and the two spent nearly every night together. She said the relationship faltered when she learned that Jones had also been involved with her best friend, but she stayed with him anyway until she graduated in 2008.

"I think I needed the attention," the student wrote. "Today I don't speak to either of them. They are still together."

The student wrote that she still feels guilt about the relationship.

"I am still scarred by the experience. I lost my only friends and abused and embarrassed myself by sleeping with a teacher and having an abortion," she said. "A lot of girls can talk the talk, but we all have to be aware of that guilty walk that comes along with the territory."
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jamesinclair

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Teh Hamburglar said:
She said things quickly turned sexual, and the two spent nearly every night together. She said the relationship faltered when she learned that Jones had also been involved with her best friend, but she stayed with him anyway until she graduated in 2008.
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This part made me laugh.
 
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hellclerk

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scar tissue said:
boo hoo
she was 17 at the time, she knew what she was doing
but yeah, sue his ass anyway
bitter virgin here
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It shows.

Honestly, I can't really have an opinion either way. Guy deserves his jail time, and the girl made some bad decisions, but I wonder how predatory he was or if he was just stuck in high school. Either way, looks like things are turning out for the best. The girl's getting her issues out and the teacher is paying his debt to society.
 
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perfectnight

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wsippel said:
She was 17? Fire him and be done with it, like every civilized country would.
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We're talking about the US here :)

Poor guy will probably spend most of his life in jail and be a registered sex offender for the rest of it.
 
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scar tissue

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doomed1 said:
It shows.

Honestly, I can't really have an opinion either way. Guy deserves his jail time, and the girl made some bad decisions, but I wonder how predatory he was or if he was just stuck in high school. Either way, looks like things are turning out for the best. The girl's getting her issues out and the teacher is paying his debt to society.
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i really don't think that 17 and 24 is way creepy or should be punishable
he was her teacher so that's quite a different beast
but still, kinda harsh to call him "predatory", a 17 year old girl is pretty much fully capable of consenting
he shouldn't be labelled as a sex offender, he abused his position of power but nothing more
in prison he'll probably be called a pedo and raped...jeez
 
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J-Rod

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I don't think the teenager was mature enough to know the potential consequences of the relationship like the teacher did, as shown by her reflecting on the sound of the dead fetus being vacuumed out of her.
 
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reilo

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She said things quickly turned sexual, and the two spent nearly every night together. She said the relationship faltered when she learned that Jones had also been involved with her best friend, but she stayed with him anyway until she graduated in 2008.
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whaaaaaaaat
 
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jamesinclair

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scar tissue said:
i really don't think that 17 and 24 is way creepy or should be punishable
he was her teacher so that's quite a different beast
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Wasnt a real teacher though, just band.

The reason for the law is so that you dont get students sleeping with the math teacher because they suck at math and dont want to fail.

But band?
 
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Dresden

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Poor guy. Not saying what he did was right, but the dude's life is completely ruined and he'll be spending years behind bars. All for a girl seventeen years of age.
 
Huevos de Oro

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Not to take responsibility off the girl's shoulders, but the teacher should have known better. So many things can go wrong out of a situation like this, it's just not worth the risk.
 
Escape Goat

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J-Rod said:
I don't think the teenager was mature enough to know the potential consequences of the relationship like the teacher did, as shown by her reflecting on the sound of the dead fetus being vacuumed out of her.
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The age of consent in North Carolina is 16, but Jones was charged under a law that specifically makes it a crime for a teacher to have sex with a student at the same school.
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Age of consent is 16. Only reason he was arrested was that there is a law against the teacher and student simply going to the same school.
 
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Instro

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This must happen pretty often though. I knew at least 2 of the teachers at my highschool were married to former students. Another one got arrested a year after I left for being in a relationship with a 16 year old as well.

Funny part is all three of those dudes were coaches for Cross Country and Track.
 
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StickSoldier

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Dresden said:
Poor guy. Not saying what he did was right, but the dude's life is completely ruined and he'll be spending years behind bars. All for a girl seventeen years of age.
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Yeah that sucks, and it would of been okay as long as they weren't going to the same school. They must not believe in school spirit.
 
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Mudkips

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Reads like bad erotica.

"It was as if he wanted me as bad as I had him that entire year," the student wrote. "I drove home wide-eyed and full of energy. Who in their right mind would ever believe that I had almost had sex with our band director?"
 
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Devolution

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Teh Hamburglar said:
Age of consent is 16. Only reason he was arrested was that there is a law against the teacher and student simply going to the same school.
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Because it can still be predatory considering the dynamic of teacher and student?
 
MidgarBlowedUp

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Jones was charged under a law that specifically makes it a crime for a teacher to have sex with a student at the same school.
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Sorry but, the above law is just stupid (fact) and should be un-American and against the constitution.
 
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diddles

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nice...


oh wait wrong scenario!


Ponti said:
Niiiii- oh wait it's a guy.

Death penalty.
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oh fuck man i searched for "nice" in my haste to make the joke first, you could at least help a stale joker out.
 
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antonz

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MidgarBlowedUp said:
Sorry but, the above law is just stupid (fact) and should be un-American and against the constitution.
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Not stupid at all. Its an anti-preadatory law that is common in many countries. People in positions of authority are held to a standard of seperation.
 
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Devolution

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MidgarBlowedUp said:
Sorry but, the above law is just stupid (fact) and should be un-American and against the constitution.
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It's not at all stupid. What's to stop a teacher from using their position of authority to seduce teens into better grades for sexual favors?
 
The Faceless Master

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adamsappel said:
Just how racist am I that I did not expect them to be black?
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when i read "64 felony counts" the first thing i thought was "he has to be black!"

that's why i went looking for more info and found that other article with pics.
 
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Nice
 
Xilium

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Devolution said:
It's not at all stupid. What's to stop a teacher from using their position of authority to seduce teens into better grades for sexual favors?
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What's to stop an attorney from actually having to prove that?

Just seems like a way to take away the pressure of the court actually proving lack of consent. This is helpful for victims of non-consensual relationships (rape) but not for the consensual ones (statutory rape).
 
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Devolution

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Xilium said:
What's to stop an attorney from actually having to prove that?

Just seems like a way to take away the pressure of the court actually proving lack of consent. This is helpful for victims of non-consensual relationships (rape) but not for the consensual ones (statutory rape).
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Pretty sure a school, especially a highschool, doesn't need the added drama of their staff fucking their students. It's also unethical in college too.

Let's say the teacher isn't extorting them then, what's to stop them from just favoring the girl who's blowing them and inflating her grade?

Fucks up all sense of fairness.
 
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