This seems like a simple concept, but apparently it needs to be pointed out over and over again: when you’re over 18 and you have sexual contact with someone under 18, it’s illegal, and people are eventually going to find out about it.
Especially in high school.
For the second time this week a local teacher has been arrested on suspicion of sexual conduct with a minor. This time, 23-year-old Flowing Wells district teacher Christina Marie Carbone is accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old boy. The student, who attends a TUSD school — not being your own student doesn’t make it any less illegal — met Carbone at a social event in March, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
This comes on the heels of the arrest earlier this week of Melissa Ann Dalton, 33, an Ironwood Ridge HS art teacher, for allegedly getting it on with both a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy in her car and her classroom.
Yes, we all know that teenage boys can be dreamy. Just wait until they’re of age. Oh, and after they’ve graduated, or is that no longer make it exciting?
This article appears in May 3-9, 2012.
This is years of political correctness run amuck, these new teachers dont know right from wrong because they have been taught wrong is right and right is wrong. The political correctness experiment needs to end or expect more of this garbage. Soon the democrats will want to pass a bill allowing this behavior.
Interesting how many of these teacher molesters are female.
Well, if they are illegal, then they should be deported.
Something about this whole situation just seems fishy to me. Personally, I’m curious as to what the “social event” was they met at, as that could shed a lot of light on things.
Also, Chuck: Please explain to me how political correctness has encouraged people to have sex with children. I beg you to help me understand that shining, gleaming insight into our society.
You also need to take into account that students accuse teachers of said crimes because they’re bitter towards a grade they have received. I know a student at Ironwood Ridge High School, where Melissa Dalton worked, that was present when two students said that she “gave them bad grades” so they planned to “mess with her,” then proceeded to make obscene gestures. That sounds like a couple of immature idiots that have no concern for the lives of others just because they got a poor grade in art. Maybe students should be a little more concerned with the well being of themselves than with destroying an innocent woman’s life. There are actually TONS of facts that are surfacing to prove her innocence. There are multiple art students that go into her classroom everyday during lunch, and she’s in there with them. So it isn’t possible for her to have “sexual misconduct” with students during lunch without others witnessing those events. Also, these kids are in HIGH SCHOOL. The “victims” are well aware of right and wrong and can judge that it would be a bad idea to go have sex or anything related to that with a teacher. That being said, a 15 and 16 year old boy is also very well capable, usually, to be able to fight off a woman to protect themselves from anything against their will. So even if Dalton was guilty, which she isn’t, the boys would have had to agreed to it unless she threatened them. But she didn’t threaten them, and this would have been plastered all over the news had she done so.
These two teachers have been accused of committing crimes; they haven’t yet been tried and convicted. However, because the media is hunkering for any piece of news, their lives have been ruined whether they are guilty or not. If they are found “not guilty”, do you think that will be front page news?
Conservative independent- thanks for proving that some among us think that being illegaly brought into the country and attending school is a worse crime then being sexually molested since if deportation is the consequence of reporting a crime the crime won’t be reported. Or at least less likely to be reported.
JDMendez, the same way poverty causes people to rob banks. Political Correctness teaches us that no one fails, that why grading systems have been changed so nobody fails anymore. When you do fail and screw up like these teachers did, it get blamed on medication, or lack there of. Just watch what happens. Too bad there wasnt a hoodie and a bag of skittles involved, this could get really interesting.
It was so much more entertaining in the olden days when we blamed bad behavior on the movies and television. Now we think that politicians are the source of all ideas. Sad times!
Even if the teens agreed to it, wanted it, pursued them, or acted inappropriately they should have stopped it. They are in a position of authority and are supposed to uphold higher ethics and maturity than that of their students. They are kids after all. There are definite, clear lines a teacher should not cross or allow her students to cross and it is up to them to establish and keep them. These teachers are innocent until proven guilty. However, if ethics violations have been committed and are an issue; then these women shouldn’t be teachers, regardless if they broke a law or not.
Again I get the crap end of the stick. None of my female teachers would even teach me let alone get it on.
I agree with Burnie……………like the song says……some guys have all the luck……..
What’s wrong with these boy’s, at their age I would have not wanted to ruin a good thing. I was certainly hot for a few teachers in my day.