Last year, there were well over four hundred reported cases of teachers having sex with underage students. So, it should come as no surprise that we're starting to get two of these creeptastic tales per day...
1) A 24-year-old male music teacher, who shuttles between private schools in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, was arraigned yesterday for some disturbing sex crimes. Like, this-guy's-going-to-die-in-prison creepy shit. Amos Duque is accused of "five counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child, five counts of possessing a sexual performance of a child, one count of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a child."
Good Lord, we don't even want to know what he did to earn these distinctive charges:
[Duque] allegedly gave his cell phone to the 11-year-old student on Dec. 20, 2008, and persuaded him – allegedly by offering him money – to go into the bathroom and take pictures and make a video of his penis and then later, to allow him to see and touch his penis, according to the complaint. Duque also allegedly referred the boy to pornographic Web sites on the Internet. [MSNBC]
Douche Duque faces seven years in prison, but he almost wasn't arrested at all. His victim kept it bottled up and may have suffered for years, perhaps decades, had a friend of his family not noticed something was wrong and got the child to spill the beans.
2) In Lousleazyanna, our favorite state, another 24-year-old teacher, this time a female, has been arrested for unlawful carnal knowledge-- and no, she didn't molest Sammy Hagar. The victim is a fifteen-year-old boy who may have actually been a willing participant. We say this only because of middle school staffer Kendra Hoffpauir's second charge: contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Correct us if we're wrong, but the charge can only be made if it was not a forced sexual encounter-- in other words, the boy would have to have been underage but also a willing participant. If she had been charged with sexual assault, then they would not have given her the second charge. No?
In any case, it doesn't really matter. The boy's parents found out (we always wonder how-- did the kid come home and tell them something horrible had happened to him or were the two caught in the act?) and the cops were called in.
Side note: We found out a little more about Miss Hoffpauir, thanks to social networking sites she belongs to. Hoffpauir is a 2006 graduate of a Baptist college and strongly supported Mike Huckabee in the primaries. Make of that what you will. Also, reports of this incident sparked a major outrage in the community, so much so that the local media grew concerned about a lynch mob or some renegade attack on the suspect.
I just wonder why the Leesville Leader pulled comment board for this article? When controversy errupts the Leader always yanks the boards, Its getting really old. Article had 6 comments this morning now they have completely removed all comments. Thanks Town Talk for putting the stories out and letting the people speak their minds. [Leader]
Another reader accused the Leader of allowing "Democrats" to "Sensor" the message board, which may be the only bright spot in this story...
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