The student apparently had athletic scholarships offered that have now disappeared:
Sexual encounters last year between an Ayersville High School teacher and one of her 17-year-old students sent the now ex-teacher to jail yesterday – separating her from her 5-week-old baby.
The encounters, in the teacher’s living room and a Cincinnati-area hotel room in June, have cost the student opportunities to play high school and college sports, Judge Joseph Schmenk was told in Defiance County Common Pleas Court before he imposed the sentence.
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The student, who was not in court, has not been allowed to compete in high school athletics this spring because of the moral infractions associated with the sexual encounters with his married teacher. Early athletic offers from colleges have disappeared.
“This is not what I expected his senior year to be like,” the student’s mother said in a statement read in court by Defiance County Victims Assistance Director Sally King.
The student’s reputation, the mother said in her statement, is no longer that of being an athlete. Instead he is known as the boy who had sex with his teacher.
“This has been an embarrassment for the entire Ayersville community,” the mother’s statement continued, saying that at winter athletic events students from opposing teams have worn T-shirts bearing the slogan: “Our teachers are hotter than your teachers.”
Heh. I kind of call bullshit on this though, because if the kid was good enough then the offers would still be rolling in. There’s not a college coach in the country that would be pulling an offer because a kid banged the English teacher. Hell, lots of coaches would just think that made him more of a man, and thus a more desirable recruit.
My guess is that the kid was a middling prospect, the kind that is the most damaged by having to sit out a season.
The judge made a really good point that’s often overlooked in these cases:
“In addition to the harm you caused the victim, the victim’s family, and your own family, it occurs to me you hurt every other teacher out there,” Judge Schmenk told Long, adding that good teachers trying to work closely with their students may be looked at suspiciously because of her actions.
“The profession’s difficult enough,” he said.
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I feel it is bull crap that she even received a jail term. The 17 in question was in trouble before this ever happened. That is why he was suspended from the football team. he also caused his own suspension from spring sports by wearing a t-shirt to school making references to his teacher. He is just as much to blame as she is. He was NOT a victim.
Of course he was not a victim; society was too eager to take someone down, I guess it was more tasty to blame her… even more to those who would LOVE to have sex with her.