Bronx teacher's oral hobbies receive leniant disapproval in NYC

[C C]

Bronx teacher who performed oral sex on 14-year-old gets 10 years probation, avoids jail, keeps teaching certificate
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro...rtbeat-flt

RELEASE: A Bronx high school teacher who admitted to performing oral sex on her 14-year-old student won’t face jail time — and she might even return to the classroom. Dori Myers, 30, last month pleaded guilty to criminal sex act for the Nov. 2016 incident at her former workplace, New School for Leadership and the Arts in Kingsbridge, where she taught social studies. Myers’ heinous crime, which reportedly happened multiple times, was discovered after another teacher found out by way of the victim’s friend.

On Wednesday, Judge Michael Obus sentenced the woman to 10 years' probation and found her to be a Level 1 sex offender. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Myers to a minimum of two years in prison. As part of her plea agreement at Manhattan Criminal Court, Myers also got to keep her teaching certificate.

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Nothing new. Similar (sex in general) happened in a small town school system years ago. Female teachers often got a wrist-slap in past eras as long as the male students were teenage and the incidents never made newspaper. A custodian also got fired at the same establishment for making suggestive or possibly soliciting comments to a middle-school age girl. Like priests, a lesser(?) number of male teachers and workers probably also eluded serious trouble back then via the Good Old Boys Club.

[Zinjanthropos]

A common expression in this area is “those who can....do, and those who can’t .... teach”. However this little episode puts it into a whole new context.

[Leigha]

I wonder why as a society, we don’t see women as predators when clearly, they can be. Waiting for the story to evolve into painting her as the victim and a 14 year old male as a predator. Not that a teenager can't be a predator, but in this scenario, the teacher has the power, and she is abusing her authority in her role. Regardless if he found her attractive or not, and ''went along with it,'' he is vulnerable as a 14 year old under her authority. And if the teacher here were a man and the student a minor girl, he'd likely be convicted of rape and imprisoned.