Yeah, but if you are one of those few cases

Post #324,355 by mhuber 4/10/10 3:57:51 AM Reply	Yeah, but if you are one of those few cases you are pretty much screwed. And the rat-bastard will make damned sure every teacher thinks he or she is the test case. Not to mention that having even a bogus child sex-abuse charge that was summarily dismissed is just not cool on a teacher's resume. And by "not cool" I mean career is over. Judges may scold him, but he won't be penalized in any way, and he gets to be a wingnut hero. Rat-bastard. Playing silly games with people's lives, and he fucking knows it. Any other field, you deliberately screw up your work in order to intimidate people, you get arrested or sued or sanctioned by your profession. Public official, specifically exempt from any and all penalties. --------------------------------------- Why, yes, I did give up something for lent. I gave up making sense.
Post #324,357 by warmachine 4/10/10 4:22:38 AM Reply	Obviously bogus charges can still destroy careers? I thought UK libel laws were a disgusting legal abuse. In the US, people don't even check if the criminal charges by a DA were vaguely credible, let alone true. Do Americans not understand that abuse of procedures, as well as actual crime, is an injustice? -------------------------------------------- Matthew Greet I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
Post #324,359 by mhuber 4/10/10 4:40:14 AM Reply	We tend to lose our minds when the words "sex" "abuse" and "children" appear together. We are also big on Lists. Wisconsin has a number of people on sexual predator lists whose crime consists of having sex with a same-age minor. Both are officially child molesters, and indistinguishable from a 50 year old who kidnaps and rapes 5 year olds. Many teachers are very much afraid (with a degree of validity that is hard to determine without an expensive consultation with a lawyer) of ending up on a List that makes it illegal (or at least legally dangerous) for any school to hire them, based on a charge regardless of conviction. --------------------------------------- Why, yes, I did give up something for lent. I gave up making sense.

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