Comments on: Christine A. McCallum: Fired Teacher Pleads Not Guilty To Rape (Video, Photo)

By: sam

sam — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:00:27 +0000

you people are ridiculous.
it is against the law. plain and simple.
when someone is put in a position of authority, then they should continue to act like one.
if these women are ‘in love’ with the boys, why must the relationship be physical? because it’s not love, it’s lust, it’s these women who want to feel young again and enjoy ‘puppy love’.

13 year olds should be playing,

By: Anon 2

Anon 2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:21:51 +0000

Hi Anon,our one boy had an affair with his 10th grade teacher when he was 16. He looked about 20 when he was 16 and the girls were all over him. He fell for his teacher who was only 22. When I found out I was angry and my husband had a long talk with our son and told me to butt out that our son had NOT been hurt by this and that they both had feelings for one another..I did what my husband asked but I also told my son that this teacher could go to jail and get her right to teach taken away from her. He graduated from high school and they started dating and are now married and have 2 kids. She was not a pedophile but she could have been put in prison had we gone to the authorites. Even with the age difference between them they have agreat marriage and are good parents.
I have come to believe that these things can happen that age is something that has nothing to do with whom you fall in love with. I asked my son how he would feel if this happend to hjis son and he said it would depend on the circumstances and how his son was taking this situation.
I never was comfortable with this whole thing but now I have come to terms since after 4 years after this happened that they got together and now have a nice life and family and have been together for over 10 years.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:29:16 +0000

I was a “victim” of statutory rape when I was a 16 year old teenage boy. I am now in my 40’s, and I still can’t believe I was harmed in any way. I am grateful for the experience and I am grateful to the woman, who was in her 30’s at the time, for the joy and love we had together.

If I could go back in time, I probably would not have had sex with her over again, only because of the legal danger it put her in. She was a wonderful person who never took advantage of me or anyone else. I got more than half of the joy from our relationship, and she had all of the risk.

I realize that such a relationship might be harmful to many teenage girls and maybe a few teenage boys too, so being part of such a relationship is very unwise even without the legal consequences, but I just can’t feel right about putting women in jail for doing something that probably made a young man VERY happy, and giving him an experience that I doubt he will ever regret.

In this case, maybe thirteen is just too young, but think about the women who are sitting in jail for having sex with 15 and 16 year-olds. Do you *really* think those boys were harmed?