Washington teachers can have sex with of-age students
A judge’s panel in Washington state has ruled that it’s perfectly legal for a teacher to have sex with a high school student, provided that student is 18 years old. One would hope that the behavior would still be prohibited by school districts, and would be grounds for dismissal — you know, a little thing about a person of authority having sex with someone under them. Are they not aware of a little thing called sexual harassment in Washington?
That’s the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School’s former choir teacher.
The teacher, Matthew Hirschfelder, was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. He challenged a judge’s refusal to dismiss his case. The appeals court unanimously agreed that the state law is vague, and that the Legislature only intended to forbid sexual contact between school employees and students who are 16 or 17.
Hirschfelder was 33 in 2006, at the time of the alleged relationship with the young woman. He resigned the next year.
Information from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,4798...
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