Thursday, January 22, 2009

Current Event Thursday

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I have been saving this since last Friday! I am so happy to be taking part of Current Events Thursday with The Surender Scribe

Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students

SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479817,00.html

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