24
Feb
2009

Massachusetts Teacher Runs Off With Teen Student

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lisa lavoieHere it is only February, and we already have our second teacher student sex scandal of the year.

24-year-old Holyoke, Massachusetts teacher Lisa Lavoie was arrested Monday night in Morgantown, West Virginia after fleeing with a 15-year-old student a week ago.  According to CNN, the parents of the unnamed child first reported their suspicions to the police on Friday, February 13th.  The police went to the Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School to question her, but she had already left for the day.  They were going to try again on Monday the 16th, but that entire week was a break for the school.  The student was reported missing that day, but the teacher was not reported until Monday the 23rd when she did not show up for work.

The police used financial and cellular communication records to trace the duos whereabouts, but they know they were in Vermont on last Thursday, and were in West Virginia on Monday.  An arrest could not be issued until more evidence was gathered, once it was, the Morgantown police were sent to pick up the teacher and charge her with enticement of a child, and statutory rape is still being investigated.  Ms. Lavoie, who had the student in her 8th grade class, has only been teaching at the school for 5 months, and she has been placed on administrative leave as the investigation into the allegations continues.

Christine McCallum was the first teacher scandal of the year, and that was just back on January 11th, and I was blown away we already had one this year, but even this one seems a bit early for the year.  Most of these types of scandels tend to happen later in the spring, towards the end of the school year, so it seems some teachers wanted to get an early start this year.  Never mind that I think that Ms. Lavoie may be the first to have been a teacher less than a year before getting involved in such a situation.

My biggest uestion in this case (beyond the usual “Why?”) is why the police didn’t pursue things further on that first Friday.  Did they go to the school and go, “Oh, she’s not here?  Oh, well then, no possible problems will happen over the weekend, no need for us to go to her home and question her!”  Why was there no follow up from the police at that point?  Why did the mother wait until the 16th to report the son missing?  Did she not notice on the 14th or 15th?

There are several questions remaining in this one, but at least the boy is now safe, and hopefully some of the answers will come out as to what motivated yet another teacher to commit the ultimate betrayal of parental trust.

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11
Jan
2009

And We Have The First Teacher Sex Scandal Of 2009

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Christine A. McCallumI will never understand why female teachers want to have sex with teenage boys.

Long time readers of this blog know all to well that I am obsessed with teacher-student sex stories: Christel C. Gravlin & Julie Pritchett, Stephanie Ragusa, Mary Jo Spack, Lisa Marinelli, Debra LaFave, and so on.  I am not obsessed in a positive way, I am obsessed in a, “Could someone PLEASE explain this to me?!?” way.

The latest case involves Christine A. McCallum, 29, from the Boston, MA area.  Apparently for the past almost three years she has been having a sexual relationship with a teenaged boy.  According to The Inquisitr, the “relationship” began in February 2006 when the boy was 13-years-old.  He was the older brother to a child Ms. McCallum was tutoring, and she allegedly became obsessed with the boy, and they had sex nearly every other day from what the child, now 16, says.

Ms. McCallum, who is married,  is denying the accusations and says she took on a motherly role with the boy who lived with a single father.  Evidence found at the boy’s home includes a cell phone she provided him with, and letters with content of a sexual nature, and including the decleration that she would choose him over her job without hesitation.  That choice has now been removed from her hands as she has been suspended from teaching her 5th grade class.

As I have said nearly every time this type of story has come up, I just don’t get it.  Teenage boys are sweaty, awkward, gawky little things that even teenage girls want nothing to do with.  How in the world do these women look at these children and think, “Oh wow… I want me some of that!”?

What also never ceases to amaze me is that it is always female teachers.  I can’t remember the last time I heard of a male, the gender that makes up the majority of sexual offenders, took part in anything similar.  Is there something that tells the male teachers just to stay away from the children that their female counterparts are lacking?  And please do not take that as a slam against the female gender, because it isn’t, it is a question based on the cold facts that these stories all seem to be about women.

This story does break from my usual criteria of the boy must actually be a student of the teacher, but I just simply couldn’t get my head around this one.   If the story is true, how did she get away with it for so long?  Would something in her head not have finally said to her, “this is wrong”?  Why did the boy finally come forward?  (I can’t find this in any story on the matter)  How did her husband never catch on?  The questions I have our endless, but the number one is, as it always is, “Why?”  Five of the six teachers I mentioned earlier all happened within the past year, and here we are in the first month of 2009, and we already have one, so apparently this isn’t something that will magically disappear.

I’ve often wondered if maybe the male teacher stories are kept more quiet because it is an older man/young girl angle, and somehow feels more violating?  Most people when they comment on female teacher/student stories go, “lucky kid”, like this is something they should wear as a badge of honor.  Well, no, they shouldn’t.  Child molestation is child molestation no matter the make up of the gender combinations involved.  It is sick and wrong, and for the life of me, I just want to understand what could possibly drive these people to this act.

So, believe me, I take no joy in writing these posts, I simply hope that by doing so I help cast these acts in the light they should be cast in, and that is damnable.

Other teacher sex scandals for 2009

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