It seems like reports of female teachers having sex with underage boys (and girls) are increasingly common. Is it more reporting, more scrutiny or has there been a true uptick in this type of criminality? Consider this article from the AP:
Jason Eickmeyer says they knew it was wrong, but he and his high school physical education teacher were attracted to each other. He says that one night in February 2003, he went to her apartment and had sex. He says the sexual encounters ended after one night of passion. A 15-year-old high school sophomore at the time, he says he felt heartbroken and confused, but didn’t feel like a victim or that his 26-year-old teacher took advantage of him.But now, Eickmeyer says the relationship affected him in ways he couldn’t imagine. He says he lost his desire to play sports and his academic career was derailed.
The full story is available here.
-Ralph Michael Stein
According to this article: http://www.slate.com/id/2134158/
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, women committed only 3.5 percent of all single-perpetrator sexual assaults or rapes in this country in 2003, consistent with their share of these crimes since at least 1996. In California, where recent teacher-student cases have made news, the number of female offenders convicted annually has stayed flat for years at about 4 percent of the number of male offenders. Even in teaching, where women are highly overrepresented, five of seven studies reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education two years ago indicated that 80 percent to 96 percent of offenders were male.”