When Schools Lead to Sex

This is disgusting.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/30/montana-teacher-1-month-rape-sentence-overturned-378854592/

Stacey Dean Rambold was accused and convicted of raping a fourteen-year-old student. He served one month in prison for his crime, but could be heading back. A Montana Supreme Court ruled today that his sentence was too short. This new decision means that Rambold will have to serve at least two years in prison.

At the time of the rape, Mr. Rambold was a forty-seven-year-old teacher at Billings Senior High School.  Cherice Moralez was a student at that school. After the event, Moralez committed suicide. Though the defense argues that she may have had something to do with the events, the legal age of consent in Montana is sixteen; Moralez was well under that age. Her death took away the prosecution’s main witness, so the trial was carred out as a deferred-prosecution agreement. Rambold was required to register as a sex offender and was to remain on probation until 2028. In addition, he had to attend a sex-offender treatment program but was later kicked out for not disclosing sexual relationships and visiting child relatives. What’s worse, the defense is still trying to pin some of the blame on Moralez, as if she acted much older than she was and wanted to have relations with her teacher.

The prosecution will consult with attorneys and the victim’s family before deciding how much time they will seek to keep Rambold behind bars. It will be a minimum of 30 days before the case is re-assigned and brought before a new judge.

Did I mention that this is disgusting? It’s a sad, sad world we live in where sexual desires rule our lives and destroy the lives of others. This child had so much in front of her: a whole life of experiences to look forward to. This one experience made it all too much to bear, and now she’s gone. As this trial wears on I can only imagine what her family and friends are going through, constantly reminded of what happened four years ago. And chances are, the trial is going to wear on, because that’s how our government works. To get anything heard or passed or justified people have to fill out paperwork and go to meetings and be assigned court dates and the list goes on and on. Right now the case is in the Montana State Supreme Court. We’ll see how far this one goes.

“Horrible Crime”