(Anderson, South Carolina) A 33-year-old, married, female science teacher at Westside High School, Donna Carr Galloway, will avoid criminal charges after being found naked with a 17-year-old male student because the age of consent in the state is 16. The boy went to T.L. Hanna High School and, therefore, was not one of Galloway's students.
Donna Carr Galloway
Apparently, authorities caught a naked Galloway and the boy doing the back seat bossa nova in a vehicle about 11:30pm last Friday night. She was suspended from her teaching job with pay.
It seems that the state of South Carolina doesn't have clear guidelines on how to deal with situation such as this incident. If the age of consent is 16, essentially half of the student body could be mixing it up with the faculty and no laws would be broken. Hopefully, the school systems establish clear rules and harsh punishment for teacher-student sexual relationships.
Nevertheless, without specific state laws barring teachers from seducing teens, it seems that South Carolina may be allowing unscrupulous teachers to abuse their authority. Additionally, those teachers could bounce from school system to school system without ever acquiring a public record of their sex-related peccadilloes with students.
The South Carolina legislature might want to re-evaluate the rules governing teacher-student sex.
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