(McMinnville, Tennessee) Last February, Centertown Elementary School teacher Pamela Rogers Turner, 27, was arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape of one of her students, a 13-year-old boy.
Pamela Rogers Turner
Today, Turner pleaded no contest as part of an agreement with the prosecution and received 9 months in jail and loss of teaching credentials in a ruling by Judge Bart Stanley. After the jail term, Turner will be subjected to supervised probation for seven years and three months.
In summary, a 27-year-old teacher plays hide the sausage with a 13-year-old student for three months, gets charged with 28 felony sex crimes, and is sentenced to a paltry nine months in jail. You can check my math, but that figures out to be about ten days behind bars for each sex crime. In my opinion, there's a world full of pedophiles who would volunteer for that kind of punishment. As a deterrent to potential future child rapists, Judge Stanley's ruling isn't. One can only assume that Judge Stanley conferred with Judge Ollie prior to sentencing Turner.
[Update 8/12/05, 0445 EDT]
From another report, the court also ruled that Turner will be required to register as a child sex offender and the terms of the plea agreement prevent her from realizing monetary gain from the case.
Kevin Aylward at Wizbang has a couple of photos of Pamela Turner (aka Pamela Rogers, Pamela Rogers Turner) in court.
Companion post at Diggers Realm.
[Update 02/27/06]
Pamela Rogers released from jail.
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