Swine Program Teacher Arrested for Sex with Boy

(Orange, California) A 26-year-old teacher in the 4-H programs offered by the University of California Cooperative Extension Program, Lilian Pennington, was arrested by Orange Police Department officers for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old student. The boy's parents became suspicious of Pennington and alerted the police.

According to Susan Schroeder of the Orange County DA's Office, Pennington was charged yesterday with statutory rape and oral copulation of the boy. The sex acts allegedly occurred multiple times at her home and in her car since last July. Pennington pleaded not guilty to the charges before Orange County Superior Court Judge David Hoffer. Bail was set at $100,000. If convicted, Pennington could face five years in prison.

Pennington was the 4-H Club "Market Swine Project" leader and the extra-curricular activities director for children between the ages of 6 and 18. Deputy District Attorney Heidi Garrel stated that Pennington met the boy when he was 12 and began a 'romantic relationship' with him when he was 15.

To be tasteless, one might render that there was foul husbandry in the swine project.