When you hear of a paedophile teacher landing up in court, you’re almost certainly thinking of a creepy man, right? More and more, you’d be wrong.
The number of female teachers being outed as paedophiles is soaring. Child abuse in schools, especially public schools, is reaching – or only now being exposed – what US law enforcement have described as ‘epidemic’ levels. With teaching almost completely dominated by women, it’s hardly surprising, if still shocking, that female teachers are being routinely caught molesting their students.
A married Illinois special education teacher has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old student during a tutoring session, according to prosecutors.
Christina Formella, 30, was busted in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove Sunday — days after a student told police she molested him in a Downers Grove South High School classroom in December 2023 […]
The boy’s mother uncovered the alleged assault on Friday after she bought him a new phone and was linking it to his iCloud account, according to a DuPage County detention petition obtained by the Daily Herald.
Formella, who married last year, was arrested at a traffic stop days later. While she denies the allegations, prosecutors claim that investigators have uncovered more evidence.
Formella is charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count of criminal sexual assault.
After her booking, Formella was released on the condition that she have no contact with anybody under the age of 18 and that she not enter Downers Grove South High School.
She was also been placed on paid administrative leave from the school, according to the Herald.
Who wants to bet a male teacher would have been sacked on the spot? The double standard is real.
Two teenage boys who went to their principal with allegations a female teacher was having sex with students at a Sydney school in the late ’70s were called “liars” or “fools” and dismissed without any action being taken, a court has heard.
Former teacher Helga Lam, who denies any sexual activity occurred, is being pursued by the State of NSW in civil proceedings involving four men who allege they were sexually abused as students.
Horrifyingly, criminal proceedings failed because the law at the time deemed that a woman couldn’t rape a male child.
Ms Lam previously pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of indecent assault upon a male, however, before a trial took place the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) ruled that the historical charge never applied to women – and quashed the indictment.
According to a CCA ruling in a separate case involving the same charge and the same legal issue, there are no alternative offences available under the legislation of that time.
Even now, defence lawyers are arguing that the boys ‘wanted it’.
“It was because as teenage boys you had an interest, if not an infatuation, in this new teacher at the school,” [Dominic Toomey SC] suggested.
Even if true, that doesn’t change the fact that the adult is deemed to be the responsible party. Nobody forced her to molest her students.
From the 1970s to the present, though, it’s still going on.
A Sydney schoolteacher has been charged with sexually abusing a second student less than two weeks after being released on bail.
Detectives rearrested 30-year-old Tayla Brailey at her home near Wollongong, south of Sydney, just after 7am today.
She was taken to Wollongong Police Station and charged with six additional offences against a second student, including using a carriage service to solicit child abuse material, inciting a person under care to sexually touch and sexual intercourse with a person under care.
Like the US teacher, Brailey was married only last year.
For all those inevitably inclined to prattle, ‘I wish that happened to me in school’ – you really don’t. Research shows that abuse by teachers is similarly as damaging to children as by a parent. That includes female teachers abusing boys.
Female child sex offenders can have disturbing and life-long impacts on their victims. These impacts are similar to the impacts for child victims of male sex offenders, including self-injury, substance abuse, depression, and difficulties with sexual identity.
Most alarmingly, research has found victims sexually abused by both females and males said the abuse committed by females was more psychologically damaging than the abuse committed by males.
Astonishingly, some still seek to find excuses for them.
These women appear to abuse because of their own unmet intimacy needs resulting from relationship problems and feelings of loneliness for example.
Try, for five seconds, to imagine anyone make any such rationalisation for male abusers.
