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Why do female offenders get the lighter sentences?

October 4, 2006 12:50 am

Daniel Mahon
Why do female offenders get the lighter sentences?

Bonnie Sue Davis is being treated differently than a man ["Teacher pleads to misdemeanors," Sept. 23].

If a male teacher had been found in the company of a 15-year-old girl with his pants off, he would be in jail--and for longer than a year or two.

If that didn't happen, the public would be up in arms.

Why is it when a woman teacher (which seems to be all the rave) seduces a male student, she is not prosecuted as a man would be?

There was a case in Florida, and now there's one here. They may not use force, but emotionally tricking a boy into sleeping with them is rape, period.

As a parent of a child who is in the Spotsylvania school system, I am terrified that this sends the wrong message.

Daniel Mahon

Spotsylvania





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