Guess which is worse: Topless photos or tortoise theft?
Re: “Parents found topless….” and “Tortoise theft….”
I’m trying to understand the present interpretation of justice in America, as I compare the “crimes” discussed in two articles in the P-D on page C10, Feb. 29, 2008.
In the article “Tortoise theft could draw 7-year sentence,” the act appears to be theft of a tortoise from a private animal hospital.
In the article “Parents found topless pictures of teacher, school says,” the act appears to be emailing of a picture (or pictures) of herself, by a female teacher to a 15 year-old student. In the picture(s), the teacher is topless.
Join me in considering the penalties described:
For stealing a tortoise: a felony count of stealing over $500, a charge that carries a penalty range of probation to SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON.
For distributing the photos of the teacher, shown topless, A MISDEMEANOR.
Maybe this is just further proof that Justice is Blind!
Ben Bradshaw
Imperial
You’re right! The teacher should face no criminal action, rather she should be fired. The thief should face 27 years not 7. We deal way to lightly with petty larceny.
A $500 turtle? That’s a whole lot more than the old Box Turtles I had as a kid.
Wonder what the penalty would be if it were a male teacher sending nude photos of himself to an underage student.
What to read some wacky stuff? Below are 2 links one is about the story of a teacher’s aide who raped a male student. She’s out on $500 bail.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-liteac265592025feb26,0,6423751.story
Now, here’s a story about a NJ man arrested for texting messages to an underage girl. He’s still in jail.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-linet0227,0,5532637.story
First of all, I think both these people are pedophile slime, but there is a definite disproportion to the crimes that were committed. The guy actually didn’t send the texts to an underage girl, they were sent to cops posing as a girl. He never actually had any sexual intercourse with an underage person!! Now the woman who is free on $500 bail had multiple sexual encounters with an underage male.
Where is the parity? Women want equal rights, then they should get equal punishments.
You seem to be comparing apples, and oranges here.
Also there are other factors such as if the Turtle was returned unharmed.
Perhaps some form of restitution, and court costs is fair.
The woman should be publicly stoned by her peers,
but only by people who have not previously sinned.
That si after fines, fees , court costs are paid in full.
What happened to my post? I comopared the punishment of a proven female pedophile who is out on $500 bail to a man who is still in jail for texting lewd messages to an undercover cop…why remove the post? Doesn’t make sense and fits in with what this letter writer is stating. Is it becasue it contained links to another newspaper?
Take it easy Les, one of mine disappeared too and it was totally innocuous-s*&t happens.
Why would a teacher send a topless photo of herself to a 15 year-old boy?
Seems to me this story is incomplete. There’s more to it than what has been reported.
The fact that bail was set at $500 only means the defendant is not considered a flight risk. Bail is not punitive — innocent until proven guilty, right?
The real crime is that Melissa Moss appears to have had more than one date with the upgly stick, if you know what I mean. I found the cached version of her now deleted MySpace account by Googling Melissa+Moss+Chesterfield+myspace.
I like what she put down as her best physical feature. With something this simple to find out on the net I wonder how Barat Academy can say they performed a “thourough” background check on this woman.