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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Juveniles Sexually Abused by Staffers at Corrections Facilities: Scandal in Idaho Shines Light on Victimization of Young People by Staff.

When a local nurse’s son was sent to the juvenile corrections center here at age 15, she was upset, but relieved that he would be away from drugs and gangs. The single mother said that the “night he went in, I felt bad, but I could sleep because he was safe.”

But within months, the head of security at the state juvenile corrections center in Nampa struck up a sexual relationship with the teenager, according to police reports. Julie McCormick admitted to having sex with him three times in 2012 while he was incarcerated, the reports said.

Ms. McCormick, 29 years old at the time, told detectives that she fell in love with the boy nearly half her age. She pleaded guilty in 2013 to lewd conduct with the minor and was sentenced to five to 20 years in prison in 2014. A lawyer who represented Ms. McCormick declined to comment.

“You hear about the Boy Scouts, you hear about the Catholic Church—those kids can walk away from it,” said his mother. “My son couldn’t.”

The scandal is an instance of an issue plaguing juvenile facilities nationwide.

National inmate surveys show juveniles experience a rate of sexual victimization by staff that is more than three times that of adult prisoners. Nearly 10% of youth held in state juvenile facilities reported incidents of sexual victimization, with more than 80% of those incidents involving staff, according to a national survey of juvenile inmates published by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2013 that covered the preceding year. . . .

Staff at Nampa allegedly groomed inmates in the manner of child molesters, according to the legal claims.

One former inmate said in an interview that a nurse gave him perks, such as soda and candy, and flirted with him. That led to sex on several occasions in the medical clinic, he said. She gave him money, then threatened to turn him in for having contraband—the money—if he refused her advances, he said. He was 18 at the time and the nurse, who is accused of having sex with other juveniles at Nampa, was in her mid-30s.

“You’re an easy target,” said the college student, now 24, who didn’t want to be named. “You have to think, ‘Why wouldn’t they do this with some young guy in the street?’ ”

The former nurse, who is named in legal claims and no longer works for the center, couldn’t be reached for comment. Jeff Ray, a spokesman for the Idaho Department of Correction and Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, said, “We knew nothing of the allegations” at the time she left the job.

Perpetrators in these cases are often women. About 90% of youth who said they were victimized by staff in the federal survey were males reporting sexual activity with female staff.

Matriarchal privilege.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Clarksdale teacher arrested on a charge of sexual battery.

A 23-year-old Clarksdale Municipal School District teacher faces sexual battery charges after allegedly sleeping with a student, according to the Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department.

Kristen Damon was arrested at her home Tuesday and remains in jail on a $25,000 bond.

Employed through the Teach For America Program, Damon taught seventh grade English at Higgins Middle School and coached soccer at Clarksdale High School.

No word on whether the student was male or female.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ex-Phoenix teacher pleads guilty to sexual conduct with student. “A former physical-education teacher in the Phoenix Elementary School District pleaded guilty Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court to a series of sex charges for engaging in sexual conduct with a 12-year-old former student. Nicole Wooten, 38, pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a minor, attempted child molestation and attempted sexual conduct with a minor for the crimes that took place with the eighth-grade student from 2005 to 2006, according to court documents.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female Teachers: The Sex Offenders No One Suspects. “Women are given more lenient sentencing than men, says Shoop, who has served as a forensic expert in hundreds of sexual abuse cases in the U.S. ‘My experience has been that females get time served and probation, where men get 15 years for the same offence,’ he says. A 2012 University of Michigan study, ‘Estimating gender discrimination in federal criminal cases,’ found a gender divide in sentencing generally in the U.S.: men received 63 per cent longer sentences on average than women, and women were twice as likely to avoid incarceration if found guilty. Two decisions involving former Oregon high school teachers, found guilty of having sex with students earlier this year, bear this out. Denise Keesee, 39, received 30 days in jail and five years probation for two counts involving a 16-year-old male student. In another jurisdiction, 56-year-old Charles McLauchlin was sentenced to almost 10 years in prison for second-degree sexual abuse and online corruption of a minor involving a 16-year-old female student. . . . The trust accorded female teachers is precisely what allows them to offend.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Local Elementary Teacher Indicted For 25 Counts Of Rape. “A local elementary school teacher was jailed and accused of rape of a child under the age of 13, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition. Lori Ann Anderson, 50, of Cridersville in Auglaize County, was arrested Friday on multiple charges that include obstructing justice and obstructing official business.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Woman performed sex acts on a 7-year-old boy, police say. “An Albuquerque woman photographed herself engaging in sex acts with a 7-year-old boy and told police she couldn’t promise to not do it again, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Gwendolynn Lindgren, 34, was charged with criminal sexual penetration, among other things, after her husband told police he found photographs of her and the boy in emails on her cell phone.”

OKAY, I GUESS “TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE” HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME A THING: Gloria Allred suing high school for alleged treatment of male sexual abuse victims. “Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred — well known for defending mistresses of famous people — appeared Tuesday at a press conference with the mothers of high school boys who were sexually abused by their female teacher.” Say what you like about Gloria — no, really, say what you like — but she’s got a good nose for a legal trend. . . .

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Former Teacher Charged With Sex Crimes Against 12-Year-Old Student. “Whitney Fair Mullen, 34, appeared in court Thursday morning in Senatobia, Mississippi on charges of molestation and sexual battery of a child. Mullen is a former teacher at Strayhorn Elementary School in Tate County. . . . With long hair hiding her face, the former teacher didn’t have anything to say about accusations after court on Thursday.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Accused rapist charged with prostitution. “After she was charged, police learned Abrams was wanted on an arrest warrant for third-degree rape stemming from an incident that occurred in 2013 in the town of Richmond.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Central Wash. school librarian avoids jail in sex case. “Under the deal approved Friday in court, 37-year-old Elizabeth Kinkade will serve nine months on electronic home monitoring.” I’m sure a male teacher would get the same deal.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ex-NFL Cheerleader Indicted For Raping 15-Year-Old. “Officials say Shattuck began seducing the boy back in May after she saw his picture on Instagram — and first got physical with him in the back seat of her car in a middle school parking lot.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Accused Female Child Sexual Predator Indicted. “Christine Yoder, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment in a case of child exploitation that involved the alleged sexual abuse of two minors, who were 6 years old and 16 months old at the time of the abuse, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Louisiana woman sexually abused 3-year-old boy, had sex with dog on video: police.

A Louisiana woman was caught on tape sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy and having sex with a dog, according to police.

Angeline Lodice, 26, was arrested Monday after the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office police obtained several photos and videos of her alleged sexual acts, according to an arrest report.

One of Lodice’s relatives reached out to the 3-year-old boy’s father after receiving photos and videos of the encounter between Lodice and the boy. . . . Police did not say how Lodice knows the boy or the dog.

I blame the patriarchy.