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Schoolgirl Stalkers! - Male Teachers Flee The Classroom To Escape Female Student Predators
Published:Sunday | January 3, 2016
Across the island, several schoolgirls, some as young as 14, have been setting their sights on the few male teachers left in the system, sending explicit photographs and aggressively trying to entice the authority figures into sexual relationships with them.
"The risks are great for a young male teacher," admitted Clayton Hall, former president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA).
"I had to come to the defence of a teacher recently after he received sexually explicit photos from a student. The child's parents saw the photos and called in the police, and officers from CISOCA (the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse) came in," said Hall.
"The parents believed he was soliciting their child. Luckily for him, a series of reprimands were part of the messaging thread and those proved to be his get-out-of-jail card. Without it, he would have been arrested," added Hall.
But the woes of the young male teacher did not end there, as the police threatened him with prosecution under the Cybercrimes Act, which provides criminal sanction for the misuse of computer systems or data and the abuse of electronic means of completing transactions.
He was also warned for prosecution under the Child Care and Protection Act, which requires adults to report to the relevant authorities children in need of care and protection.
"In this dispensation, I have had male teachers complain to me about the situation. It becomes very problematic for the teacher when you look at the Child Care and Protection Act, which considers you guilty until you can prove otherwise," said Hall.
He noted that if the teacher had shown the photographs to his head of department, that might not have been considered as making a report, while keeping the photographs on his cellular phone could cause him to be charged.
According to Hall, he was also relentlessly sexually harassed via letters from students while he taught at an all-girl school in the Corporate Area a decade ago.
Read the rest; http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20160103/schoolgirl-stalkers-male-teachers-flee-classroom-escape-female-student
Published:Sunday | January 3, 2016
Across the island, several schoolgirls, some as young as 14, have been setting their sights on the few male teachers left in the system, sending explicit photographs and aggressively trying to entice the authority figures into sexual relationships with them.
"The risks are great for a young male teacher," admitted Clayton Hall, former president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA).
"I had to come to the defence of a teacher recently after he received sexually explicit photos from a student. The child's parents saw the photos and called in the police, and officers from CISOCA (the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse) came in," said Hall.
"The parents believed he was soliciting their child. Luckily for him, a series of reprimands were part of the messaging thread and those proved to be his get-out-of-jail card. Without it, he would have been arrested," added Hall.
But the woes of the young male teacher did not end there, as the police threatened him with prosecution under the Cybercrimes Act, which provides criminal sanction for the misuse of computer systems or data and the abuse of electronic means of completing transactions.
He was also warned for prosecution under the Child Care and Protection Act, which requires adults to report to the relevant authorities children in need of care and protection.
"In this dispensation, I have had male teachers complain to me about the situation. It becomes very problematic for the teacher when you look at the Child Care and Protection Act, which considers you guilty until you can prove otherwise," said Hall.
He noted that if the teacher had shown the photographs to his head of department, that might not have been considered as making a report, while keeping the photographs on his cellular phone could cause him to be charged.
According to Hall, he was also relentlessly sexually harassed via letters from students while he taught at an all-girl school in the Corporate Area a decade ago.
Read the rest; http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20160103/schoolgirl-stalkers-male-teachers-flee-classroom-escape-female-student
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