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Date Posted:
4/28/2006
8:23:01 am EDT
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School Aide Accused Of Sex Abuse, Buying Students Drugs, Alcohol
Author: The Hawaii Channel Source: The Hawaii Channel
Title: SCHOOL AIDE ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE, BUYING STUDENTS DRUGS, ALCOHOL
A man who worked as a part-time educational aide at Castle High School is being accused of sexually abusing students as well as buying alcohol and drugs for them.
Parents and teachers gave statements to police on Thursday; one day after the man was relieved of his duties at Castle.
Castle students told a story of an ex-Marine in his early 30s, who would cut school with kids. He is accused of having sexual contact with both male and female students. The man allegedly told the kids he practiced witchcraft and could put spells on them.
"Eventually I had my suspicions after he started to practice magic with us, and kind of got a little too sexually comfortable with us," sophomore Joseph Madeiros said.
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| Sexual Predators Are All Over | May 1st. at 1:06:35 am EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me
On mentioning the Accused's Religion: It's high time the media stops trying to sensationalize in order to make more bucks off of sick acts that hurt kids in unbelievable ways.
Education doesn't make the world a perfect place but it can decrease suffering and crime. Education on how to bring up healthy children so they don't become abusers (which starts with setting good examples, and so on) , how to keep kids safe, how to spot potential abusers, and more is in order. That may help prevent horrible abuse.
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| Oops. | Apr 29th. at 11:21:20 am EDT
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Amtehuti (Queens, Florida) - Email Me
I meant to say by NOT being Christian.
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| My Thoughts. | Apr 29th. at 11:19:12 am EDT
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Amtehuti (Queens, Florida) - Email Me
Yes, all these kids CAN lie. They could be telling the truth, but the opposite is just as possible. I remember a teacher in my school, a man who was both a former ballerina and an ex-soldier. He sponsered our Amnesty International club and tried to help me sponser a Wiccan-Pagan club, as well as a Gay-Straight Alliance, but both were turned down. He helped everyone he could in that school, as I saw first-hand. Me? He let me jump into that classroom after school, when the older kids came looking for an easy target, and I was ok because a teacher was there. I know at least half a dozen kids who did the same, probably more before my time. He never touched us, never looked at us. Actually, he was engaged to have a marriage by handfasting. Then the school tried to fire him. They quoted a bunch of students about how the poor man talked about alternative religions and "cults" such as Paganism, Wicca, Native American beliefs, and early Goddess worship. The only people he talked to about all of that were us outcasts, so someone that he had protected turned him in. They talked about how he obviously didn't want to protect us kids because he let us believe that homosexuality was alright, that were weren't going to hell for being Christian, and these are all very wrong things. At one point, the school started saying he must've been having some sort of sexual relationship with us, as well. This was a private school, so these sort of things aren't that uncommon. He chose to leave instead of being fired, I guess choosing to leave without something on his record. Thankfully, he left the year I left, leaving the most beautiful note in my yearbook about how us, we have a light, and some will be blinded by it, but what we do with it was our own.
That teacher saved our lives. At least a few of us were suicidal, and we were fine afterwards. But that school believed a bunch of accusers just the same. So excuse me if I'm a little skeptical, but I'm just slightly pissed by all this.
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| Two Minds | Apr 28th. at 2:15:30 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, West Virginia) - Email Me
Working as a tutor, wanting to teach, and being a member of a non-majority religion, this is something I get very intense about. I work with kids of all ages-- and as a general rule, they're hurt kids. Struggling kids. Kids with odds stacked against them almost from Day One. Frustrated kids. Angry kids. Kids, in other words, prone to bear false tales for justification, for attention, for money, to win, or for no discernable reason at all. I love those kids. I love my job (which is maybe not all that different from his) . And I'm thinking about quitting, because I live in terror.
On one hand, society is almost obligated to believe those who say they are victims. I support this. It is hard to talk about being molested or abused even in a supportive atmosphere, and it seems that when someone mixes "witchcraft" up in it it gets even harder.
People do things like this.
Some don't even have malicious intent. They have their own theories of what is right and wrong, and their own theories of how to get thru to kids, and their own theories of what is constructive and what is not. They see a consensual relationship, and that's the bottom line.
I sympathize with those people a little bit. They don't mean harm. But it's still against the law, and I think it's still wrong.
You can't place someone in a position of opposition to the mores of society without letting them in for some heavily painful cognitive dissonance. Our society says sexual relations between "minors" and "adults" is wrong. Pretty much everyone in America is taught that at some point in their socialization. So-- DON'T DO IT. No matter how willing the minor in question seems, no matter how happily they consent, no matter even if they initiate it. JUST DON'T.
Some do have malicious intent. They want to hurt, to humiliate, to control. I want to harm those people.
Some don't seem to have any intent at all. They're just doing what they want, or what feels good. I think I want to harm those people, too.
On the other hand, parents generally tend to be hysterical at the mere suggestion of the fact that someone could "hurt their baby." I swear it's instinctive. No matter how old the "baby" is. I know I am. If anyone were accused of doing anything to or with my daughter, they would be tried and convicted in my own mind even before I'd heard all of the accusation. I'd try not to do it, but I'd probably fail.
Kids also tend to lie. Sometimes it's malicious; usually it's not. Impulse control is something a lot of adults are still working on, and I remember being 12, 14, 16. Even without common behavioral problems like ADD/ADHD or AS that make impulse control a moment-by-moment struggle, saying "adolescent" and "impulse control" in the same sentence without a negative modifier in between is, 9 times out of 10, a bleedin' joke.
They open their mouths, something comes out-- and then they don't want to get caught lying, so they're pretty much bound to make even wilder statements to cover for whatever it was that fell out in the first place.
They're also easily led. Even a teenager still wants to please parents and et cetera-- or at least tell them what they want to hear so they'll go away. You can say, "This happened this way, didn't it?" or even "This is what I think happened..." and oftentimes they'll give confirmation whether such is really the case or not.
In this case?? I don't know. Someone would have to be awfully stupid to do all that stuff. Awfully stupid.
There are, however, an awful lot of awfully stupid people walking around. And more malicious ones than I'd like to admit.
I don't have an opinion. But I'll light a candle for truth and justice, and hope they prevail. Hope some of that truth and justice rub off on me. Hope someone would do it for me someday-- and hope no one ever needs to.
And no, I won't be holding my breath.
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| Passed The Checks | Apr 28th. at 9:59:19 am EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"A Department of Education spokesman said the man passed a criminal background check before being hired."
Well, he won't do that again; his carreer in that field is ended.
The courts will now determine if Mr. Hand has a glass eye, but people won't ask Mr. Hand what the courts have determined.
This guy was a Teacher's Aide, who'd Substitute, and wasn't really accepted in the local Teacher's Guild. I wonder what kind of Circle the Teacher's Guild uses; this fellow certainly had not learned to play well with others, as Circles should teach.
Arawn
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