Betrayal of Trust (Military recruiter has sex with high school student)

Apparently Indiana law, which would be used to prosecute a teacher or a school janitor for having sex with a student, does not cover military recruiters. No Child Left Behind!

Betrayal of Trust

The 17-year-old first met Sergeant Terry Taylor during a gym class at Ben Davis High School last summer.

"He's a big guy," she said, describing Taylor. "He's older - has all kinds of power."

Taylor got her name and phone number. At the time, military pay for college sounded like a good idea to her. "The first couple of times we talked, it was strictly military, but sometimes we got off track a little bit." Then, she said, Taylor "started asking if I had a boyfriend or something like that."

"It seemed weird," she recalled, "but I didn't think anything of it - just strictly because I thought I could trust him."

She told the recruiter she was no longer interested in the Army. Then that's when she said Taylor started showing up at her job. He never asked her out. But one day he reportedly asked her to come to his house. That's when she said it happened.

"It didn't feel right," she recalled. "I was even crying. And it just didn't matter to him."

The 27-year-old army recruiter allegedly had sex with the 17-year-old girl. She didn't tell anyone.

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6765352

Just kidding, of course, I wanted to say that in response to some people who were claiming that a 16 year-old boy having sex with a 24 year-old teacher wasn't abuse. Abuse of power is abuse, doesn't matter if the student is male or female. Here is a young woman whose life was affected in a negative way...I'm sure the young men who've been preyed upon by their female teachers feel similarly.

Thanks for posting, IG. A sad story. I feel for the girl.

He said that sex with a high school student is just wrong!

We need to change the law. NCLB gives recruiters access to personal student records. Indiana law must have a provision criminalizing inappropriate conduct by military recruiters.

sure she was on the dim side. but still WRONG.