Deaf Teacher goes to jail for sex with a student

Deaf Teacher Headed To Jail For Sex With Student
Student Is Also Deaf

POSTED: 12:59 pm EDT May 28, 2004

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- A former teacher is headed to prison for having sex with a 13-year-old student.

On Friday, John Rehkop got three to eight years each for three counts of sexual assault on a minor.

Rehkop used to teach at the Austine School For the Deaf in Brattleboro.

Both he and the victim are deaf, which made the trial difficult because it had to be heard through sign language interpreters.

jeez! Are they that stupid? Men! ugh.. you never hear about women sexually assaulting boys, do you?

Well, there was a infamous case of a middle school teacher (woman) who had sex with a 12 or 13 year old boy....she had two kids by him. Did anyone remember that case on the News? It's not just men.

Nancy said:

Well, there was a infamous case of a middle school teacher (woman) who had sex with a 12 or 13 year old boy....she had two kids by him. Did anyone remember that case on the News? It's not just men.

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I remember now.. but i was just saying its usually men, that is all.

Nancy said:

Well, there was a infamous case of a middle school teacher (woman) who had sex with a 12 or 13 year old boy....she had two kids by him. Did anyone remember that case on the News? It's not just men.

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Yes, I remember the case... It was a 34 year old teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and a 12 year old boy Vili Fualaau.

Mary Kay Letourneau due out of prison July 17th
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=67756

Katzie said:

Yes, I remember the case... It was a 34 year old teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and a 12 year old boy Vili Fualaau.

Mary Kay Letourneau due out of prison July 17th
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=67756

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Wow fast time! I bet they will get married right away after she get out of the prison this July.

I wouldn't be surprised if that actually happened!

There was a scandal at a res school between a female dorm counselor and a 16 yr old female student (I dont want to disclose sensitive info with the names since I was there, and knew these people personally) - as far as I know, it was voluntary. But jeez, couldn't they wait when the students come of age?! Nevertheless, this woman went to jail. They sent out letters to all parents. My dad got one, and was like WTF

Vamp, that classmate of yours that "did" the dummy in front of a teacher is looking better and better.

Now I am getting PISSED!
I do not even know where to start with this and I am aware that this is a highly-charged emotional issue...But WHY make a big deal of it?
Ok, ok, I can hear you charging into my face for this, but I reiterate, what is the big deal?
My first sexual expereince was with a teacher. It happened at a field trip, and let me tell you, I THANK GOD FOR IT simply it is there in my personal list of experience, that list I can dredge from my memory and decide for myself if it was worthwhile or not. It was consensual, and heck, even though I was underage, I am jolly grateful it happened, I mean, I thought I was GOOD, I lasted what, ten seconds, whoooo? But that is beside the point I am trying to make.
I have learned from it and I have sure as hell learned a lot more from her than, gasp, SEX! This is all in retrospect of course, times were different then yada yada, but let me tell you, I prefer those times to the one we have now. I notice on news programs they have that warning that what you are about to see may be offensive because it contains NUDITY, and then they proceed to show maimed and mutilated corpses for godsake. So, it is okay to see violence but not nudity??? Something is screwy here.
I am not in any way condoning a teacher seducing a student. It's just too bad no student today can handle it.

Beowulf said:

Now I am getting PISSED!
I do not even know where to start with this and I am aware that this is a highly-charged emotional issue...But WHY make a big deal of it?
Ok, ok, I can hear you charging into my face for this, but I reiterate, what is the big deal?
My first sexual expereince was with a teacher. It happened at a field trip, and let me tell you, I THANK GOD FOR IT simply it is there in my personal list of experience, that list I can dredge from my memory and decide for myself if it was worthwhile or not. It was consensual, and heck, even though I was underage, I am jolly grateful it happened, I mean, I thought I was GOOD, I lasted what, ten seconds, whoooo? But that is beside the point I am trying to make.
I have learned from it and I have sure as hell learned a lot more from her than, gasp, SEX! This is all in retrospect of course, times were different then yada yada, but let me tell you, I prefer those times to the one we have now. I notice on news programs they have that warning that what you are about to see may be offensive because it contains NUDITY, and then they proceed to show maimed and mutilated corpses for godsake. So, it is okay to see violence but not nudity??? Something is screwy here.
I am not in any way condoning a teacher seducing a student. It's just too bad no student today can handle it.

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Teachers are supposed to be role models to the students, not sex toys. It's unprofessional, period.

Parents will not stand to have their children seduced by the teachers, they are at the schools to learn, not to be seduced.

Just like there's the policy at workplaces that dictates a person's right to date a co-worker because of the potential problems as a result of the sexual relationship.

Supposedly a teacher got knocked up by a student, which did happen before, should they be spared from a prison sentence?

No, I think they should be sentenced, period. They knew it was unprofessional and un-ethical to seduce a student. Students tend to be more naive in general in comparison to the teachers because of their life experiences.

I think it's stupid for a teacher to have a sexual relationship with a student.

Banjo said:

Teachers are supposed to be role models to the students, not sex toys. It's unprofessional, period.

Students tend to be more naive in general in comparison to the teachers because of their life experiences.

I think it's stupid for a teacher to have a sexual relationship with a student.

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Role models. A teacher today is under tremendous pressure to toe the line, i.e., to teach what is acceptable by government standards. THAT is a role model???

Yup, students DO tend to be naive, but it is questionable as to whether they are more naive than "adults" who believe everything the mainstream media spoonfeed them.

It's dumb for a teacher to have sex with a student, but hey, not all of them do, so let's not slam them all and thereby put constraints on them that make it impossible for them to TEACH.

We just ought to stop being so judgemental just because the media tell us to be so, and we ought to THINK, which is next-to-impossible in our schools because of those %##&$ "standards".

I do not believe in my heart that my teacher deserves a prison sentence.

Beowulf said:

Role models. A teacher today is under tremendous pressure to toe the line, i.e., to teach what is acceptable by government standards. THAT is a role model???

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If they cannot take the pressure, that's their problem. They chose to be teachers, we didn't force them into it.

Yup, students DO tend to be naive, but it is questionable as to whether they are more naive than "adults" who believe everything the mainstream media spoonfeed them.

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We're not talking about the media. We are talking about sex between a student and a teacher. The line is not tobe crossed.

It's dumb for a teacher to have sex with a student, but hey, not all of them do, so let's not slam them all and thereby put constraints on them that make it impossible for them to TEACH.

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I didn't say all of them are perverts, but there are some idiots who would and should be punished for the actions they commit.

We just ought to stop being so judgemental just because the media tell us to be so, and we ought to THINK, which is next-to-impossible in our schools because of those %##&$ "standards".

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The media didn't make the rules, the schools and the government did, and teachers should follow it.

I do not believe in my heart that my teacher deserves a prison sentence.

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It's the law, like it or not, but your teacher is a pervert who love to boink students. The reason why I'm being harsh is because I believe in zero tolerance for sexual relationships between students and teachers. Why?

Because if I have children, I'll have to be capable of not tolerating such things being done to my children. That goes for everybody's.

I remember in past of time when I was in Texas School for the Deaf. I was there. One guy admit me about the teacher who, the male, is doing to him. I asked if he was told but he afriad about it. So I couldn't be invlode this moment due my health. So I happen talk to my old friend and told me the strange thing what that same teacher that one guy admit me. Teacher walk into the dorm and walk into my old friend room while he watch the tv. He direse of hungry to borrow my friend for the 'smell' and then stay there to watch what my friend watch tv. I was at my home. He told me all those thing then i told my old friend about teacher himself did to other person. So thing turn spread out the word the staff heard about it.

The head of Texas School for the Deaf went to dorm and asked how did the teacher got into the student's bedroom. They were told him that he had a paperwork that due and my old friend left at his desk which is not true.

When I went home the weekend and watch the news told about the teacher from TSD. I was suprised and glad its over that he won't do that to other childern. Even he has on my buddy list when he im'ed me and asked him if that those stories are true. He stopped talk to me. So I don't understand why but think that deaf student won't say anything due the paperwork grades and etc? ??

TSD fired him and the police took him into jail. Now he released for while until the judge date set and I do not know what happen the rest.

You have control over this, dude.
If you are afraid that he may come after you, go to the police and explain the situation and they will help you. Perhaps a restraining order? I do not know what will happen next but I know that you are a courageous dude for telling your story and got the balls for taking further care of yourself.
Just think about what to do.
And then discuss it more like you did with us, because you cannot do it alone.
My hat's off to ya, guy.

And by the way Banjo, my teacher was not a pervert.
THAT is in your mind.

I think this is a sick minded person who just can not control his own desires, and as far as im concerned im glad he's in jail and deserves this! I belive in one thing KEEP YR HANDS OFF THE CHiLDREN and just TEACH and do not think abt sex with a minor! u want sex but can't get any go find a paid hooker and leave the kids alone! simple said simple done but ofc its not always simple!

Beowulf, I'm glad that you obviously haven't experienced any negative aspects from having sexual relations with your teacher - Not everyone is so lucky. What is okay in your eyes is not in everyone else's. I am not a parent, but I know when I have children, I do not want them exposed to sexual activity until they are legally an adult in the eyes of the law. Things might not actually work out like that, but everyday parents put faith into the school system and the teachers to supervise their kids. Teachers shouldn't have to be martyrs outside of work, but they should have moral values and a sense of what is right and wrong, and last but definitely not least, genuinely caring about what is best for their students. Engaging in underage sex and growing up too fast is not what most parents want for their kids. To violate that not only violates a child's innocence, but the trust the parents put into the teacher. I view both as a great tragedy. I don't care if the teacher is 23, green and right out of college and the student in question is 18 and on the cusp of graduating. Waiting until the student was no longer a student of that school is the only possibly ethical way to go about starting a relationship with that person. I for one hope this teacher gets a severe jail sentence.

My god!

You notice that I put in a disclaimer that I do not not not not condone the teacher's behavior. I knew nonetheless it would not do any good. Somehow I am equated with perverts, and I find that laughable.
So much attention is being paid to teachers, for godsake, to the mistakes of a few and how much wwe can punish them. Where were you, parents, in the whole time this was going down? How could the victim be primed for exploitation without your part in it? Or should I say NON-participation in your child's develiopment? Who are we to point fingers of blame without pointing to ourselves as a whole?
It says a lot about us as a society that we can allow our present administration to get away with murder, and in fact to encourage it with our silence and our tacit approval if its policies to be taught to our kids, but when human nature dares rear its ugly head, we scream bloody murder.
Look, there are perverts and there are perverts, but by and large they are in the minority. You would not think so by reading this forum.
It is okay if we murder and maim children in another country, but when it comes to our own, we better do what the government mandates is the correct appproach, or else. This is SICK! It is NOT human nature to murder, get that into your heads! It is really really NOT human nature to allow our children to become pawns of that sickness, I do not care what the media tries to tell you.
Our children are innocent until a certain age, and then the fault falls squarely upon the parents' shoulders.
That is all I was trying to say, however ineptly.

i question ur aspect beo, reason why? u blame the parents when the parents have taught the right from wrong AND sexual education of what is no and what is ok, u say the child that reaches a certain age of decsion should fall squarely on the parents shoulder? no i think not goes on policy and poilcy mandates that they are to keep thier hands off the children and if they do something thats inapporatie then its the childs responsblity to report it and she/he felt it was important to tell the parents who they trust, how the medias get these information is by either scanner or by sources in the community. And its the first admendment's right to inform the public and to be aware of the dangers that toils around the community. we expect our teachers to be responsible and not *straying* for the lack of the better word of thier postion. and this teacher did stray therefore he has to own up to the responsblity of the crime he commited ( allegdely) *sp* but we the parents expect our kids to know when to say no, and not be put down or PRESSURED in all aspect. and i have my respect for yr belifs but we must think of our own child's safety, there is just to much misconcept of what u are saying because u were led to belive in what u think is right. the child regardless is underage til the age of 18 and still think of this, they may think its ok but its not and they must respect the laws NOT the misconcepted thinking of * LOVE* the children have yet to experince this. and they still are learning i rather my child be with a child of thier own age and not with an adult that can rob you of ur innocence. thats IMO im sorry if i offended u in any aspect BUT this is IMO .....