Hot for teacher? Ick.

Even if he did it, which he says he didn't, he says it wasn't illegal anyway.

They concluded that the Legislature's intent was to protect children under the age of 18 from predatory teachers, coaches or mentors.

"Thus, we conclude that the legislative history of [the statute] clarifies that the legislature intended ... to criminalize only sexual misconduct between school employees and 16- and 17-year-old students," wrote Judge Marywave Van Deren in an opinion signed by colleagues Christine Quinn-Brintnall and J. Robin Hunt.

The article goes on to report that the fine upstanding citizen whose alleged behavior has resulted in this screwed-up decision wants to retain his teaching certificate.  Would you want him teaching at your daughter's school?

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