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Pterodactyl

(1,687 posts) Fri Apr 26, 2013, 11:35 AM Apr 2013

Courtney Jarrell Former Teacher, Coach In Riverton, UT Charged With Raping Female Student [View all]

Source: WFMY News

Riverton, UT-- A former teacher and basketball coach at a high school in Riverton, UT is facing rape charges involving a female student.

According to police, Courtney Louise Jarrell, 22, a former math teacher and sophomore girls' basketball coach at Riverton High School in Utah, has been accused of raping a student.

KLS-TV is reporting that Jarrell, 22 was charged Friday, April 19 in third District Court with Rape and Forcible Sexual Abuse.

Jordan School District spokeswoman Sandy Riesgraf tells KSL-TV that Jarrell resigned from the school Friday, which is the same day she was officially charged.

Read more: http://www.digtriad.com/news/national/article/281787/175/Former-Teacher-Coach-Charged-With-Raping-Student

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Courtney Jarrell Former Teacher, Coach In Riverton, UT Charged With Raping Female Student [View all] Pterodactyl Apr 2013 OP

Queue the RW Noise Machine Complaints that Gays Should Not be Allowed to Teach dballance Apr 2013 #1

This is kind of odd. Normally, threads about rape get many responses. hughee99 Apr 2013 #2

Probably because the accused is a teacher. Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #4

Preposterous and offensive Nine Apr 2013 #17

Everyone should be outraged by it. Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #19

What makes you think anyone *isn't* outraged by it? (nt) Nine Apr 2013 #21

Of course not. Every one who knows about it would be shocked. Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #23

Sounds like you have a theory. Nine Apr 2013 #10

Several theories... hughee99 Apr 2013 #11

What do you want people to say? Nine Apr 2013 #15

Seven? snooper2 Apr 2013 #25

So, you have a sad because the feminists aren't in here, condemning the suspect? Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 #16

Not really, hughee99 Apr 2013 #18

And I think that the things people choose to mention tell alot about them as well. Sheldon Cooper Apr 2013 #24

Spot on, hughee99. n/t Laelth Apr 2013 #26

We both know exactly why that is. nt Dreamer Tatum Apr 2013 #31

If the teacher's guilty IrishAyes Apr 2013 #3

I'm sure the victim... actslikeacarrot Apr 2013 #5

Don't chastise me or put words in my mouth IrishAyes Apr 2013 #6

Quite. And most of the victims are men ... in prison. Laelth Apr 2013 #27

Accused is 22. Victim is 17 Ash_F Apr 2013 #7

Or in Arkansas Seeking Serenity Apr 2013 #8

It's 16 in Arkansas Ash_F Apr 2013 #9

She wasn't charged with statutory rape, and in Utah it wouldn't be. Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2013 #12

Forcible rape is legal in most states? tabasco Apr 2013 #13

It's forcible rape, not statutory marshall Apr 2013 #14

It's not about Boy Scouts or priests, so who cares? n/t Psephos Apr 2013 #20

There has to be something systematically wrong with education that allows this AngryAmish Apr 2013 #22

There should be a better screening process to weed out the predators. Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #32

Wait for trial, and hope her attorney requests a change of venue to another state. politicat Apr 2013 #28

I was a mormon living in Utah in the 70's and my first thought went to bushisanidiot Apr 2013 #29

Glad you got out. politicat Apr 2013 #30