Teacher Gets 10 Years For Classroom Sex

[The Straight Story]

Teacher Gets 10 Years For Classroom Sex
Man Pleaded No Contest To Charge Of Having Sex With Teen

STUART, Fla. -- A former high school teacher was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that he had sex with a 16-year-old student in his classroom.

Shawn Trotter, 34, a former history teacher at South Fork High School, had been charged with three counts of sexual activity with a minor. In his plea deal with prosecutors, Trotter also received 10 years of probation and will have to register as a sex offender.

Trotter's father-in-law, Richard Mulanax, told The Palm Beach Post that Trotter was innocent but accepted the plea to avoid a trial and the risk of a possible 45-year prison sentence.

The investigation began after two students told school officials they knew of a teacher who was having a sexual relationship with another student, according to a Martin County sheriff's report.

http://www.local6.com/news/13968434/detail.html

[SteppingRazor]

1. Had it been a female teacher...

Every guy in the country would have been titillated, and the teacher would have done a couple months in prison, at most.

[regnaD kciN]

2. And...

...would have become a media star thereafter.

:eyes:

[gatorboy]

4. No Larry King for Shawn I guess....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I believe the female teacher in the NW

who was convicted of having sex with a male student was sentenced to several years. She was divorced from her husband, estranged from her family, and the child she had by her lover was taken in by the lover's mother. She was in prison long enough for him to reach legal age--they married when she got out.

[originalpckelly]

3. Of course, it's wrong when it's guy, but when it's a woman...

hey that's sexy.

Sexism doesn't only hurt women.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. My only question is

Why would that girl want to have anything to do with someone so stupid as to do this?

[peace13]

7. I haven't seen a picture of the teacher

but you obviously haven't been a teenage girl with a male teacher. Peace, KIm

[NashVegas]

8. Maybe She Thought He Was Hot?

I don't condone this teacher's actions, not for a minute, but if this relationship was 100% by mutual consent and no coercing or manipulation, 10 years is 8 or 9 years too many.

[Deja Q]

9. I know there's literature-based porn about this ridiculous fantasy, but IN REAL LIFE?!?!

:wow:

Hell, I should aim my personal ad at teachers...