Whoa-mi-Gawd. Have I got a shocker for you. Remember Sarah Jones, the former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and high school English teacher who was convicted of having sex with one of her teenage students? Well Cody York is now 18, and he's coming out on Dateline to tell the world that he is not a victim.
Well knock me over with a feather. A boy who had sex with a gorgeous NFL cheerleader does not think she victimized him. Next thing you know, scientists are going to tell us that there really are gnomes in the dryer who steal our socks.
Or that there are teachers out there who can actually keep it in their pants until their students are over age 18 and actually out of school. Well, on second thought ...
Listen, I get it. Cody York is trying to tell the world that Sarah Jones didn't put a gun to his head and make him pull down his pants. He was 17, and he wanted to have sex! I'm not going to accuse him of lying.
But does this really change anything?
Sure, he wanted to have sex. Sure, they are now dating and say they're in love (quick, grab a barf bag).
But Sarah Jones is still guilty in the eyes of the law of sexual misconduct and custodial interference for one very simple reason. She screwed up.
Her screw-up wasn't about whether Cody wanted to have sex or not. It's about the fact that she was a teacher having sex with her student. Period. End of story.
If she hadn't been a teacher, if Cody hadn't been her student, this probably wouldn't have gone anywhere at all. In the State of Kentucky, 16 is the age of consent for sex. At 17, Cody was legal ... for anyone not working as his high school teacher.
And therein lies the rub.
This wasn't up to Cody. It was never about what he wanted. It was about the law. It was up to Sarah Jones not to violate the trust put in her by the administration of the high school where she was employed, the trust of the parents who send their kids to school.
Sarah Jones lost her jobs and was convicted because of what she did, not because of how Cody felt. She needs to stop letting him fight her battles and just accept her fate:
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on one hand, you've got a female teacher who is engaging in sexual acts with a student. on the other hand, you've got a 17 year old boy with hormones and a smokin' hot teacher in the room. van halen's "Hot for Teacher" from the 80's wasn't just some crazy imagination thing.
i agree that she shouldn't have had sex with her student, and if he really did pursue her, she should have turned him down. but, i have to admit - i don't feel the same way about these situations as i do 15 and 16 year old girls sleeping with their teachers. is it a double standard? yeah, probably.
i guess this is just weird to me as an adult now because i remember being a teenager, and i remember we had some pretty attractive female teachers at our school as well. and let me tell you, that did not stop some of the guys i knew ONE BIT from hitting on them. she's right to have lost her job and teaching privileges for what she did - but did she corrupt / force a minor into sex acts? no, i don't really buy that.
I don't think the writer of this piece is saying he's a victim but it's still illegal and honestly it makes me pretty angry as a teacher. There are so many good teachers who NEVER make the news and are NEVER recognized for all the good things they do, yet this idiot sleeps with a student and is all over the news.