Friday, October 28, 2011

Stacy Shuler, is 4 years jail enough?

I'm sure you've seen the coverage of the Shuler trial, a 33 year old teacher convicted of molesting 5 boys at her school. Two of the parents of the boys molested testified as to the impact on their sons.  Through tears they talked about depression, not trusting authority and interruption of college plans. This trauma indeed will impact these boys until they work through the beliefs they have acquired and processed the emotional response of sexual assault.

How proud I am of these boys who came forward and testified - how awful that they had to!  And how proud I am of the parents who named the reality!

Shuler hid behind alcohol and bi-polar as the reason for sexually assaulting these boys.  Thank goodness the judge saw through it and held her responsible. Nothing but the person who stalks, primes and perpetrates is responsible.

It is time we face this issue head on - what is it about our culture that thinks our children are fair game for personal gratification with no regard for them?  And as the spirit of these boys has been devastated on so many levels, is 4 years of her life away in prison enough of a penalty?  She most likely will be released before the entire sentence is served.

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