Teacher convicted of sex crime back in school

[theHandpuppet]

Okay, if this had been a male teacher convicted of having sex with his female student and was then hired to teach at an all-girls school, most of us would be screaming bloody murder. Well, in this case the shoe's on the other foot and frankly, I think this woman needs to consider another line of work. I also wonder why she has been hired to teach at an all-boys Christian school. This is just bizarre.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer

Teacher convicted of sex crime back in school

By Kimball Perry • [e-mail] • October 1, 2009

An all-boys Christian school is employing a teacher who was fired from a previous teaching job for having sex with a student and who pleaded guilty last month to a sex crime with a minor.

Mary Ems, 44, of Springfield Township, is working at the Union Christian Post Graduate Academy, an uncertified school for males at least age 17....

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Ems was a special education teacher at Winton Woods High School when she had sex with a student.

She pleaded guilty last month in a plea deal to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. She initially was charged with sexual battery, a felony that would have required her to register as a sex offender and could have sent her to prison. But because her victim refused to cooperate with authorities, prosecutors allowed a plea deal to a misdemeanor that, the judge indicated last month, likely will allow her to escape time behind bars and get probation.... MORE

Link: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091001/NEWS01/910020341/Teacher+convicted+of+sex+crime+back+in+school

[bobburgster]

1. Is this real?

Something doesn't smell right. No school, not even a Christian school would put themselves in such a position. There has to be more to this story.....

[theHandpuppet]

2. Well, the story came from the front page of the morning paper in Cincy

I also think it sounds bizarre but I'm expecting the full story to develop over the next few days.

[The Straight Story]

3. Well, they are a post graduate school

Which means they probably won't have any minors around.

https://ucpacrusaders.org/uploads/AQ-Post-Graduate.pdf