A History of Sex With Students, Unchallenged

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/nyregion/10teacher.html?_r=1&ei=5070&en=2b74f38060b8b98d&ex=1161576000&pagewanted=print

Many in this gray, insular city are at a loss to explain why Diane Cherchio
West was allowed to continue working in the public school system for two decades
after she was caught in 1980 kissing and groping a 13-year-old student at an
eighth-grade dance.

Others see a double standard in which people are reluctant to view teenage boys as victims.

Later, she said, she realized teenage boys can suffer emotional damage if they become sexually involved with an adult, especially an authority figure like a teacher.