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Plea Deal in Female Teacher-Student Sex Case Garnering National Attention

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, January 5, 2007

A Tooele prosecutor is defending his decision to make a plea deal for a substitute teacher accused of having sex with a student. It's an issue that's getting national attention.

Sean Hannity: "Another teacher accused of sex with a student."

In September, a judge ordered the substitute teacher, 29-year-old Cameo Patch, to serve three years of probation, pay a two-thousand dollars fine, undergo psychosexual evaluation and take part in treatment.

Deputy Tooele County Attorney Dave Cundick was asked by both hosts of Hannity and Colmes why he accepted the deal. He says the law is about prosecuting people accused of having sex with a minor isn't as clear as you may think.

Dave Cundick: "They have determined when someone is under the age of 16, then it doesn't matter. You're going to be found liable."

But, between the age of 16 and 18, Cundick says he has to prove the suspect knew the victim was underage.

Dave Cundick: "They have to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Could that have been done? Perhaps."

Cundick says he wasn't sure he could do that, so he made the deal.

Substitute Teacher Sentenced

Associated Press, September 20th, 2006

TOOELE, Utah, USA (AP) -- A female Tooele County substitute teacher accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy who was a student in one of her classes has been sentenced.

A judge has ordered 29-year-old Cameo Patch to serve three years of probation, pay a two-thousand dollars fine, undergo psychosexual evaluation and take part in treatment.

Originally, Patch was charged with third-degree felony sexual battery. However, the charge was reduced to a class A misdemeanor.

Information from: Deseret Morning News
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

3 in 4 B.C. boys on street sexually exploited by women

VANCOUVER - Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street kids and runaways has shattered some myths about who the abusers might be - with the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex with young males.

"Some youth in each gender were exploited by women with more than three out of four (79 per cent) sexually exploited males reporting exchanging sex for money or goods with a female," said Elizabeth Saewyc, associate professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and principal investigator for the study conducted by Vancouver's McCreary Centre Society.

"I must admit it wasn't something we were expecting."

Up to 64,000 women in UK 'are child-sex offenders'

After Plymouth case shocked the nation, police say number of women abusing children

The Guardian UK and The Observer
4 October 2009

Researchers from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF), a child protection charity that deals with British female sex offenders, said its studies confirmed that a "fair proportion" of child abusers were women. Donald Findlater, director of research and development, said results indicated that up to 20% of a conservative estimate of 320,000 suspected UK paedophiles were women.

Female Teacher Charged With Sex Assault on Seventh-Grade Boy

Associated Press / Fox News

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A 35-year-old seventh-grade teacher was charged with having sex with one of her students at least 20 times at the teacher's home.

Jodi Thorp, 35, surrendered to authorities Monday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors claim she had sex with the boy at her Mendham home between June 2001 and September 2002. The boy is now 15.