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February 23, 2009

MARRIED WOMAN TEACHER JAILED FOR HAVING SEX WITH 15-YEAR OLD STUDENT

Filed under: ARTICLES 23/02/2009, freedom, reforms — sjsandteam @ 14:29
Tags: MARRIED WOMAN TEACHER JAILED FOR HAVING SEX WITH 15-YEAR OLD STUDENT

SINGAPORE: A MARRIED woman who had sex with a 15-year-old student was jailed for 10 months on Monday. The 32-year-old former primary school teacher and mother of two pleaded guilty earlier this month to having sex with a minor under 16 at a chalet on March 10 last year. Five other similar charges were taken into consideration.

The woman had developed an intimate relationship with her young charge, then 14 and in primary 6 (equivalent to standard 6 in Malaysia), about seven months after they had gone on an overseas school trip. They kept it up after the trip, and stayed in touch with each other through frequent phone calls and SMS texting.

The friendship continued developing, and before long, the woman declared the boy her godson and began showering him with care and attention. Even after he left the school to go on to Secondary 1 (Form 1), they continued to meet, going window shopping, watching movies and having meals together. Before long, the boy told the woman that he had fallen for her, and she responded by saying that she would be his girlfriend.

She then began booking rooms at a Pasir Ris chalet to spend private time with him, and he was 15 when they eventually wound up having sex. She reported to the police on May 13 after the boy threatened to kill her and her family when she decided to break off the relationship.

District Judge Sarjit Singh On Monday said this case involved a serious breach of trust. When a person abused the authority and trust that had been placed on him or her, the punishment would be significant whatever the gender of the victim or the offender. She could have been jailed for up to 10 years or fined or both.

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I was quite amazed by this article upon reading this. It was simply unbelievable to have at teacher making love with her ex-student and worse still, doing sex with him. In my opinion, this incident could be prevented if the boy's parents had communicate better with their son and thus knowing about this relationship between the boy and the teacher and "nip it in the bud" before the matter goes out of hand like the one here.

I would like to criticize on the teacher for having this irresponsible behaviour with the student. As a teacher, she should set good example for her students as being a teacher means being a role model as every student is carefully observing the teacher's behaviour and following their example. What could be worse if the students of this teacher were made known about this incident and following too. I may be exaggerating but some students do not have the sense of right and wrong and just blindly follows it.

However, it was a right decision for the teacher to go to the police and confess her mistake after her conscience is clear and she know what she was doing is wrong. Besides the boy's threaten, she still mustered up her courage to end the affair before it gets out of hand and land them into hotter soup.

In my opinion, I think the boy threaten to harm the teacher by violent means as he could be afraid of his parents upon foresighting how angry they would be. On the other hand, he might also be afraid of going to a Boy's home and thus ruining his future which was once seem to be bright. I think counselling is seriously needed for the boy as his mind is in a state of frenzy. His parents might also want to talk to him in a more gentle way instead of scolding him fervently as this would cause the already grief-stricken boy to become more upset and he might end up killing himself.

For the teacher, I think she had already know what she is doing is wrong but she might also need some reassurance that everything is okay such that she would not be worried for the boy.

To prevent this from happening again, I suggest:
1)More sexual education talks for the upper primary level when they are mature enough. This would be the best time to educate them about sex so that crimes that regards to teenage sex could be prevented.
2)I suggest that parents take note of their children and be aware of what their son are doing after school so as to prevent them from getting into any other unnecessary trouble. As the saying goes,"Prevention is better than cure".

In this incident, I hope that this would remind students that no matter how close their teachers are to them, there is always a breach between teachers and students like how they respect their teachers like how they respect their parents and not treat them as friends. We still have to show them the basic courtesy.