Y’all. I’m PISSED. See this fucker? A 25-year-old former teacher at my old high school BRAGGED about buying booze for underage students and had sex with a student only got 90 days and does not have to register as a sex offender. Why? Because the victim refused to testify (for obvious reasons) and because his lawyer cried sexism. Yeah. You heard that right.
“Prosecutors said Michael Landreth, 25, abused his authority as a teacher. But Landreth’s lawyer said the sex, while wrong, was consensual and that female teachers routinely get probation or even pre-trial intervention for misdemeanors that allows records to be wiped clean after inappropriate relationships with students.” [x]
Landreth’s lawyer, Sarah Drawdy of Anderson, said in court that women who have sex with students of the same age routinely walk away without prison time, but Landreth, because he is male, was targeted for prison time and harsher punishment that will last forever because of the publicity from media coverage and that he can no longer teach.
Meanwhile, I’m sure you guys have heard of the story where a 19-year-old who found a girl on a dating app who said she was 17 only she was actually 14 and they ended up having sex winds up w/90 days and jail, five years probation, and has to be on BOTH Indiana and Michigan’s sex offender list for 25-FUCKING-YEARS. Even though the girl admitted she lied to him. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have gotten off squat free, but it’s disgusting the difference in outcomes in these cases.
This is EVERYTHING wrong with our court system.
