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Rhode Island steppin' up!

R.I. teachers unions, ACLU object to bill criminalizing sex between school employees and students

PROVIDENCE — The state’s two teachers’ unions are objecting to a bill that would make sex between school employees and students a crime if the students are younger than 18 years old.

Rhode Island is one of about 30 states — including all the New England states except Vermont — where the age of consent is 16 years old.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Alex Marszalkowski, D-Cumberland, says that any school employee — including bus drivers, vendors and school volunteers with supervisory authority — would be guilty of third-degree sexual assault if they have sex with a student between the ages of 14 and 18. (Under existing law, a person is guilty of first-degree child molestation sexual assault if he or she engages in sex with a person younger than 14.)

Erika Sanzi, an education advocate and blogger, said she asked her state representative to submit the bill after a previous bill was described as being too broad. That legislation would have made it a crime for anyone with custodial responsibility to have sex with someone between the ages of 14 and 18.

Marszalkowski decided to narrow the language after Sanzi described to him that, in several states, it is legal for a teacher to have sex with a student once that individual turns 16.

“What we’re asking is that we protect students from all people who work with them in school,” Sanzi testified before the House Judiciary Committee on April 2.

She said that, currently, “The deterrent is, yes, they can be fired, but that means they can jump to anywhere else in the country and get another job preying on kids.”

But James Parisi, a lobbyist for the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers, said his union objects to the bill because it criminalizes conduct by teachers and other school employees while ignoring the myriad other jobs in which adults supervise youth between the ages of 14 and 18.

“You should include all the adults who have employment or other types of authority over 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds,” he wrote. “For example, why is a legislator having sexual relations with a page not included in the bill? What about store managers, athletic coaches, clergy and volunteers in community organizations?”

In its testimony, the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that “singling out teachers, school bus drivers, etc., in this way is arbitrary and capricious.”

The ACLU also expressed concern about targeting school volunteers, because a volunteer coach could be close in age to a student and run afoul of the law under this bill.

“While one may disagree whether this type of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ conduct is appropriate ... it should not be a felony,” the ACLU said.

Robert Walsh, executive director of the National Education Association Rhode Island, said Monday that “It is patently ridiculous for anyone to imply that our organization, or any individual teacher, would condone any inappropriate relationship between a teacher and his or her students. We do not believe that this obvious standard needs legislation to back it up, and agree with the ACLU’s objections to several other technical flaws in the actual proposed legislation.”

Peg Langhammer, executive director of the sexual-assault resource organization Day One, said her group does not have a position on the bill. She said that rather than address the issue in a piecemeal fashion, Langhammer supports looking at how various professions where adults are in custodial roles police their own.

Marszalkowski said the bill isn’t meant to single out teachers. It is aimed at all school employees because schools are the one place where children are compelled by law to attend.

“I welcome any criticism,” he said. “If there is a way to amend it so it’s more broadly defined but passes constitutional muster, I’m willing to do it.”​

 

You gotta be one cold hearted piece of shit to set someone on fire man. Not that I condone any kind of murder obviously, but to set someone on fire? Thats just some cold shit, you get a special room in hell for that IMO.

 

Another law clear as mud. Meanwhile in the progressive state of Utah:

Beginning Wednesday, unmarried people in Utah can have sex without breaking the law.

Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a law that allows fornication, or sex outside marriage.

Until Wednesday, that was a class B misdemeanor under a 1973 law that carried a possible penalty of up to six months in the slammer or a maximum fine of $1,000 — though it was neither enforced nor prosecuted.

Herbert previously signed a bill that repealed the misdemeanor offenses of adultery and sodomy among consenting adults.

Republican Rep. Keven Stratton slammed the repeal, saying that “what is legally is often far below what is morally right,” Fox 13 reported.


Blue ball syndrome solved!

 

Oh I don’t know. I’d have no qualms doing so to a rapist or child molester who’d victimized a loved one.

 

Meh, I would prefer the "Lorena Bobbit" method, just lop off all there junk and let them bleed out...in that instance.

 

I am a little more unfriendly than just letting them bleed out like that. I could be very creative if I was allowed to be....

 

Religion and government go together like pickles and milk.

Morality has nothing to do with management, yet so many people seem to think that it does.

The real WTF is that laws like that ever existed in the first place.

 

Have you ever had pickle ice cream??

 

My home state has so much to offer, but it’s strangely reassuring to know that they’re still bringing the facepalm once in awhile.

Wouldn’t be the quasi-theocratic oligarchy that we all know and love if they didn’t.

 

Apparently you midwesterners need some Jesus in your lives. What the hell did y'all do to piss the almighty off?

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/southern-...-flooding-102332202--abc-news-topstories.html

 

Paved everything

 

https://people.com/pets/florida-man-killed-by-dangerous-cassowary-bird/

 

Ha! Florida Man does something good!

https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20190423/florida-man-takes-on-florida-speed-trap-and-wins

 

I’ve seen them park an old outdated marked car in a construction zone before. Empty car, sure locals figured it out soon, but on an interstate there’s enough through traffic it seemed to slow folks down.

I have no issue with legitimate ticketing but sometimes it gets to be more of a Serve and Collect operation than anything to do with safety.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-easter-bunny-throw-punches-165325539.html

 

Bunny dude got jammed for a warrant out of New Jersey.

 

No good deed goes unpunished.

Other reports claim the Easter Bunny had stepping in to defend a woman being attacked.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/easte...man-outside-orlando-florida-bar-1502240323914

 

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 6:14PM
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -- A man in an Easter bunny suit who went viral after breaking up a fight between a man and a woman in Florida has a criminal record and an outstanding warrant in New Jersey.

Police in South Brunswick say Antoine McDonald and an accomplice were caught on surveillance cameras burglarizing a car in September 2018, while authorities in Dover, Delaware, say he was also arrested there in 2017 after he and two others were accused of committing two armed robberies.


According to South Brunswick police, McDonald is known to authorities and has been involved in a dozen or so incidents there.

A warrant was issued for his arrest after he was recognized on camera, but police say he fled the area.

In addition to the car burglaries, McDonald has also been arrested for a harassment case and for allegedly spitting at a worker in a store.

Bystanders videotaped McDonald in the bunny suit intervening in the fight Sunday night in Orlando by punching the man.

The fight was broken up by a police officer, and no arrests were made.

McDonald, described the moment when he was trying to break up the fight.


"So I got over there so I could break up the fight, and he got on top of her and hit her," he said. "So I had to try a different method, basically, to break up the fight, which actually worked."

When officers arrived, they thought it was a prank.

"The officer came up to me and said, 'If you do that again, I'm going to arrest you and the damned bunny suit,'" McDonald said. "It was a real deal."

 

Nature has their own aircraft carriers now...