Could a John Mark Karr Be Teaching YOUR Kids?

August 30, 2006
A former Ashville, Alabama high school teacher is accused of raping a 15 year old student in June of 2005 and faces
charges of second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and second-degree sexual abuse if convicted.

During the second day of Donnie McKay's trial, he testified they were "friends" but there wasn't any inappropriate behavior.
He didn't dispute the 688 cell phone calls between him and the girl from February to June of last year.

August 30, 2006
A Southwestern Kentucky high school teacher was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with third-degree rape. He
was let out on a 200-thousand dollar bond today.

August 29, 2006
Kenneth Thompson Anderson, a teacher in Tennessee, faces 25 counts of felony sex crimes: three charges of rape; 13 counts of statutory rape; and nine counts of sexual battery by an authority figure.

24 Feb 2006
A Laurens, S.C. elementary school teacher was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct
with a minor after a parent claimed the woman had sex at the school with one of her 11-year-old students.

The list goes on and on.

A US Department of Education study released in June last year found that 7 percent of pupils were victims of physical or sexual abuse by teachers or other school employees. The 2002 Department of Education report estimated that from 6
percent to 10 percent of all students in public schools would be victims of abuse before graduation - a staggering statistic.

If the average class size is 30 students, statistics say that two of those students will be victims of some type of abuse. Possibly, even sexual abuse.

Consider this:
• In 20 states, it is not a crime for school employees-including teachers, administrators, and coaches-to have sex with students aged 16 and over.
• In 23 states, it is not a crime for school employees to have sex with students aged 17 and over.
• When the American Association of University Women Foundation surveyed more than 1,600 students in eighth through
11th grade, 25 percent of the girls and 10 percent of the boys who said they had been harassed or abused said the
harasser was a school employee.
• In only 16 states, it is a crime for adults in a position of trust and authority-teachers, administrators, and coaches among them-to have sex with students under the age of 18.

Teacher or sexual predator, wanted and/or known by the police at the time, male or female, the same name fits them all: pedophile.

Believing that they aren't doing anything harmful, the pedophile continues abusing until caught. After all, in their mind,
they are doing nothing wrong and refuse to take responsibility for their behavior. That, and the fact that the sexual preference involves children make pedophiles treatable but not curable.

So, what do we do about teachers that are also pedophiles? One must argue the fact that not all teachers are sexually attracted to children. The second argument centers around the problem of being reactive, rather than proactive.

Although we can look at traits and behaviors, past transgressions that are suspect and give a battery of tests, nothing can determine if an educator is, or ever will be, a pedophile. The only thing these items can accomplish is to violate civil rights.

The bottom line is, these cases should never happen but they do and we report them, when possible. We report
them because they shock us and make us shake our head in disbelief. It's time we report them for people to take action.