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TEACHERS, Yes TEACHERS rally behind Rapist Teacher , Neil Erickson, guilty of sexual relationship with boy.

Jaw-dropper: Teacher claims young student wasn’t ‘damaged’ when her husband sexually assaulted him – EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc..

ROSE CITY, Mich. – When Rose City middle school teacher Neal Erickson pleaded guilty to molesting one of his students a while back, most observers expected an open-and-shut case with the school community rallying around the teenage victim.

Neil EricksonAnd in some ways it was. Erickson was sentenced to 15-30 years in prison for carrying on a sexual relationship with a boy in his young teens between 2006 and 2009. That should have been the end of the horrific tale.

But seven teachers kept the controversy alive by rallying behind the rapist, going so far as to write letters to the sentencing judge, seeking leniency on his behalf. The letters were posted on a local blog, WBRC Teachers.

Perhaps the most disgusting letter was written by Erickson’s wife, Toni Erickson, a 15-year educator currently teaching at Ogemaw Heights High School. While her pleas on behalf of her husband may not be surprising, her suggestion that the victim was unaffected by the abuse is more than a little disturbing, particularly coming from a teacher.

“As for punishment, because I know that is something the community expects, hasn’t he been punished enough? He is losing a job he has held for 17 years and losing all future career potential as a teacher. …

“I have seen many delightful students who have been damaged by horrible events in their lives. While I acknowledge that Neal’s conduct with [the victim] was wrong, I do not believe he was damaged by Neal’s actions and I base my opinion on my personal interaction with [the victim], both before and after Neal’s actions. However [my daughter] very likely could be. Please don’t punish her by his absence in her life.”

So the real victim in the case is the rapist’s daughter, not the young student who was assaulted? This lady needs her head examined, and perhaps her teaching license permanently revoked.

There were other troublesome letters, as well.

Rose City Middle School English teacher Sally Campbell wrote to the court, “Please take into consideration his pleading guilty so as not to put this student through any more than what has already occurred.”

How charitable of the rapist to not force his victim to testify. Perhaps he deserves the keys to the city for that one.

“Although Neal has pleaded guilty to a single charge of criminal sexual conduct, evidence of this being a one-time incident reaffirms the fact that he is not a sexual predator,” wrote 4th grade teacher Marilyn Glover.

The abuse occurred over a 3-year period, according to various news reports. Without getting into the physics of it all, it’s highly unlikely it was a “one-time incident.”

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  6. For all of the teachers who are supporting this pedophile–I’d like to ask you one quesiton–

    How would you feel about hiM if IT HAD BEEN YOUR CHILD that this man RAPED??!!??
    Or your nephew or your ?????????????

    You people make me sick!! You should be fired!!

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  7. Who in their sane mind would want any of the teachers defending a pedophile anywhere near their child or grandchild? I wonder how many other children were touched by this idiot.

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  8. This is a matter of Ethical Rule against supporting a child rapist even protesting in anger against a child victim, in fact, it should be considered a crime; they are protesting this victim’s Right to accuse and have punished the criminal or in short protesting THE law and court system by angry protest against this victim, a child; by so doing it is clear that they would not fully protect children under their care against such crimes and to some extent shield such criminals from being reported.– Tim Engle, blogger

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  9. The letters from Neil Erickson’s associates were just so beautifully blindly nihilistic, self-serving, and so weakly thought upon for the impress in actual effect, . . . to have received such letters–wow! No wonder that, so very many bar members consider the general public as creatures of a low psychological class , . . . And, actually telling the judge what he should do–good golly Miss Molly, . . . “supporter”(?) Amy Huber really put the icing on the mud cake, I search the net for humor, . . . Amy definitely qualifies, . . . telling the judge what he should do, . . . oh gosh but that one is just wonderful, . . . hard t’top, . . . sheesh!

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  10. Disgusting! Hope her or her kids never experience sexual assault! They should be ashamed of themselves!

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  11. Same pro-pedophile stance is in Canada and school boards like the Toronto District School Board in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Too many sex offenders, paedophiles and child predators are becoming teachers in Canada.

    Take for instance, Mary Gowans. Even the evidence showed that Mary Gowans and the-then 14 year old student exchanged over 2,000 text messages, some of the text messages of which were overtly sexualized in nature. One provocative text message Mary Gowans sent to the student was “Christmas came early, babe 🙂 ”. Mary Gowans even let the student into her home under the guise of babysitting employment. Mary Gowans seemed to be the typical pedophile who groomed the student to perform sexual intercourse with her, but the lack of evidence or common sense resulted in the Judge ruling a not guilty charge for the accusation of pedophile charges.

    Gordy Stefulic, current Chair of the Toronto Schools Administrator Association was accused of having sexual intercourse with students dating back to the 1990s. In 2008, Gordy Stefulic was accused of recording, distributing and sharing child pornography with under-aged students of Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and Silverthorn Collegiate Institute. Three students were implicated in massaging and fondling Gordy Stefulic on Toronto District School Board property. One female student alleged that Gordy Stefulic directed a male student to sexually harass her because Gordy Stefulic had a grudge against Muslim female students who wore the conventional headdress. The female Muslim student and her parents filed several complaints to the former TDSB Director Dr. Chris Spence, but to date the Muslim female student and her parents received no reply of the sexual assault which occurred in 2007.

    Vivian Mavrou, current Vice Principal of Martingrove Collegiate Institute was a known white supremacist and sexual predator who was incompetent as a Mathematics teacher while she was teaching at Thistletown Collegiate Institute in the early 2000s. Because of the teachers’ union tenure policies which favoured old white middle and upper class Canadians, Vivian Mavrou was promoted to Silverthorn Collegiate Institute as a Vice Principal. Allegations surfaced about Vivian Mavrou and a school bully who were seen in Vivian Mavrou’s vehicle after school hours. Some students alleged Vivian Mavrou had sexual interference with the 15 year old school bully, and this conflict of interest caused many innocent students to become victims of school bullying. Vivian Mavrou failed to protect the students from being physically, emotionally and sexually assaulted by the school bully because Vivian Mavrou was having sex with the school bully and returned the favour by giving the school bully permission to bully students! The Toronto District School Board cited lack of evidence when the investigation was given and Vivian Mavrou was transferred to Martingrove Collegiate Institute where she enforced fascist policies to students to suppress freedom of speech in Toronto schools.

    Varla Abrams in her decades career as a teacher, had sexual intercourse with at least four students and she had to be transferred many times because of those immoral incidents. Varla was notorious in the news for being a suppresser of freedom of expression in government-funded Canadian schools.

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