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Subscribe to RSSA Tacoma, Wash., teacher has been placed on paid leave amid accusations that she had sex with one of her middle school students at least three times, both on school grounds and in the boy's bedroom.
Keshia Shaw, a 32-year-old science and math teacher at Gray Middle School, was charged with five counts of child rape on June 26. She is accused of performing oral sex and having intercourse with the student over a two-year period.
The first time was when he was in her sixth-grade class in 2007; the last was during the fall of his eighth grade year, when they allegedly had sex in Shaw's classroom, according to documents filed in Pierce County Superior Court. After the last classroom incident, the documents allege, Shaw went to a bank and gave the boy $80 and then performed oral sex on him.
The allegations were not reported to Child Protective Services until this year, after the boy, now 17, heard a sermon on molestation at church. After the service, he told his mother and a family friend he had been abused, court documents say.
Shaw's court date is July 10. She hasn't entered a plea yet, reported Tacoma's The News Tribune. She was placed on paid leave when the school district learned about the accusations on May 7, Tacoma school district spokesman Dan Voelpel told msnbc.com.
"Our teachers work for nine months, but they get paid over 12 months," Voelpel said. "She is currently receiving pay for the time she already worked, and she will continue to get that money."
The school district will re-evaluate whether Shaw should be placed on unpaid leave once her paychecks for time already worked run out, he said.
Shaw was hired by the Tacoma School District in 2002 as a substitute teacher and became full-time in 2005, KING reported.
According to Pierce County prosecuting attorney Heather DeMaine, the sexual abuse began at the end of the boy's sixth grade year. He was re-taking an exam in her classroom when Shaw, who had no underwear on under her dress, caught her student "looking at her and asked if he was turned on," DeMaine's court filing states. She proceeded to force him into sex in a locked room next door, the document says, and told him not to tell anyone.
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That July, after driving him home from summer school, Shaw had sex with the boy in his bedroom while his mother was at work, according to DeMaine.
More encounters, including anal intercourse, reportedly occurred in the following years on school grounds when the boy -- who went to a different school starting in seventh grade -- returned to Gray Middle School to visit friends.
The incidents happened when the boy was 12 to 14 years old. Shaw was in her 20s at the time, KING reported.
Voelpel, Tacoma's school district spokesman, told msnbc.com that no accusations have been made by other students.
Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune, “We don’t know about other students. Who knows, this may bring other victims forward.”
Shaw filed for divorce in February of this year, court records show. She has two children, ages 6 and 8, according to The News Tribune.
Calls to attorneys in the case and to the Tacoma school district on Tuesday were not immediately returned.
Court filings identify the boy by his initials. NBC News and msnbc.com do not reveal the identity of alleged underage victims of sexual abuse.
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Last Sunday. Gospel was Mark Chapter 5 Verses 21-43.
My Pastor said in his sermon that back then, at age 12 girls were considered women.
This is how much society has changed. I'm not okay with 12 year old kids having sex at all, certainly not with adults. I'm just pointing out that things weren't always they way they are now.
they were amazed she had nice tits at twelve? And anyway, that passage is real bad grammar.
No picture of the teacher? How are we supposed to know if this is actually a crime?
Nevermind... found a pic. It is definitely a crime after seeing what she looks like. Lock her up!
If she is ugly then this would be consequential in how the kid remembers this. ..."I did THAT with THAT?! "
When I was 14 I would still do her, hell I would have done a snake in the leaf pile if I knew I was not going to get bit.
I'd have to see a picture before I would call the kid lucky.
guess this kid will be playing for the other team.Oral from the teacher-high fives all around!
the pic and story is at thenewstribune(dot)com...right side bar menu.
I'm hearing rape, but if you caught one thing in here, she caught him looking at her and ask if her was horny. They or he never gave that answer, if he said yes then even though he not of age he wanted it that first time and any male will tell you he was LUCKY! He may not have liked all the sex but I bet he liked some of it for a while.
Bull crap. at 14 he would have loved every bit of it .... it is the church that did him in when he got older.
I'm calling shenanigans on this kids version of the affair. I'll bet it was more the divorce that scared him into thinking he was going to HAVE to be with her.
Why couldn't I have been so lucky when I was this kids age?
The accused teacher has a 6 and 8 year old. If this kid is lying - and it happens every day - think of what those two little children have to lose. It's a shame how people believe this story without any facts to back it up.
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And if it was a man you would be screaming for him to be castrated before he spent life in prison with bubba. Think of HIS family next time you rush to judgement.
You might say she was giving him a broad education.
anyone who thinks this isn't every teenage boys dream (except the queer ones) is a moron.
If this child is telling the truth, the teacher needs to be locked up and registered as a sex offender. I went on the site and found that she is a sister(African American). I wondered what the h.. did she see in a 12 year older. She crossed the line if this is true.
Sounds like an elaborate scam by a family of reasonably skilled and very bold grifters, really . . .
Really! :-o
I know this is bad, but where were teachers like this when I was in middle school? It seems to me there has been an increase of stories like this.
Cameron.........good point! Women want equal right UNTIL it is in court then they cry and most judges ( or juries) feel sorry for them...............Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................poor Casey Anthony!
Our judiciary system is a big joke! Equal? Not hardly!
Probably that kid now wants to go gay, it was a divine inspiration which he received from Anderson Cooper (CNN), especially now that Obama and Biden want that a pair of gays to be husband and wife.
Good grief what is WITH these people! Middle school students seem to have become the preferred sexual partners of any number of so called "teachers."
This is a good example of "Hands On" instruction
If the genders were reversed this would be a huge headline!
It IS a huge headline, idiot!
Flagging that one. And no it's not.
Why are we having a discussion about it on the internet if it ISN"T a "huge headline." Good grief, leave your personal anti-female agenda out of it.
Anti-female? I don't follow. What I do follow is all the people on here... probably guys... saying they wish it happened to them, and that the kid was lucky. If a male teacher did this to a female student... everyone would say he should die etc etc.
Here is an idea. I don't want to hear about a teacher, male or female, having sex with a student. All you are doing is giving the deviant trolls something to masturbate over. The entire thing is sickening all around. How about you reporting on teachers who actually have the book thrown at them for this type of shenanigans; where they are charged with something like production of child pornography.
Do you have any idea what you are supporting when you think this garbage is okay?
I can see that there a alot of weirdos on this praising this boy on having sex with a female teacher knowing full well that this is a sex crime. How perverted are you people for praising this? I think all those that support this type of behavior should really seek out some counseling. Something is seriously wrong with you all.
The usual perception is that male teachers are the culprits but it is shown more and more that female teachers are predators. They usually get better treatment by courts than what is given men. The courts are more lenient for women predators and it is time they get equal treatment in penalties.
Keshia. Hmmmm?
So many cases of young men seduced by their teachers makes me angry and ask where were these hot horny teachers when I was in school.Its not fair !!!!
Quickdraw
Heterosexual child abuse is a strong indicator that it's the straight people that really need to come out of the closet with their own sexuality. Poor heterosexuals are not allowed to address their own perversions but must concentrate on sexual and gender identity minorities and project all their own 'proclivities' onto them. Nieitiy percent of all child sexual abuse is heterosexual. No wonder gay people make better parents.
First off quickdraw, use spell check! That's the little icon on the top bar with a check and ABC on top of it. Second, your accusations of all heterosexuals and our perversions is baseless to the fact that it is only a small fraction of people that commit a perverted sex crime. In this case a female teacher sexually assaulting a male student. But then again I don't hear you say anything about a male having sex with boys. Huh, sounds like to me that is a perversion in itself, a homosexual child molester say like that assistant coach in Penn State. Now your going to say ah well I! Shut up! You have the Gaul to talk about adult heterosexuals having sex with a child but when it comes to some adult to have sex with a child that's of the same sex, you say nothing, Your a hypocrite.
If anyone wants to know where I found this idiots posting, I found it on the first page of this discussion that was collapsed by the community.
We seriuosly need to get rid of this double standard and punish femals for statutory rape or child sexual abuse the same as we would punish men. A male teacher would receive a MASSIVE sentence for 2 years of sex with a child yet this teacher will probably get a few months in jail then probation and Megan's law registry but NOT decades in prison.