What Should You be Looking For?
See this fellow? Looks like a nice guy doesn’t he? He probably is a nice guy too. His name is Aaron Westbrook and he’s a teacher. He was just sentenced to 240 days in jail for banging a couple of his 17-year old female students. Such activities are so not appropriate for an educator to engage in.
The OC Register has his mug shot attached to their story, I suppose as a warning for parents and as a visual aide for those who are curious. Anyway, the point is this: he probably doesn’t look like he does in his booking photo – all scary and scruffy and and unshaven and menacing. In reality he probably looks more like this – a normal nice looking fellow.
What the point of all this you ask? So the streets are ‘safe’ or whatever for the next 8 months or so… unless he gets early release (no inappropriate pun intended). Either way, it’s a lesson that sex-offending-felons look just like you and I, only you know, they’re all pervy and stuff.
So how exactly are they different from you and I?
OK, let me rephrase…
“Either way, it’s a lesson that sex-offending-felons look just like you and I, only you know, they’re **more** pervy and stuff.”
Better? ;)
k ;-)
k- so I think this is the difference… If one cannot refrain from having sex with minors, they should not be a teacher surrounded by minors. Perhaps that is an unpopular take on this, but taking responsibility for one’s actions is key. Maybe I think this way because the only way I can keep from smoking cigarettes (I quit over 3 yrs ago) is to not smoke a single one and to stay out of alluring convenience stores like 7-11 when I am alone.
Uh…honey… time flys… you quit smoking over 5 years ago!
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