Female Sex Offenders Essay

Female educators as sex offenders has been slowly coming into research. Female teachers sexually abusing high school students has become a concern over the years. Even though we hear about male teachers as predators and less about female teachers, does not mean it does not exist. This belief is due to male students not reporting the problem as much as female students. Female offenders go unnoticed because of the way they interact with their daily routines. Females are considered to be the nurturing one and caring. Females are also less like to be prosecuted and if they are their punishment is not as harsh as if they were a male offender. There are double standards for the way a male is judged and how a female is judged over sex abuse. Female offenders should be held responsible at the same level as a male offender. This will discuss the issues of female offenders in the
This is a reverse double standard. In a case in New Jersey, a 43-year-old teacher had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old male student and was sentenced to 5 years’ probation. Her actions were statutory rape and she should have been sentenced 5 to 10 years in prison. The judge did not see any harm was done felt that the child was not psychologically damaged and was just satisfying his needs (Kupelian, 2006). A 36-year-old male teacher in the same state was given an 8.5-year sentence in prison (with life-long parole) for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old female student, and was also required to register as a sex offender, surrender his teaching license, and had all employment in the public sector revoked (Markos, 2008). The judge in this case said that he made her a woman before her time. Even though they are the same sex crimes they should have received the same sentence. It should not matter a person’s gender; this is a double