What is wrong with our society? I am close to this situation and here are some results to her actions. Many boys at this age do not think with a clear mind ( as I can see from this blog some never grow up). This 17 year old is not the only one she has been rumored to be seeing. There is an 18 year old who has now quit school. Now for all of you who only think about yourself and below the belt, what if this had been your son? Twelve years of hard work as a student and a parent down the drain. Would you still be saying "way to go"? For those of you who would, when things fall apart for you some day because of your selfish attitudes I guess you get what you deserve.

there is no crime here. way to go boys. to say that this takes the innocence away from a 17 year old boy is absurd. how many 17y/o virgins are there in arkansas anyway? maybe 10 percent.

These weren't kids, and it's just frankly silly to be treating it as such. Now we have laws to recognize what is proper and what is not, otherwise people would point at 13 year olds and say...they don't like like children, it's all right! Of course that isn't all right, and by the law it's not all right for this woman to have had sex with a seveteen year old (though according to what I knew sixteen was age of consent in Arkansas, am I missing something?), but to also use the words child, children, and kids in this instance is just plain silly. Those young men/boys were more than willing, this wasn't rape, or sexual assault, or anything like that...but we have laws for a reason...

The best thing to say is you broke the law, you were dumb. But she's not some pedophile pervert either, and there was no harm from her actions...except to her career and life. I'm such those boys enjoyed the ride.

Zem

Strange that at 17, they are considered children. Then, as soon as their 18th birthday, they can be sent to die in a war. Give me a break. If it didn't happen at school, the sexual contact shouldn't be an issue...

Well I know people are tired of hearing this but I,m going to tell it any way. It,s goes back to the sin nature of man and living in the flesh. There are are laws designed to protect society as a whole. One of those law is to protect our children. I,m not here to judge although this nurse knows she over stepped her boundaries. That is why it is so important for one to accept Jesus Christ as there savior so the Holy spirit can come in side and guide you to make right decisions and choices. It,s not one person in this world can say they never had something inappropriate to cross his or her mind. But if you have the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you, then you don,t make those bad choices. When Jesus left his deciples he told them clearly I must leave you but I will send the Comforter which is the Holy Spirit who will lead and guide you. May God Bless.

someone said it right, where were these hot horney nurses and teachers when I was in school? I'm sorry folks but these two young men are heroes to their peers. They were not scarred or harmed in any way. Yes she was foolish, but come on. There is not one male posting that would have turned her down at the age of 17. well maybe a couple but that's another story!!

Sorry girls, I know it's a double standard and if this was a male teacher and 17 year old girls, I would be singing a different tune. Can't help it here, she looks pretty good!!!

We're animals

Basher's reply is a very colorful, intense, and dramatic way for child molesters to feel it is OK to be attracted to child en! That sounds like something a pedophile would say to condone his actions and make his perverted attraction a natural one. I am a 28 year old female and I am not attracted to boys period. I do not even have an attraction to younger men. There is nothing wrong with being attracted to people younger than you, but being attracted to children is a crime. It is not natural and anyone who spews that bullsh*t is a LIAR.

Show me where it hurts. Double standard! Just like in Tenn, she only got 5 mos, man would ve got 5 lifes. If it weren t for booze, no big deal.

There is no way to justify this school nurses behavior. Common sense should tell one, the school didn't hire her to have sex with the students. She should be tried to the letter of the law. This kind of crime is getting way out of hand. JMO

Kids have sex earlier and earlier these days I employee five to seven teenagers at any point.They all call my wife a MILF and all have sex with their girlfriends. They swap girls have zero morals and Lots of testosterone. I bet they brag I nailed the Nurse. Society is clueless. She is actually the victim or willing person, but not a Child molester. What good would a sex back ground check do? Arkie We all have sex as often as possible unless your an old Prune...

it is sad that men are treated differently when they instigate sex with a minor. what if the minors were girls? would the woman be charged with something else. whether she provided them with the liquor or they brought their own the laws the law and prosecute both parties. the sex part, as consenting knowing people, who do you prosecute, and for what? anytime someone with a position of authority over a minor, babysitter, teacher, older relative, all these should act responsibly in the line of sex. and in that sense these certain peoples should be prosecuted for the breaking of a trust the parents of these minors give to them not to not indulge in this type of activity.

Lets see since it was boys and she was an older woman its "okay" because boys will be boys. But if this was a 17 yr. old girl and a 30 year old male nurse, "hang em" right guys? My opinion, she got them drunk and then took advantage of them. PROSECUTE HER!!

It's hard to get too indignant about this since, unlike teachers, nurses don't give grades so she can't even have pressured the lads to do anything against their wills.

(Basher, I liked your reply; I'm not sure how correct it is but it IS interesting! :-) )

Where were all of these HORNY older women when I was 17?

What is it with these female teachers and such? A lot of the ones I have seen nationwide are fairly good looking women. Surely they could find a MAN that they can have some sort of fling with and ALL they would to worry about is a divorce. But these ding-bats now are getting a divorce AND a criminal charge. But let's not forget to mention the fact that if a Male teacher were to do this to a female student they would throw him under the jail, say he stole their innocence (even though a lot of 16-17 year old girls now a days are less innocent then Jenna Jamison. Sorry parents, it’s the truth.) Make him register as a sex offender and basically ruin his future. But when it’s reverse, “well she just suffered at the hands of an abusive or absent husband and needed an escape” or “she had a momentary lapse of judgment.” And their off the hook for the most part. Can’t the world just hurry up and explode?

THEY ARE MALE....WERE THEY VIRGIN'S B4 THE NURSE? THEY R OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON! BOYS WILL B BOYS!

I like to comment on what basher said, how stupid, people like chocolate and older people do think younger people are attractive, but is that what we are talking about here? Most people as they get older give up the sweets they realize its bad for there health just like this silly women here and you to how many kids have you been with that would be interesting to know. It’s like you and this woman here you see it all the time adults screwing kids and women get away with it more than men do until we enforce the laws equal and more severe it will continue and even after that, so give the sweets and the children up and be role models and teachers to kids not sex partners.

Butterfly,

What would a 30-y/o woman see in a 17-y/o guy? MOST people were adolescents when they had their first sexual encounter (as were their partners). Now, if you were able to find your first sexual partner attractive, and if you enjoyed your encounter, you will have fond memories of it, as well as the memory of how attracted you were to him or her. There's no switch that gets flipped when you turn 18 that stops you from being able to feel attracted to people of the age you first found attractive. There's also not much outgrowing being able to feel such attractions.

That's like saying you can simply flip a switch to make the taste of chocolate repulsive, just because you enjoyed it as a young'n. You also aren't likely to outgrow the taste of chocolate if you liked it at an earlier age. Now, your tastes may change such that you prefer a particular kind of chocolate over time, opting for a more sophisticated, mature blend or recipe for chocolate, but chocolate is still chocolate, and you can still like it in the form it took when you first tasted it.

To expect people not to find younger people attractive once they turn 18 is to expect people just to stop liking chocolate. Your first taste of it was what showed you the joy of eating it. Your first bite made you fall in love with it and want more. There really is no shame in finding younger people attractive, because memories of our youth are some of the most intense and soul-swelling experiences we'll ever have, and we'll always be drawn to that which made us feel the inexplicable joy we felt when we were young. That's why age restrictions for consensual sex were codified. Do you have any idea how many people would have sex with adolescents were it not for the risk of punishment for doing so? It's human nature. To say that finding younger people attractive is sick is to lie to yourself and everyone else. Actually acting on that attraction is what's illegal, but even that varies from place to place.

The kickers here are as follows:

She furnished them alcohol, so it can be said she sexually assaulted them, even if they'd been over 21, because she knowingly had sex with intoxicated people. Though, I still think that's some very dangerous legal ground, since lots of people have consensual sex every day while drunk, even when one is sober, and where do you draw the line on who can and who can't press such charges after the fact, and under what circumstances?

Also, she's in a position of authority at the school in which she works/worked. Authority figures in private companies can be held liable for sexual harrassment for engaging in sexual activity with their subordinates, but when it's a public institution in which the subordinates are required by law to be, such offenses cease to be simple civil torts and become actual crimes, including felonious sexual assault.

So, there's a double-whammy going on here, aside from the offenses of furnishing alcohol to minors.

Had she not worked at the school these students attended, and had they not been inebriated when they had sex, AND had she not furnished alcohol to them while they were under 21, I doubt VERY seriously any of this would be happening, because the age of consent in Arkansas is 16, and the guys in this case were 17, which clearly puts them at a legal age to engage in consensual sex with adults. Their age isn't the issue here (aside from the woman having given them booze). Her position and the kind of formal relationship she was required by law to maintain are the issues.

Well when they are messing with kids I have no problem with them being sent to jail. But these are 17 year old adults. You can join the military when you are 17 (i did) but you cant have sex? How many of us were not having sex at that age. I know that some where not and I have no problem with that but most that age have had sex already. Do I belive now since I am older it was a wise choice..no I dont. I wish I had waited but no one tied my hands and made me. It was a choice I made. I am sure this is going to create a argument but remember this is my Opinion. God Bless