[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Alton deFlat

When I was a senior in high school, my English teacher was 65 years old, and retiring at the end of the school year. When she first started teachng, in the early 1930s, it was said she dated some of her students. What's happening today, isn't all that new.

Prior incidents I have covered include the February 10 arrest of Pamela Joan Rogers Turner accused of molesting a 13-year-old, Tammy Imre accused of molesting an 8-year-old and probably most famous Mary K. Letourneau who was recently found to be planning an April 16, 2005 marriage to her prior 12-years-old child lover, Vili Fualaau, who is now a legal adult.

I question whether this is a new thing or if there has just been an increase in law enforcement attention towards these incidents. Maybe in the past when these incidents were reported, prosecutors just found it too hard to put a believable case together or maybe they were just shrugged off as a "hot teacher" joke. Either way recent convictions of these female teachers has seemed to shed light on the problem -- exposing it -- and making it more likely to be brought to a court of law.

Commentary from the same site Bob Dole found the photo.