Christine Knudsen
Maybe this is an admission that lesbianism cannot result in “sex”?
A New Jersey teacher who had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student evaded prison time last week after her former students sent letters of support to the court ahead of her sentencing.
Ex-Fair Lawn High School graphics arts teacher Christine Knudsen was placed under lifetime parole supervision and forced to register as a sex offender, but won’t see a day behind bars if she doesn’t violate the terms of the sentencing, according to the Bergen Record.
She’s also reportedly prohibited from having any contact with her victim as part of a three-year suspended sentence tied to her illicit sexual relationship with the teenage student that lasted nearly a year in 2017.
The relationship was technically legal because the victim was the age of consent, but for the sentencing, the student was considered a child, the local newspaper reported.
That’s the case in 90% of these cases. Or at least 80%. The age of consent is 16 in most states, which is the age of most of the boys these women get caught having sex with.
It doesn’t make sense why you can “consider” the student a child. I thought the laws had something to do with “balance of power” because the teacher is in a position of authority.
“Parents send their kids to school every day, trusting they will be safe in the care of their teachers,” Bergen County Judge Nina Remson said Wednesday, according to the outlet. “And there is a very strong need to deter not only Ms. Knudsen, but all citizens from violations of the law, especially in this nature involving a breach of trust between the teacher and the student.”
Knudsen pleaded guilty in July to reckless endangerment after she was initially charged with sexual assault in 2021. She met the victim when the student joined the school’s drama club, which she advised, the Record reported.
The former educator’s lawyer in court last week blamed multiple troubles in her life, including substance abuse, for the inappropriate relationship.
Haha!
“I was only doing lesbianism with the teenagers because I was on drugs.”
“Drugs you say? Well, that’s a horse of a different color! No punishment!”
Knudsen and her lawyer