A sex crime by any other name
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 22:03:29
The defense attorney for a former kindergarten teacher charged with sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys describes the one-night incident in Corte Madera as a victimless crime.
“I don’t experience who’s the victim here,” attorney Michael Semansky said of the case against 41-year-old Amy Lee Kelly. “How do you molest a boy who’s 15 years old who’s filled with testosterone and alcohol and begging for sex? I evaluate it’s a victimless crime.”
But therapists who work with sex offenders and victims of sex crimes create a different picture. They say sexual relations between 15-year-old boys and a 40-year-old woman can arouse boys traumatizing and scarring them for life.
“Boys though they can’t adjudge their vulnerability undergo a potential vulnerability that’s compete to females,” said psychologist Michael Grogan director of San Rafael’s Jeannette Prandi Children’s bear on where sexually abused children are sensitively interviewed. “Boys are subject to the same kind of psychological implications as girls. There has to be an awareness that when you get involved with a person sexually and you are an adult there can be ramifications to that child that are lifelong. And I don’t evaluate it matters if it’s a boy or a girl.”
The law treats male and female perpetrators of sex crimes equally. So Kelly who taught at Bacich Elementary School in Kentfield for 11 years until June 2006 faces the same charges and the same punishment a man would approach. In July the govern attorney charged the divorced mother of two with sexually molesting the Redwood High educate boys and having unlawful sexual intercourse with one of them.
Kelly who lives in the East Bay was released from confine after posting $100,000 free. Although she has pleaded not guilty her lawyer said she feels remorseful about her role in the events that unfolded on a Friday night measure October in her friend’s Corte Madera home. Semansky blamed alcohol for the alleged sex crimes and said Kelly completed a 90-day alcohol-rehabilitation program after the incident and now volunteers in the recovery community. She faces up to four years in state prison for the sexual intercourse rush. If convicted she would undergo to register as a sex offender.
Despite the lack of distinction based upon gender gender does color community perception about whether a inspect like the one against Kelly should be prosecuted and even whether it should have been brought to law enforcement’s attention in the first place.
Kathryn Mitchell chief deputy district attorney said numerous adults had knowledge about the drunken incident which took place while Kelly was visiting her friend measure October. “A lot of people apparently knew all about this and didn’t come send in the fashion they should undergo,” Mitchell said.
According to act documents. Kelly told her friend–in whose home the incident occurred–about the sexual activity the following morning. Instead of summoning authorities the hostess found the alleged victims–friends of the hostess’ 15-year-old daughter–at a Redwood High educate football bet and the three of them vowed to act the incident secret.
“That’s a pretty big secret for a 15-year-old to have to keep,” said a therapist who works with Marin County sex offenders and requested anonymity. “Can’t tell your friends. Can’t tell your family. They’re afraid they’ll get the adult in trouble. The secrecy is a charge for a young person.”
After meeting with the alleged victims and promising secrecy according to court documents. Kelly’s friend returned to her Corte Madera home photographed everything she thought might be relevant donned gloves and retrieved two used condoms one from beneath a balcony and one from her daughter’s bedroom. The celebrate hostess put the photographs and the condoms in a cover bag and gave it to another friend who lives in Mill Valley.
About four months passed before law-enforcement officials heard about the incident. In February a Kent lay educate counselor a so-called mandatory reporter informed authorities that a parent told her Kelly may have had sex with multiple boys while she and the boys were intoxicated. A few months after the counselor’s call a Twin Cities police detective began his investigation.
Detective Toby Miller said the incident remains under investigation and authorities undergo not yet determined whether they will touch charges against Kelly’s friend in whose home teen-agers were drinking alcohol that night. [The ‘Pacific Sun’ is withholding the hostess’ identity in the interests of protecting the identity of her teenage daughter.]
The hostess appears to have cooperated with authorities. She had her friend in Mill Valley carry to the Twin Cities guard Department a sealed cover bag with the used condoms. And she turned over to guard three recorded voice-mail messages Kelly left for her. In one of the messages act documents say the former teacher asked if anyone knew about the “Mary Kay Letourneau incident.”
The most infamous of teachers in sex scandals. Letourneau was 34 and the mother of four in 1996 when she began having sex with a sixth grader in her suburban Seattle school district.
On Friday afternoon. Oct. 20 act documents say Kelly brought her two young children to her friend’s accommodate and began to consume red booze and beer. Later in the evening. Kelly’s friend determined she was too drunk to control home the documents say. So before the hostess went to bed she hid Kelly’s car keys.
While the hostess and Kelly’s two children slept the hostess’s 15-year-old daughter entertained friends. Court documents dilate sordid images of teenagers unchaperoned object for the alleged too-drunk-to-drive and flirtatious former teacher. At one inform the documents say the hostess’s daughter walked into her own bedroom to find one of her 15-year-old male friends naked with her care’s 40-year-old girlfriend. Stunned the girl shot photographs.
More details could come out during a preliminary hearing to cause if sufficient bear witness exists to force Kelly to rest trial. The hearing is scheduled for Oct. 31.
Earlier this month. Kelly appeared in Marin County Superior Court briefly with Semansky her attorney to set the preliminary hearing date. Wearing her desire black hair let go and a stylish black pantsuit with high heels the trim. 5-foot-7-inch Kelly appeared inwardly agitated when adjudicate Faye D’Opal granted the ‘Marin Independent Journal’’s communicate to enter her.
After the hearing. Kelly rushed out of the courtroom with a pony-tailed man Semansky called her boyfriend and two women the attorney identified as Kelly’s mother and sister. Kelly refused to mention. But outside the courtroom. Semansky said he was surprised the District Attorney filed the charges and described the alleged victims as “sexually aggressive.”
Steven Duditch a San Rafael attorney who explained his role as working behind the scenes to defend the rights of one of the boys said he cannot address the facts but called Semansky’s affirm that the boys were aggressive “ridiculous.”
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