Teacher, student naked in car S.F. police arrest 30-year-old woman

[HowdyDUit]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/21/SFSEX.TMP

A 30-year-old San Francisco schoolteacher faces lewd conduct charges after being caught naked in a car after school with a 14-year-old Luther Burbank Middle School student, authorities said Friday.

At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, patrol officers driving in an area of McLaren Park known for drugs and prostitution spotted a car with steamed windows, suggesting either drug or sexual activity, according to Capt. Frank O'Malley of the Police Department's Juvenile Division.

Upon checking the car, which was parked at John F. Shelley Drive and Cambridge Street, officers found Nieka Arreola and the unidentified student, who worked as an aide in a classroom at Luther Burbank, undressed in the car. Arreola reportedly told police she was giving the boy a ride home. She was booked on three counts with lewd and lascivious acts on a minor.
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[Bonobo]

1. Neika "Arreola"! That's got to be a joke!!

[Pale_Rider]

24. Janet's influence ...

... is already spreading. Hurry mothers and fathers! Keep your children safely locked inside the house. Rip out your televison since the end is coming!

"Neika Arreola" has arrived!

[ClintonTyree]

2. Damn those heterosexuals!

What kind of message are they sending to our youth? Der Gropenfuhrer should get right on top of this (I'm sure he'd love to). Sad, sad stuff.

[pinniped]

3. McLaren Park known for drugs and prostitution...

trash dump and dead bodies.

One month they found 3 bodies in the park.

Nice place to have a picnic.

[GinaMaria]

4. WTF is wrong

with people!? A 30 year old with a 14 year old?! Hope she goes away for a long time.

[Florida_Geek]

5. Probably Not

Females normally get off light on the same charge that would send a male up for 10-15 years. Sad fact of life.

[WildClarySage]

6. Yeah right.

.

[mobuto]

9. Very different acts

There is an enormous difference between a 30 year man having sex with a 14 year old girl and a 30 year old woman having sex with a 14 year old boy. This relationship was wrong and dangerous, but it doesn't carry nearly the same implications of violence or abuse of power the reverse would.

A young girl cannot easily say "no" to a 30 year old man - there is an implicit threat of violence.

A 14 year old boy can always say "no" to a 30 year old woman - but probably wouldn't.

[formactv]

14. when I was fourteen....

[The Stranger]

19. Explain this more.

Why the double standard? Why, in your mind, there is not an implicit threat in a 30 year old woman's desire to have sex with her student, and the student's refusing?

Perhaps more importantly, why should this double standard that exists in some people's minds be codified in law?

[mobuto]

21. Why?

Because the difference in size and strength between a 30 year man and a 14 year old girl is a lot bigger in the vast majority of cases than the difference in size and strength between a 30 year old woman and a 14 year old boy. Even if there is no violence, there is the implicit threat of violence.

Now my problem with the case isn't so much that a woman had sex with a teenage boy, but that the woman was the boy's instructor - and that hierarchy creates real problems.

Perhaps more importantly, why should this double standard that exists in some people's minds be codified in law?

I'm not a lawyer or a legal scholar, I'm not sure that it should.

[Skittles]

16. oh PLEASE

are you kidding??? THEY GO TO PRISON.

[lolly]

23. Oh, right.

Just ask Mary Kay LeTourneau, who I believe is still in jail and had all her children taken away from her for this same offense.

(I'm not saying she shouldn't have lost custody, I'm just saying it's a false assumption that the older woman will get away with it).

[Bandit]

15. I doubt very seriously that the boy feels like a victim but more like a

conquering hero. You have to realize that a fourteen year old boy thinks of nothing other than sex. Believe me he doesn't feel harmed in any manner at all.

[mobuto]

17. I didn't want to be the first say that

but you're right.

[snippy]

7. Maybe this woman is laying the groundwork to run for Governor

as a republican. This sounds like something Arnold would do. And we know how much the republican party approves of his past sexual behavior. Perhaps this woman will be given a prominent speaking role at the republican convention.

[Robb]

8. Sure she has a reasonable explanation

The windows were steamy because they were making tea. :eyes:

Just curious, how do steamy windows suggest drug activity? Are the kids heating the bongs these days?

[Chico Man]

10. A fishbowled car may be mistaken for a car w/ steamy windows? (nt)

[lumpy]

20. Tea and Sympathy?

oh

[soleft]

11. Watch to see if this becomes a bigger story than it is

A media effort to paint San Franciscans has the bedrock of moral decay.

[maxsolomon]

12. the shame of mary kay letourneau is diminished

she wasn't the first, she won't be the last.

[Yupster]

13. Maybe the woman will become pregnant, then

the young man can pay her child support. That's what just happened in Detroit.

A 14 year old had a baby with an older married woman. He didn't know it until just recently, when now 29, he has been ordered to pay child support to the woman who statutory raped him 15 years ago.

Here's the story from the Detroit Free Press. Ironically, there is another story on the front page of the Detroit paper with the headline "Students are missing out on free tutoring." I guess not all students are.

Our custody and child suppport laws are quite screwed up in my opinion.

http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/case21_20040221.htm

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. This kid is gonna be THE SHIT in school. Starting monday.

[Minstrel Boy]

22. "Dude...? Duuuude!" n/t