Underage sex: teacher avoids jail

[Australia] "A teacher today avoided a jail term after she admitted having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

"Married mother-of-three Karen Louise Ellis earlier pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual penetration with a child under the age of 16.

"Victorian County Court judge John Smallwood today sentenced her to 22 months' jail but suspended it for three years.

"The 37-year-old former physical education teacher had repeated, unprotected sex with the boy at her North Eltham home while her husband was away in October and November last year."
Source: Herald Sun

"Noel McNamara from the Crime Victims Association says there needs to be consistency.

"NOEL MCNAMARA: Oh, I just think it's disgusting. It's, you know, it's clearly a travesty of justice when Hopper gets a jail sentence and Ellis gets a non-custodial sentence, and that's completely wrong, it's just disgusting, it shouldn't be that way. And for just to draw a line in the sand and make it a gender issue, which has obviously been done Smallwood, it's disgraceful."
Source: The World Today

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