Yeah, I like a cup before bed, don't you?
"Ex-teacher avoids jail with plea on nude photos charge" by Kathy McCormack, Associated Press | July 27, 2010
DERRY, N.H. — A former high school teacher won’t be going to jail after pleading guilty yesterday to a charge she e-mailed nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student.
Melinda Dennehy, 41, of Hampstead, has no prior criminal record, does not have to register as a sex offender, said her lawyer, Cathy Green....
Dennehy taught sophomore English at the school for three years. As part of the negotiated plea, she agreed to surrender her teaching certificate....
Dennehy said she regretted that some of the reporting on what happened was inaccurate and that her actions led to that reporting. Her attorney declined to comment when asked later what Dennehy meant by that.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised because they are inaccurate all the time every day in all the articles.
The boy who received the photographs told police that Dennehy also sent him text messages offering to have sex and that she kissed him on the mouth in a classroom at least twice in recent months.
Several male students, including the recipient of the images, were interviewed, and at least one photo showed Dennehy with genitals exposed, Londonderry Detective Kristen Gore wrote in an affidavit. The student who received the photos told police he forwarded them to two male friends. Dennehy used her private e-mail account to send the photographs, according to a copy of an e-mail supplied to police, the affidavit said....Obviously she was not thinking clearly and was overcome with emotion.
I do not condemn her for it.
Was ANYONE KILLED?
Did she LIE us into a WAR?
No, she was just a lonely woman who wanted her femininity validated.
Neither the teenager nor his family were in court. Prosecutor Kevin Coyle told Derry District Court Judge John Coughlin that the family supported the plea agreement “and want to put this incident behind them.’’
Me, too.
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Melinda Dennehy (left) pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of indecent exposure in a Derry, N.H., district court yesterday. The former teacher left the courthouse with her lawyer, Cathy Green. (Jim Cole/ Associated Press)
I would never miss class!
