LA: Respected Female Teacher, 33, Confesses To Sex With 14 Year-old Male Student

Just out via the AP. An image and more background on Amy Beck here via CBS.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public schools walks into police headquarters and confesses to having an affair with a 14-year-old boy.

With her attorney by her side, police say, Amy Victoria Beck told detectives the relationship with one of her former students began in March 2009 and continued until last December. She said it left her wracked with guilt.

"I can't tell you that I remember anything like that ever happening before," Quesada said of someone confessing to a crime when police had no idea a crime had even been committed.

"Burglars, robbers, criminal suspects, they don't turn themselves in," he said. "But when people are overwhelmed with guilt, and they have a conscience, I guess it makes them do what's right."

After hearing Beck's story, detectives tracked down the boy, who is now a 15-year-old high school student. Quesada said he confirmed what she told them.

Comments

[Comanche Voter]

What is it with these female teachers? When I was 14 and in middle school in the mid 1950's there was a very, very attractive female teacher. She and her husband were about 4 years out of teacher's college. Both of them taught physical education at the middle school. We all secretly lusted after her and wanted some "physical education" from her. Back in those days if you had a body like that, it was all real.

If Mrs. S(----) had had sex with one of us slobbering little urchins, we probably would have died in two months from being "high fived" by every other boy in school. 'Cept they hadn't invented "high fives" just then.

[RagnarD]

You know what we used to call the young boys who were lucky enough to score with an older woman?

"Lucky Bastards!"

(I know, I know, I am going to go to Hell.)

[david r]

Hubba hubba.

[bandit]

You could write this one every day.

[Peter]

Some of the reaction both here and at the news site is a large part of the problem as to why this behavior has become more common. Few are willing to condemn it.

Imagine if the teacher had been male and the 14 year old student female. Would anyone be saying "Hubba hubba"? Hardly. Why is having a sexual predator preying on an adolescent less worthy of condemnation because the predator is an attractive female and the victim a boy?

Anyone that is not equally outraged by this act than if the sexes of the predator and victim were reversed is a hypocrite.

[Paul A'Barge]

Peter: "Imagine if the teacher had been male and the 14 year old student female."

Imagine that the two are not the same. Boys are not girls. There is a name for an older woman giving a young man a blow job, and it's not "predator".

I'm with David. Hubba Hubba.