It seems like a teacher gets caught and/or sentenced to sleeping with a student every month.
This month, it’s former Alabama teacher Carrie Cabri Witt. According to VladTV, Witt has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with 2 of her students.
Her reasoning? It’s really dumb. Witt says she had a constitutional right to sleep with her students.
To make things worse, even though that is a dumb reason, it worked in her defense.
She was prosecuted under a 2010 law and received two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19. The subtext of the law insists those under the age of 19 are being taken advantage of, however, Witt’s defense team insisted that she was being prosecuted for a consensual relationship only because she worked at a school. Not to mention, the age of consent in Alabama is 16.
According to Witt’s attorney, Alabama’s teacher-student sex law violated their client’s 14th Amendment rights to privacy and equal protection. A Morgan County Circuit Court judge in 2017 agreed with Witt’s defense that the teacher-student sex law was unconstitutional and dismissed her case. However, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the decision and reinstated the charges against Witt. Back in March of this year, Witt pleaded guilty to one count of a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19.
Because of that, Witt will only serve 18 months behind bars, 18 months in a community corrections program, and the rest of her sentence on probation.
Good to be white.
