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A joint investigation between two Texas counties ended in the arrest of a 37-year-old woman Wednesday, accused of trying to sell a young female relative to men in Morocco for sex, according to a statement from the Freestone County Sheriff’s Department.The woman charged is Amber Michelle Parker, according to jail records. She remained in Freestone County Jail Thursday, and was being held on a $25,000 bond.
The nature of Parker’s relation to the victim was not disclosed by officials from either Freestone or McClennan County, which assisted on the investigation, in an effort to keep the girl from being identified publicly.
Parker is an 8th grade reading teacher at Mexia Independent School District, according to the district’s website. Mexia is a town of about 8,000 residents that sits about 85 miles south of Dallas and 40 miles east of Waco.
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The reading teacher was placed on administrative leave Wednesday by Mexia ISD, according to a statement obtained by the Tribune from superintendent Lyle DuBus.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article223863955.html
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Please settle those jerking knees, calm down a little and carefully re-read the entire article.Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Because in the US we consider people innocent until proven guilty. Let's say the district fires her the state revoked her teaching certification, then at trial she is.found not guilty. Lawsuits would flow for wrongfully terminating her employment. Administrative leave keeps her out of classrooms. After her conviction it's a different situation.
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Because due process must be carried out before booting her from education forever, not that she's likely to get another teaching job from inside a jail cell anyway.
Due process? How many other jobs in other professions would keep someone on after being arrested for trying to traffic their family member for sex? I'd wager none....And that is what the average person sees in the education system and shakes their heads...
Another question- why did you post her 'phone number here?
There still needs to be an investigation of some kind or the employee will sue if unfairly fired.
And they didnt 'keep her on.' She's not working, she's not endangering anyone in the mean time.
What? Where? I posted from the article...
Her contact information is in the link you posted.
Her contact information is in the link you posted.
Why? How is her job deserving of more protection than yours or mine? I would think that her dismissal would be a no brainer, considering that she was trying to sell an underage family member for sex....
As for her not endangering anyone in the meantime, again she was trying to sell a family member for sex, how do you know she isn't endangering anyone?
Having been accused of a crime is not enough to fire anyone with any sort of job security at all. That's the American system, and it doesn't just apply to educators.
Oh really? whom else is protected like that?
I believe it's called due process. The teacher is suspended, and no longer has access to kids. Contain your dudgeon.
Because she is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law in the US.Administrative leave? WTF! Why is this person still employed as a Teacher with access to young children?
Your ignorance of the law is very apparent.Due process? How many other jobs in other professions would keep someone on after being arrested for trying to traffic their family member for sex? I'd wager none....And that is what the average person sees in the education system and shakes their heads...
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