If the concept of "sexting" is still new enough to you to require quotation marks, you might be more than a little shocked to learn that in at least two separate incidents this year, teachers have been sexting their students.
According to CBS news, Melinday Dennehy, a 41-year-old English teacher at Londonderry High School in New Hampshire, sent four pictures of her exposed genitalia to a 15-year-old male student. Why a mother of two, whose livelihood relies on appropriate boundaries and parental trust, would do such a creepy, wrong-headed thing is a question that perhaps only Mary Kay LeTourneau can answer, but Dennehey is not alone. In a separate incident, NBC news reports that 36-year-old James Nelson, a teacher from Indiana, resigned after he allegedly sent sexually charged text messages to some of the school's eighth grade cheerleaders. "Something tells me ur not the goody good yur mom thinks ur. I can be tempted to play Ru tempting?" he allegedly wrote to a 14-year-old student.
If there's a small upside to any of this, it's that both of these would-be sex offenders were actually dumb enough to digitally document their bad behavior, giving prosecutors a way to hold them accountable for their inappropriate behavior. Dennehy, released on bail, is currently being charged with a felony count of indecent exposure, while Nelson is being investigated by the police.


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