January 15, 2006
PREDATORS ARE FOUND NEAR PREY:
Letter reveals how Ruth Kelly cleared second sex offender (Chris Hastings and Julie Henry, 15/01/2006, Daily Telegraph)
Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, personally cleared another convicted sex offender to teach in schools across Britain, it can be revealed.In a letter, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, Ms Kelly gave William Gibson, 59, clearance to work as a teacher even though she knew he had been convicted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
She also knew he had convictions for obtaining money by deception, forging documents to obtain drugs, car theft and obtaining property by deception, for which he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
The revelation will renew pressure on Ms Kelly after disclosures that her department cleared the way for registered sex offender Paul Reeve to work in schools.
Everyone knows -- but chooses, for political reason, not to talk about -- the fact that the sexual abuser problem among teachers dwarfs that of clergy. The more interesting question is why peoples who pretend to tolerance and multiculturalism feel competent to judge those who are just oriented differently. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 15, 2006 8:35 AM
This is so distressing because it's yet another example of the left putting their political agenda before everything and anything else, even child abuse.
How can these people look themselves in the mirror?
Posted by: erp at January 15, 2006 11:23 AMin my high school (c 1978) one of the male teachers was discovered to be involved with twin brothers (students) and of course was booted. he had a wife and 5 kids, so it was even more of a shock. a few years later he was butchered in a parking lot when a tryst went off the rails (sal mineo redux). another teacher left his wife for one of his students, and had to move to a different school. funny old world.
Posted by: toe at January 15, 2006 12:39 PMMy middle school gym teacher was sacked for snapping some girls' bra straps.
Posted by: RC at January 16, 2006 3:56 AM