Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Five lessons from Shannon Young, teacher accused of sexing 17-year-old student

Posted by on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM

click to enlarge Shannon Young: The latest teacher accused of sexing a student.
  • Shannon Young: The latest teacher accused of sexing a student.

If Shannon Young is lucky, her picture won't be splashed across media sites like Debra Lafave or Pamela Rogers Turner or Mary Kay Letourneau-Fauulau or, the latest woman accused of sexing an underage boy, Stephanie Ragusa, who was just sentenced to 10 years in prison.



Young, 36, is charged with three counts of unlawful sexual relations with a 17-year-old male student, identified as GJF, between August 1,

2009, and June 2, 2010. Prosecutors say the sex was consensual (save the 'but she's hot" comments).

Young is a former teacher and volleyball coach at Pleasant Ridge High

School in Easton, Kansas. She was arrested yesterday around 10 a.m. -- without enough warning to pull down her Facebook page. Here's a superficial look at Young's interests and wisdom.

1. Her "favorite quote" is creepy given the charges.

"Life is short.

Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh

uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile."

Is that Mark Twain?

2. She may be

about to find out the meaning of her favorite Tyler Durden quote:

"Its only after you've lost

everything

that you're free to do anything."

click to enlarge Shannon Young in better times.
  • Shannon Young in better times.
3. She goes with Christ, brah.
"I know God will not give me anything I can't

handle. I

just wish He didn't trust me so much." May 30, 2010

That's Mother Teresa.

4. This status update could be taken totally out of context.

"When u

finally find something that makes u truly

happy...what are you willing to risk for it? Everything..." December 23, 2009

5. And this one sounds like something from Mary Kay Letourneau-Fauulau.
"It's all about the big picture...in the big

picture

everything will fall into place. Maybe not today...maybe not

tomorrow...but one day everything will be as it should be." January 6, 2010

And no, Young has not enacted the "Mel Gibson defense."

Update (August 13): Shannon Young pleaded guilty to the charges. Read about the sordid affair here, Shannon Young gets probation for sexing 17-year-old student, buying him a Mustang.

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