Married teacher rapes 14 year old, gets 6 months in jail

The 28 year old married teacher in Alabama pleaded guilty to sodomy, sexual abuse, and being a school employee who engaged in "deviant sexual intercourse" with a student younger than 19. Turned themselves in claiming to be a new person now that they've "found God" - despite already having been a church member beforehand - and even went on Youtube to cry and talk about how they weren't happy with themselves before to make themselves look like the victim in all this.

This is the story of Alicia Gray, self-confessed rapist (although of course that word wasn't ever used) who wants everyone to just magically forget what she did and forgive her because God said so. Reverse the genders and take away the religious spiel and it'd be a life sentence with pitchforks at the door, but a Christian woman in Alabama gets 6 months and her teaching license taken away for a whole 5 years.

Link to story complete with disgusting comments about how it's ok because it was a boy not a girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXddop44Mxw

A couple of choice quotes from the video are "I no longer have to feel shame" and "people need to see me cry more". Disgusting human being who's getting off light from a hideous crime.

Okay, well firstly, I'm going to admit that when I saw the title I thought the teacher was a man, not a woman. Just goes to show how powerful stereotypes are. Then when I saw this woman I couldn't believe she would have it in her, she looks so kind and innocent, which goes to show that looks can be deceiving.

At first I was really angry at the guy at the start of the video. Knowing what this woman had done, I was thinking 'how can he possibly defend her?' Then I saw her and the way she spoke so much about God and Jesus; it all seemed too familiar. You hear of cases all the time of people in prison or on trial and that they are a changed person because they have found religion. It probably sounds insensitive of me to say that it just sounds like a cheap excuse. Nobody wants to prove that they can and have changed, probably because they haven't or it's too much effort, and so by saying that they want to be a better person for God seems like the only excuse they can make work, because it's just words, they can lie through their teeth without proving anything.

Now, I'm probably biased here because I have no faith or religion and so I don't know how it feels to love a God and feel like he/she supports me, guides me and loves me back. I don't know how it feels to believe that I can communicate to a greater power and goodness through prayer. So, when I see how dedicated this woman appears to be to God and to Jesus it makes me wonder if she has actually convinced herself into believing she can just have faith and automatically be forgiven.

In all honesty, I'm not sure what to think about religion, I can only see the facts and that is that she did something disgusting and disgraceful and if it was up to me to offer her forgiveness I don't think I could no matter how 'changed' she is or seems.

If America is anything like us - she is incapable of rape. Rape is gender specific, she hasn't got a penis. So that's the reason she won't be tried for rape or be considered a rapist.

Definition of Rape in Alabama:

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Section 13A-6-61
Rape in the first degree.
A male commits the crime of rape in the first degree if:
He engages in sexual intercourse with a female by forcible compulsion; or
He engages in sexual intercourse with a female who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated; or
He, being 16 years or older, engages in sexual intercourse with a female who is less than 12 years old.

Rape in the first degree is a Class A felony.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §2310.)
Section 13A-6-62
Rape in the second degree.
A male commits the crime of rape in the second degree if:
Being 16 years old or older, he engages in sexual intercourse with a female less than 16 and more than 12 years old; provided, however, the actor is at least two years older than the female.
He engages in sexual intercourse with a female who is incapable of consent by reason of being mentally defective.

Rape in the second degree is a Class B felony.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §2311; Acts 1979, No. 79-471, p. 862, §1; Acts 1987, No. 87-607, p. 1056, §2.)

She's committed sexual assault, which opens up to women, trans etc etc

Edit:
Strangely, a class B felony is worthy of 10 years to a lifetime in prison- that's the main issue really, not the lack of a rape charge, but the lack of time she has to spend in prison.

Oh absolutely, the fact that women can't be found guilty of rape is a huge part of the problem and is the reason that around 40% of rape victims are erased by the courts completely. The fact that there are supposedly equal charges that women can face in many countries with these sexist laws means nothing because judges and society still see the word "rape" and see it as the worst crime possible as opposed to "sexual assault" which extends as far down as grazing someone's arse on a bus by accident or looking at someone the wrong way

Female teachers seem to get away with this all the time - here are three recent cases of female teachers sexually abusing their students and getting no jail time at all and even congratulations, while men get death threats and castration requests no matter how serious the crime and whether the victim was complicit or not

Ugh I watched like 5 mins of that and was just too annoyed to continue! How was yer man at the beginning defending her? It's disgusting how she only got 6 months for this and it sickens me how people turn to religion, God forgiving them, whatnot..

That is absolutely disgusting. She should get the same treatment that a man would.

wtf i thought that was the student not the rapist

Women say that gender equality doesn't exist... And it clearly doesn't in this case... The law needs to be changed, not only in Alabama, but over here in the UK as well.

I thought the law had changed in the UK and women could physically rape men and it was illegal! Don't know why I thought that! It is disgusting that women can do this and it not be considered as serious as rape!

UK law specifically says "he" as a perpetrator and states that use of a penis is necessary (with some very strange stipulations regarding surgically constructed penises), so only people who are male-born can be rapists in the UK. In the US there is only one exception to their laws that make it possible for a female to rape a man and for it to be called such: if she straps up and enters him anally. This post goes into proper detail for anyone interested