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Interesting case. Since the age of consent is 16, she could bang any 17 year old she wants. But if the 17 year old is a student, then no. I presume the student would have to be a student at her school for the no-banging law to apply. If any teacher is forbidden to bang any student, regardless of school, then that leads to ambiguity.
You OK with this shit?
Which Constitutional Amendment covers the Rights Of Sploog?
She was charged under a 2010 state law with two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19.
But Witt insisted that she was being prosecuted for a consensual relationship only because she worked at a school — as the age of consent in Alabama is 16.
Her attorneys argued that the state’s teacher-student sex law violated their client’s 14th Amendment rights to privacy and equal protection.
A now-retired Morgan County Circuit Court judge in 2017 agreed that the law was unconstitutional and dismissed Witt’s case.
However, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals later reversed the ruling and sent the case back to the lower court, reinstating the charges against Witt.
She pleaded guilty in March to one count of a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19. Prosecutors dismissed the second count.