Alabama Tops US Teacher-Pupil Sex League
19th January 2015
Alabama sits proudly at the top of the US teacher-pupil sex league, with one school employee per 193,975 residents being “accused or convicted” of engaging in illicit relations with a student during 2014.
That’s according to a enlightening study by Terry Abbott – “a former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Education” – whose team trawled the media for “every available report of teacher-student sex nationwide”.
They demonstrated that of 781 such cases last year, 25 occurred in the Yellowhammer State, which boasts a population of roughly 4.85 million.
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Vermont complete Abbot’s top five, but if the figures are viewed on sheer weight of numbers alone, rather than an “outrage per capita” basis, then Texas actually tops the chart on points, clocking up 116 of the 781 cases.