Interesting contrast:
An Australian teacher has been jailed for six months for repeatedly having sex with a 15-year-old student. A lower court had given Karen Louise Ellis a 22-month suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty on six counts of having sex with the teenager – but an appeal court overturned that decision on Thursday. The judge upheld an appeal by prosecutors, who criticized the earlier sentence as too lenient.
Parents’ groups and children’s rights campaigners demanded changes to Spain’s sexual abuse laws yesterday after the country’s highest court ruled that there was “nothing perverse or extravagant” about a teacher having sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl.
Overturning a previous ruling, the supreme court threw out the case against a 31-year-old karate tutor who had sex on at least six occasions with the girl he had taught at a secondary school in the southern town of Aguilar de la Frontera. The girl later sought psychiatric treatment.
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