Bad Love

Rebecca Poole was a drama teacher in Birmingham in the UK. Last fall, a relationship she had with a 15 year-old male student went from "being close and flirty to being inappropriate and unlawful" when they started having sex in her car.

The student apparently filmed one of their encounters with his cellphone, and his parents later saw the movie on his phone and called the cops. Poole denies that they were having a relationship, but explains the actual video footage that exists of her having sex with her underage student by saying that he made her do it: she told the police he was holding a screwdriver to the back of her head. You just can't see it in the movie.

A creative defense on the part of Ms. Poole the drama teacher, but it sounds like blaming the victim to me.

Posted by Amy at 01:54 PM | Permalink

Roy Holt, 50, lives in Georgia and was, until recently, allegedly carrying on a relationship with a teenage girl, starting when she was 14.

Here are some things that Roy did:

1) got his teenage girlfriend pregnant (she's now 16),
2) freaked out when he feared she would go to the cops, probably because he was refusing to support her and the child,
3) hired a hit man to kill her, offering to pay him with "one or more mobile homes."

It looks like the girl and the child are still alive, and that the hit man didn't go through with it for whatever reason (he was holding out for an ATV?) Anyway, Roy got busted at his sister-in-law's house in Illinois. I'm guessing this means he's a married man, on top of everything else.

Posted by Amy at 10:47 AM | Permalink