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When it comes to teachers and students, there is no such thing as consensual sex, experts said Thursday.

The power differential is too exploitative in those sexual encounters, said Charol Shakeshaft, a former Hofstra University professor who now teaches educational leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University and is an expert on sexual abuse in schools.

“It’s a violation of trust and professional boundaries,” Shakeshaft said of a March 20 encounter Nassau police say happened between Heather Kennedy, 25, a math teacher at Wantagh High School, and a 16-year-old boy who is a student at the school.

Kennedy was arraigned Thursday on charges of statutory rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The age of sexual consent in New York state is 17, police said.
Even if the boy wasn’t in Kennedy’s class, Shakeshaft said the mere fact that he attended the same school indicates “sexual exploitation and bad judgment,” she said.

And when the teacher is a woman and the student is a boy, the sensationalist aspects of these liaisons are magnified, Shakeshaft said.

“I believe that females get a lot more attention [in the media] because I think it adds another dimension,” she said. “People don’t seem to think it’s child abuse then.”…[..]

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