Charges of sexual contact between a teacher and a student are dropped after the teacher marries the alleged victim

After marrying the student in question, a former Missouri high school teacher who avoided all charges of sexual contact with a student will no longer face trial.

In her first year of teaching at Sarcoxie High School in Jasper County, Missouri, Baylee A. Turner, a 26-year-old woman, was charged with criminal offenses in February 2019.

Prior to this, she had taught at the district's middle school for two years.

Turner had sexual relations with one of her male students between January 14 and January 21.

The teacher's charges were dropped after she married her alleged victim in Missouri.

Marital privilege was applied to the case when the unidentified male student married Turner. Since a spouse cannot be compelled to testify against their partner, Turner's case is now devoid of evidence.

This complicated the case against the teacher and made it much more challenging to collect the necessary evidence to secure a conviction.

All of this information has been confirmed by an assistant prosecutor on the case, Nate Dally, according to The Jopling Globe, a local news source.

Due to these complications, their team determined that it would be too difficult to prove her guilt in court without the testimony of her now-husband and former student.

The nature of the charges against Turner has not been disclosed.

In Missouri, state law prohibits any school employee from having sexual contact with a student. This includes employees, volunteers, and officials, regardless of whether they were appointed or elected.

This law criminalizes sexual contact regardless of the student's age, whether he or she is of consenting age or a minor. This is the final aspect of the law that makes some of its specifics unclear.

The case against Turner did not include the age of the male student, so it cannot be confirmed whether he was of consenting age at the time of the alleged offense.

As the age of the student is unknown, it is unclear to the public how egregious the alleged offense may have been. Regardless of these details, their marriage still allowed her to avoid serious consequences.

Turner will never again be a teacher.

Assistant prosecutor Dally, however, confirmed that Turner had given up her state teaching license.

It is not necessarily equivalent to the punishment she would have received if found guilty of sexual contact with the high school student.

However, according to Dally, removing her teaching license was one of the prosecutor's office's top priorities in pursuing this case.

Undoubtedly, the fact that she willingly surrendered it was another factor in their decision not to press charges, given that they obtained at least some of the desired results.

It feels insufficient, but it appears that the case has reached a deadlock.

Nevertheless, if the allegations are accurate, should more have been done to keep this former teacher away from other children?

With no convictions against her, she is theoretically in the same position as if she had never pursued a teaching license.

Should the prosecutors have continued to pursue the case and look for evidence elsewhere?

Or perhaps they were right, and the case was doomed to be dismissed after they lost the ability to compel the former student to testify against Turner.

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