No doubt. Not all teachers are paedophiles and I am sorry if I offended some members on here if they were thinking that was what I was insinuating.

One of my Sister’s closest friends is a Kindergarten Teacher and I know for a fact she would never do anything inappropriate with a student but teaching appears to be the profession a lot of paedophiles are taking up lately and I feel more measures need to be taken especially here in Australia to prevent them from getting in those positions including thorough background checks. What I honestly want to know is what makes a Teacher want to start a romantic or sexual relationship with an underage child because you would think there would have to be some kind of alarm clock going off upstairs saying it is wrong or “warning, warning Will Robinson” when they are crossing the line but maybe it all comes down to their childhood and how they were raised and they might not see it like most people do.

You often hear about these crimes and people say they are sick, twisted and deranged but you never truly get an answer as to why they do it. What triggers them to engage in this activity? What makes a person believe what they are doing is acceptable? What makes them want to take the risk of doing it when they also risk their reputation, their marriage or their lives? I don’t believe any person is born a murderer, serial killer, rapist, paedophile etc and there is often something that happens to them that makes them want to engage in these types of activities as wrong as they are. Whatever their reasons I just think crimes against children like that are the worst and they are scum and I don’t think there is any form of rehabilitating that can be done to fix these people because they are already too far gone.

I noticed one of the members on this thread mentioned a biological parent who does the same thing to their child and taking advantage of their position of trust. Welcome to my Sister’s life. When I was not getting the **** beaten out of me when he was drunk my Father would pop into my Sister’s room some nights and she would wake up to find his penis in front of her face and he would ask her to touch it for him and he would touch her inappropriately too. My Father wasn’t charged for doing this back then because like most cases here in Australia the law protects the criminals and the only way to truly get justice is to take the law into your own hands. My first girlfriend was killed in a car accident and over a decade later the same drunken driver that hit her is out and has moved on with his life and has a family while she can’t because she is dead. Media overlooks a lot of things along with the justice system.

Back when I went to school most of my teachers were in their 40s and 50s and I have noticed a lot of teachers are quite young now and some of them even look like they are in their early twenties which I am not exactly sure is a good thing or a bad thing now because most people I have met around that age act like children and aren’t very independent. My sister and her friends got married in their early twenties, had children, were working and were living in their own houses but when I look at the Gen Y’ers a lot of them are very immature and are still living with and off their parents, lack ambition and spend all day living on their mobile phones and I don’t think any of them are responsible enough to be teachers but maybe my area just has a lot of little turds.