When Allena Ward admitted to sexual misconduct with minors last September, I never thought the former Laurens County, South Carolina, middle school teacher would actually get 6 years in the big house. She took the adult out of adultery by meeting three 14 year old and two 15 year old students at restaurants, motels and school to do various deeds.

Although Solicitor Jerry Peace from the Eighth Circuit court believes Ward will serve 85 percent of the six-year term, she’ll probably be out in a year and a half; after all she’s the daughter of a minister, married, and holds the respected position as a middle school teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, SC….whoops, done got fir’d (source).

What I don’t get is, if she was in an unhappy marriage and needed a little “extra-curricular studies,” right, was she just too lazy to embark in the time-honored tradition of adulthood adultery? To cuckold is one thing, but how good of a time are you going to have with a 14-year-old? Her “victims” apparently thought the same thing.

From WLTX:

“The court also heard written statements from her victims. They describe confusion on their part about why she wanted sex from them. Police began investigating Ward after a note containing inappropriate messages was given to school officials on February 22. According to investigators, the note was passed during class to one of the boys, then thrown in the trash.”

Check out her hand-written journal entries after the jump - it’s on some real Live Journal Epic status. (more…)

Allena Ward:

Five 14 or 15 year old male students in South Carolina must have sore hands from giving high-fives. Sure, Ms. Ward is no 10, but when you’re a 14 or 15 year old guy and you get to touch boobie — or anything else — it’s cause for celebration.

I just don’t get this kind of sentiment:

None of the victims were there to face their former teacher in person. Attornies say their lives have been forever scarred. “Their mindset has been damaged basically for the rest of their lives, and in fact, it is a life sentence on these kids.”

Wait, what? I remember back in 10th grade wanting nothing more in life than to get naked with my hot, 22-year-old government teacher. Ms. Whatsherface (who says teachers don’t leave lasting impressions?) was certainly way hotter than Allena Ward (and about a million times hotter than Karen Robbins, who is the 3rd Laurens County, SC teacher to be charged with kiddie touching in the last year), but at 16 or so, I wouldn’t have turned that down, let alone turn her in. But then again, neither Allena nor Karen were finger-pointed; they were emo enough to write letters or diaries, and keep them in their desks. That’s idiocy.

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UPDATE here.