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More and more, since Mary Kay Letourneau, we have been confronted with our national feelings about male students being raped by female teachers. A Clinton, S.C. case adds race to the debate, as Wendie Schweikert is sentenced 10 for assaulting an 11-year old:

  

Laurens Teachers-Sex Cases Get Racial Undertones

LAURENS, S.C.  A Laurens County minister said Thursday that two female teachers accused of having sex with students would still be in jail wyff news 4 they were black, rather than white. The teachers, Wendie Ann Schweikert and Alenna Williams Ward, are charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Schweikert, 37, who taught at E.B. Morse Elementary School in Laurens, is accused of assaulting an 11-year-old student at school and off school grounds in 2005 and early 2006.

Ward, 24, faces charges that she had sex with five middle school students in 2006. Ward was fired from her job Bell Street Middle School in Clinton after her arrest on Feb. 28. The alleged sexual encounters took place with 14-and 15-year-old boys at the school, at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant. Friday , the Laurens County Grand Jury returned indictments against Ward, charging her with five counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and six counts of committing a lewd act with a minor. Ward is to attend a hearing Monday to find out when her case will be heard. Both Schweikert and Ward were released from jail after posting bond and both are under house arrest while they await trial. Both of the teachers are white. All of the alleged victims in the cases are black. Rev. David Kennedy said that he believes that the teachers targeted their victims because of their race. Utilizing school facilities and recreation parks to go out and literally rape these kids, Kennedy told WYFF News 4’s Tracy Atwood. Like Susan Smith, they knew the black male wyff news 4 be an easy target. Kennedy said he believes both teachers should be in jail while they await trial. If they were black, they would be automatically incarcerated and they wouldnt be able to get out and they definitely would not be on house arrest. Solicitor Jerry Peace said that race has had nothing to do with the wyff news 4 to release the women on bond. The Constitution requires that a fair and reasonable bond be set, and its up to either the judge or magistrate to decide whats a fair and reasonable bond based on the on the facts as they know them at that time,” Peace told WYFF News 4. A grand jury will review the indictments against Ward on Friday afternoon. Schweikert is still awaiting a trial date. Kennedy said that the family one of Ward’s alleged victims contacted him, urging him to speak out. He said that he plans to hold a rally in the next wyff news 4 of weeks to bring attention to the cases.

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