Grading the Newest Sex Scandal Teacher
Ohio – A former Licking County high school teacher was sentenced to 2 years in prison Thursday after she admitted that she had sex with a student.
Kristen D. Grow, 39, of Frazeysburg, pleaded guilty in Licking County Court of Common Pleas to one count of sexual battery.
Grow was a teacher at Northridge High School when she engaged in sexual conduct with a student in her honors English class. Between February and May of last year, Grow had sex with the youth at least four times at her home.
Assistant Licking County Prosecutor Paula Sawyers said given the position of authority and trust teachers hold with their students, Grow should serve jail time.
“These are individuals who have no business having sex with students,” Sawyers said.
Although the age of consent is 16 in Ohio, teachers are prohibited from having sex with students regardless of their age.
Sawyers said Grow is the fifth adult in the education system to be prosecuted for having sex with a minor in the county since 2012.
Judge W. David Branstool, who handed down Grow’s sentence, said that while cases like these are tough to deal with, he agreed that jail time was necessary given Grow’s authority position.
Mrs. Grow? From Frazeysburg? In Licking County court? And the judge’s name is David Branstool? I swear when I first came across this, I thought it couldn’t be true. It reads like an alien race has been reading Barstool to learn our ways and is trying to communicate with humans in the language of Grading the Sex Scandal Teacher. With me as the Amy Adams’ Arrival linguist, trying to sort out their message.
But nope. All this is real. Kristin Grow, this disheveled lunatic with the asymmetric face, this crazyburger from Frazeysburg, is the fifth teacher in Licking County to get caught banging a student in just the last five years. And the judge who sentenced her sounds like he got his name off a fake ID Portnoy would use to travel incognito. One week in, 2019 might not have its first smokeshow SST, but it’s already taking a turn for the surreal.
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The Grades:
Looks: I was going to say Kate Mullgrew from Star Trek: Voyager. But who are we kidding? Maybe 15 years ago. At best she’s Kate Mullgrew from Orange is the New Black.
Grade: D+
Moral Compass/Bad Judgment: I don’t mean to just dismiss the notion of bringing an Honors English student back to your house to teach him the different onomatopoeia that come out of a high schooler while banging a 39-year-old woman. But the news reports need a little color. Some creative writing elements. Where’s the seduction? The romance? The nuanced details that turn an otherwise boring legal proceeding into a tale worthy of a good grade? Sorry. Nice effort by grow [giggle] but I need more substance. As an English teacher, she’d understand.
Grade: B-
Intangibles: I’ve listed them all. These intangibles could only be better if her name was Growastiffy and the student’s name was J.L. Bait. I wish I had a higher grade to give. Ms. Grow, Judge Branstool and all the good people in Licking deserve it.
Grade: A+
Overall: C
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