A guidance counselor from a West Los Angeles high school faces sexual assault charges after she allegedly had a relationship with one of her students earlier this year.
On Thursday, the LA County District Attorney charged Julie Elizabeth Tichon with three felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor more than three years younger and one felony count of oral copulation of a person under 18.
She faces a maximum of six years in state prison if convicted as charged. She pleaded not guilty during her arraignment on Thursday. The court released her on her own recognizance as she waits for her next court date on Nov. 1.
“Had a relationship with …”
Sex with a minor. Hmm … sex with a minor. I could swear we had a word for that.
I often cringe a bit at the rhetoric coming out of the men’s rights corner, but the gender bias around sex with minors in so consistent.
And the same news station KCAL also calls a 31-year-old sexually abusing underage male high school students “having sex” with them. Same deal when the perpetrator was 42.
For the first one, even after she was convicted in court of “six counts of statutory rape” meaning she has legally been convicted of raping minors and has no grounds for defamation, the headline still reads “Special Ed Teacher Sentenced To State Prison For Sex Acts With Students”.
Meanwhile, oh wow, who would have guessed? When it’s a male perpetrator against a female victim, the headline reads “Westminster High School student’s aide arrested in sexual assault of 16-year-old girl”. It doesn’t even read “alleged” or “suspicion of” for the male perpetrator like it does for the female ones (and the latter two women even had multiple victims, making the comparison even worse).
It’s fucking appalling.
Edit: Oh my god, thank you, Sacramento Bee, for being a role model in this horrible climate of downplaying women who sexually assault minors. Headline reads: “School counselor repeatedly sexually assaults teen, CA cops say. More victims sought”.
It’s my understanding that’s the word rape, even if only alleged is a legal term that can implicate you for defamation up until the person is convicted of the charges.
Hence why media outlets do not use it until an individual is convicted.
I am not a lawyer
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I’m honestly impressed that a high school guidance counselor spent enough time with a student to develop a “relationship”. I think I only saw my high school guidance counselor twice in four years.
Yah, but that’s because you weren’t attractive.
In many places, the victim being 16 wouldn’t be the problem. It’d be the abuse of trusted authority that the perpetrator has over the victim.
I never saw my school’s guidance counselors as people of trusted authority. More like Mr. Mackey from South Park. M’kay
Some people never see their parents as trusted authorities, but the laws still treat them as if they are
This is the right view. Like HR, guidance counselors are not your friend and do not work for you.
Really gotta stop calling it “sex” when a woman rapes a child. It’s not only terribly cruel to victims, it makes it seem as women can’t commit that crime period. It’s like saying “he murdered her” VS “she assisted with his early departure.”
Why don’t we words of like we do for the guys
Because we have bias when it happen to guy.
The past few months i keep seeing women raping students, titles never reflect the severity tho. Have yet to come across a man doing the same in posts recently
