New York Post published:

Amy Burke held at a New Jersey middle school was sex-ed teacher - but she apparently took that job a little too literally with a 13-year-old male student.

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N.J. Sex-ed Teach 'Bedded' Boy, 13 Responded to by Anastasia Webb

Subject: letter to nypost re:N.J. Sex-Ed Teach ëBeddedí Boy, 13


Dear New York Post,

In the article, ìN.J. Sex-Ed Teach ëBeddedí Boy, 13,î the writer manages to raise very valid issues about the prevalence of child sexual abuse in schools. However, she fails seriously in shedding light on why the crimes of child sexual assault by adult authority figures is so terribly devastating to the victim and to our society. Sexual assault is a crime that only uses the word ìsexî partly in naming it because it involves the use of sex organs as a weapon. It is not a ìsexualî or ìsexyî act. It is a hideous crime. In saying that Ms. Burke ìapparently took that [Sex-Ed] job a little too literally with a 13-year-old male student,î you imply that rape is sex-- an act which must include a degree of consent, which is not the dangerous crime that the writer is reporting on. Burke did not ìbedî this child-- she raped him. He will suffer severe psychological consequences because of this trauma. By romanticizing and sexualizing the crime of sexual assault, the writer is unwittingly perpetuating the point of view of sexual predators and all other people who would like to blame victims for being raped or abused. To end sexual abuse and rape, as any just society is compelled to do, the media must foster awareness and not ignorance.


Anastasia Webb