A high school teacher in Los Angeles County was suspended for allegedly posting a rant on Facebook condoning a recent sexual encounter between teachers and students.
Sean Patrick Kane, an art teacher at South Hills High School in West Covina, asked, on Facebook, what was “in the heads of the dudes who banged these ladies and then squealed?”
“You should have just kept your stupid mouths shut and enjoyed it,” Kane wrote in the same post, referring to the teenage boys involved in the incident, according to Reuters.
Kane was working at the school until Jan. 21. But when the school district found out about his Facebook post, he was put on paid administrative leave so that an investigation could take place, said West Covina Unified School District spokeswoman Michelle Van Der Linden.
“We expect teachers to maintain a level of professionalism in their classroom and in their social media presence as well,” she said.
On Jan. 17, Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Ghirelli, 30, teachers at South Hills High School, were arrested on suspicion of engaging in sexual relations with two students from the high school.
Police said Lippert met a group of South Hills High students at San Clemente State Beach in November, provided them with alcohol and had sex with an 18-year-old male student.
Then in December, Lippert and Ghirelli went on an overnight camping trip at the same beach. Lippert had sex again with the same 18-year-old student, while Ghirelli had sex with a minor, police said without disclosing the younger student’s age.
The trips were not school-sponsored.
“Lippert was arrested for Conspiracy and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and being held on [$20,000] bail,” according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “Ghirelli was arrested for Oral Copulation and Unlawful Sex with a Minor and being held on [$50,000] bail.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that as of Thursday, Jan. 22, the Orange County district attorney’s office said they had not filed charges against Lippert and Ghirelli. On Jan. 18, the Orange County Register reported that the two had posted bail, according to jail records.
(With reports from Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Orange County Register and Reuters)
