CALIFORNIA: ANOTHER ABSURD SEX PROSECUTION

Gangs roam free shooting and murdering while police and prosecutors waste their time on this rubbish

Margaret De Barraicua, the McClatchy High intern teacher arrested nine months ago for having sex with a 16-year-old special-education student, was sentenced Friday to a year in jail. The 31-year-old mother of a 2-year-old boy declined to speak at her sentencing in Sacramento Superior Court. She pleaded guilty in September on the eve of going on trial on four felony counts of having unlawful sex with a minor. "Her moral compass was broken," Judge Talmadge R. Jones said of the former teacher. De Barraicua was a "novice" and an overwhelmed teacher of "uncontrollable" special education students, the judge said.

Though the 16-year-old was a "troubled youth" who propositioned De Barraicua several times before she consented, the woman "violated a tremendous trust," Jones said. "If he was messed up before he is probably more messed by this offense." Deputy District Attorney Rochelle Hao, who described the four sex acts as "premeditated," urged the judge to require that De Barraicua register as a sex offender to preclude her from ever becoming a teacher again. The judge declined for the time being, providing De Barraicua serves her sentence and does not violate any terms of her five-year probation.

In De Barraicua's favor were two "positive" psychiatric evaluations, her lack of a criminal record, family and community support and a history of volunteerism, the judge said. Sacramento police arrested De Bar-raicua on Feb. 19 after they found her with the student in the front seat of her parked car behind Leonardo da Vinci Elementary School. Her son was strapped into a safety seat in the rear of the car.

Although the student did not attend the sentencing, he wrote a letter that was read in court. "Ever since this, my life has changed completely. I'm not the same boy. At school I became the center of attention. Everyone knew my name. I can't express my feeling," wrote the boy who is not being identified because he is a victim of a sex crime. The teen's sister, who sat next to her father in court, said the family has noticed a change in the teenager. "I believe my brother is mad at life," said the sister. [So he should be at such idiotic events]....

The judge allowed De Barraicua to remain free through the Thanksgiving holiday to spend with her family and ordered her to report to the Sacramento County jail on Dec. 2.

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