Kelsey Peterson, a 6th grade math teacher, pleaded guilty in federal court this week to a slew of charges, not the least of which was seducing her twelve year old student (she was 25 at the time). When she got caught, she kidnapped the kid (or as the media puts it, ran away with him) and fled to Mexico, where she was later apprehended.
Her attorney’s defense in court? “I resent the term ‘child.’ You’re baby-fying this kid. This kid is a Latino machismo teenager.”
