This is an undeniable tragedy. Will we now start taking sex between female educators and male students as seriously as we take sex between male educators and their students of either sex?

In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband.

"You see all this stuff with teachers involved with their students. It just comes up time after time on the national news," said Norman McLean, father of suspect Eric McLean. But this time, he said, someone "actually died over it."

McLean's wife, Erin, had completed half of a one-year teaching internship at West High School, where she met the 18-year-old Sean Powell last fall.

Powell's mother, who gave him up for adoption a dozen years ago but re-established contact in 2005, said her son acknowledged having an affair with a teacher.

"He wouldn't let me answer my cell phone," Debra Flynn recalled. "I said, 'Why?' He said, 'Well, Mom, I'm going out with this girl.' I said, 'So what?' He said, 'She is a counselor at school.' I said, 'Oh, my God, Sean.'"

Flynn, whose son sometimes stayed at her home in Nashville, said she later found text messages on her phone. "Come home. Baby, I love you. You are beautiful," they said. She believes Erin McLean preyed on her son.

"These teachers are feasting on our children in school and something has to be done," Flynn said.

Maybe this tragedy will open up the eyes of some people who think that male students "getting some" from a female teacher are somehow receiving a great benefit. Good God, one talk radio host in town thinks the teachers shouldn't even be charged, because the kid has "bragging rights for life". But stuff like this is serious -- deadly serious -- and needs to be dealt with as such.

But I'm curious about one thing -- why didn't "mama" her call the cops when she found out?

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