Police: Arkansas Teacher, 57, Admits ‘Inappropriate’ Lesbian Sex With Girl, 16

Posted on | June 16, 2014 | 57 Comments

Helen Banks molested teenage girl, police say.

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Drew Central High School Teacher Helen Banks, 57, of Monticello was arrested by authorities with the Drew County Sheriff’s Office and Arkansas State Police.
Banks was interviewed by authorities stemming from an investigation which alleged that Banks was having inappropriate contact and communication with a 16-year-old female student.
Banks admitted to the allegations during the interview, she was booked into the Drew County Detention Facility and has since bonded out on a $25,000 commercial bond.
She was arrested for Sexual Assault in the 2nd degree, which is a class B felony in Arkansas. However, more charges may follow.

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57 Responses to “Police: Arkansas Teacher, 57, Admits ‘Inappropriate’ Lesbian Sex With Girl, 16”

laura_PH
June 16th, 2014 @ 4:09 pm

First… EWWWW. Second… yeah, you know what? I got nothin’ beyond EWWWW. 57 years old going after a teenager; that’s just nasty.
robertstacymccain
June 16th, 2014 @ 4:17 pm

Obviously, you’re just a sexist homophobe.
laura_PH
June 16th, 2014 @ 4:20 pm

Yes, well, that too. But my first reaction was totally ageist, so I guess that’s the hat trick. 🙂
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 4:52 pm

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6qrWrtW-JUE/U58T0eDa6eI/AAAAAAAAito/o06NbCVO15g/s1600/Hillary+criminal+case.PNG

A regular Ransom Stoddard that Hillary was!
Adjoran
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:01 pm

Well, Hillary has been known to violate legal ethics since her days getting fired from the Judiciary Committee investigation of Watergate. Attorney-client privilege? Meh, all in a day’s work.

I note in passing that the great Democratic legal minds, Bill, Hillary, Barack, and Michelle, have all either had their law licenses suspended or voluntarily surrendered them.

Now, where is that pimply-faced libertine to tell us the sex isn’t rape-rape?
Kirby McCain
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:04 pm

Our host’s regular listing of women teachers preying on young girls usually includes Linda Wallace who in her 50s was messing with a 13 y.o. girl. Creepy huh?
RS
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:07 pm

I looked into this when it first surfaced years ago. We must remember, Hillary was appointed to represent that defendant. She was required to accept and to do her best. There is no hint that she did anything unethical. Rather she did what any attorney would do. To do otherwise is a breach of professional responsibility and may subject an attorney to discipline. I’ve been in that position, and it’s not pleasant. It is nonetheless necessary to preserve our constitutional guarantees to representation. Hillary’s got a lot to criticize, and I will be the first to do so when it’s appropriate. This is not one of those.
laura_PH
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm

The way I read it, the guy wanted a woman lawyer and Hillary was asked and she accepted. As to being unethical – I guess it wasn’t unethical according to legal standards, but attacking a 12 year old rape victim is certainly *morally* unethical, and it’s more than fair to call her out for that.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:13 pm

Her defending the child rapist was okay, she was defense counsel and that was her job (given she took the case). Our system depends on that, so I agree that is not a basis to criticize her.

But you completely miss the point.

An ethical defense attorney would then not brag about how his or her fabulous legal skills got the client a good deal. Because that violates attorney client privilege (basically promoting Hillary at the expense of her client). It is also incredibly untoward and unprofessional.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm

If you take on defending child rapists, they are entitled to the best defense you can provide. But she can’t take on cases like that and then pretend she is protecting women’s rights. She could have said no, because she found the case repugnant. But for Hillary, all that matters is expanding her political ties and future and this case was a step for her.

She could have done the case, never said a word about it again, and it would not be a story. What makes it a story is Hillary on tape cackling about her awesome legal beagle skills and acting how most of us imagine she acts in real life–an obnoxious prima dona. It is revealing.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm

She wasn’t “appointed” she was asked to represent that defendant.
NeoWayland
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm

Simple definition: sex without consent is rape.

And if you’re not an adult, you can’t really consent, can you?
richard mcenroe
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm

Hillary’s personal #WarOnWomen started at an early age… 12.
Dana
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:30 pm

If it was inappropriate lesbian sex, what would appropriate lesbian sex between a 57 year old and a 16 year old be? Enquiring minds want to know!
Dana
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:32 pm

The question is: did she know that her client was guilty before she accepted the job?

But the second paragraph is spot on.
Kirby McCain
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:37 pm

Statuary rape.
Kirby McCain
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:41 pm

ie non productive
RS
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm

It was an appointment. Yes, the defendant asked for a female attorney. The PA asked her to do it. I’ve been in this sort of position. It’s still an appointment. And there are times you cannot say, “no.”
RS
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:49 pm

Taking a case does not mean you espouse a particular position. Again, you do not know how the system works.

As for commenting about her legal abilities, specifically a “win,” lawyers do that. Guess what. That’s how you get a reputation as a good lawyer, so people will pay you money.

The problem is that people hate Hillary so much, they jump on any reason to throw rocks. This is nowhere near the best reason to attack her. She did nothing wrong. Insisting on trying to make something out of this only gives ammunition to the Left.
RS
June 16th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm

I note the continued desire to crucify her, with references to “technicalities” and what not. Rather typical. Everyone hates due process and attorneys until they roll a stop sign and want to get off. Once again: Hillary did nothing illegal or unethical or immoral, no matter in defending this person, no matter how much anyone would wish otherwise. If one wishes to attack her for those times when her conduct has been questionable–to put it charitably–by all means have at it. I’ll be leading the charge. This is not one of those times, and resurrecting it keeps us from concentrating on the big things like four dead Americans in Libya. I’m sure the Left would be quite happy ignoring that in favor of a court appointment to defend someone entitled to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:03 pm

I assume she did not know he was guilty then (which is why I do not fault her from taking on a troublesome case). But I can’t imagine anyone bragging about getting a child rapist off with two months served under any circumstances (even if the client said it was okay)–it is revealing of her character (which is lacking).
Anarchy666
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:05 pm

Oh, no! A lawyer doing her job! Stone her! You people are such abominable hypocrites, and morons. All Christian conservatives need to be outed as the rank lying weasels they are, and then banished.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:15 pm

“Taking a case does not mean you espouse a particular position. Again, you do not know how the system works.”

I didn’t say that, so spare me the false argument.

You do not understand what attorney client privilege is. You don’t tell people your client is guilty (after the fact) unless you have a written disclosure to do so. That is an ethical violation. Look it up.

Hillary was not a criminal defense lawyer (she took this case because she was asked to take it on), but there is a way to say how you got a good result for your client without saying your client was guilty!

And it is just dumb for an aspiring poltician to do a taped interview when you are laughing about getting a guilty child rapist off with two months served.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm

You reveal yourself too. As a moron. All Christian conservatives need to be banished? Go back and read what I wrote. I do not condemn her for defending the guy. I condemn her for putting herself first in revealing client confidences and showing what a contemptible person she is.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:18 pm

That is fine. She could have said no or yes. I do not fault her for that, nor do I fault her for getting a good deal for her client. I fault her for blabbing about it after the fact.
NeoWayland
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:32 pm

As a pagan libertarian, I think we could do with fewer lawyers.

Especially in political office.
daleyrocks
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:33 pm

Anamika is already in its bunk.
Zohydro
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:34 pm

If someome is trolling for bitter denunciations this evening, he’ll get no such satisfaction from me!
Zohydro
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm

Come on! You must concede that HRC’s snorting triumphant demeanour, her gloating and boasting there was at least tacky and creepy if indeed not technically illegal or unethical…
Kirby McCain
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm

And I used to like you…
Beth
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm

Okay so this, from the WFB piece:

In a July 28, 1975, court affidavit, Clinton wrote that she had been informed the young girl was “emotionally unstable” and had a “tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing.”

“I have also been told by an expert in child psychology that children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents in disorganized families, such as the complainant’s, are even more prone to exaggerate behavior,” Clinton said.

So…children in adolescence, adulthood, middle-aged, and possibly elderly? I mean the list of women Hillary has dismissed as stalkers, crazies, or bimbos extends WAY beyond the courtroom. It seems Hillary hasn’t gotten the memo (well, maybe she has now?) that we live in a culture of rape, #YesAllWomen are victims of the #WaronWomen.

Except the women in Hillary’s world, anyway. Seems rather treacherous of her to my gender. 😉
JeffS
June 16th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm

So, you don’t consider unethical behavior during the early years of her legal career as being indicative of her qualifications for and performance as President of the United States?
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:05 pm

Good point.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm

You are doing what liberals do, making a false argument and then running with it. Hillary’s problem is not defending an accused child rapist, it is bragging how her client was guilty and she got him off. I doubt she did not get written permission from her client to do so. Failure to do so is a serious ethical violation.

It also reveals her poor character.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm

Well she went from defending rapists to marrying one. Go figure!
RS
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm

You do not understand what attorney client privilege is.

And how many years of practice do you have under your belt? Bar admissions? 30 plus 4 here plus numerous criminal cases on both sides of the street, including a horrific defense by judicial appointment, where judges “asked” that I take the case.

In 2008, when this case first bubbled up, I looked into it, because I desperately wanted to find a smoking gun against her. I loathe the Clintons. I never want to see another one in office. There’s no “there” there.
Wombat_socho
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:42 pm

Speaking of rank, lying, weasels…*plonk*
Zohydro
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:56 pm

Ave Vvomabaticus! Dicturi te salutant!
Zohydro
June 16th, 2014 @ 7:58 pm

I could always change my mind…
RKae
June 16th, 2014 @ 8:33 pm

As for Hillary’s court case, I just have this quotation from “And Justice For All.”

“And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution is not going to get that man today. No, because I’m gonna get him! My client, the Honorable Henry T. Fleming, should go right to f*cking jail! The son of a bitch is guilty!”
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm

Well then there is no excuse for you not being up on attorney client privilege and keeping client confidences. You sure are pigheaded, but I guess that goes with being a lawyer. I am just a cow, but I can research the ethic rules apparently better than you can!

Did you go look at the Free Beacon article and the tapes? Did you read the quote about legal ethics?

The issue is not her defending an accused rapist, it is Hillary blabbing about it afterwards. You are framing the issue all wrong. And even if her client is now dead, the privilege remains. Hillary knows this because she and her husband raised that defense with Ken Star over Vince Foster notes.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 9:00 pm

Arkansas RPC 1.9 Duties to Former Clients:
c) A lawyer who has formerly represented a client in a matter or whose present or former firm has formerly represented a client in a matter shall not thereafter:
(1) use information relating to the representation to the disadvantage of the former client except as these Rules would permit or require with respect to a client, or when the information has become generally known; or
(2) reveal information relating to the representation except as these Rules would permit or require with respect to a client.

So how is Hillary justified in calling her former client “guilty”? What rule justifies that?
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 16th, 2014 @ 9:01 pm

She went from defending a rapist to marrying one.
NeoWayland
June 16th, 2014 @ 9:09 pm

Thanks.
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Kirby McCain
June 16th, 2014 @ 11:04 pm

Tell it to Tucker Carlson.
Adjoran
June 16th, 2014 @ 11:52 pm

Careful talking to him – not sure Tucker is really of age yet.
Adjoran
June 16th, 2014 @ 11:53 pm

Right, that’s the definition, of course – but our little Anon Y Mous says he supports age of consent laws but these cases aren’t rape because consent, or something.

I torture libertines for free.
Adjoran
June 16th, 2014 @ 11:56 pm

Attorney-client privilege doesn’t end with the verdict, or the end of probation. It goes on until the client waives it. If he never specifically waives it, she is obligated to observe it. She did not.

But it is par for the course for Hillary because rules are for the little people.
Adjoran
June 17th, 2014 @ 12:00 am

Sic semper mustelis!