Police: Lesbian Coach and Teenage Girl ‘Had an Ongoing Sexual Relationship’

Posted on | September 2, 2014 | 114 Comments

Leah Eames, 32, is a teacher and swim team coach at Sycamore High School in Dekalb, Illinois. On the night of August 10, a police officer checking on the YMCA “after hours found Eames working out with a student.” The circumstances were suspicious; when police checked surveillance video at the YMCA, it showed Eames and the teenage girl holding hands. Upon further investigation “police said detectives were able to identify the student and later interview her, and later discovered that Eames and the student had an ongoing sexual relationship.”

Eames was charged last week with criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. She could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. She was placed on paid leave from her teaching job.

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114 Responses to “Police: Lesbian Coach and Teenage Girl ‘Had an Ongoing Sexual Relationship’”

texlovera
September 2nd, 2014 @ 8:31 am

And if you want to know WHY this kind of crap is happening, look no further than our genial hosts’s post from yesterday.

ALL of this was planned long ago. ALL of it…
M. Thompson
September 2nd, 2014 @ 9:00 am

Aaaand you hear the Lesbian harpies squawk this isn’t normal, when they aaallll try and recruit teens.

Fluff the pillow twice and roll over until something really interesting happens.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:11 am

…when they aaallll try and recruit teens.

No, they don’t.

Of course, lesbians acting responsibly doesn’t make the headlines.

And no, I don’t think lesbianism is irresponsible.

Fooling around with underage kids, multiple nearly anonymous partners without protection, sex with massive amounts of drugs (including alcohol), that’s irresponsible.

Those behaviors are not limited to lesbians and gays.
Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:29 am

And yet another happy chapter for Eve Ensler to add to the “Vagina Monologues.”
Dana
September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:33 am

H8er! H8ey h8er!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
September 2nd, 2014 @ 11:16 am

It is way more common and it appears to be increasing. I agree, however, it is not limited to gays.

But there is a definite push in some parts of the gay community to make it more acceptable and to decriminalize teen sex with adults. And if you need a refresher course, here it is.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 12:08 pm

I would question if it’s more common or if it’s being reported more.

I have a real issue with the whole “gay community” thing. The virtue or the vice is in the individual, not the label. Just as an example, RSM doesn’t want responsibility for his cousin, yet they are “family.” I don’t want responsibility for RSM’s cousin either, or Joe Arpaio, yet they are “Arizona” just as I am.
robertstacymccain
September 2nd, 2014 @ 12:27 pm

Do we have to go off on this tangent, NW?

No matter how many times I report the depravity of heterosexual male criminals — or, for that matter, the depravity of heterosexual women who prey on underage boys — the minute I call attention to crimes committed by homosexuals, I am accused of fomenting homophobic bias.

Insofar as I have a point to make in reporting such crimes, it is this: THE BIAS IN THE MEDIA IS PRO-HOMOSEXUAL.

It is very difficult, I must tell you, to find stories like this, because the words “gay” or “lesbian” are never used in mainstream news accounts of sex crimes against minors. Think about that. Homosexuality is always considered newsworthy when they can be portrayed as Victims of Society. However, the minute a homosexual becomes a victimizer — especially when they perpetrate sex crimes against children — the designating words “gay”/”lesbian” disappear from the news coverage.

Think about this. Think about it hard. What does this mean in terms of what the public knows about the dangers to children? Isn’t it possible that such deliberately one-sided coverage has the effect of putting young people at risk of abuse and exploitation? Aren’t journalists therefore guilty of betraying their civic duty to readers?

Maybe you’re not a parent. Maybe you don’t give a damn for the safety of children. But other people do have children, and they do give a damn, and I am sick and tired of people telling me that there’s nothing to worry about.

WAKE THE HELL UP!
Neo
September 2nd, 2014 @ 12:49 pm

#GamerGate something huge is happening. https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/506824145305219072
https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t
https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetAristocrat
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2f6sey/indiefensible_the_maya_legobutts_kramer_story_v2/

Sorry if this seems spammy! I haven’t seen any coverage of this by the usual suspects I follow. But just WOW, when it starts to fill in the pieces especially regards to the feminazi attacks on Sci-Fi Book Culture..
RS
September 2nd, 2014 @ 12:51 pm

The problem is, if the public doesn’t know statistical prevalence, it’s because the topic is taboo among criminology researchers, thanks to “Big LGBTQXYZ.” Yet anyone paying attention can spot a legion of similarities among these sorts of cases. First, get an adult in a position of trust with the parents–usually a coach who sees “great potential” in a young athlete and who promises the Beulah Land of scholarships or whatever. Add in a trusting young person to his/her parents willful blindness to warning signs and —voila— sex abuse scandal. Ninety-nine point 99999 percent of parents would never trust such access to their children with a person of the opposite sex, yet they do so with same sex coaches or teachers because their guard is down, and the children are too immature to understand what’s really happening until the damage is done. Yet anytime someone tries to connect the dots, s/he’s labeled a “H8ter” and that’s the end of it.

Secondarily, there are certain sports where this sort of thing thrives. It doesn’t take much research to know which those are. I say “research,” but in reality its whispered, “word of mouth” stuff. Suffice it to say, there’s a reason I refused to let my daughter play certain sports. Simply put, as a parent I exercised due diligence and refused to outsource my influence to some coach who told me my daughter was a potential D-1 athlete.
Zohydro
September 2nd, 2014 @ 1:23 pm

And to think they almost pulled it off…

Who was really going to care about a bit of barely legal teenage cheerleader lesbo action—until it was too late and the pederast cat was out of the bag?

Thank our lucky stars our magnanimous host and his cohort were paying attention!
Zohydro
September 2nd, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

If what you say is true, then why won’t even one of the prominent gay-rights activists or organisations put this issue mostly to rest by “coming out” in favour of existing AoC laws?

(I suspect some of them would, but at the risk of losing cred and major financial support!)
M. Thompson
September 2nd, 2014 @ 1:51 pm

That would be Wombat-Socho’s bailwick around here.
Julie Pascal
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:07 pm

Wow… kudos to the police officer for the follow up!
Julie Pascal
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:15 pm

And then there’s that thing in England where the person who was studying the crime stats for child exploitation was sent to racial sensitivity classes for pointing out that the criminals were Pakistani men.

And it’s one thing to say that it’s the individual criminal at fault but what was the age of the girl *originally* in the Vagina Monologue? Before people freaked and she got aged several years?
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:22 pm

I don’t know, I’m not a member and I won’t speak for them.

I do know that the gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals I know and talk with wouldn’t dream of messing with kids.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:23 pm

The difference is the gay community does not speak out about the Kate Hunt and other predators out there, but generally.

And even if you want to make the case that Kate Hunt (as an 18 year old) should be in a sexual relationship with a 14 year old, why not an outcry about gay adults in positions of authority engaging in sex with their students?

And it is not like RSM has not pointed out sentencing discrepancies when it is a woman (gay or straight) involved in engage in sex with underaged students.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:30 pm

I was responding to M. Thompson’s comment.

I know about one sided media coverage. I know the MM is anti-Republican to the extent that they cover-up crimes committed by Democrats. I know the only time most mainstream outlets trot out minorities (including religious minorities) is when they want to guilt someone or show how tolerant the approved leadership is. And then of course the minorities are supposed to Play Nice at the fold up card table and never ever put their bare feet in the mashed potatoes. If they smile on cue, the minorities might, just might be trotted before the Big Table just to show how the Big Shots are just like the little people.

Yeah, I’ve been there.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:37 pm

Now, I don’t care about the bias. I won’t play that game by their rules and under their limits.

People aren’t monolithic blocks always sharing the same thoughts and opinions.

Are there dangers to children? Absolutely.

Is an adult more dangerous to kids because they are gay?

Is an adult more dangerous to kids because they are Jewish? Is an adult more dangerous to kids because they are male?

This is the game that some progressives play: People are labels and must remain true to those labels so they may be controlled.

I don’t buy it.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

I don’t know what the statistics are and I am distrustful of the ones that have been produced.

And yes, I think certain personalities will always seek out ways to abuse kids. I think screening personalities rather than “race,” sexual orientation, politics, or religion makes more sense.

I don’t think a drunk should fly for an airline and I don’t think an abusive personality belongs in a school.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 2:53 pm

I don’t think there is a “gay community” as such. I think there are self-appointed people who presume to speak “for everyone” so they can wield political power.

I’ve seen the same thing happen with libertarians, Republicans, pagans, Christians, Democrats, climate change activists, charity groups, jazz bands, and car pools. Also unions.

I think the thing that gives these self-appointed people power is when other people acknowledge the group they claim to represent.
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DeadMessenger
September 2nd, 2014 @ 3:56 pm

She was placed on paid leave from her teaching job.

Wow, that’s harsh…
DeadMessenger
September 2nd, 2014 @ 4:05 pm

I see what you’re saying here, I agree. Up to a point. And my agreement ends where mental illness begins.

Because homosexuality is not a function of DNA, it is either caused by “nature”, in the sense that the person does have a genetic propensity toward mental illness that is manifested in homosexuality, or else it is caused by “nurture”. Either way, it’s mental illness. And I’m going to PO the LGBTQ-whatever community by stating my belief that every single last one of them, without exception, is mentally ill.
DeadMessenger
September 2nd, 2014 @ 4:08 pm

And some are more functional than others, it’s true. But as a class, they are mentally ill, and thus, at the end of the day, they’re subject to do anything. This applies to them as a class, or “community” the same as it applies to the entire class of, say, schizophrenics.

And so, they cannot be viewed as individuals in the sense that we view normal people, but instead can, and should, be viewed as a class.
Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 4:46 pm

Aggregate judgments about people based on their group membership still abound, and in some cases, it is still sensible. But in other cases, certain political factions want to tear down or uphold group judgments in accordance with certain political agendas.
Most parents will not hire teenage or twenty-something males to babysit their children (whether their children are male or female). Nor are most families included to hire older men to be “mannies.” Maybe that is just rank sexism, or maybe just general good sense.
Most people do not want unrelated adult heterosexual males sleeping in tents with girl scouts, even if the male in question swears he is not a pedophile and we have no evidence of him showing pedophiliac tendencies. Even feminists and conservatives generally agree on that taboo.
Yet we are told that we should have no taboo or misgiving about an unrelated adult homosexual male sleeping in tents with boy scouts. Just because he is sexually attracted to male persons does not mean he is inclined to sexually target male children, we are told. And we must accept this assurance lest we be denounced as bigots.
So with the way that the progressive front wants to politically modify our taboos, we are not actually being asked to regard heterosexual and homosexual people equally. We are actually being instructed to apply more suspicion to heterosexual people and to give more deference and trust to homosexual people for analogous circumstances.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 5:45 pm

I disagree. But you knew I would.

Still, I think you and I can agree that as long as they stick to consenting adults, they deserve to make their own choice and accept responsibility for their actions.

Just like every other person.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 6:04 pm

I agree that there are progressives who want to modify our taboos and not in a good way. I don’t like guilt politics and I take a stand when I can.

But I remember when I was a kid in Phoenix hearing grown men argue who was worth less, the “Spics” or the “Blacks.” I remember later in my teen years next to the Navajo reservation when many called “Indians” drunk and ignorant. The people calling the names were the people I was supposed to respect.

I think it’s better to let each person show his worth.

Don’t trust someone because of their sexuality. Trust them until they prove they can’t be trusted.
Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 6:15 pm

So what is your solution to the conundrum of which adults are allowed to sleep in tents with scout children?
Do you prohibit both heterosexual men from sleeping in tents with girl scouts and homosexual men from sleeping in tents with boy scouts, or do you permit both heterosexual men to sleep in tents with girl scouts and homosexual men to sleep in tents with boy scouts? Assuming all these applying men appear not to be pedophiles or child molesters.
DeadMessenger
September 2nd, 2014 @ 6:29 pm

As you know, I am a Christian. I would call myself a devout Christian. I believe homosexuality is a sin. I also believe that adultery, lying, greediness, idolatry, and a number of other things are also sins.

Having said that, it’s not my call to rebuke people for their sins. I’m not sinless myself. My job is to share the gospel message with those willing to listen. Otherwise, my policy is to live and let live.

In the case of sticking to consenting adults, considering that I also believe LGBTQ people to be mentally ill, this means a pair of mentally ill people doing…it…or something. I think an argument could be made that mentally ill people are incapable of consent, similar to how minors are incapable of consent. However, I also like to pick my battles carefully, and this is not a battle that I’d choose.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 6:58 pm

There are things I would call morally wrong, but I don’t think those things are sins. Long story short, I don’t believe in sin. That’s also a discussion I try not to have with Christians because that’s an area where we will never agree.

Are they capable of making their own choices? That raises a huge red flag. I’ve known some 14 year olds who I would trust to make a responsible choice, and I’ve known some 40 year olds who I would not. And that is without sex. “Consenting adults” is a workable compromise.
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 7:04 pm

How far does your “what if” go?

If I had my druthers, I’d make some serious changes. I wouldn’t make the distinction between hetrosexual and homsexual.

I would let them know that there would be consequences to inappropriate actions.

Starting with forced castration and the removal of one thumb. And working up from there.

But that is probably why I am not in charge.
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Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 8:09 pm

So your principle of only judging people on an individual basis with regard to gauging the risk to minors can only be enacted if we impose punishments like castration and digit amputation for sexual abuse of children?

And what would be the equivalent punishment for castration that you would impose on females who sexually abuse children? Hysterectomy? Clitoredectomy?
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 8:46 pm

You gave license and now you are surprised at my brutality.

My off-the-cuff answer was never about gauging the risk to minors. It was about reducing risk to minors.

I think that people should accept responsibility for their actions.

The current system isn’t working. It’s more likely that someone can play the system and incur almost no punishment.

My suggestion would inflict quick and irreversible punishment. Best of all, taxpayers wouldn’t be stuck housing, feeding, and clothing a bunch of prisoners.
Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 9:19 pm

I am not surprised at all, nor am I entirely unsympathetic. I sincerely wanted to know what the equivalent of castration would be that you would impose upon female sexual offenders.

Of course, there is reason not to take you entirely at face value, because you yourself said “But that is probably why I am not in charge” which indicates that you are probably speaking in jest.

And you only seemed to go into this tangent as a way of evading the question which I asked, and then you went into general platitudes about how people should take responsibility for their actions.

I agree that people should be held responsible. From whatever situation or context somebody abused a child, I think that person should be held responsible and punished. The situation I brought up was about institutions and persons determining what persons will be granted or denied access to vulnerable children and upon what basis.

So I will ask again. Should adult heterosexual male persons be eligible to apply to sleep in tents with girl scouts? And should adult homosexual male persons be eligible to apply to sleep in tents with boy scouts? If we are judging people entirely as individuals, their genders and orientations should not categorically exclude either of them, despite our bigoted “taboos,” right?
NeoWayland
September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:07 pm

I’m going to save everyone some time and effort.

You don’t want my opinion. You want something that can show me in a bad light so you have an excuse not to look at the issues I’ve raised.

I maintain that a person should be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think an individual is responsible for his own actions regardless of the label people put on him.

The rest is busy work. Distractions. Matters of form and protocol and procedure and law that we can pretend mean something.

Now I could play with that, but honestly I’m just not into it tonight.
Durasim
September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:20 pm

You could have just answered the question and not gone into your platitudes.

Should adult heterosexual males be allowed to apply to sleep in tents with girl scouts?
NeoWayland
September 3rd, 2014 @ 8:44 am

I already did.

It’s not the platitudes, it’s trust.

That, and I do not assume that humans are fallen and need to be controlled.
Durasim
September 3rd, 2014 @ 9:41 am

If you actually answered it at some point, please repeat your answer, because I could not find it buried within your other statements.
When a person avoids the specific details of a question and withdraws into anodyne statements and generalities, I think that counts as issuing “platitudes.”
I am not sure of the relevance of your statement that you “do not assume that humans are fallen.” Unless that is your oblique way of saying that we should not be suspicious of adult heterosexual males who want to sleep in tents with girl scouts?
Durasim
September 3rd, 2014 @ 9:50 am

When it comes to juvenile athletics, the complacency and obliviousness of parents reach ever higher peaks.
I heard of one case in which an ice skating coach was caught sexually abusing his male students. The parents of a female skater approached the parents of one of this coach’s victims and asked about the allegations. When the parents of the male victim confirmed the allegations, the parents of the female skater seemed relieved and said that since this coach only seems to target boys, it should be okay to let him train their daughter.
Neo
September 3rd, 2014 @ 10:01 am

Wombat-Socho’s bailwick?
Zohydro
September 3rd, 2014 @ 10:02 am

I long for the days when all this could be considered humorous…

http://www.theonion.com/articles/community-bands-together-to-get-through-lesbiangym,1611/

It’s not really so funny now!
Zohydro
September 3rd, 2014 @ 10:03 am

Bailiwick…
NeoWayland
September 3rd, 2014 @ 1:30 pm

With every post on this thread I’ve made it clear I do not agree with your premise. I’ve answered but not on your terms.

People shouldn’t be judged by their sexuality. You might as well judge them by their shoe size, the number of zeros in their Social Security number, or (gasp!) their skin color.

Now you can talk about common sense and statistics, and then I can point you to all those RadFem articles that proclaim loudly that all PIV sex is rape. Propaganda is propaganda.

Until and unless someone threatens a child, they should be treated exactly as any other responsible adult.
Durasim
September 3rd, 2014 @ 2:23 pm

Okay, so adult heterosexual males should be eligible to apply to sleep in tents with girl scouts?
Also, you drawing the line at a person who “threatens a child” begs more questions. What if a person publicly announces that he is sexually attracted to children, but so far as we know, he has not approached or solicited any child for sexual purposes and he promises not to do so. Should he be able to apply for a job as a teacher or camp counselor like any other law abiding adult? So long as he has not targeted or threatened any actual children that we know of, his sexual attraction to children should not count against him, right?
NeoWayland
September 3rd, 2014 @ 2:33 pm

You are really missing the point here. So let me make this “official.”

I recognize that you are trying to shift the premise to identifying someone’s sexuality and using that to judge what they may do.

I also recognize the tactics you’re using.

I think it’s a foolish and pointless game. I reject your premise. I know that one counter to your tactic is to give you the exact truth but in terms you cannot use.
Durasim
September 3rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

You state that we should not presume certain groups of people dangerous because of their sexual dispositions or orientations, nor should we bar them from certain areas or activities on the basis of their gender, attraction, orientation, etc. If you stand by that principle, then that means adult homosexual males should be allowed to sleep in tents with boy scouts, adult heterosexual males should be allowed to sleep in tents with girl scouts, admitted pedophiles should be allowed to be teachers or counselors, so long as there is no evidence that they threatened or targeted children in the past. If you believe in this principle across the board, that is a principled stand to take, which will probably rile conservatives and feminists alike.
Saying “I reject your premise” is the equivalent of plugging your fingers in your ears and singing “La, la, la! I am not listening!”
If you are going to announce some general principle, others are entitled to question specific applications and examples of your principle in practice. You have not given the “exact truth,” but just something cloaked in generalities, because you know that the specific application of your principle to these certain cases will sound distasteful and want to avoid admitting that.
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NeoWayland
September 3rd, 2014 @ 3:47 pm

Durasim,

Here’s a friendly little note.

If someone says he doesn’t think people should be judged and defined by group labels, it’s not respectful to continually ask them to do exactly that.

Here’s another friendly little note.

When someone has already answered your question even if the answer wasn’t in terms you accept or even understand, it’s rude to keep asking the question again and again.