Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

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Former middle-school teacher Neal Erickson, 38, pleaded guilty in May to having sex with a boy beginning in 2006 — when the boy was a 14-year-old eighth-grader — until 2009. His fellow teachers in Ogemaw County, Michigan, supported Erickson, writing letters to the judge asking for a lenient sentence. Any parent would be horrified by the sentiments expressed, for example, by Rose City teacher Sally Campbell:

“Neal made a mistake. He allowed a mutual friendship to develop into much more. He realized his mistake and ended it years before someone anonymously sent something to the authorities which began this legal process. . . . Please also consider that this was a one-time relationship with only one student and ended long before being found out. Both parties have gone on with their lives.”

He molested a 14-year-old boy, ma’am. To call this “a one-time relationship” — words fail. A relationship? A middle-school teacher and a 14-year-old boy in a “relationship”? Are you insane?

The parents of the victim in this case were outraged to see Erickson’s fellow teachers supporting this confessed criminal pervert, whose molestation of their son caused horrible problems:

The victim’s mother also spoke prior to sentencing, telling Erickson he violated her son and caused a rift in the family. She said the family appeared happy on the outside, but on the inside, the home was a “battle zone.”
“We couldn’t figure out why (the victim) hated us,” she said. “He went after his father. There were physical fights.” . . .
“You were his teacher,” she said. “You were his mentor. You were his friend. And you violated him.”
She added the victim kept the sexual encounters a secret and suffered because of it.
“He kept all of this a secret, and he went through emotional pains,” she said.

Permit me to digress: Do you think there might be . . . oh, I don’t know, an agenda involved here? Do you think Neal Erickson’s fellow teachers would have supported him like this if he had carried on a secret three-year sexual affair with an underaged girl? I think not.

Because it was a gay thing, see, Neal Erickson has “rights,” just like Kaitlyn Hunt has a “right” to have lesbian sex with a 14-year-old.

Nobody in the gay-rights movement or the educational establishment wants to admit that this is what is going on, that they are making excuses for gay people to have sex with minors, but that’s what it’s really about. It’s a good thing Neal Erickson isn’t a Catholic priest, or else this might be an actual scandal. But I digress . . .

Thank God, Circuit Court Judge Michael Baumgartner disregarded the pleas for leniency and imposed a 15-30-year sentence:

After making a decision on the sentencing, Baumgartner said he could not believe people were supporting Erickson after the issue came to light.
“I’m appalled and ashamed that the community could rally around, in this case, you,” he said.
“What you did was a jab in the eye with a sharp stick to every parent who trusts a teacher,” Baumgartner added.

 The family of the victim has demanded that the teachers who supported criminal pervert Neal Erickson be fired, and have begun a petition drive to recall school board members who supported the criminal pervert. And guess what happened next?

A garage fire at John and Lori Janczewski’s house on Grandjean Road near Rose City destroyed the couple’s garage and melted the siding on their home early Saturday morning.
Lt. Melvin Matthews, post commander for the Michigan State Police Post in West Branch, said the fire is being ruled as arson. He said evidence gathered at the scene is being analyzed by the MSP crime lab, and new leads gathered since the incident occurred are being investigated.
The Janczewskis believe it was someone responding to their outspokenness against several West Branch-Rose City teachers and a board member, who they said publicly supported Neal Erickson, a former WB-RC teacher who recently pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct against the Janczewski’s son. . . .
John Janczewski said he doesn’t understand why someone would do something like this to his family.
“We don’t deserve this,” he said in tears. “We’re not a bad family. We’ve done nothing but stand up for our son, the victim. They could have killed my whole family. Whoever’s done this has no remorse. They have no soul.”
John Janczewski said he and his wife do not plan to stop. They are currently circulating petitions for the recall of WB-RC board member Mike Eagan.
“Whoever’s done this, we’re not going to quit,” he said. “We’re not giving up. We’re going to continue to fight, until the end.”

School teachers who are insane enough to support a criminal pervert are insane enough to commit any crime themselves.

Erica Ritz told the Janszewski family’s story Monday at The Blaze.

It’s time to wake up, America: Our country is now so close to the gates of Hell you can feel the heat and smell the brimstone.

 

 


518 comments

  2. This doesn’t even make sense. You do not know my mother, it is not your experience that is contributing to this situation.

  4. I have already explained my moral structure. I have yet to start over, just fine tune a bit. I can’t speak for anyone else.

  6. I’m an agnostic Constitutionalist and even I know this is a conservative Christian blog. You came here to cause trouble with these people.

  7. I came here to read the blog, I stopped to comment and to straighten obviously distorted claims (homosexuality).

  8. Forgive me if I don’t believe you. This story is FOUR days old. SIX if you’re talking about the garage being burned down. McCain was late to this party. So you came here to cause trouble.

    And if you’d like to straighten out some things, perhaps you could enlighten me on why the gay community only attacked white voters in California during the proposition 8 ordeal. When it was the black community who overwhelmingly voted against gay marriage. I mean, is the gay community just cowardly hypocrites or are they bigoted too?

  9. “At least Christians openly admit their faith is FAITH.” This implies that atheism is my faith.

    Once again, you are never called upon to prove a negative. If nobody ever told me that god exists, I’d have no knowledge that people believe in god; therefore I do not have to prove there isn’t a god – it is reality.

  10. You misunderstand. I am not claiming, I am denying their claim. That is it. When you have an apple and someone adds a figurative orange and someone asks “what do you have?” You answer “an apple.”

    Atheists disbelieve (be unable to believe. Believe – accept something as truth).

    I am an atheist.

  13. No, It doesn’t. Because the next line states that atheists use the lack of evidence as “evidence”. That’s the sentence that applies to the atheists.

    LEARN TO READ.

    Also, atheists have proposed an ASSERTION. Namely that God does not exist. Which is why they have been called on to prove it. This is no longer up for debate. Even they recognize this, which is why they openly debate it with theists at conferences. I can’t even believe you are seriously putting forth that argument. It’s not even an argument.

    Wait a minute…how old are you? Are you over 18? You realize this is generally an adult blog. You really shouldn’t be on here if you’re younger than 18.

  15. Heh. Intelligence is a measurement of your intellectual capacity. The rest is your faulty interpretation and an emotional lashing out because I have discovered the fact you have a deficit in intellect.
    You may well be a college age student, however, your arguments are quite juvenile and put you in the high school student category.
    Your teachers and mentors have done you a disservice because they have deluded and deceived you for years.
    How many “participation” ribbons and trophies do you have miss special snowflake?

  16. Yes it does, learn to type?

    I never said we use the lack of evidence for evidence, because then you can use the lack of evidence to be evidence to the lack of evidence for evidence ^13; it’s retarded. I am saying I do not have to prove a negative.

    You have your facts wrong about atheism. We never said god doesn’t exist, we say we have a lack of belief in his existence. All the same, when someone says unicorns don’t exist they are never called upon to prove it. why? Because they do not have to prove a negative.

  17. Wrong.

    Theists=There is a God
    Agnostics=Do not know
    Atheists=There is no God

    Atheism claims there is no God. If you are an atheist, you are claiming that God does not exist. If you are denying this…you don’t understand what atheism is. Or you don’t understand what you believe. Atheists absolutely assert that God does not exist. There is/are no God/deities. Considering how important this is…you might want to check for yourself.

    As it is, I’m done explaining your beliefs to you. This is pretty basic stuff. And you don’t seem to understand any of it. Goodnight.

  18. Intelligence – the ability to acquire and apply knowledge.

    Remember, a rule in defining a word is you cannot put the word in the definition.

    Negative, we are not talking about my intelligence anymore; you missed that part obviously. We are talking about how you used intelligence incorrectly in your assumption of this world. You assumed based partial evidence, this world. You completely missed proving the existence of god and then linking the two. You cannot state that this world proves the existence of god, that is begging the question. You must prove there is a god and then prove he created this universe.

  19. No, that sentence never applied to atheists. No matter how much you wanted it to. Sorry. But the evidence sentence did. And you proved it quite nicely with this last comment. You’re incessant “I do not have to prove a negative”, is exactly the type of “lack of evidence” IS “evidence” argument that atheists use.

    Its also interesting that you keep saying that, as if you think that works. It doesn’t. And any intellectually respected atheist knows this. They actually argue the merits. They don’t pull this penny ante, amateur bullshit.

    And I’m only telling you this because it’s clear that you don’t know what you’re talking about. I suggest you hit a site called Popehat. There’s some libertarian atheists there that will educate you up. If they don’t skin you alive first.

    And don’t comment to me again.

  20. Dictionary definition of atheism: A person who does not believe in the existence of God or gods.
    Definition for belief: Accept. Change out believe for accept.

  21. (nplain, easy to understand words (for someone of obviously low intellect):
    Fuck off agitator. You have a 1st amendment right to free speech on your own blog. The reason you have received so much push-back and outright mockery is that you presume to teach grandpa to suck eggs.
    Now, go p[lay with the other mental and moral defectives over at say, Salon or Daily Kos …

  24. Fallacious argument. My definition of intellegence as the measure of intellectual capacity is correct. WTF do you think an Intelligence Quotient is? A measure of intelligence that defines the intellectual capacity of an individual.

  25. I do not need to know your mother, my long years of experience with educators, professionals in myriad fields, parents in general, years as a parent and grandparent give me insight far beyond your paltry few years and “education” in our socialist schools.

  27. Mr. President,

    This story is over SIX days old. McCain was late on reporting this because he was reporting on the Hunt case. The HUNT case. Why do you think this guy is here?

  31. Betty, she is here to agitate and to attempt to hijack the comment section. Probably as a result of Stacy’s reportage of the Hunt case and most likely at the behest of those who are attempting to take down or discredit this blog.Poor, poor Miss Special Snowflake o.0 is quite sadly deluded.

  36. Heh. Like all agitators, what they claim are facts seldom are. I distrust all progressives (especially young and stupid ones like you) because they believe truth is situational. I’m done with your assclownish behavior Miss Special Snowflake.

  37. The conservatives in this thread have shown to know nothing else but to insult. It is disappointing that someone cannot hold a proper civil discussion without using insults and mockery.

  38. No, no, no, no. Don’t do that. Call him what he is. If he’s here to troll for Kate, then he’s child predator enabler.

  43. Since some people may not be familiar with the reference, imagine the following written up on a fancy piece of certificate paper:

    ** Certificate **

    For your very outstanding performance you are awarded

    One Attaboy

    One thousand (1,000) “Attaboys” qualifies you to be a leader of men, work overtime with a smile, explain assorted problems to management, and be looked upon as a local hero, all without an increase in pay.

    Caution: One (1) “awshit” wipes the board clean and you have to start over.

  46. No it won’t. Ironically, (and here it comes) the Christians would NEVER abort their gay babies. They would love them gay or not. And they would curse those Godless aborting gay-hating Democrats.

    Cause that’s how they roll. (I can’t believe that just came out of my mouth)

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