This is a very sad case. Ward clearly needs help and guidance. What she did was wrong but prison is not the solution. Prison is unlikely to help her, and it is also extremely expensive for the tax payer. In a developed country such as the USA there should be better, more effective, and more modern methods for helping people who commit these types of crimes. To lock Ward up with murderers and thieves is such a backward and primative way. Come on America - don’t behave like certain Middle Eastern countries. Next America will be cutting the hands off theives!

Left by Joe on February 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

I feel so bad about these innocent young men who got raped by this evil woman. Their lifes must be shattered. What an ordeal they’ve gone through.

My heart goes out to them. Let the healing process begin.

Left by Paul on February 19th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

Oh please, where’s the crime, where’s the pain, where’s the loss of innocense. It’s not like they were yong tender virgins; kids that age are fantasizing about having sex 24 hours a day. Young boys that age do commit rape as well. We should be happy that a mature, attractive woman decided to teach them a few pointers. The experience might have made these young boys more sensitive to women.

Left by Folkwolf101 on February 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Allenna Williams Ward Sentenced to 6 Years…

According to a page on the school’s website, which has since been deleted, Allenna Ward was the 7th grade Language Arts teacher. The same page also said Allenna Ward was a 2001 graduate of Clinton High School and a 2005 graduate of Presbyterian Colle…

Left by bloggingzoom.com on February 20th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Yea, especially these days, kids are doing the dirty as young as 12 and 13 maybe even younger for all I know, drugs too not to mention, Im not quite sure what the world is coming to but it can’t be good… interesting how the kids are automatically called victims, it’s all in their testimony to police I am sure they coaxed out the responses they wanted and obviousely any kid getting caught up in this fiasco is going to play the victim card, but come on now people wake up, it takes two to tango, and jeeze its not like she forced them, they met her at a motel for cryin’ out loud!

Left by Observant One on February 20th, 2008 at 12:26 am

“The experience might have made these young boys more sensitive to women.”

Sure. They might have grown up knowing that having sex with young underage girls is OK. Then you could comment here about how those male monsters stole a young girls innocence. And how much it will serve justice if they are raped and beaten in prison.

That’s what the women’s rights movement has morphed to… not equality, but superiority and invulnerability in law.

Here’s hoping justice is done and she gets what is coming to her in prison. Maybe she will save other innocent young men from her perversions and off herself.

Left by Mike Johnson on February 20th, 2008 at 12:54 am

I am sure the teens who had sex with Alenna did it wholeheartedly; I am also pretty sure they were boasting about it all the time to all their friends. Putting this woman behind bars is not justice. It’s ridiculous that the teens who enjoyed it equally (or more than Alenna) are roaming around scotfree looking for other like minded individuals to have sex with.

Left by Johnny G on February 20th, 2008 at 1:25 am

rofl….if you think the kids are “victims” you’re delusional. Openly everyone’s appalled but privately they just got booted to the most popular kids in school. Bragging rights for years to come.

Left by Anon on February 20th, 2008 at 1:39 am

Boys are different than girls. I know it. You know it. The victims are happy, the perp is in jail. Justice served? We think we’re ‘all that’ as a species. It’s things like this that point to the fact that we’re on par with monkeys. Strike that… monkeys don’t have prisons. We’re at the bottom.

Sad that folks can’t get over the fact that sex can be fun - or they can’t admit it for fear of being judged as indecent. Oh well.

[Editor --- Ok, perv. At what age are the children too young to have sex with? Or, as long as it's "fun" for the adult, is the age irrelevant? What about guys who like having sex with 9-year old children? Is that too young, yet? What about 5-years old? There has to be a line drawn somewhere to prevent adults from having sex with children. I can't believe there are people who really don't understand that.

And, when you have adults in a position of authority and power over children, especially teachers, you have to be even more restrictive.]

Left by Blibiddy Bop on February 20th, 2008 at 2:03 am

Of course, if a male teacher had sex with five 14 and 15 year-old girls, he would have gotten life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Left by Hugh on February 20th, 2008 at 2:34 am

Okay. It’s rape? I’m not seeing it. These boys are probably immature, but they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew about sex before this. As far as her getting a more “lenient” sentence for being white… She didn’t. It’s because she’s a woman. And stop acting like there’s a magic cutoff point at 18 when you suddenly become mature enough to have sex. I don’t condone what any of these people did, students or teacher. But stop and think about it. How many people do you know lost their virginity before 17 years of age?

Left by Joe on February 20th, 2008 at 4:03 am

This poor woman should not go to jail. Men are inherently evil from birth and cannot be sullied or raped. Of course black men are worse. Just ask one. They admit it. Bigger tools of rape. And all penetration is rape.

Little girls are angels until sullied by a man’s touch.

Join together and kill all the men my lesbian sisters!!!

We no longer need men. Science has freed 2-3 women to make babies without men (see cloning news). If that is what you want. Just makes sure the embryos of men are properly weeded out.

[Editor --- Wow. Not just a misandrist, but a racist, too. Outstanding. I've met you before. And a bunch of your sisters --- a more bitter, unhappy, angry group of people I've never met. How you all haven't hung yourself with your own shoelaces by now is beyond me.]

Left by Jane Lickgood on February 20th, 2008 at 7:49 am

I can’t look at those boys as victims, but did anyone ever tought she isn’t stronger as they are and they could fight her if they looked at sex as rape? of course not they liked it, but now it was rape?

Left by maria on February 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am

The double standards the courts have with male and female rapists is really disgusting. She is a criminal. She was married and knowingly decided to have sex with five boys. Bigger taboo thrill. They were black. Six years is a joke. A male would have received twenty to life. Her father was a pastor. Think of the harm she has done to them as well as her husband. If this woman is ever allowed to teach again there is truly something wrong and unequal in our judicial system. Throw away the key.

Left by Nick Just on February 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am

It doesn’t make it right, but, I can remember being a teenage boy and I and my buddies would have jumped at the chance to do what these boys did. They aren’t “victims” , they knew what they were doing, and today they are running around bragging about it. However, If a man did what this chick did, he’d never get out of jail. Seems like we have two separate sets of rules and laws here in this country, one for those “evil” men and one for those ” innocent”,” caring”, & “compassionate” women that seem to dominate the public school system today. There are too many double standards in this country. No matter what the race or gender is, wrong is wrong & punishment should be applied equally & fairly.

Left by Herald on April 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

I was raped when I as just shy of age 14 by a woman whom my Mom brought home and gave a place to live so that she could get her life together.

While I did truly fantasize about sex all the time at that time, I was thoroughly unprepared for the reality of waking up with a grown woman lying on top of me.

I was truly terrified, but because I was a “male,” I was also terrified of saying no and having my peers find out (Everybody hung out at my house). So I laid there while she did all of those “wonderful” things that boys dream about.

Frozen with fear and shock, I never could perform and walked away convinced that there was something wrong with me and that I must be a lousy male.

While I did eventually get over it and learn to have adult, joyful sexual relations with women, this experience caused me years of pain, anxiety, and difficulty in relationships.

Which is precisely why there are statutory rape laws.

My rapist was acting out her own issues without regard for my well-being.

Please try to avoid knee-jerk assumptions and stereotyping.

Life is much more complicated than, maybe, many of us are comfortable dealing with.

All the best,

Ed

Left by Ed on July 11th, 2008 at 5:13 am