Now, reading this story, a couple of things boggle my mind. First of all, I visited McMinnville's The Southern Standard site to get the local reaction--a lot of people are shocked and appalled (they always are). The Standard also has a photo of Turner as does the Smoking Gun and this report. (The only images I've seen on the news are of her with her hat down and hiding her face...honey, that ain't gonna work long in the Internet age). Looking at her, she's not unattractive and she was married. So why was did she allegedly have sex with a 13 year old boy? I just don't get the attraction or the appeal.

That said, local radio host Steve Gill had an interesting point about this story this morning. He went on at length about the double standard we have in our country...and how if this were a male teacher allegedly sleeping with a 13-year old female student, then we'd be out to tar and feather the guy. But because it's a 13-year old male, he kind of snicker and make a few jokes about it but don't get outraged that she abused her authority with this minor and conducted an inappropriate relationship with him.