Adults' overstepping their bounds is happening more frequently. It has become a weekly topic on the news and Florida needs to put an end to it. Adults are supposed to be role models, someone for kids to look up to.
Kimberly Brabson III, once a coach at Tampa Prep, was dismissed from the school for sexual misconduct in January 2007. Later, police found a hidden video camera in his office. He had been asking female students to try on bathing suites and asked for them to disrobe.
Although he still faces misdemeanor charges, on Thursday, November 15, 2007 Brabson was dismissed of 19 felony charges. According to the St. Petersburg Times, "Hillsborough Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett said the video images of girls undressing did not depict sexual conduct." And, defense attorney, Eddie Suarez said, asking girls to remove their undergarments when trying on the bathing suites "did not amount to choreography or 'anything other than everyday pictures of female juveniles dressing and undressing."
Lets recap, he asked underage girls to undress, try on bathing suites, and he had a hidden video camera. And this is not considered sexual conduct? No, he did not sleep with the girls, but he did betray them. They did not know that a camera was set up in the room they were told to undress in. Therefore, he did not have consent to videotape these girls. The victims are traumatized by their coach who they trusted and looked up to.
This type of behavior needs to stop. Brabson should be labeled a sex offender. If not, he can still work with children. People, like him, are addicted to child pornography and most likely will continue this conduct.
Florida and all other states need to send people like this to jail and counseling. If the punishments are not harsh enough, they will continue to act inappropriately. Also, children do not deserve this type of treatment. The state should stand up and defend the innocent. Children and their parents should not have to live in fear.