This must be National Out a Statutory Rapist Week, as we learn of yet another teacher who has been charged with sexual misconduct. Taryn Fairbanks, a Seattle Washington High School teacher has been accused of having sex with a 17-year old stiudent at a house party, held when the student’s parents were out of town. It was an extracurricular thing… you wouldn’t understand their love, cruel world. Oh wait, it was just a drunken hook-up, never mind.

Describing her stopping by the student party and having sex with a minor as all part of an “alcohol relapse,” Taryn Fairbanks fled to Las Vegas… I’m sorry “relocated” but Washington wants her back to stand trial. Why? I’m sure she had some perfectly good, legitimate reason to leave the Pacific NorthWest and go way into the desert wonderland. Huh… that sort of sounds like what Moses and Jesus did… except for the “having sex with underage children first” part. But you were almost Biblical there, Taryn Fairbanks, very nearly Biblical. Actually, given some parts of the Old Testament, you were totally Biblical.

And that’s apparently not the only Garfield High student that Taryn Fairbanks (or as she was known then, Taryn Stermer) was involved in extra-curricular biology with another student. In her defense, one of the students still maintains that she was “a great teacher!” I bet he does, I bet he does…

The rumors, which were common knowledge amongst the students, came to light when an anonymous tipster said she read a text message on her daughter’s cellphone alluding to the incident. In her defense, the teacher said she had no idea a party was going on when she stopped by for reasons connected to a school project, and though she performed a sex act on the student in the (aptly named) basement “Rumpus Room,” that she knows now that it was totally wrong, and it only happened once and anyway, she was having an alcohol relapse, so really she’s a victim here too, right?

Don’t think the law sees it that way, Taryn Fairbanks, even if some of the students still do.