Cobb County prosecutors’ decision to add sodomy charges to an indictment appears to have made the difference between one high school teacher who had sex with his student going free-as Christopher King did last year-and another teacher going to jail, as Steven Parkman did last week.
On first glance, King and Parkman’s cases looked like identical losers for the state. In 2009′s Chase v. State, the state Supreme Court declared that consent of the alleged victim was a defense to accusations of violating a sexual assault law, O.C.G.A. �§ 16-6-5.1 b. That law states, “A probation or parole officer or other custodian or supervisor of another person referred to in this Code section commits sexual assault when he or she engages in sexual contact with another person … who is enrolled in a school … and such actor has supervisory or disciplinary authority over such other person.”
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