43-year-old teacher with HIV admits having sex with teen

From CBS local news in Texas, of all places.

Excerpt:

A North Texas teacher, who is HIV positive, was caught leaving the home of a 15-year-old boy. Police say when Roger “Joe” Kessler was questioned and he admitted having a sexual relationship with the teen. Now Kessler is charged with sexual assault of a child.

The details from his arresting documents are disturbing and have both law enforcement and Richardson ISD officials on alert.

Kessler is a music teacher at Richardson ISD Academy. The 43-year-old is the man police say admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old boy, at least four times. And authorities say the sexual acts were performed without Kessler telling the teen he has HIV.

McKinney police say they were called to a home in the 1300 block of Gough Street on Wednesday. While authorities were responding to a burglary in progress, they arrived to Kessler being detained by the homeowner.

Apparently the teenager’s mother had arrived home and thought her home had been burgled, because she saw a man leaving her backyard.

Further investigation revealed Kessler was trying to run away from the house where he admitted to having just had a sexual encounter with the teen.

Court documents detail how Kessler and the 15-year-old met using a smart phone application called Grindr. The app bills itself as a “popular all-male location-based social network,” but is known as a place for men looking for sex to connect.

According to police documents, Kessler even logged on to Grindr and showed officers at the scene a series of text messages he had exchanged with the teen.

Previously, I wrote about a Center for Disease Control report that found that men who have sex with men were 150 times more likely to contract HIV, and another CDC report that found that 62% of men who have unprotected sex with other men know they have HIV.

5 thoughts on “43-year-old teacher with HIV admits having sex with teen”

  1. The teacher should be fired and put in jail. If the teen boy contracts HIV, the teacher should be charged with murder. If men have sex with men, they know they are taking risks and it wouldn’t be murder if they contract HIV. But a 15-year-old child cannot consent to sex, much less sex with an HIV positive person. Thus, the teacher knowingly infected a child with fatal infectious disease and caused his death. That should be charged as murder.

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  2. I read about a similar incident in Louisiana, I think that’s where it was, a few months ago. This could be a very clear indication of the selfishness associated with homosexual behavior, asserting their desires above the safety and well-being of their sexual partners.

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