@Hanna: I’m now unsure which is worse, calling your son a rape supporter in the Post, or outing his private medical information.
I read your link.
I have also been reading her twitter account.
I have a big heart. 
So…
How do I say this nicely?
I am not thrilled with her.
Outing private medical information is worse.
Oddly enough, I can see it the other way, because you could really help other depressed teens and parents by talking openly about that crisis. I probably wouldn’t choose this way, at least not without a pen name.
@dstark, you do have a big heart, and I don’t say often enough that I admire it.
There are ways to talk about depression other than saying “My name is X, I have two sons, this one has depression.” Using her son’s illness to further her career is shameful. If the goal was to talk about depression plenty of other writers have managed it without outing anyone. Especially a minor she’s supposed to protect.
@dstark: [url=<a href=“http://wkrn.com/2016/07/28/former-pearl-cohn-high-school-teacher-charged-with-statutory-rape/%5DHere’s%5B/url”>http://wkrn.com/2016/07/28/former-pearl-cohn-high-school-teacher-charged-with-statutory-rape/]Here’s[/url] a story that I would have expected to be like Brock Turner in outcry over sentencing, that for some reason doesn’t seem to have interested anyone.
@Demosthenes49, you are a trouble maker!
I am not going to comment on that story either.
So after a little digging this is what I come up with regarding Ms. Allard:
Very troubled childhood and was in therapy at a very early age after she was allegedly molested by her biological father.
She was raped at some point in high school - sounds to me like it was by men rather than high school boys - not clear.
She has recently been through a divorce (her second) - she alleges her ex was abusive - may or may not be accurate but she is apparently raising 7 children on her own.
One daughter is special needs - apparently autistic.
She has one son that is suicidal.
So my conclusion when I read all that is that she most likely is incapable of the type of parenting that we on this forum undertake. The good news is that the one son is in therapy and apparently she is as well.
@Demosthenes49 The double standard is very disconcerting .
She’s facing 5 counts of statutory rape – let’s see what comes of the trial.
@HarvestMoon1 A follow up story indicates that she received 5 years probation.
“She has recently been through a divorce (her second)”
Her third. She has three kids from the first marriage, which ended when she was 21. Two kids from each of the succeeding husbands, including the daughter with autism.
@carolinamom2boys - oh ok I just read the link that @Demosthenes49 posted. Is there a link to the article reporting on her probation?
@HarvestMoon1 Its on the same link down below the original article
OK see it now. Well I am sure we all agree that like in the Turner case that is too light a sentence. She pled guilty to statutory rape – that should carry some jail time. But I really can’t make heads or tails of how any of these sentences are arrived at. A lot of them make little sense to me.
Wow Jody Allard has 7 kids and three ex-husbands? That is a train wreck.
Harvest I really think judges asses risk to the community. The judge must have thought she could no longer be in a position to take advantage of teens going forward…but it sounds like she got a sweet deal for sure.
She got the sex registry so the judge must have figured that alone would put her in a position where she could not have easy access to teen boys. Although those boys it says were 17 so I don’t know how they got the rape charges to even stick…maybe there was coercion or something.
@momofthreeboys They may have been cognitively impaired 17 year olds or given substances .Hard to say. There was limited info in the article .
Good point Carolinamom2boys.
It’s possible that the statutory rape law of the state is more strict for adults in positions of authority. That would be a pretty good way to write the law IMHO.