Missing Teenage Girl Found in Illinois Teacher's Closet

[Sister Iroz]

A missing 17-year-old girl was found hiding in a closet at a male teacher's home near Chicago after he said told police he didn't know where she was — prompting offices to arrest him on a charge he lied to them.

Eric Wood, 24, who teaches at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Waukegan, Ill., was charged only with obstructing justice in the bizarre case surrounding the disappearance of the girl.

The teen's family filed a missing-person report on Nov. 8.

The following day, Lake County Sheriff's deputies found the girl at Wood's Beach Park house after Wood allowed them in to search for her. He initially told authorities that he knew nothing about the girl's whereabouts.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456432,00.html

[Rhoni]

I wasn't expecting a live girl whew You think I spend to much time on this site

[evervigilant]

Stupid wee bitch , I wish young girls would stop being so easily flattered by older men . String him up by the balls !

[blue_zombie]

Stupid wee bitch , I wish young girls would stop being so easily flattered by older men . String him up by the balls !

I do not think the relationship was entirely appropriate, but I don't think you can blame a young girl. The ADULT in this situation is the responsible party. Clearly she could have made better choices, but face it, what 17 y/o girl isn't going to be flattered that an older man finds her attractive/intelligent/amusing/interesting/etc. and tell him to go away????? Not many. Until we change the way our society regards sex and the supposed importance of being "in a relationship," and quit portraying illicit relationships in a glamorous and sexy light, nothing is going to change.

[crickett]

I wasn't expecting a live girl whew You think I spend to much time on this site

Me too....I was actually holding my breath hoping that they had found her alive
DUH...you think he'll get fired for this?...what a dumbass

[wild_angel_1980]

Teacher charged after student found in closet
Obstruction, resisting arrest; relative says they met at Milwaukee car show

A 17-year-old Zion-Benton High School student was found hiding in the closet of a Waukegan middle school teacher earlier this month.

A missing-person report was filed Nov. 8 by the girl's family with the Zion Police Department when she did not return home by curfew after being out the previous day.

Contacted by Zion police, the Lake County Sheriff's Office sent officers to the Beach Park home of Eric Wood, a 24-year-old teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, on Nov. 9.

After denying he knew the whereabouts of the Zion girl, Wood allowed deputies to search the home and found her hiding in a closet.

The girl's brother had previously contacted Zion police about Wood on Oct. 13, hoping to halt their meetings.

"We were told by the police that if nothing sexual was going on between them that there was nothing they could do. We are holding the police responsible if something happens to her," the girl's brother said Thursday.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/n...HER_S1.article

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Sorry, Special already had this one! My bad!

[Maggie Mae]

Think Special caught this one Saturday. :) http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=10132

[wild_angel_1980]

Sorry!!

[moonlilly1981]

Okay, im going to say what some might not agree with but she is seventeen. How long until she turns eighteen? Its not like hes in his fifties or sixties and its not like she was kidnapped. She is doing it on her own free will. This is more of a case where the parents can't control their almost adult daughter. She isn't even a student of his.

[Nell]

He isn't her teacher and they are only 7 years apart in age. I honestly don't see why everyone is freaking out. I would like my daughter to date an upstanding citizen such as this rather than say another 17 year old that has no job and bums around all day and has no diploma at all. Am I missing something here?

[moonlilly1981]

I completly and totally agree with you Nell.


PS I would also like to add that your avatar is strangly turning me on! lmao

[KiKi]

Yeah what is the big freak out here? I started dating my boyfriend when I was 17 and he was 25...what's the big deal? My biological dad is 41 and my stepmom is 27. It's not like he was her teacher or anything. It's just an adult relationship...what if she was 18 and 25? That wouldn't be a big deal then because she's considered as "an adult". I think that everyone needs to calm down about this situation and I don't think that he needs to be charged with anything because she made her own decisions and if she can't stand up for those decisions, then she shouldn't want to be an adult and want to make her own decisions. This really isn't a big deal at all and there is no problem with this relationship because he wasn't her teacher at all and there was no connection to his job with her. They met at a place outside of school. The case needs to be dropped in my opinion...

[sanityslipping]

My first "love" was 22, I was 16. We were together almost a year, my parent's forbid it, which only feuled our "passion". When they finally gave up, and allowed me to see him without me sneaking and lying (and always getting caught because I had NO privacy, and my curfew was 15 minutes after school let out... hated it then, somewhat appreciate it now) I decided he wasn't as great as I thought. This reminds me of him, although like Nell said, atleast she didn't choose a total loser like some girls. He's educated, employed, was respected. The fact that he's a teacher puts this in a tricky light, but as it was pointed out, he wasn't her teacher. Not even the same school. It's not a matter of her getting extra credit or something. What gets me, is why she was hiding in his closet? She appears to be there of her own free will. Perhaps her parent's distaste for her "love" made her homelife "unbearable" and she was running away in typical teenage girl dramatic style? Maybe her home life really was that bad, and she saw him as a prince in shining armor? Maybe the guy thought by lying to the cops, he was protecting her. Maybe they are both idiots, I don't know. But I want to know, what the hell she was doing in the closet, and why didn't she come home for curfew? And, if her parent's were really that upset about her seeing this guy, why was she still allowed out, unsupervised? Did they really think a teenage girl would listen to " I don't like your boyfriend, so stay away from him". Keep in mind, people, before you start ranting, and raving, and bashing this guy. He's relatively young himself, she's almost a legal adult (and like most teenagers, probably thinks she is), and she was HIDING, not HIDDEN in the closet. There's a really big difference there. But why was she hiding? Does anybody know?

[Nell]

Didn't want to go home cause her parents would do exactly this? Just speculation. But I would bet money that is the reason. The retarded part is that all he had to do is be patient until she was 18. As you pointed out she obviously got out of the house unsupervised, so they had time together. He didn't have to be all dramatic about it and let her hide in his house.

[Harley_Tech]

The age of consent is 17 in Ill. Had he not lied to the cops, there would be no crime here.

R

[Nell]

The age of consent is 17 in Ill. Had he not lied to the cops, there would be no crime here.

R

Really? I was going by Oregon age of consent, which is 18. Now he is a super moron in my eyes, and deserves what he got. She could have been living with him for all the cops cared. Her parents couldn't have done shit. I bet the charges are dropped, she moves in with him, and stops talking to her parents at least for a while. Like Sanityslipping said if you just let it be with teens they will figure out it isn't as great and lasting of a relationship as they thought in the beginning.