Driving Instructor Sexual Abuse

Driving instructors instruct students aged 16 years old and older how to drive a car. These instructors often pick the students up from their home, high school or library to initiate the driving lessons. Parents who book driving instructors never imagine that the driving instructors will have improper and criminal designs on their children.

Boys and girls can be sexually abused by a driving instructor. It is a crime and criminal action for a driving instructor to sexually abuse a minor student, while teaching that student how to drive a car. If you have had your minor child or adult child abused sexually by the student’s driving instructor, you need to give us a call immediately. We are ready to discuss your case with you, and help you to understand your next steps in this type of egregious sexual assault case.

What Is the Difference Between Educator Molestation, Rape and Sexual Abuse?

In many ways, the terms molestation, rape, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and other words related to these issues are often used interchangeably. In relation to an educator or driving instructor committing the crime of adult-to-student sexual abuse, the terms can help to describe the nature of the abuse in more detail. It is acceptable to call these types of sexual abuse by an educator “educator sexual misconduct.” This would include any sexual behavior that was inappropriately perpetrated on the student. It also includes any sexual abuse to a minor as applicable under state criminal codes.

Examples of Driving Instructor Educator Sexual Misconduct

Driving instructors who act inappropriately and who sexually abuse students during the driving lesson have a captive audience. When the student and minor child is in the vehicle participating in the driving instruction lesson, that student is at the wheel of a car. Being at the wheel, the student is distracted to the task of driving. This is the perfect time for a driving instructor to perpetrate the crime of sexual abuse on the student.

When the student is in the zone of driving, that student needs to pay close attention to the road. This is obviously to avoid a serious car accident. At that time, the driving instructor can perpetrate sexual abusive tactics on the student, by inappropriately talking to or touching the student. The student will feel vulnerable in that situation, and naturally will not know how to react.

Some actions that a perpetrator of the crime of driver instruction sexual abuse and misconduct might be to:

• Harass the student while driving
• Make sexual comments or jokes
• Make sexual gestures or looks
• Show the student sexual pictures or messages
• Call the student a gay or lesbian
• Touch the student inappropriately
• Grope the student while driving in private areas
• Pinch or grab the student in a sexual way
• Intentionally brush up against the student in a sexual way
• Pull at the student’s clothing
• Try to pull down the student’s pants or life up a shirt
• Block the student or corner the student in a sexual way
• Force the student to kiss him or her
• Forced the student to perform a sexual act (other than just kissing)
• Ask for unwelcome sexual advances
• Sexually harass the student in or out of the car

If your child or student has experienced driving instructor sexual abuse from an educator, you need to give our office a call immediately. Your student may not have the words to explain how he or she feels, and it may be a confusing time for this individual. No one goes on a driver’s education car ride and expects to be sexually abused as a result of the lesson and instruction.