LOS ANGELES – Hollywood’s been having its headaches coming up with movies that moviegoers want to spend money on this past summer.

And now, going into the fall, they’re not helping matters by coming up with a script that exploits the tragic teacher-student sex scandals that are plaguing our culture.

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‘The Boy Next Door’ involves a recently-divorced Claire (Jennifer Lopez)—a single mom and a school teacher as well—smitten with a hunky 16-year-old teenager who moves in next door. How convenient. It doesn’t take much imagination to guess what happens next.

It just so happens the boy, Noah (Ryan Guzman), is a student in one of Claire’s classes. After a night of unbridled passion underneath the sheets, Claire realizes it was a mistake. When she tries to break it off with Noah, he’s already insanely possessive of her and he’s not about to let go. Things get scary and brutal for the rest of the movie.

Unfortunately, in the real world, sex scandals involving both male and female teachers using their positions of authority to exploit children are becoming weekly occurrences. David Kupelian, writing for WND, reports the U.S. Department of Education, in a recent in-depth investigation, finds nearly 10 percent of public school students have been targeted with unwanted sexual attention by school employees.

He also notes the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation reports about 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000. Further, 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade. And people wonder why homeschooling continues to grow.

The strategy teachers use to seduce their ‘targets’ is to give them attention and rewards, provide them with support and understanding, all the while slowly increasing the amount of touch or other sexual behavior. Important in their manipulation of the student is to make them believe that they are responsible for their own abuse because they never uttered “stop!”

Both male and female teachers are perpetrators, but it seems the courts are more lenient toward females. They don’t view the young male students they’ve seduced as victims.

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Kupelian reports Superior Court Judge Bruce A. Gaeta in Hackensack, New Jersey, at the sentencing of 43-year-old teacher Pamela Diehl-Moore, said, “I really don’t see the harm that was done here.” Huh!? He gave her five years of probation, no jail time.

In Kansas, a U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten, ruling in another case, stated, “Where is the clear, credible evidence that underage sex is always injurious? If you tell me that it is illegal, I reject that.” So much for statutory rape in Kansas.

And there’s much more fodder out there for movies like ‘The Boy Next Door.’ Seems the movie is just portraying life. Heck. It’s easy to make a case that Claire is the real victim in her situation. Certainly she didn’t do anything wrong according to our judicial system.  Hope the movie takes place in New Jersey or Kansas. Then she’s sure to get off with hardly a slap on the wrist.

This movie, to be released next month, could be done without the teacher-student relationship. But then maybe it wouldn’t be as titillating. Not many critics are giving it much of a chance. Good! Maybe we won’t see any more of Hollywood trying to take advantage of a truly tragic, national disgrace.