Are people forgetting that 1. This was a 15 year old not a 5 year old and 2. He didn't even have sex with her.
6 is sufficient.
Don't be silly a pedo is a pedo therefore he should be treated the same as those ones who abuse babies or multiple children over decades or any of the other really twisted ones you can think of.
A friend of mine made a valid point about this when it came up on the news, she makes no bones about the fact in her younger years she wasn't exactly an innocent little flower and her thoughts are even when she was 15 so the best part of 20 years ago 15 yr old girls including her weren't exactly all sweetness and light and knew exactly what they were doing.
This is even more magnified these days with media and social networking and how easy it is to completely destroy the life of someone whose done nothing wrong with nothing more than a rumour.
Yes he was a complete plank and knew what he was doing was going to land him in hot water one way or another, but he's not exactly pedo child abuser No.1 is he. While at the same time she probably isn't the naive star struck child she'll have been told to paint.
10 years is handed out to people who have killed others in our weird and wonderfully random sentencing system, I'm not sure why anyone was expecting that sort of sentence.
Harris was handed a jail term of five years and nine months last year for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as seven
Old Rolf got an even shorter sentence for what I'm sure everyone would agree were much worse charges.
Plenty of non famous female teachers have got nothing more than a tickle on the wrist for sleeping with pupils multiple times.