I agree with you on this one. In both cases, the authorities over reacted. They brought more shame upon themselves then any actions of the "criminals."

In the case of the teacher, she had three main disadvantages: First, she is female; second, she is not Islamic; third she is female. The only thing that surprises me about this case is that they didn't also imprison the students.

The second case is even more outrageous. I don't know much about the British court system, though I believe it's not all that different from the US. How can they put a sexual offender tag on a 14 year old boy without actually proving at least intent?

I would venture to say that the fact that he was Iraqi, not English, and (presumably) Islamic had more to do with the situation than anything he did or did not do with the child.