Mind Boggling

It has been some time since I posted last and my posts recently have been sporadic at best. Unfortunately we have been dealing with a bit of family emergency's here and being the type of person I am I have just needed to take a breath. I am the kind of person to react during a crisis and handle whatever needs to be done, its after that I take the time to fall apart. My dad was involved in a pretty bad accident but things are slowly beginning to look up and I am slowly beginning to pick myself back up. I am not quite ready to post about that yet so lets move on to my intended post shall we?

There has been some news to recently come out not to far from my little Mayberry here. You see, Mayberry is technically only 22 miles from a very big major city. You wouldn't know it by driving through town, its as if there is an invisible line drawn between big city and Mayberry. But the city is there. Around this big city are several small towns just like the little Mayberry I reside in. It's in one of these small towns that this disturbing piece of information has occurred.
There was a 16 year old girl who was attending her local high school, her mother happened to come across some text messages on her phone that she was very disturbed by. They were very explicit sexually and over 100 of them. It was the sender that disturbed her the most, these messages were being sent to her child from a teacher at the local high school. The parent then took this directly to the school, the police and every other avenue possible. An investigation immediately ensued. It was found that said teacher had worked in the city at a high school before moving to that small towns school. It was also found that upon his interview process the small town school had contacted the city school for a reference. The city school recommended that the small town school not hire him. When asked why they refused to give a reason. The small town school decided to hire the man seen as there was no reason not to. It wasn't until the investigation into his relationship with the 16 year old girl that the reason was finally revealed. He had fathered a child with one of his 14 year old students. No charges were ever filed.
How did this happen?? How did this man get away with no charges the first time? How did this not go in his file? How did this man ever get another teaching job? At what point have we had enough that we put a stop to the bureaucratic bullshit and say "Not to my child!"?