Depravation - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Condone - If someone condones behaviour that is morally wrong, they accept it and allow it to happen
Festered, fester, festering - If you say that a situation, problem, or feeling is festering, you disapprove of the fact that it is being allowed to grow more unpleasant or full of anger, because it is not being properly recognized or dealt with.
Ending a two-day trial in Georgia's DeKalb County State Court, jurors found Nathan Grigsby not guilty of five misdemeanor charges of contributing to the depravation of a minor.
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DeKalb County Solicitor General Robert James contended that Grigsby did not do enough to stop the routine and condoned it by laughing and clapping along with his students.
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"Our contention has always been that there was a lot of peer pressure in this case, so maybe students were telling the truth initially, but after the case festered for a year their stories changed," the prosecutor said.
Source - http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/31/teacher.dirty.dancing.verdict/index.html?hpt=T2
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