Sufferin' Statutory!
Funny how two stories are in the news this week. No one is placing them side by side but I'm going to.
Let's meet Lance Cobb from Houston. Lance met a 16-year old girl on-line and they had sex. This same girl met at least three other men on-line for sex. Now he's a registered sex offender and doing 5 years probation. (She's not at all at fault in this escapade because she was under 18. OK whatever; I don't think that makes complete sense but there's a reason for the word jailbait).
Now let's meet Debra LeFave from Florida. She had sex with her 14 year old middle school student in the classroom and in a car. She's getting off without charge because the boy's mother doesn't want to put him through the pain that all the attention that a trial would cause him. The prosecutor is dropping the charges because he agrees it's not worth traumatizing the boy. Do you seriously think for one minute that if it was a male teacher and a 14 year old girl that any prosecutor in the country wouldn't push for a conviction, with or without the girl's participation at trial?
Can't you hear Georgia's Lisa Clark, the creepy looking 37-year old wife of a 15 year-old boy, asking for a retrial in Florida? At least she made the boy honest... Right?
4 Comments:
Yeah, I suspect that had something to do with it. You're right -- it's a double standard. Boys can't be victims because they want to; girls can't be willing because they're too young.
I would imagine there is now someone out there using the chat room ID as
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and appropriately so.
-Yusuf
I also see this as teacher related, for as you know, I'm a teacher. The news media loves to find some teacher somehow, somewhere who was bad and stripe us all.
Of course, this kind of reporting goes double for lawyers.
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