Posted on 12/29/2022 11:03:55 PM PST by dennisw
Nugent was another one who became the “legal guardian” to his underage girlfriend. By “underage,” I mean under 18, but maybe not under the legal age of consent.
On youtube there’s a video sometime back of her recounting what happened. I read about it 10 or 11 years ago. Just really horrible. Affected Tyler as well.
I didn’t know about Nugent doing that, too. I know he’s the darling of the conservative, Rush, fans. I saw a documentary several years ago, and his daughter talked about his constant infidelities that caused the divorce between their parents.
Found this. Nugent denies it was an adoption.
Thanks for the link. In the video, he says the parents “signed them over” to him. So, I guess, technically, he didn’t adopt anyone, but it sounds like he was named the girl’s legal guardian. At 17, she was close to legal adulthood and probably the age of consent. Attitudes were very different back then.
She was close to legal, but how close was he to her age? Attitudes are different now, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s always good, or no big deal. My grandmother was 15 when she married my grandfather who was 20 years old, and they had 9 children. That wasn’t Nugent’s or Tyler’s intention and neither was it the law’s intention. It was about consent for marriage and building a family if they were close enough in ages, or were in a relationship for that purpose. Not for the kind of degeneracy these men wanted. That’s why the, Romeo and Juliet, clause was added, later. Nothing will probably happen to him, anyway, but he’s still a POS.
I agree completely. I had great grandparents who were 15 and 20-something when they married.
Today, a 20-something proposing to a 15yo would be arrested and charged. Back then, people thought differently.
I agree that what those rock stars did was morally wrong. I just don’t know whether it was legally wrong.
Back to Tyler, his teenage girlfriend expected to become his wife. She thought he’d be happy about the pregnancy. Instead, he pushed her to have an abortion and then dumped her.
Rather than discuss the matter, you choose to evade with references to mythology.
The facts of life are that, historically, girls deferring marriage until their late 20’s and beyond are an aberration.
And you are defending the illegal activity of sex with a minor.
Wrong is wrong, no matter the century.
Historically it was okay to enslave people.
Historically it was okay for parents to beat the hell out of their kids.
Historically it was okay for men to marry/have relationships with early teen females.
Again wrong is wrong.
Here it depends on whether folks like someone or not when it comes to sex with minors. We excuse some and call others pedo’s. He took her for an abortion too, baby was born breathing. If it had been someone else he’d been called a monster, demon and pedo. But, you are correct, wrong is wrong.
She couldn't because of the statue of limitations, which has now been waived for three years to allow these types of cases to proceed.
In her defense, she tried to move on with her life, returning to Portland where she became a devout Catholic and later married.
But she couldn't put it behind her because the story kept surfacing in various Aerosmith documentaries and biographies over the years. And in 2011, Tyler himself wrote about her in his autobiography, going to far as to describe what her naked body looked like and included her (misspelled) name in the acknowledgments. This brought her further humiliation.
Ugh. What a creep he is.
Thanks for the backstory. Now I understand why she filed this lawsuit now.
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