Had she ever been a teacher?
Guess he was Home Schooled on Sex Education!! However she forgot about the use of condoms!!!
so....Oedipus wrecks...
He wants money. He doesn't want custody of his child.
Sounds like both of them were screwed up. If he's on meth he ain't going to be getting any better. No wonder he was suing. Probably needed more money for meth.
Poor kid.
Ick. Just ick. How could this woman think this was OK?
When I was married, my ex's son was just like he was my own. Can't imagine myself in a situation like this. Never. Ever.
Please, please just no mofo jokes.
Seriously, this sort of thing not only happens, it probably happens more than we dare suspect, and it is just one more symptom of societal decay.
As another poster alluded to, it isn't so decayed that it can't be re-packaged as "entertainment" and everybody says "Well Jerry...."
(sigh)
20 years and $10,000! Hot damn!
The pansy judges here in California could stand to take some hints from these Texas guys...!
Is she Woody Allen's sister?
The husband/father had no clue this was going on under his nose? WOW! I feel for this poor little child. What a tangled web they've all woven. I dont think the stepson should get a dime. He knew better at 14 what he was doing unless hes impared in someway. Maybe the drug use. 20 yrs seems harsh when you compare it to what some of these teachers have gotten. I hope whatever money she has (if any)goes to the child not to the stepson.
What can I say? Weird People ...
I see a pattern forming here....but I must go adjust my tinfoil hat now.
I am not replying to you specifically, just to the article and situation in general (sorry for the length everybody:)). What hasn't been published about this story is that the husband was on drugs, too, and just as badly. And around the same time he had tried to kill Carla by putting a trash bag over her head while she was asleep. He also trapped her in a bathroom for 4 hours cutting her hands with scissors while she defended herself as he was trying to cut all of her hair off. This is one of the everyday abuses she suffered. And that she tried to leave him, and he would trap her other son in the house so she couldn't take him with her, so she would have to come back. The articles also don't mention the fact that she thought the baby she had with her step-son belonged to her husband, too, until the paternity test was done . And just before this relationship began, she had just lost the one child born to her alive out of 4 since her first at 18 (and these miscarriages were not from drugs, they were from a genetic incompatibility b/t the wife and husband, which is documented. There was only a 75% chance that any child born to them would be without birth defects; she actually thought that she probably wouldn't be able to get pregnant again). It also wasn't published that after the divorce, the father of the step-son would call her at the business they both still owned(but she had to manage) to make hercome to his house and have sex with him (after the affair with the step-son) using his ability to push her indictment to force her. Nothing has really been published at all about this case, except the DA's side. The father never cared that much about his son, and he doesn't care about her son that was conceived with her step-son. All he seems to want (judging by his actions before and after the affair was known) is to take the company she built, even after she gave him the house, the new lot for the new house, and a 1/2 million dollars to buy him out of the business, out of guilt for what she had done. He pushed the indictment, right after she bought him out, and one month before the time was up for the DA to indict her. He also paid witnesses to testify, which was not allowed into the trial, even though there were witnesses to the pay-off. Some people are in it for the money, no matter what the circumstance. The father and son were fine sitting at home getting seven grand a month to smoke pot all day b/c she felt guilty enough to let them. But they knew that eventually she would buy him out, b/c he didn't do anything, and they would never be able to work civilly, due to obvious circumstances.. There is so much more to this case than any person could imagine. And through it all, even now, she has admitted that she was wrong, kept her faith in God, and said that if prison was where He wanted her, then she would do that. And, she is. You have probably never come across the type of person that the father belongs to. Not that it is the step-son's fault. He didn't ask for it (although at fourteen, I would think that he probably wouldn't have rejected the idea, either). And I pray to God that you never live through the type of things she has been through or what the step-son has been through. I know that what she did was wrong (as does she), but please let it be known, that if you had been through what this lady's been through, you might not be so quick to throw the book at her without knowing the full story. She has done so much for other people, before and after the affair with her step-son, that it has been to her detriment at times. But she just kept on giving and depended on God to take care of them and her. And He still is, despite what people may think. I am just a friend of her family, and she paid my mother's car payment for six months, and didn't even know her, because my mom lost her job and I wasn't able to pay it myself for my mother. I broke down at church one day, and finally admitted that I was upset about my mother's situation, and she said "What can I do to help?". The one time I tried to send a check of my own, she ripped it up. That is really the type of person she is, despite appearances and very serious and damaging mistakes. So, before you make a decision just by what you get from the Associated Press, please know that this is a real human being, with family and friends that love her, and that are suffering with her. What she did was not right. But the person God has made her is a good person. And after all she has done, good and bad, she is my still my best friend. And, I don't mean for this comment to point out excuses for her actions. I just know that there are some real circumstances that I have had to take into account myself, being involved with this family, that have made me look at both sides. And it is a tragic situation, especially for the 3 innocent children (2 of them now adults) that are involved. Just please know that her children do love their mother, the oldest of them now knowing the full extent of what happened. And I don't want to seem like I want people to feel sorry for her if she has to serve a sentence that she is meant to serve. Just please know that there are a lot of innocent people involved, on both sides that are experiencing extreme pain right now, and that there is a lot more to it than can be read in the paper. Thank you for letting me take up such a large space on the comment section (again, sorry for the length)