[proxy_user]

Well, one would have to consider the possibility that the boy played a role in bringing about the situation. It is a social convention to consider 13-year-olds as naive innocents, but any junior high teacher will tell you some of them get up to all sorts of tricks.

“In separate conversations, the boy and the two teachers began discussing personal problems, Pickett said.”

It would be interesting to know who initiated the conversations, and exactly what sort of personal problems the boy described to the teachers. If they were the same age, it might be what many would call a pick-up line.

[buccaneer81]

It is a social convention to consider 13-year-olds as naive innocents, but any junior high teacher will tell you some of them get up to all sorts of tricks.

My son is 12. Believe me, I know.

[yazoo]

“Well, one would have to consider the possibility that the boy played a role in bringing about the situation.”

Were you being sarcastic? He’s 13, they are adults. It doesn’t matter one whit what he did, they are 100% in the wrong.

[utahagen]

Age of consent laws are arbitrary, so I'm not ruling out the possibility that there are situations where the victim is as responsible — morally, if not legally — as the defendant for an inappropriate relationship. However, the victim here is thirteen years old and the women involved look to be in their thirties. In these cases, the women are responsible for whatever happened. A thirteen year old is a child, even if he or she is sexually precocious.