Like a typical moronic tort lawyer that operates without the facts and no need to get the facts. From the Dennis Prager show today(The show listeners and others raised $40K to help with the legal costs) :
1) Both girls and boys were “slapping butts” on Slap Butt Day. Should we charge the girls too, or does it only go one way?
2) The boys were taken to the vice-principle’s office and after several minutes of talk- This intellectual moron called the police. Was what they did moronic and juvenile? Yes. That is because they are juveniles!! Could the same effect have been accomplished by giving them detention and informing their parents? Yes. Did they really need to be charged as sex-offenders? Only because idiots like you fill the DA post.
3) The DA and this vice-principle need to be replaced. Did the boys need to be strip-searched 4 times during their stay in jail?
Just because you, a lady lawyer, think its right, does not make it so. I understand that you have an overinflated opinion of yourself but too bad. Its your type of thinking that has gotten us to were we are today.
You seem not to have read the article above, which quotes from the police reports of the incident:
The boys, apparently inspired by the movie "Jackass," were accused in police reports of swatting girls on the bottom in a school corridor, grabbing girls' breasts on at least two occasions, teaming up to "dry hump" girls, poking girls' breasts and engaging in what's known as "party boy" dancing mimicking sexual intercourse.
So, first, it wasn't simply "slapping butts."
Second, their actual behavior (from the police reports, as opposed to the inevitably wrong talk-show-ized version you apparently got from Mr. Prager) actually meets the definition of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree, as defined by Oregon Revised Statutes 163.415 (I posted a link above).
So ... when put in context, it's a whole lot less cut and dried than you're saying it is.
Did the prosecutor go too far? Maybe so, because these kids may not have fully understood what they were doing. But what they did was very seriously wrong, nevertheless.
Its your type of thinking that has gotten us to were we are today.
Oh, I don't know.... when I was a kid, I don't seem ever to recall engaging in or even hearing about "slap butt day," much less coerced dry humping, at school. Such things were not tolerated by the public, they were handled severely by the school authoritis, and sometime kids might even have spent some time at the Juvenile Detention Facility. Maybe part of "where we are today" is result of some folks -- you, perhaps? -- being willing to give little creeps like these a pass because they're kids.
Why the need for personal insults? Why can’t you just discuss our disagreement on the merits?