Posted on 09/29/2007 6:55:02 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
(AP) WEARE, N.H. First, a father was charged with beating up his daughter's boyfriend last week after learning the two had sex. Now, police are preparing to charge the boy with sexual assault.
The 17-year-old boy from Henniker, who admitted to having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend, will "absolutely" be charged, police said.
Weare Detective Lou Chatel said the boy will be charged as an adult and could face up to a year in jail.
Both teens admitted to having sex during school hours on Sept. 10, but off school property, Chatel said. That afternoon, he said, the girl's father went to John Stark Regional High School and attacked the boy.
School had just let out and the parking lot was filled with students and parents.
The boy suffered cuts and bruises and received two stitches to his face. The father was charged with simple assault.
It all began that morning when the girl did not show up for her first class, even though she had been seen at school.
School officials searched the building, then put out a school-wide page. When the girl didn't respond, they called her parents.
Principal Michael Turmelle the parents helped search for their daughter, called her cell phone and coordinated with school officials.
The teens returned to school at the same time, through separate doors.
The principal said he's upset at the number of people who have sided with the father.
"We all work so hard to give our kids a safe place to go to," he said. "Any time we have an act of violence, it's very upsetting because it is completely antithetical to what we're trying to accomplish."
The girl and her siblings have transferred to another school, Turmelle said.
The principal is out of line. The little creep of a boyfriend should be expelled.
DManA said:
My favorite father/boyfriend talk is:
“What ever you do to my daughter, I’m doing to you.”
. . . . . .
Boyfriend: “Gee! Thanks, sir! I was going to perform oral sex on her.”
"(c) In the absence of any of the circumstances set forth in RSA 632-A:2, when the actor engages in sexual penetration with a person, other than the actor's legal spouse, who is 13 years of age or older and under 16 years of age where the age difference between the actor and the other person is 3 years or less."
So there is an "age difference" provision; its effect is to reduce his crime to a misdemeanor (instead of felony).
What would you do to a girl who did that to your son? Or is that your wife's duty to lay down that beating?
I really don't know. I haven't stated my position on the law in this thread either way, I just reminded people that the laws can be counterintuitive & can vary from state to state.
I guess if it were up to me, all things considered I don't have a huge problem with most age of consent laws as they are, so I'd leave 'em. It's a sticky subject (oops - no pun intended :) and I don't see any way to work out a "right" answer. We know instinctively that it's bad to take advantage of young girls sexually and we want the law to recognize this, yet we also know instinctively that teenagers are full of hormones and we're not exactly shocked when something like this happens... so where to draw the line? There's never going to be a "correct" way to do it. But that's not a reason to have no laws at all, so we have to make do w/what we have.
And you're right, it's not the same as a 17 year old with a 12 year old - nor does law doesn't treat it as such. Someone else on this thread dug up the NH statutes on this subject and there are varying degrees depending on whether the age difference is 5+ years, 3-5 years, or less than 3 years. The latter is a class A misdemeanor, which is presumably what this guy will be charged with (not felony).
This story is stupid. A 17yo and a 15yo. What ever happened to the mantra, "girls grow up sooner than boys" I heard that all through adolesence.
More than that. She just learned that the law will punish men for her behavior if she plays the victim. Nowhere is that more true than in the liberal courts of the north eastern states. In a few years she'll be an adult and her opportunities will expand dramatically.
Melas,
Families look out after their members. Brothers look
out for their sisters and vice versa. It isn’t sick.
Perhaps you are more influenced by our current culture
than you realize?
ampu
PS - steer clear of my two girls! My son and I might
have something to talk to you about.
Whats a shanks a kinfe?
LOL @ You
My son will take responsibility for his actions. Just like this young lad was held accountable for his.
Put down the crack pipe down.
I think the take on this is disengenous!
If we lived in a society of yesterday I would agree with some of this.
But today it is two that tanglo not one sided.
The Girl I am sure knew about this stuff for a few years she is not one of the innocent kids from the 50’s-60’s from way back when!
All 3 should be punished.
even if it is on the books statutory rape is ridiculous!
I think the father could have taught his child a better way to understand instead of using fear.
People have to have the desire to be good!
For your liberal use of the word scumbag I have to assume you never even thought of having sex with someone at 17. I must applaud your chastity.
The dad was right to want to protect his daughter, but he still overreacted. And this has really done nothing to slow her down. She and whoever she has sex with next will have only learned to be more discreet.
Dolt. I'm a grandfather, I want nothing to do with either of your girls.
It's always right to protect your daughter, always. I have two of them myself and a granddaughter to boot.
However, protection is ALWAYS before the fact. This was an after the fact hot-headed action by an out of control man. You're spot on, which unfortunately seems rare for this thread.
Hell, we even have one dolt who suggested that he and his son might want to "talk" with me. I'd bet good money that I've been in more fights than most of the macho men in this thread combined. The difference is that I look back on a violent and bloody past with a great deal of shame. It's nothing to revel in.
Honor crime? Is stoning the daughter next?
A 17 year old boy had sex. Suddenly this is wrong? Y'all were virgins when you married?
I assume none of you turn up on the "Hot teacher has sex with male student" in which dozens of male poster lament the fact that their teachers didn't have sex with them.
IOWs you've been caught with your intellect around your ankles and have nothing left but an insult.
Well yes, of course. Because girls are much too stupid to figure anything out for themselves. They just get taken advantage of all the time, poor little dears!.
Of course, the brother was the one who impregnated the neighborhood sleaze, who then up and ran off with the baby. The sister later found a wonderful man entirely without the help of her idiot brothers.
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