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.
But not your daughter. Right? I also take it your are teaching your son responsibility for his actions by applauding this man's law breaking. Obviously the rule of law is not in your curriculum. Your intellectual and ethical bankruptcy is showing.
Some 50 - 75 years ago, lots of things might have been handled informally by the local police, even local courts where the judge might tell a miscreant to choose between "the Army/Navy or jail" - where if the kid joined the service and stayed out of trouble, there would be no record.
Even in the service, a screw up might be informally worked over by sargeant rather than creating a permanent disciplinary record.
The point is, people screw up, and sometimes one good scare is what they need to straighten out. In a case like this a sound thrashing will teach the boy to be a little more careful where he dips his wick, and do a lot more for his future than a criminal record.
You are making a very over-broad generalization that minimizes the credibility of your statement. Whether or not a campus is "open" or "closed" varies not only from state to state, but from school district to school district. In some communities, open campuses are the norm - in others, they are the exception. Truancy laws also vary, but in most states they will allow the police to pick up students that are not in school during normal school hours.
In this instance, since the principal promptly notified the parents when it was realized the girl was not on campus, I don't see how he could be held responsible for what occurred. However, the school administration does take on responsibility for the students once they board the school bus or arrive at school, so the question of potential liability is not always so clear-cut.
LOL
The criminal justice system should just stay out of it, unless they are prepared to charge and arrest about 90% of the 17 year olds (male and female) in the school.
What’s the difference between a male and a treasury bond?
Some day the bond will mature.
Ha! (I’m a gold bug BTW)
This story is ridiculous. I think I was 16 and my girlfriend was 15 and our birthdays were close enough to keep us a year apart. Too much info I know, but this story is crap.
Well that's an idiotic thing to say. You obviously didn't read the story and likely weren't raised in the US (unless it was in a hippy commune). The Dad inflicted the beating on the little jerk BECAUSE he cared about his daughter. Stoning her would defeat the purpose of being protective of his daughter now wouldn't it?
“Therein..the parents of the girl need to look first to themselves and their contribution as to their daughter’s behavior before beating up a 17 year old kid.”
They probably are looking at them-selves and beating them-selves up over and over! You make the mistake of assuming though that these parents must have been such over-bearing brutes that the child rebelled out of frustration. Some times kids just decide to do their own thing and get burned for it, no matter how good and loving the parenting.
Oh BS. Dad's a hothead who beat up on a kid because he couldn't control his temper. This isn't how father's show they care. Pity you can't see the difference.
Oh BS. Dad's a hothead who beat up on a kid because he couldn't control his temper. This isn't how father's show they care. Pity you can't see the difference.
Oh BS. Dad's a hothead who beat up on a kid because he couldn't control his temper. This isn't how father's show they care. Pity you can't see the difference.
> A 17 year old boy had sex. Suddenly this is wrong?
Many decent folk are taught that sex outside the marriage contract is wrong. This is not a “sudden” teaching, but rather one that goes back many, many centuries.
> Y’all were virgins when you married?
As it happens, yes I was.
> 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.
I’m not sure where that non-sequitir fits in with the story...
And anyrate, it is a brother’s duty to vet and approve all of his sister’s boyfriends, if for no other reason than whoever she ends up with is destined to become the brother-in-law. And a tiresome, noxious brother-in-law is like a sore, abcessed tooth: a constant pain that will never go away. This is a cross that no man should have to bear: therefore it pays huge dividends for a man to be diligent in this field of endeavor.
I’ve referred this thread to the recruiters at the Internet Tough Guys of America (ITGA). They should exceed their recruiting goals tonight.
On the other side of the aisle, it’s evenly balanced between the deniers (”My great parenting skills guarantee that my daughter would never do that”) and the California-dreamers (”I’m so cool and enlightened, I’d invite the kid over for tea to discuss it”).
It’s amazing how often people like that become rabid dogs as soon as it happens with their family. They usually crack the worst because they spend their lives putting on a big show of how their family is so perfect and above everybody else.
Statutory rape.
“PS - steer clear of my two girls! My son and I might have something to talk to you about.
Dolt. I’m a grandfather, I want nothing to do with either of your girls.”
even more reason to steer clear...
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