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.
It is a possibility! LOL!
He wasn't underage.
Well then. Pardon my indignation!
Let me restate and respond again to... "Any time we have an act of violence, it's very upsetting because it is completely antithetical to what we're trying to accomplish."
And what're they trying to accomplish? A peaceful environment for kids to have sex off school grounds, during school?
Since when is 17 considered a legal adult? Can’t vote and can’t enter into binding contracts. Oh, I get it, the state thinks that he is responsible enough to participate in sexual activity. However, if he was to over the state line he might not be guilty of any crime.
So be it. It will no doubt come as a shock to you and other children who think the world began when you were born, but within my lifetime seniors having sex with sophomores was indeed a relatively rare and furtive experience. There was a reason for that, and it wasn't lack of interest.
Since you don't sound like the type who gets it, let me spell it out for you. "If someone was beaten every time that happened..." it probably wouldn't happen much and the whole world would be spared a bunch of illegitimate kids, venereal disease, abortions, and unwed mothers.
You suggested she should be charged too. I was simply pointing out that she didn't commit a crime because he was over the age of consent. That's a fact. If you disagree with it, take it up with the legislature, not me.
The principal is a lightweight pantywaist.
So, you have no problem with a 17 year old guy screwing your 15 year old daughter, eh?
Based on that, you must be a libertine with no moral values, and you probably watch porn movies every day, and have signed up for many porn sites on the internet.
The above paragraph is based in reality as much as your psychological evaluation of the girl’s father.
I agree, but you are failing to factor in the lawyer job security aspects of many of these laws.
How would you deal with it?
Wrong, again. We, as fathers, can teach all day long. In the end, it is their choice whether to practice what we have taught and shown. If I have taught my children, and shown by example, how to behave, and they choose to misbehave, that action is on their heads, and I refuse to accept any responsibility for it. If I fail to teach and they misbehave, then it’s on my head.
BOTH of the brats involved need a beating from their OWN PARENTS.
Where I come from men don’t smack women around. Must not be the case for you, eh?
I’ve got lots of scars from all sorts of activities. They are simple reminders of how not to do something.
Since you don't sound like the type who gets it, let me spell it out for you.
You certainly make a lot of assumptions about who I am. Am I supposed to respond coherently to this nonsense that you wrote, or should I set up a big fat straw man to kick the crap out of like you did?
Bugger off, pops.
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“So, you have no problem with a 17 year old guy screwing your 15 year old daughter, eh?”
Sure I have a problem with it. This whole society is so sex focused these kids don’t stand a chance for putting sex in its proper moral perspective. I wonder how involved these kids are in their church? Like I said...the father beats up a kid with whom his daughter consented to have sex.
If the two of them robbed a 7-11 would he still beat up the boy? If the two of them set fire to a building would he still beat the boy? If the two of them stole a car and she was driving it would he still beat up the boy?
The father is a hot head and resorts to violence to solve his problems. He is a problem. It is no doubt reflected in the family dynamics. I pity the poor girl with a father like that.
As to the father this wasn’t a ‘moral’ question. It was a ‘control’ issue for him.
Just out of curiosity, do you know the father? Your posts sound like you know him, and his family quite well.
I agree with Dianna. I think it is interesting to see how many people rage against honor killings but accept this fathers behavior as normal. The boy did not have consensual sex with that girl all by himself.
IMO dad’s retaliation stems from his own embarrassment of his deflowered daughter not of love for his daughter.
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