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.
That'll teach him.
I wonder how many people posting on this did the same thing when they were 17?
“You can beat up a kid!”
Hey, some 17 year olds are linebacker size.
I’m just going to go ahead and assume you don’t have a daughter.
“I wonder how many people posting on this did the same thing when they were 17?”
I wonder how many wanted to? ;)
I think you get a shotgun and a wedding cake.
“Thank Britney et al for that!”
Heh, Brittney wasn’t even a twinkle in her daddy’s eye when girls were coming around tapping on my window and calling me at all hours. Aggressive girls are nothing new. Agreeable girls even less so.
What ever you do to my daughter, I'm doing to you.
I don’t know all the details of this case, and if I did I might side with the father, but it seems to me, short of actual forced sexual activity on the part of the boy, the father should have just as much beef with his daughter for consenting to the sex. Most 15 year old girls are as mature as 17 year old guys. It may be that the father cannot stand the idea that his daughter is loose so he figures it must be the boys fault....and so the beating.
I had the exact same problem :) was 3/4ths of the way through the article before I realized my mistake..
Doesn't matter. (This, like the age of consent, may vary from state to state)
Apparently not, in this state at least.
Neither kid is an adult. The girl is equally responsible for her actions. You act like this boy is a villian who deflowered a virgin.
A girl with a father whose psychological make-up allowed him to beat up this kid probably has one big barrell of father issues which causes her to act out sexually in defiance of the father’s no-doubt abusive home-rule. I bet that father is a self righteous iron fisted brute at home.
She ‘got’ her dad real good! I pity her home life after this.
I’m gonna go ahead and assume you don’t have a son.
> Heh, Brittney wasn’t even a twinkle in her daddy’s eye when girls were coming around tapping on my window and calling me at all hours. Aggressive girls are nothing new. Agreeable girls even less so.
(Big Grin!) You lucky dog!
The best way to handle this sort of thing would be to let the father administer a sound thrashing to the kid and let that be the end of it. No criminal charges for the father doing what any normal father of daughters would do, and no criminal charges for the kid doing what any normal 17 year old boy wants to do with a consenting girl. I think that arbitrary age cut-offs make little sense if the kids are in high school. Below high school, I can see it being statutory rape, but once kids are in high school, consensual sex among students should not be criminal - it should be punishable by the parents and the school, but not criminal.
Story is bylined "(AP) WEARE, N.H." which I read as taking place in New Hampshire, not Rhode Island. These laws vary from state to state, like I said.
Just this guy's dumb luck he doesn't live somewhere like Rhode Island ;-)
Dad should take a long look in the mirror and admit his own failure since it was his daughter displaying the lack of moral clarity here. 17 year old boy and 15 year old girl? Did he turn 17 recently and she’s 2 months from hitting 16 perhaps? Would 2 months make that much of a difference? Not really.
Bottom line is that his daughter was involved and not against her will. He needs to own that.
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