She's hot and the kid will have bragging rights for years to come. One thing bothers me though, if the sexes were reversed do you think a man would have gotten off with only 9 months of jail time?
No, he'd be under the jail, and rightly so. As she should be.
Yeah, I know, she's hot, and the 13-year-old kid is big man on campus, but that's no excuse. She ought to be staring at a hell of a lot longer than nine months in the slammer and years of supervised release. If some big buff Brad Pitt lookalike did that to a 13-year-old girl, we'd be howling for his head...how she looks and her sex really shouldn't affect that.
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Yes a man would have gotten a nine month sentence
O ya plus castration
He might have bragging rights now, but I wonder if you were to check back with him in 20 years how he'll feel about his teacher going to jail for him. I'm not saying he should feel guilty, but it would just be an interesting exercise to check back with him.
Absolutely not because it just isn't the same crime. We like to delude ourselves into believing that males and females are completely equal in every measure but this simply isn't so.
An adult male having sex with a 13 year-old girl is committing a more serious crime than an adult female having sex with a 13 year-old boy. It may be the same crime on the books but in the perception of many, it is apples and oranges.
It doesn't bother me much. Our culture basically has an ideal (though not reality) of protecting women's sexuality more than men's sexuality. That's fine by me, really.
But to answer your question, no a man would not have gotten off with only 9 months of jail time if he got sexual with a young teenage girl, or boy for that matter.
Quite possibly - unfortunately. In an incident in my town involving a teacher and a 15 year old girl, he got no jail time at all - just 10 years probation (deferred adjudication) If he does not violate probation, not only will he have no jail time, his record will be cleared. Men teachers get away with it, too.
Of course, comparing these two cases is anecdotal. After all, Mary Kaye Letourneau did hard time. I would be interested to see a comparison of average terms for similar crimes, though.
Something I'm sure he'll want to mention to his bride, no doubt.
Cordially,