Posted on 07/23/2007 11:47:17 AM PDT by beaversmom
MCMINNVILLE, Ore., July 22 (UPI) -- Two 13-year-old Oregon boys are facing serious sex charges for allegedly slapping female classmates' bottoms as a form of horseplay.
Police arrested Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison of McMinnville and if convicted could be permanently marked as sex offenders, The Portland Oregonian said Sunday. The teens also could spend as long as 10 years in juvenile detention if found guilty.
While the boys' parents have opposed such a harsh penalty, McMinnville District Aattorney Bradley Berry said such youthful acts could have longstanding consequences for the alleged victims.
"These cases are devastating to children," he said. "They are life-altering cases."
Interviews with the boys' fellow students found other teens were engaging in similar behavior at the time and two of the female victims have since recanted their statements.
The Oregonian said the boys are due in court on Aug. 20 to answer to all charges stemming from the February event.
Nobody has said that the kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be punished in a way to teach them that you can’t go around popping girls behinds.
Every generation from the dawn of mankind has done this horseplay so its not a new thing that is the sign of the times.
Kids mess up and do things they aren’t supposed to. They should be punished so that they will know that is unacceptable behavior. Not labled for the rest of their lives.
I can’t imagine these boys in 30 years. Being accountants, teachers, engineers, maybe even preachers with families of their own, having to register as a sex offender because they popped a girl on the butt in the schoolyard at age 13.
McMinnville District Aattorney Bradley Berry should get 10 years.
I remember another girl and I doing this same kind of behavior with two boys in the halls of our school in the 6th grade. Almost the same age as this group of kids. I think your right—it’s just something silly kids about that age do.
The most appropriate way to handle this is for an older brother to beat the tar out of the little idiot.
Worked on me. Never did that again.
Treating it as a criminal act is ludicrous.
Also, it should be noted the girls in this case were doing it to the boys. Nothing has happened to them.
Because it isn’t. Our culture is the most refined in history. Women have rights unknown to past cultures, and to many present ones.
Kids have been horsing around like this since before recorded history. Somehow they survived. I think these kids will too.
I think you do have a point there.
I have read about schools teaching kids in GRADE school to explore their sexuality. Telling young girls it’s ok to experiment with same sex relationships.
How very hypocritical.
Disclaimer: I do NOT approve of what these boys have been doing, but kids no longer are taught manners,limits and other important social skills. Most aren't anyway.
rednesss wrote: “Oh Puhhhlease. Do you need to have gravity explained to you, or how the sun will come up every morning, or why 13 year old boys will be prone to playing grab-ass with 13 year old girls???? Gee, maybe draconian laws will stop the ocean tides as well.”
Well said! I seriously believe the DA as well as the teachers/staff who were involved should be fired.
“Jeesh! Back when I was in high school the only thing we would get is permanently marked by the football coach/vice principal”
Exactly... A wooden paddle was all that was needed in my day.
I was generally a model of good behavior, but I still met the
flat side of a few paddles, from either a gym coach or principal.
We used to snap bra-straps; and the teachers would just frown, and tell us to "knock it off."
There is an upside to all this political correctness (though seventh graders should know better — punishment is in order, but ten years is insane): It is victimizing/traumatizing two or three generations of Americans who are going to have little patience with it when they grow up and become voters. And libs are going to pay dearly for that.
I just sent Dennis Prager a link about Jimmy McKenize—in Oregon no less. Bill O’Reilly brought this case up several months ago. Supposedly he’s pedophile that likes to walk around in the nude. Oregon law is such that unless he is getting sexual gratification from it, he can’t be arrested. You can be nude anywhere you want. The story is too old to find a news article but here’s a link about it:
“Naked Neighbor” Not a “Secular Liberal” Plot http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2007/02/naked_neighbor.html
Whatever happened to calling the other kids' mother to complain? One day in middle school I threw a boy's jock strap down the aisle of the school bus because he had left it in the locker of a girl who was my friend. His mother called my mother, who was usually a buster to sons and daughters alike; but this time my mom could hardly muster up the appropriate stern demeanor...
Needless, to say, he has been told he will not be able to play with the above mentioned boy. This kid has been trouble in the past also.
The "Fraternal Fudge Packers Fraternity".
The kind that gets sucked into intensive "therapy" from feminazis.
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