“What are your thoughts on what should have been done in this situation?
Its pretty obvious that you dont agree with the father or myself.”
The parents should have dealt with their children based on whatever values they’ve tried to give their children. I would never try to have a seventeen year-old charged with statutory rape if I knew the sex had been consensual.
And, if the girl had been seventeen and the boy fifteen, how do you think it should have been handled? These things definitely do happen, and have for decades. I know of such cases.
Agree entirely. I understand the dad's reaction, but I remember being a kid as well. Once upon a time the "authorities" might have said that this matter was best left as is, but now they will have to pursue charges against both the kid and the dad. I don't see how sending either of them to jail will help matters at all.