Posted on 05/27/2002 11:50:41 AM PDT by madprof98
A 16-year-old boy who is believed to have impregnated his 10-year-old onetime "girlfriend" was spared prison Thursday and placed on probation for one year.
Milwaukee County Children's Court Judge Kevin Martens also ordered the teenager to perform 50 hours of community service and to undergo treatment as a sex offender. The boy pleaded guilty this month to second-degree sexual assault of a child.
Had the boy misbehaved at the shelter where he was ordered to live during the past few months while the case was pending, Martens said, he probably would have been incarcerated.
The judge also expressed concern about a psychological report that indicated the boy had a cavalier attitude toward the wrongfulness of his deed, which Martens described as "reckless and irresponsible."
Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Brown had urged Martens to lock up the boy because the boy did not seem to appreciate the seriousness of his crime.
The psychological report said the boy felt "privileged to have sex with lots of people if he wants to," Brown said.
Brown said the boy also told the girl, whom Brown described as "inexperienced," that "if you like someone and you feel good around them, then you have sex because that's what people do."
The prosecutor also noted that the boy had been found delinquent for underage possession of a dangerous weapon after he accidentally fired a bullet into a neighbor's house around the same time he was involved with the girl.
The boy's defense attorney, Ira Bordow, said it was wrong to characterize the case involving the girl as an "assault" because there was no force involved in the boy's sexual relationship with the girl, whom he considered to be his "girlfriend."
Bordow also contended that the boy was not aware of the girl's true age and that she claimed to be 13. Both the prosecutor and the girl's mother disputed that assertion and said the boy had been made aware that the girl was younger than she claimed.
Brown said that the girl "looked older" but acted very young and that the 16-year-old boy should have known better.
The girl had an abortion shortly after her pregnancy came to light.
In court Thursday, the boy apologized to the victim's mother, who had urged the judge not to be "too severe" in punishing the boy but also to make the teenager understand the consequences of his actions.
Martens imposed and stayed a sentence of one year in a juvenile prison, which means the boy could be incarcerated for that amount of time if he violates the rules of probation.
Martens also ordered the boy to have no contact with the girl or her family and to register as a sex offender.
Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 24, 2002.
If it had been my daughter I would have been tempeted to shoot him.
I am not excusing this boy okay, but the sorry fact is that we live in a society where irresponsible sexual behavior is validated everywhere, from television to the Klintoon Whitehouse. And, if there are no values taught at home, it the same old attitude born in the 60's--"If it feels good do it!"
Where exactly was he supposed to learn of the seriousness of his crime?
No big deal, but.......anybody checked his green card lately.........
Just being vigilant.....:o)
She needs to bring MTV and Sony executives up on RICO charges.
Where exactly was he supposed to learn of the seriousness of his crime?
Exactly. The kind messages which loving, caring parents impart to their children in the home should in no way be contradicted by jaded humanists in corporate board rooms, schools, universities, and in the halls of unions and government.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I know the reporter personally- he is a biracial (Black and White) American citizen who converted to orthodox Islam.
"The girl had an abortion shortly after her pregnancy came to light. "
" In court Thursday, the boy apologized to the victim's mother, who had urged the judge not to be "too severe" in punishing the boy but also to make the teenager understand the consequences of his actions. "
This is one sick age we live in.
Or, maybe she wasn't asked at all - in fact, it's highly probable she was not only not asked, no one thought it appropriate to do so!
None of these questions bothered the abortionist in the slightest.
From the context of your statement concerning abortion, what I'm going to say next may likely anger you. I want to make it clear here that I don't approve of abortion except in cases or rape, incest or to save a woman's life. In this particular case statutory rape and the child's age were no doubt taken into consideration in the descision to abort.
An abortion is medically necessary because at that young age carrying a baby to full term will kill her. Giving birth is not for children and even fully grown women die in childbirth.
Though it is certainly much rarer now for women to die giving birth than in the past, it is also true that the trend is toward women having children later in life, when their bodies are mature, rather than in their teen years, the norm in the early 20th, 19th and 18th centuries.
During those time periods as many as 40% to 50% of women died in childbirth, a very high mortality rate. The rate for death during childbirth is higher in the Middle East than in the West though the causes may have to do with other factors, such as lack of medical facilities and hygeine, rather than just the young ages of the pregnant women.
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