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.
I don't know that they've LED the way, but they've certainly followed it. They're seemingly more bent on political correctness than on preserving any notion of piety.
By the way, I stopped at the campus ministry office at Notre Dame one day, looking for someone I was supposed to greet for a mutual friend. There was no answer, no answer, then an attractive young woman came out, rather flustered. Then the priest came out, even more flustered, and very curious about what got me there so late in the day. I explained and it was very awkward.
It would be illuminating to find out about the parents of this perv. Too bad there were no details. I wonder why not.
... a profound observation! If the boy had a father who cared for him, he wouldn't be out impregnating 10-yr-olds ...
and if the girl had a father who cared about her, the boy would be dead.
In both cases the girls went ahead and carried the babies to term, so the boys in question have to pay child support for the rest of their lives.
This kid got off easy.
Everybody got off easy . . .
Milwaukee County Children's Court Judge Kevin Martens got off easy for not having been responsible for sending the 16-year-old boy to the prison system. Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Brown got off easy for not having dream at night about sending the 16-year-old boy to prison. The parents of the 16-year-old boy got off easy by not having to accept being grandparents. The 16-year-old boy got off easy by not having to live with the consequences of his own actions. The victim's mother got off easy by not having the additional burden of another child to care for.
The easy way out, pure and simple.
How convenient life has become.
Also being of (complete)Irish descent on my mother's side (and still being single at 41) I can relate to your comment.
I did not say it would be easier for a 10 year to give birth than say, a 20 year old.
But I do believe it is possible, although not advisable, for a variety of reasons, for a 10 year to give birth to a healthy child without killing herself. I have met a girl who gave birth at 13, without any ill(physical) effects to her or her child. And, yes, there is a big difference between 10 and 13.
But I tend to agree with the poster above who suggests that if a girl isn't physically able to give birth a child, she's not physically going to be able to carry or conceive one. Note how ovulation and menstruation stop when women are seriously ill or starving.
And I certainly believe it's easier to carry children and give birth with fewer ill effects between the ages of 15 and 25 than 25 and 35. Again, we're talking physically.
E.g., the libertarian message, "Ain't nobody's business if you do." The boy took that as his credo and lived it.
Libertarians will angrily deny that they are pleased that a 16 year-old boy would buy into the libertarian message and impregnate a 10 year-old girl in a "consensual" encounter. But how could they expect anything different? Any society must and will reap a bumper crop of sexual perversions that it refuses to condemn--that it tolerates and enables.
Even on this thread we apparently see the libertarian "consent uber alles" mindset taking tentative steps toward tolerating and enabling pedophilia as various posters assure us that even girls as young as eight are sexually mature and considered fair game in some cultures, suggesting that perhaps we are unnecessarily narrow-minded.
I wouldn't be surprised if some posters are doing a frantic internet search to discover the earliest documented instance of puberty so they can proudly inform us that six or seven years of age isn't "too young" in some places.
That is exactly what teens and older do today.
No, you do not 'get it'. That baby was G_d's.
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations
Thy will be done.
It's too bad you don't have the intellectual honesty to admit that the odds of contracting AIDS these ways are so miniscule as to be nonexistent.
Sexual abstinance is 99.9999 percent effective at preventing AIDS. It's a shame you strain so hard at that .0001 percent and end up swallowing all your common sense.
But by your own admission you are a product of the public schools. That explains a lot.
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