TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Or maybe "American Judges are Jealous Killjoys."
30 years for banging some students who probably loved every minute of it. Truly disgraceful.
Uh huh. Switch the genders and the teacher would be a predator. We give women the pussy pass because they can't be predatory, right?
-TG
I could answer this three different ways but I'll settle on one.
Consent matters. Male or female, I reject the very concept of "statutory rape". It's either rape or not. Rape is the use of force or threats of force to exploit someone sexually. Everything else is not rape. Period.
In this case there was clear evidence that the boys were willing and enthusiastic participants in their relationships with her. The judge ruled that the consensual nature of the relationships was irrelevant, and he's correct insofar as the law is written. It's the law that's wrong, plain and simple. Consent is what it's all about; the rest is bullshit.
As for any suggestion that statutory rape laws are there to "protect" those who are too young to provide implied consent, the hypocrisy of those excuses is easily exposed. In America, 12-year olds who rob grocery stores are routinely transferred from juvenile court to adult court and tried as adults. If the law was worried about protecting the young and assuming they can't make rational decisions, it would first be protecting 12-year olds from a lifetime of jail before protecting 17-year olds from getting laid. Regardless of hypocritical statements about "protecting" the young, statutory rape laws exist to enforce archaic religious ideas that sex for pleasure is sinful. (And I won't deny that below a certain age, informed consent is impossible, but that age sure as hell isn't anything in the teens. At 16, James Wolfe was commanding an infantry regiment and winning the Battle of Dettingen!)
Now, I think a teacher who is screwing students should be fired for misusing her position, and possibly sued for discrimination by the boys in her class who didn't get any tail. As for criminal conviction -- NO.