Steel Valley Football;1069817 wrote:You people who think this is ok are idiots.
When it comes to the law, yes. Adults should have the sense in today's society not to put themselves in the place where the situation happened with this woman and this young man.
It's not the first time something like this has happened. It won't be the last. Just the other night we were reading through Trivial Pursuit questions and there was one that mentioned the chick who went to jail for a few years and then got out and married the "boy" she committed the "crime" with.
It wasn't that long ago that a 30-something Northmont HS male teacher had an affair with a female student who happened to be one of my daughter's best friends. I was appalled the teacher did it and was supportive of the court for throwing the guy in jail. Not surprising, his wife divorced him too.
In the case of the OP, I don't find myself influenced as much by a criminal act having been perpetrated and do not feel as bad for the young man having gone through the experience as I did for my daughter's friend. But then again, the case with my daughter's friend hit closer to home than the tap dancer case does.
Right or wrong, there is an obvious difference in how both the court of law and the court of public opinion, myself included, comments on the consequences of both the gender and age of those involved in cases like this. Protection of girls seems to be the prevalence in most cases. Idiotic or not, I don't feel off-base by much.