Is one of those states Washington? Or does the law of the state actually involved even matter to you if you can compare it with another state where the age of consent is lower?
Putting her away again for the maximum struck many of us, including this Libertarian, as excessive. That's a longer senetnce than most carjackers serve.
Oh, puhleeeze. She knew the risk she was taking when she started fogging up windows with the punk again. Quit crying for her. She asked for it, she got it.
And as for the sentence being more than carjackers serve? Carjackers steal a car, and they're done. Letourneau's ill-gotten children have been given a life sentence: a real loser for a mother.
I am skeptical of my government, but I don't have a morbid fear of it and hostility toward it like some of you laissez-faire types do.
And they've typically left a few dead vctims in their wake. MKL, in contrast, was guilty of having a weird consensual relationship with one specific person. I won't argue with her original sentence because the boy was definitely underage at the time, while she was in a position of professional power. Now that she has served her time and the "victim" is 21, he is legally capable of making up his own mind.
No, what we're dealing with is a tinhorn Javert obsessed with "making an example" of one odd couple. If we punished all the oddball sexual relationships that are out there, we would have to convert all of Cuba into one giant Guantanamo.
I am skeptical of my government, but I don't have a morbid fear of it and hostility toward it like some of you laissez-faire types do.
What I have a morbid fear of is the control-obsessed types who keep using government as an excuse to expand their power. Governments is supposed to be all of us, not theme parks for the power-hungry.