Posted on 10/26/2007 8:25:52 AM PDT by khnyny
After King Middle School moves to offer birth control, the District Attorney says schools must report anyone under age 14 who's having sex.
Portland's school-based health centers have not been reporting all illegal sexual activity involving minors as required by law, but they will from now on, city officials said Thursday.
Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson questioned the health centers' reporting practices after the Portland School Committee decided last week to offer prescription birth control at the King Middle School health center.
The King Student Health Center has offered comprehensive reproductive health care, including providing condoms and testing for sexually transmitted diseases, since it opened in 2000. The school serves students in grades 6 to 8, ages 11 to 15.
Maine law prohibits having sex with a person under age 14, regardless of the age of the other person involved, Anderson said.
A health care provider must report all known or suspected cases of sex with minors age 13 and under to the state Department of Health and Human Services, she said. Abuse also must be reported to the appropriate district attorney's office, Anderson said, when the suspected perpetrator is someone other than the minor's parent or guardian.
"When it's somebody under age 14, it is a crime and it must be reported," Anderson said. "The health care provider has no discretion in the matter. It's up to the district attorney to decide."
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.mainetoday.com ...
"Wood said he plans to seek guidance from Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe. Rowe is married to Amanda Rowe, Portland's head school nurse and a proponent of the King contraception proposal."
Well, well, the "plot" thickens.
So, the School Districts can give out birth control pills to 11 year old girls, and the District Attorney’s office expects to be informed when a girl under age 14 is reported to have had sex, but the parents . . .?
Ping.
The King Student Health Center has offered comprehensive reproductive health care, including providing condoms and testing for sexually transmitted diseases, since it opened in 2000. The school serves students in grades 6 to 8, ages 11 to 15.
VD in children? My God!
We need God, to be sure.
Imagine what Planned Parenthood might be covering up every day at their hundreds of locations where in some cases we know abusers take their pregnant victims for abortions.
Bill O’Reilly has brought up the issue of such places reporting sexual abuse of minors.
Yep, they sure are going to start reporting ALL incidents of sexual activity with these kids now...
/sarcasm
I bet someone is going to come up with an idea about handing out “sex passes” (like the old hall passes) to monitor this activity...
I’m thinking if they still have hall monitors, there’s going to be some additional duties for them...
/big time sarcasm
***”When it’s somebody under age 14, it is a crime and it must be reported,” Anderson said.***
Are they really saying it’s legal for a 35 year old to have sex with a 15 year old?
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These types of decisions are being made by bureaucrats at the highest level with very little input from parents.
Only if they’re Gay.
Has Portland been deemed a ‘sanctuary city’? I know it’s extremely liberal.
In many cases, Planned Parenthood doesn’t report underage sex even though it may be the law.
Check out the following:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-abortion_weboct02,1,2563062.story
PP built a “health clinic” under another corp. name to avoid detection and protest from the community. Apparently the community is not pleased and tried to stop the clinic from opening. Local politicians and officials were complicit in the deceit.
Covering up statutory rape is as common as mud among planned parenthood abortion centers and public school health offices.
Paradoxically, while public schools seek parental permission to give a child an aspirin or tylenol, they feel no obligation to tell parents that they have sent their child to have an abortion, after instructing her in the pleasures of indiscriminate sex in sex-ed classes.
This is, of course, complicity with statutory rape. Complicity after the fact, by covering it up, and even complicity before the fact, by making it so convenient and attractive to these kids. They are, by providing these opportunities, basically egging the kids on.
Their basic aim is sex without consequences. The main motive of those who support this kind of thing is their own pleasure. Pleasure without consequences or blame. And there’s no doubt that they like the idea of sex with minors, or they wouldn’t be supporting it with such intense political efforts.
parents are not allowed to make decisions in the nanny state.
Age matters. The school could get sued for contributing to the delinquency of minors seems to me.
This is just another symptom of a much bigger issue - the monopoly of government schools.
We need to fight to dismantle this monopoly — educating voters to stop voting for property tax increase, force our reps the take on the “teacher’s” unions etc.
Once parents can choose the type of school they want to send their children too (as well as not being financially burdened by government schools - this problem will fix itself.
Not even looking at this from a moral or religious point of view, but from an educator/administrator/manager angle. These idiots have now made themselves an accessory to child-rape. How brilliant is that??
My point exactly.
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