[redrunner]

I'm a bit puzzled by this... Don't laws already exist that outlaw sex between adults and minors??? Why another law???

[lapster]

Hate to say it, but a society that needs such laws is probably well beyond their having an effect.

[Gabz]

Prosecutors had been unable to pursue felony charges because the girl involved was over 16, which is Kentucky's age of consent.

The age of consent and the age of majority are 2 different ages.

[wastedyears]

I know it’ll sound disgusting, but I bet 10 years ago, a boy would be looked at as a king by the other guys if the cute teacher kissed him on the cheek. Nevermind anything else...

[TigersEye]

The teacher, Michael Colvett, 37, of Benton, was charged in October with unlawful transaction with a minor, a misdemeanor, for allegedly encouraging the girl to disobey her parents.

This kind of law is new to me. It seems to me that if "encouraging a minor to disobey their parents" is illegal then a few state legilatures are guilty. Such as those states that make it legal for minors to get abortions without parental consent and allow their schools to pass out contraceptives without parental knowledge.

Perhaps Maine, California and other states with those laws have no "unlawful transaction" laws. IMO they should and state legilators should be charged and tried under them.

[RichInOC]

“You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.”

—Martin Behrman, mayor of New Orleans, on the closing of the Storyville brothel district

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