1. It is statutory rape, hence consensual.
The boys may be over 18 now....
IMO, a glory seeking DA wanting some easy hits to boost her career.
The giveaway - in a building filled with guidance counselors, administrators up the wazoo, deputy and assistant and vice deputy principals, none of the adults in charge are cited for any incompetence or negligence?
The kids may have engaged in nasty behavior, but at a school where were the adults supposedly watching over all this.
“....none of the adults in charge are cited for any incompetence or negligence?”
It is a modern trend. It happens frequently now accross a wide spectrum of authority. On 9-11-01 there was a hell of a lot of carnage and destruction in America accomplished with civilian air craft and no one could be found who could be charged with having let something get by them.
You have a point. This should have been handled long before it led to a death. The faculty at this school was criminally negligent. However, nothing will be done to them. Don’t want to get in a fight with the teacher’s union, don’t you know.
I can’t see any good coming out of getting these kids involved in the criminal “justice” system. It’s not going to make them grow a conscience. It will probably make them worse people than they already are.
Excellent points.