What is being done to this kid is insane. To charge him with a felony is unconscionable.
To make a felony charge stick, I think they have to show malicious intent, from what I have read. In any event, a felony charge is too much in my view.
she should sue him as well...
that is, if its all a lie...
“To charge him with a felony is unconscionable.”
I just don’t see how this is criminal behavior. What are they saying, that he slandered this woman? Is slander even a felony? I always thought it was a civil offense. Or is it that he placed her in criminal jeopardy because if they *were* having a relationship that would be a crime? That would be making a false report, is that a felony? Aside from the fact that he didn’t make a report to law enforcement.
I’m very confused by this story, who reported this to the police in the first place is one question I have.
If what the kid said was a joke, which I’m assuming it was if they are not, in fact, having an affair, it seems pretty stupid to elevate that to a criminal offense.
I mean, should the loathsome Bill Maher be put in jail for things he has said about Sarah Palin? She’s been slandered as much as anyone in this country and yes, with malicious intent. Or a better example, the uterus obsessed Andrew Sullivan, she probably really should have sued him.
We know of a man who was sentenced to 25 years for responding to an online solicitation “sting” by police posing as an underage girl.
While I abhor this type of actual behavior, when you compare sentences for actual criminal acts vs this police sting where nothing happened and no one was harmed, 25 years does seem excessive.
And then we have the earlier post of a SWAT raid where an 80 year old man was gunned down in his home the middle of the night during a suspected drugs raid. Naturally, no drugs were found, the medical examiner determined that he was in his bed when shot, etc, etc.
Some things just don’t seem right.
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Agreed.
OTOH, if he says he had a sexual relationship with a teacher, and he didn’t, he is falsely accusing her of a felony or two, according to the laws of most states, jeopardizing her job, career, and reputation, potentially costing her tens of thousands in legal fees.
Some people say false rape accusations of specific individuals should be felonies, and I tend to agree. The student did not say the teacher raped him in those words; very few boys would, but he did in effect accuse her of statutory rape.
Perhaps if our schools and legal system operated more by commonsense and less by rigid policy, this big mouth would face the administrative and parental consequences of his big mouth, and there would be an end to it.
Assume this kid is white? A black or hispanic would not be punished.