Mom of jailed teen: Son’s just a prisoner of love

Boston Herald ^ | Monday, February 23, 2004 | David Weber

[A. Pole]

He told her he did not blame her for his incarceration and wished her a happy 15th birthday. As a result, McGill imposed a maximum two-year sentence that had been suspended for an earlier violation and tacked on another six months for the jailhouse transgression.

Romeo and Juliet of Massachusetts. They are not "gay".

[A. Pole]

Gay State bump.

[nmh]

Oh by all means allow adults to indulge in sex with minors because they are "in love". How mean to not allow this lust to consumpate physically. (LOL)

[stylin_geek]

Let me guess, the kid is being raised by his mom.

[Catspaw]

So what are her parents going to do when she reaches 18?

[A. Pole]

So what are her parents going to do when she reaches 18?

Jail her too?

[Rightone]

Yeah, get these nasty criminals off the street. Jail 'em both. Good job to her parents and good job to the judge. /sarcasm

[Jaded]

Lambert ordered his daughter to stop seeing Bucchio, but Sandra Bucchio said the girl continued to telephone her son at odd hours of the night. The girl's parents eventually forbade her from using their phone or computer e-mail, but the pair found ways to rendezvous outside their homes.

Why isn't the girl in jail too?

[af_vet_1981]

Let me guess, the kid is being raised by his mom.

Yep. Not enough fathers to go around.

[Catspaw]

Yeah, when she's about to turn 18, they'll probably want to lock her up & throw away the key. But if she's not living under their roof, there's not a thing they can do about it once she's a legal adult. Heck, she could walk out of their house the day she turned 18, walk into the courthouse and marry this guy.

When my daughter was that age, the one thing that'd make her want to be with a boy I didn't like was to say I didn't like him. That's how most teenagers are (which is why I seriously contemplated suspended animation from 13 to 18 for her).

And I wouldn't use the court system to substitute for parenting, which is what the parents of this girl are doing.

[af_vet_1981]

Why isn't the girl in jail too?

The boy's mother did not take out a restraining order against her. She merely sinned by not honoring her parents and disobeying them as they strive to protect her. The boy broke the law.

[Jaded]

My point is she should be punished just as he was. They were doing the same thing. OTOH, had the boy's mother tried to get a restraining order she'da been laughed out of court and ridiculed here.

[Bikers4Bush]

"My point is she should be punished just as he was."

She didn't have a restraining order filed agains't her, he did. He's the one that broke the law and he got what he deserved.

Restraining orders are very serious business and should be treated that way. It took a multitude of events to lead up to the end result. Anywhere along the way the boy could have left it alone. He chose not to and he's paying the price.

[SouthernFreebird]

Pretty stupid parents if you ask me. Now these kids identify with Romeo& Juliet...not a good idea with teens whose emotions are on a roller coaster ride from hades. I hope they make it thru without killing themselves.

I can't get worked up over a 14 yr old girl and 17 yr old boy.

[af_vet_1981]

My point is she should be punished just as he was.

Her parents are punishing her. The boy's parent(s) lost control of him and he violated a court order. He is almost 18 and she is 15. The ages, the willingness of a father and mother to protect their daughter, and the rebellion in a young man who will not obey the court (who knows what his mother told him ?) make it different.

[af_vet_1981]

I can't get worked up over a 14 yr old girl and 17 yr old boy.

I'll assume you don't get worked up over abortions either.

[Catspaw]

Lambert ordered his daughter to stop seeing Bucchio, but Sandra Bucchio said the girl continued to telephone her son at odd hours of the night. The girl's parents eventually forbade her from using their phone or computer e-mail, but the pair found ways to rendezvous outside their homes.

Michael Lambert charged that Bucchio snuck around his house at night and slept in the back yard several times.

Sounds like the girl also wanted contact with the boy, given that she'd call him and her parents barred her from using the phone and e-mail. They found ways to meet anyway.

We'll see if their teen ardor has cooled after he does his 2 1/2 years in jail. And what happens after she turns 18 is anyone's guess.

[Dante3]

He should have stuck to girls his own age. It should be a lesson to leave children alone.

BTW, Michael Vick, an adult football player at VA Tech, is charged with only a misdemeanor for having sex with a 15 year old girl and giving her alcohol, because according to Virginia sex with a 15 year old child is no felony.

[SouthernFreebird]

I'll assume you don't get worked up over abortions either.

WTH..? that's what you came away with after reading my post? That's just out in left field.