[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?

[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?

[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.

[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.

[Nataku X]

There's no such thing as a teenage boy in love. Fathers know this, that's why they're so protective of their little girls.

[Iscool]

Very stupid on the part of the parents of the girl...There are ways to deal with the problem without someone going to jail...
If they are still a couple when he gets out of jail, they will not gain a son...They will lose a daughter...

[RussianConservative]

If he not criminal before entry, he will be in end....great judicial system.

[mysterio]

When I was a senior in high school, I dated a freshmen. I guess that makes me a criminal as well.

It would be nice to see a little common sense.

[colorado tanker]

Lambert was two weeks shy of her 14th birthday

In plain English that's 13 years old. This kid is lucky the dad put him in jail instead of pulling out a shotgun.

[Cultural Jihad]

Within hours of landing in jail, Bucchio violated the order again . . .

File it under: "Freewill choices freely chosen."

[melbell]

"But Bucchio's lawyer, who characterized the teens' relationship as ``puppy love'' gone too far, said the maximum three-year sentence his client received is unfair."

Yeah, you are right. He shouldn't be punished for repeatedly breaking the law and violating the restraining order on multiple occasions. /sarcasm

[LarkNeelie]

To have scoffed at legal restrictions for the sake of "true love" might seem romantic and the couple may call themselves Romeo & Juliet, but lets not forget that AGE was not a factor in the Romeo/Juliet saga and that it didn't exactly end with a happily ever after.

That the boy lied about his age in the first place to the girls' father shows that he was well aware that his attentions would not be deemed suitable. The father did not trust the boy once he discovered he had lied about his age. Seems like a reasonable reaction. How had the boy shown the father he was worthy of trust? He hadn't. In fact, he'd shown the opposite. Then the boy further proved the father correct in his assessment of the boy by continuing to deliberately circumvent the father's rules and then the court's orders. "Well sheeeeeeeee did it toooooooo..." is not a defense for the boy.

The father might just as well have deemed a 14 or 15 yr old unsuitable for any number of reasons. Maybe he hangs out in a bad crowd, cuts school, uses drugs, is sexually experienced, has a bad attitude, doesn't honor curfew rules...

The fact is, the father was well within his rights and the boy was not. The court was well within its rights to grant the restraining order and then impose the jail sentence.

If the father should have 'controlled his daughter' better, then so too should the boy's mother have controlled her son.

I'd like to see this boy's reaction when some 17-yr-old liar comes sniffing around his 13-yr-old daughter....

[Spiff]

If an 18-year-old was messing with my 15-year-old daughter, he'd be lucky if all he got was a jail sentence for violating my demand that he stay away from her.

[zoyd]

Bucchio was 17, and Lambert was two weeks shy of her 14th birthday when they first met at the movies at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, N.H., in July 2002.

That's all I really needed to know. 17 YO hits on 13 YO. "But her family liked him..."

[don-o]

Is it just me, or has FR become just overrun with sex theads?

[iconoclast]

A nation gone mad.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wow. These two got off easy! When my Dad found out I was foolin' around with my High School Sweetheart (who was my husband 14 months later) we had a "Family Meeting" with MY parents and HIS parents.

Talk about humiliating! Did it work? Nope. We still did whatever we wanted to do because we were "in love." And no, we didn't get knocked up (which was their primary fear; none of them wanted to be Grandparents while still in their 40's.)

Some kids can handle the responsiblity; others can't. But I agree with the Mom above who said the boyfriend is all the more enticing if he's "forbidden fruit."

I invite my teen's friends and girlfriends over here at every opportunity. I'm good at subtle interrogation, because I don't want to be a Grandma in my 40's either! ;)

Yeah, yeah. What goes around comes around.