Posted on 12/07/2005 10:08:04 AM PST by varyouga
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Two Lincoln teenagers have been ticketed for having sex in a high school hallway during the lunch hour while at least a dozen students watched, according to Lincoln police.
School officials said the incident happened over the lunch hour Wednesday at Lincoln Southeast. A female 17-year-old and a male 19-year-old apparently snuck past a gate to get into a restricted hallway near the Prasch Activity Center. Lincoln police said at least a dozen students watched through the gate.
A school administrator found the couple and called a school resource officer.
"I don't want the message to families (to be that) this is happening indiscriminately all over the halls," said Becky Wild, with Lincoln Public Schools.
Wild said she remembers only one other incident like this in the last 10 years. She said LPS takes it very seriously, and administrators are asking themselves some tough questions.
"Are there some areas in our schools that are not as visible to the adults that supervise? We need to figure out how we cover those. Do we need to be talking with students about appropriate behavior?" Wild said.
Word of the incident doesn't sit well with some students.
"It's inappropriate," said one student. "It is. First of all, they don't need to be doing that in front of other people."
Students told KETV NewsWatch 7 that they believe sex in the hallways is rare, but sexual activity in schools happens more than adults think.
"If a kid thinks they can do that and it's going to make them popular, that's the level people go to nowadays," said student Danielle Thompson.
"I honestly think it could happen, and it probably does happen at their schools. People just don't know about it," said student Tomika Hopkins-Sanders.
LPS said students involved in sexual activity at school could face disciplinary action, counseling, suspension or even expulsion.
School officials will look at changes that can be made to prevent this kind of incident, but admitted that it's tough to keep an eye on every student at every moment of the day.
"LPS said students involved in sexual activity at school could face disciplinary action, counseling, suspension or even expulsion"
At least they should be ejaculated from the school.
Um, is this not statutory rape?
Uh, "ticketed" for sex? Were they going to fast? bwahahahahahaha!
Kids were having sex at my HS in Toledo, OH in the late 70's, but they would usually use a bathroom on a very seldom used upper floor.
No. In most states it's not statutory rape is the age difference is less that 3 years and as another poster pointed out, the legal age in most states is 17, not 18.
This is what I found on Nebraska...
Debauching a minor; penalty.
28-805. (1) Any person not a minor commits the offense of debauching a minor if he or she shall debauch or deprave the morals of any boy or girl under the age of seventeen years by:
1) The bell curve has two tails.
2) Unlike you, I followed a 'normal' academic career. I was graduated from High School at age 18 and from College, with BS in one of the physical sciences, at age 22 (Grad school followed a more unusual pattern). If this character is in his Senior year, he is at most 1 year behind.
Oh. Well thanks for setting me straight.
Well... what can you expect when our own President spends his days engaging in similar activities? Kids all know about that, and think that it justifies their own behaviour, right or wrong.
When I was in High school (class of '77) there was a couple that were famous for having sex on campus.. in the janitor closet, in the equipment room, in the bushes above the football field... who knows where else?
However, as far as I know, they never had an audience.
The legal age of consent in Nebraska is 17.
Could have been worse, they could have been singing Christmas Carols.
I wonder if parents are still allowed to start their kids in school one year late? Here in Georgia, some parents used to do that so that they could be bigger and more developed for football.
If it were two dudes duing it, they would have gotten a medal for exercising their right to expression. If they were punished, they would have sued the school for discrimination based on sexual orientation. Either way, if it was gay sex, the liberal establishment would rally behind it. Glad I'm not liberal because that would be a nasty view.
Kids in school learning their lessons.
No problem. I'm not in that age range, but schools should make that information more common knowledge as statutory rape is a very big deal. A boy that is senior in high school and is 18 could easily be convicted of statutory rape if messed around with a freshman or sophomore.
One of them probably said "Oh God!" and the administration came a-running.
I've read that it has been a national trend for several years now.
Prior to the 90s, girls tended to view oral sex as something more intimate than sex. The view now among women in general is that oral sex is not that big of a deal and not really sex - more like just messing around.
While this may sound bad, it has had that side effect of women being more inclined to save intercourse for relationships.
I'm not saying this is good or bad - so please don't shoot the messenger.
Next to the tuna fish on the salad bar, I presume?
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