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Oprah Magazine: Female Teachers Who Have Sex with Students Are Misguided Poor Souls Looking for Love… 2008-08-27 "Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?" Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with their students, such as Debra Lafave (pictured). The article is "Why Did the Teacher Have Sex With Her Student?" Jay writes: My wife and I both...

International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age Tim Reid in Washington, Jeremy Griffin and Jane Macartney in Beijing The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics star because she was too young to compete. An IOC official told The Times that because of "discrepancies" that have come to light about the age of He Kexin, the host nation’s darling who won gold in both team and individual events, an official inquiry has been launched that could result in the gymnast being stripped...

Hacker uncovers 'proof' that Chinese gymnast is underage Jane Macartney in Beijing A determined computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold, edging Britain’s Beth Tweddle into fourth place, may indeed be underage. Controversy over whether He Kexin, gold medallist in the uneven bars, is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics. The latest challenge over the age of the tiny Olympian comes from the discovery through a cyberspace maze of Chinese official documents listing her date of birth. She...

The first misstep for the host country at the meticulously scripted and spectacularly staged Games occurred when its gold-medal winning women’s gymnastics team was accused of using underage competitors. Athletes have to be 16 to be able to compete in Beijing. But to many journalists and spectators the Chinese gymnasts looked so young, a U.S. Olympic coach believed one still had her “milk teeth.” A New York Times story probably confirmed China broke the rules when it cited a speech the Chinese director of general administration of sport made last November. In it, the director referred to one of the...

Boy's parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21 Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:12 AM By Mary Beth Lane THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH LANCASTER, Ohio --- A Pickerington couple and their son are fighting for custody of a baby born to a Lancaster woman charged with having unlawful sex with the boy, who was 15 at the time of conception. A paternity test shows that the teen is the father of the baby born April 7 to Jane C. Crane, who was 19 when she became pregnant. Now, a judge has ordered him to pay $50 a month in child...

/snip Under Olympic regulations, female gymnasts must turn 16 years old during the year of competition. According to their passports, which determine Olympic eligibility, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan and Yang Yilin are all 16. But Chinese online records and local newspaper articles have presented different information, raising questions about these three gynmasts' true ages. A 2006 biography from the local sports bureau where He was registered gave her date of birth as January 1, 1994, which would make her 14. A story earlier this year in the China Daily, the country's largest English-language newspaper, also reported that she is 14...

The simmering issue over possibly under-age Chinese gymnasts did not boil over before the women’s (wink, wink) team final was settled Wednesday with the host country taking the gold from the United States rather convincingly. But why do I get the feeling that if these Olympics were happening in Chicago or Los Angeles, the story would by now be a serious cable television cause célèbre? Larry King would be interviewing the stricken parents of victimized Americans. Hannity would be chiding Colmes about Communist child abusers. Lou Dobbs would be demanding the borders be closed to all Chinese gymnasts under 80...

A 13-year-old girl's sexual shenanigans have put a second man behind bars. Morris Williams, 22, told the judge he thought the girl was 18-years-old, but he found out Tuesday that ignorance is not a defense. Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a sexy, 19-year-old divorced woman. "She told me she had just turned 18," Williams said. Williams said Dean picked him up on the street and after a few conversations...

ORANGE COUNTy, Fla. -- A 13-year-old girl's sexual shenanigans have put a second man behind bars. Morris Williams, 22, told the judge he thought the girl was 18-years-old, but he found out Tuesday that ignorance is not a defense. Morris Williams' mother wailed as he went off to jail. The judge asked for media not to show 13-year-old Alisha Dean's face in court, but her pictures are all over her MySpace page and they portray a sexy, 19-year-old divorced woman. "She told me she had just turned 18," Williams said. Williams said Dean picked him up on the street and...

Underage drinkers who attempt to buy alcohol may be thwarted by the technology that police use to identify suspected criminals. A supermarket chain is introducing face recognition cameras to prevent staff mistakenly selling cigarettes and alcohol to under-18s. Face recognition: Will be used to stop underage drinkers buying alcohol The biometric technology is being piloted by Budgens at one of its London branches. If successful, it could be rolled out across the country to create a database of youngsters who try to buy alcohol. The system alerts a cashier if it 'recognises' someone who has previously been unable to prove...

I'm not quite as old-fashioned as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which hews to the early-marriage customs of the 19th century and the polygamous practices of biblical times. But I'm old-fashioned enough to believe the government needs a good reason to pull a crying, clinging child away from her mother and hand her over to the care of strangers.The possibility that the child might marry an older man 10 or 12 or 14 years from now does not cut it. Citing that long-term, speculative danger to justify the certain, immediate damage it has done by...

Careful about doling out glasses of spiked eggnog to the college-aged kids in your family this Christmas. A glassful could cost you your license, even if no one gets near a car. North Carolina is taking bans on booze to a new level as part of a passel of legislation that also bans alcohol inhalers and changes requirements for ankle bracelets for boozers: "As of Saturday, people can lose their driver's licenses for providing alcohol to anyone under 21. The penalty is important because many underage drinkers get alcohol from friends or family members, said Craig Lloyd, the executive director...

MANISTEE, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan State Police trooper based in Manistee County is headed to jail for a week after hosting an underage drinking party at his home.

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) has threatened to file a lawsuit against Lilia Rose, a student journalist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The suit stems from an undercover investigation in which Rose recorded herself going into a PPLA clinic in Santa Monica, Calif., posing as a 15-year-old pregnant girl accompanied by her 23-year-”old boyfriend.” A 23-year old having sex with a 15-year old would be considered statutory rape. In addition, the clinic would be required to report an abortion provided to a 15-year old. Rose covertly video taped the encounter. The tape revealed that she was advised...

Amsterdam's mayor has reportedly changed his mind and allowed the city's upcoming Gay Pride festival to include a canal boat for 11 to 16 year-olds. According to the ANP news agency, the mayor, Job Cohen, had blocked the plans in late January, saying it was too risky. A 14-year-old Danny Hoekzema came up with the idea and has conducted an Internet campaign to drum up support for his campaign, and says he has already found around 10 participants for the 30-place boat. Gay Pride organizers had said that it would be kept well away from more "provocative" boats parading along...

NEWTON - One man has pleaded guilty and five others are charged in a case alleging they had sex with three middle school girls. The case began when administrators at Chisholm Middle School called the Newton Police Department asking for a truancy check on a 15-year-old girl. When an officer found the girl at an apartment Jan. 10, authorities say, she confided she had been having sex with an older man and that two 13-year-old girls who attended a different school were also involved with the men. All six suspects, as well as a seventh man being sought for questioning,...

Facing criminal rape charges, Brent Roark - a Jefferson City High School math teacher and softball coach - resigned Tuesday. The seven-member Board of Education had scheduled a special, closed-door meeting to discuss his situation, after a Cole County grand jury earlier this month indicted Roark with two counts of second-degree statutory rape. “The Board of Education voted to accept Mr. Roark's resignation at the special meeting,” Superintendent Bert Kimble reported Wednesday morning. “The board executed a separation agreement with Mr. Roark, at his request.” The separation agreement says Roark agreed “to irrevocably resign immediately” and includes no special arrangements...

Female teachers punished Utah sex-crimes cases highlight stereotypes By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News It seemed like a bad week for female educators in Utah — three of them appeared in court over charges of sexual misconduct with underage male students.

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By IAN DRURY, Daily Mail Great Britain - A girl is to become Britain's youngest mother after becoming pregnant at 11. The girl smokes 20 cigarettes a day despite being eight months' pregnant. She conceived aged 11 when she lost her virginity to a boy of 15 on a drunken night out with friends. The 15-year-old has since been charged with rape by police, and is due to appear again at Edinburgh sheriff court on July 10. Her 34-year-old mother, who gave birth to her youngest child eight months ago, said she was 'proud' of her daughter. She will be...

DANVERS — The brown SUV rolled to a stop in a Holten Street parking lot as two 17-year-old high school students in the back seat emptied their pockets of everything except their cell phones and a $20 bill. They wouldn't need much more to buy a pack of cigarettes in Danvers. The girl, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a pair of jeans, stepped into the pouring rain, approached a sales clerk at the Mobil gas station and returned moments later with a pack of Marlboro Reds. The two teens work undercover for the North Shore Tobacco Control Program, the...

In a searing court attack on Charlie Sheen, actress Denise Richards alleges that her estranged husband is unstable, violent, addicted to gambling and prostitutes, and visits pornographic web sites featuring young men and girls who appear underage. In a remarkable sworn declaration (a copy of which you'll find below) filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Richards also charges that Sheen, 40, assaulted her and threatened her life during a December 30 incident at the actress's Los Angeles home. Richards claims that an enraged Sheen--who was over for a visit with the couple's two children--told her she was "fucking with...

A Claremont mother said she is “devastated and scared” after being charged with facilitating an underage drinking party Saturday. “I am a wreck,” Lori Helie, 40, of 49 Prospect St., said yesterday. “I have a year in jail hanging over my head. I spent one night in jail over this and I can’t imagine what a year would be like. “I was not hosting a party. I had gone to bed . . . I bought alcohol for no one,” Helie told the New Hampshire Union Leader. Helie said she had no idea that New Hampshire passed a law in...

APRIL 4--Meet Rachel Holt. The 34-year-old Delaware teacher is facing rape charges for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old student 28 times during a one-week period last month. Holt, a science teacher at Claymont Elementary School, allegedly had sex with the boy, a student in her class, at her Wilmington home. According to a probable cause affidavit filed today in Justice of the Peace Court, the boy's father contacted cops yesterday afternoon and told them his child was having "inappropriate contact" with Holt. Last night, in an interview at New Castle County police headquarters, Holt admitted she had intercourse with...

Thursday, March 30, 2006 No rave crackdown coming Teen rules wouldn't have stopped tragedy, officials say By ANGELA GALLOWAY AND D. PARVAZ P-I REPORTERS Faced with the senselessness of last week's slaughter of six young people hours after an all-night, all-ages dance party, many parents want not only answers -- but also accountability. That has some in Seattle's "rave" scene worried about a government crackdown reminiscent of the controversial and now defunct "Teen Dance Ordinance." But it's more likely that the only new restrictions on raves here will be self-imposed -- with at least two events scheduled for this weekend...

Gilford – Police say they warned a local woman last October that it’s a crime to host an underage drinking party — five months before she was arrested for doing just that. Susan Hanlon, 40, told the Sunday News last week that she “had no idea” there was such a law when she allowed her daughter to hold a sleepover party with alcohol to celebrate her 18th birthday on March 11. That’s not true, according to Detective Douglas Wall, the police department’s resource officer for Gilford High School. Just before last Halloween, there were rumors at school about a drinking...

Warning: Adult Content, counting down to get the kids off this thread.10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...GO. See for example this thread first. What the Cal. Supreme Court has said Makes me fear that they've lost their...head BJ's, said the bench from'a sixteen-year-old wench are just fine. (NAMBLA likes boys, instead...)

A federal judge hearing a constitutional challenge to a Kansas law requiring doctors, teachers and others to report underage sex between consenting youths said the state presented no credible evidence that underage sex is always harmful. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten stopped short of issuing a decision from the bench, but he repeatedly interrupted Thursday's closing arguments by Assistant Attorney General Steve Alexander to challenge his assertions. "Motives are irrelevant - I want to deal with facts," Marten said. "Where is the clear, credible evidence that underage sex is always injurious? If you tell me because it is illegal...

SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah House passed a bill Friday requiring girls younger than 18 to get parental consent before they may undergo an abortion. Current law requires doctors to notify a girl's parents before ending her pregnancy, but the parents need not consent to the procedure. Lawmakers voted 65-8 to approve the new measure, sending it to the Senate. Only Democrats voted against it. The bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Kerry Gibson, said such decisions should be made within families, not just in consultation with a medical provider or counselor. "We're trying to bring the rights and the decision-making...

A new law that penalizes anyone caught hosting an underage-drinking party has nabbed dozens of young partiers, but comparatively few parents, a New Hampshire Union Leader analysis reveals. Court records show the vast majority of people arrested under the state’s “house party” law were in their teens or 20s. In 44 cases reviewed for this story, roughly three quarters of people charged were below the legal drinking age at the time of their arrest. Within that same group, just four — including a husband and wife who were charged together — were over the age of 30.

Attention New York State pro-life citizens: Please call Gov. Pataki at 518-474-8390 and tell him to VETO A.116/S.3661 which is the bill to make abortifacient pills legal. Even though Governor Pataki is pro-"choice," Senator Bruno has said that the governor has not made his decision yet. If you call during nonbusiness hours, you can leave your message with your name, phone # and town where you live, on the answering machine.

Michael Jackson is lashing out at his critics, saying he and his family have dedicated themselves to "unity and peace" and do not deserve to be the targets of ridicule and lies. "It is unfortunate that for years we have been targets of completely inaccurate and false portrayals," Jackson said in a brief statement posted on his Web site Thursday. "We have watched as we have been vilified and humiliated. I personally have suffered through many hurtful lies and references to me as 'Wacko Jacko' as well as the latest untruth about me fathering quadruplets." The entertainer, who is facing...

Pregnant and living in a shelter, a 13-year-old Palm Beach County girl is snared in a court fight of national scope after the state's social services agency blocked her attempt to have an abortion. The legal and political wrangling surrounding the girl intensified Thursday as legislators and advocates weighed in on the case in light of state and federal efforts to pass a parental notification law that would apply to pregnant teens. State law allows minors to have abortions without notifying their guardians. Experts say the law extends to wards of the state, raising the question of why this girl's...

INDIANAPOLIS - Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) sued the state of Indiana Monday to stop the seizure of its clients' medical records, saying investigators were on a "fishing expedition," possibly to identify the partners of sexually active 12- and 13-year-olds. The lawsuit filed in Indianapolis seeks temporary and permanent injunctions barring Attorney General Steve Carter and his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit from searching the private records of clients at 40 Planned Parenthood clinics across the state. Already, the unit has seized records of eight clients from clinics in Bloomington, Franklin and Lafayette, according to Betty Cockrum, chief executive officer...

Policeman Accused of Sex With BoyBy Kim Lyons TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 23, 2004 A Baden police officer took time off from his job to engage in sexually explicit Internet chats with a 14-year-old boy with whom he later had sexual contact, federal prosecutors said Monday. "While his wife and children were upstairs, he was downstairs talking dirty to a 14-year-old boy on the computer," assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Miller said at a detention hearing for Kenneth Jones, 38. "He clearly led a parallel life that had gone way beyond fantasy." Jones, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer and father of...

Last week, the British Department of Health, with the blessing of the “ethicists” of the British Medical Association, decreed that girls under 16 may—and indeed should—have abortions without their parents’ knowledge. The girls, health officials reason, have the capacity to decide for themselves whether abortion is right for them; and if they decide it is, they also have the right to medical confidentiality. No one seemed to notice that this decree stood in stark contradiction to the legal age of consent for sexual relations, which remains 16. According to current law, every pregnancy to a girl under 16 results from...

ROME, Georgia (AP) -- A high school football star whose college career was derailed by a rape conviction will attend Hampton University in Virginia this fall on an athletic scholarship. Marcus Dixon spent 15 months in prison after being convicted of aggravated child molestation, a felony, and statutory rape, a misdemeanor. He was accused of assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in a trailer behind Floyd County's Pepperell High School in February 2003, when he was 18. A jury acquitted Dixon of rape, but he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the molestation charge. Some called the case an injustice...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Jennifer Gilligan says she wasn't drinking at the party and didn't know other underage people were. But when Naperville Police pulled up, the 20-year-old and more than a dozen others were ticketed, not for underage drinking, but for simply being at a party where their peers had alcohol. "I was very upset because I don't drink," Gilligan said. She isn't the only one complaining about the Chicago suburb's unusual ordinance. So are parents who say they teach their children to be responsible and stay away from alcohol until they reach the legal drinking age of 21 —...

Youth told his mother what happened, affidavit says By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, July 14, 2004 An Austin woman who police say had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy for months has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Bail for Jessica Renee Fraire, 27, was set at $12,000, but Tuesday afternoon she had not been booked into the Travis County Jail. She is charged with a first-degree felony, punishable by up to life in prison, because the boy was under 14. According to a probable cause affidavit, Fraire began having sex with the boy last...

<p>Billboards, posters and drink coasters will deliver a state campaign to try to dissuade older men from having sex with underage girls.</p> <p>The Health Department will bring the campaign to Northern Virginia, Richmond and Roanoke this month and next. The campaign is modeled on a pilot project that ran last July in Hampton Roads, which the department deemed a success.</p>

-snip- Is this an idea whose time has not yet come? Probably. The fractious fractions bill is unlikely to get through California's Committee on Constitutional Amendments that meets May 26. If we want to design "training wheels," it might be better to lower the voting age first in local elections, especially school boards, where high-schoolers truly face taxation -- or rather tax cuts -- without representation. -snip-

Drunken Teen Hospitalized, Couple Charged POSTED: 11:43 AM CST December 31, 2003 UPDATED: 11:47 AM CST December 31, 2003 DAVENPORT, Iowa -- A Davenport couple have been charged with child endangerment in connection with an underage drinking party. Police said a 13-year-old boy had to be hospitalized because he wasn't breathing after Sandra and Mark Leckington left him and their 12-year-old son alone at their home for more than three hours Monday. When they returned home, police said the Leckingtons didn't immediately call an ambulance when they found the boy in their bathtub. The boy was later taken to...

1. Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office. 2. Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a well-publicized national outrage, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire, in Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophe. 3. Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless ultra-nationalist foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate. 4. Like Hitler, Bush has accordingly improved his popularity ratings, especially with veterans and conservative Republicans, by mounting an aggressive public relations campaign against foreign enemies. Just as Hitler...

Sept. 17 -- Americans may be getting used to the Terminator on the ballot. But can they handle his teenage fans in the voting booth? Laura Finstad says yes. She works, pays taxes, and has been a political activist for years. And she's finally won the right to vote in the United States. Her big accomplishment? Turning 18 last Saturday. Finstad fumes about the law that made her wait so long and is campaigning for the voting rights of younger teenagers. The teen is gathering signatures for a petition to lower the voting age in suburban Takoma Park, Md. "Young...

Phish's Mike Gordon ArrestedBassist booked for child endangerment Mike Gordon Phish bassist Mike Gordon, 38, was arrested Monday, August 11th, on charges of child endangerment after he was found with a nine-year-old girl in a secluded boathouse during a show by the Dead in Jones Beach, New York. According to a statement released by Major Richard O'Donnell of the New York State Park Police, Gordon was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment and trespassing. "The arrest was the result of a complaint by the mother of a nine-year-old girl," reads the statement. "The mother became concerned when she...

Lords' life story makes for poignant reading Thu Aug 7, 6:30 AM ET By Amanda Tyler, USA TODAY Traci Lords. To most, it's a name synonymous with underage porn, and it still evokes the most taboo of interests interest in how a 15-year-old girl from the Midwest rocked the porn industry, interest in those early films that sparked an intense three-year FBI investigation, and interest in how someone polishes such a tarnished reputation. But none of this interest is anything Lords set out to generate. Underneath the facade and two layers of fake identities, she was just a lost teenager,...

Poll Should underage girls have the legal right not to tell their parents if they have an abortion?

TOPEKA, Kan. - Doctors who perform abortions on girls under 16 must report the pregnancies to authorities as instances of suspected child abuse, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Kansas law prohibits sex with a child under 16, making a pregnancy evidence of child abuse, said Attorney General Phill Kline. Another state law requires doctors to report suspected abuse. He said doctors who fail to report such cases could face misdemeanor charges punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000. They also could face disciplinary action from the State Board of Healing Arts, which licenses...

More Than 100 Warrants Served Against 'Girls Gone Wild' Crew Posted: 1:06 a.m. EDT May 24, 2003Updated: 1:23 a.m. EDT May 24, 2003 PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- More than 100 criminal warrants have been served against three companies, the creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series and a camera operator stemming from a film crew's spring break visit to the Florida Panhandle. Producer Joe Francis, 30, of Las Vegas, voluntarily appeared Thursday to be processed on 22 charges stemming from his arrest on April 2 with three employees. They were arrested at nearby Panama City Beach, one of the...

Aborigine insists tribal law gives right to underage sex By Kathy Marks in Sydney 22 February 2003 The place of tribal law in Australia's legal system will be reviewed after a 50-year-old Aboriginal man argued that tradition gave him the right to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. Jackie Pascoe Jamilmira, who lives in an isolated community in the Northern Territory, was given a 13-month jail sentence for having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl, but had the sentence reduced to one day after an appeal. The girl, who had been "promised" to him in marriage by her family, initially...