 Us Teacher Marries Boy She Raped, Former US schoolteacher marries ex-pupil |
 May 21 2005, 05:45 PM
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Here is the news story from the Beeb, down the left hand side are their older aarticles about it.
What do you think? Were they paid? Should they have continued thier relationship after she was convicted? Are you happy for them? Are you angry that they have been able to marry, have their children and now set up home? Have you ever had a relationship with a tutor/ teacher/ lecture? Did you, as a teen date a person old enought to be your parent, or vise versa? What do you think? Tell us 
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May 31 2005, 09:56 PM
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QUOTE (Calantyr @ May 26 2005, 02:58 AM) Even the Prophet Mohammad consumated his marriage with a girl who was 9 years old... after marrying her at the age of 3. Very very muddy waters there...  Actualy Aisha was 14 when the marriage was consumated. They married when she was nine and they were betrothed when she was three. The consumation when she was nine story is one I keep hearing for some reason. There would have been no point consumating the marriage before she started menstruating. QUOTE (Hobbes @ May 29 2005, 12:47 AM) Has anyone here not had sex before 16 (or whatever the age of consent is in your country) because it is illegal, or just because they felt that - at the age they were - they were just no personally ready to do so... for whatever reason? I wouldn't have had sex before sixteen because it was illegal. My boyfriend would have got into trouble if we had been caught and it would have been too risky. But I didn't get a boyfriend until after I turned sixteen so maybe I would have acted differently. Thing is, while the age of consent is necessary to protect vunerable people, if you catch a seventeen year old with a fifteeen year old a month away from her sixteenth birthday, do you prosecute? If you obeyed the law to the letter then yes. |
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May 31 2005, 10:20 PM
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QUOTE (Museum Girl @ May 31 2005, 10:56 PM) Thing is, while the age of consent is necessary to protect vunerable people, if you catch a seventeen year old with a fifteeen year old a month away from her sixteenth birthday, do you prosecute? If you obeyed the law to the letter then yes. And the letter of the law has been obeyed in such cases. This is why there's a need for "Romeo and Juliet" clauses, I believe they're called - it doesn't apply if the two parties are within a certain age of each other. So a sixteen-year-old sleeping with a fifteen-year-old wouldn't be charged, but a twenty-five-year-old doing the same would. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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May 31 2005, 11:53 PM
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GLITTER!!!!! Group: Established Members Posts: 177 Joined: 20-March 05 Member No.: 1,697 Gender: Female |
QUOTE (CommieBastard @ May 31 2005, 11:20 PM) QUOTE (Museum Girl @ May 31 2005, 10:56 PM) Thing is, while the age of consent is necessary to protect vunerable people, if you catch a seventeen year old with a fifteeen year old a month away from her sixteenth birthday, do you prosecute? If you obeyed the law to the letter then yes. And the letter of the law has been obeyed in such cases. This is why there's a need for "Romeo and Juliet" clauses, I believe they're called - it doesn't apply if the two parties are within a certain age of each other. So a sixteen-year-old sleeping with a fifteen-year-old wouldn't be charged, but a twenty-five-year-old doing the same would. This is true but I don't think English law has those. |
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funked)out_frog Us Teacher Marries Boy She Raped May 21 2005, 05:45 PM
Aislinn Faye What, what, what?! She married him? Omg...I ... May 21 2005, 08:00 PM Snugglebum the Destroyer Really hard to say from the story.
The eternal ro... May 21 2005, 10:29 PM Jonman Well, they're both consenting adults, so why t... May 23 2005, 11:24 AM
ravein QUOTE (Jonman @ May 23 2005, 07:24 AM)Well, t... May 23 2005, 01:43 PM Museum Girl I think it's odd and on her part at the time i... May 23 2005, 03:30 PM believe The initial abuse is disgusting and was rightly pu... May 23 2005, 04:00 PM ravein I think one of the things here that bothers me, th... May 23 2005, 04:51 PM believe He was 12. Maybe a 'mature' 12, but 12. We... May 23 2005, 05:23 PM sarcastic150 You've gotta think when the children ask how t... May 23 2005, 06:09 PM Hobbes A teacher in my old sixth form college was fired, ... May 24 2005, 08:56 PM beccareb I think in some way it proves she wasn't just ... May 26 2005, 12:54 AM Calantyr QUOTE (beccareb @ May 26 2005, 01:54 AM)I thi... May 26 2005, 01:58 AM believe The lifespan in medieval cultures were much, much ... May 26 2005, 04:20 AM Calantyr QUOTE (believe @ May 26 2005, 05:20 AM)The li... May 26 2005, 05:50 PM believe QUOTE I know that, and that raises a point I think... May 27 2005, 09:38 AM Hobbes This thread has moved a little further into the re... May 28 2005, 11:47 PM believe Hobbes, do you mean with each other or with adults... May 28 2005, 11:50 PM artist.unknown My younger brother is the same age as this boy was... May 30 2005, 11:29 PM Ashbless Just raising a point that I believe she was marrie... May 31 2005, 08:40 PM |
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