Witch hunt, anyone??

Wow.

On August 28 a 40 year old woman was sent to prison for 30 YEARS for having sex with a 16 year old young man several times.

30 years. Yes, with a 3 and a 0.

Look, I understand we have to maintain some order of civilization and laws are needed, but 30 years, people? That's just outragous. Did she really scar that teen all that badly? Do you think that 16 year old is going to need fucking counseling?

No. He won't. In fact he probably will brag about it to his friends. Meanwhile this woman is going to lose over a quarter of her life to jail time because she had sex.

Seriously, is our nation so petrofied of sexuality that we're willing to fearmonger to our people and burn into their heads that sex in any form is taboo? That we're willing to distort the facts in order to make a point? A point to what? That sexual intercourse is dirty? That, God forbid you have it with someone half you're age, that you're an evil bastard who should burn at the stake? Because that's what's happening. If this was such a big deal then why hasn't this been happening since the 60s or 70s? It hasn't or at least not in the magnatude it's at today.

Legislaters and the media have been sturring up this tornado of fear. Ever notice how suddenly there's all these news reports of teachers having sex with students? The media and the puritan do gooders, who think it's still the Victorian age, are making it out to sound like it's this rash of evil sweeping over the country and 'we should keep an eye out!' Please. Students were sleeping with teachers ever since the invention of school. It's not new. The whole age of consent idea is rediculous, anyways. Nature created an age of consent- it's called puberty, dumbshits.

And to punish someone so severely is crazy. Seriously, I could go outside, get in my car and 'accidentally' kill someone with it and be charged with manslaughter and get away with half the sentence this poor women recieved. It's out of control. At worst, this woman should have gotten a couple years in jail and at the minimum a few years of probation.

What happened to balancing the sentence to the crime?? It's utterly insane that sentences are being doled out like this merely for having intercourse.

IT'S JUST SEX, PEOPLE!!

FUCKING CHRIST...

Yes, she was considerably older than the teen. And culturally it's quite frowned upon. But I wouldn't consider it so vile and evil that it deserves a 30 year prison sentence. Something like that I would picture happening in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, not the United States.

The double standard that makes me laugh is that if the teen where 22 and the woman was 46 suddenly this wouldn't look so bad. Everyone would think, 'oh the guy's just dating a cougar; big deal.' Hell there are celebrity couples who have age differences larger than 24 years and yet it's all okay. "Well, Nate, those couples are both consenting adults." And what, a 16 year old isn't capable of making an adult decision? Is there some magic date in their lives when they turn 18 that suddenly that are capable of making coherent, adult choices?? Wow. Tell me, please if this is true, as I missed that part in biology class.

I have friends who are 18 and 19 who were as mature at 16 than some 50 year olds I know. So what's with the whole student/teacher scare tactics, media? Legislation? Do you people even hear what you're saying when you spout this crap to the sheep who you disseminate your information and laws to? You people need to be bitch slapped- hard, and brought back to reality.