Unbelievable

[redheadedfemme]

I cannot believe this.

Coach, 40, Weds 16-Year-Old Student
Anguished Parents Sign Consent Forms, Saying They Had No Choice

This is frakking statutory rape. Or just plain rape, without the statutory. Unfortunately, at the age of sixteen and up, statutory rape laws tend to be vague. In Arizona, with the scenario here described, the coach could have been arrested (the official charge would be "sexual conduct with a minor"). (This is an interesting, if very lengthy, PDF document describing the various state laws.) As far as I can tell, in North Carolina, the state of residence, the creepophile coach can't be charged. However, as a last resort, I suppose, the parents could have thrown the girl in the car, driven to the nearest airport, and taken her out of the country for two years.

At the very least, they could have refused to sign the consent forms, no matter how much she sulked. "No choice"? My lovely rounded tush.

Of course, I'm sure emotions were running high, especially with the relationship holding the lure of the forbidden. Nevertheless, if the parents had held firm, I think there would be a good chance in two years (or less) the girl would have come to her senses. Also, if in that time the parents had continued publicizing the all-around nastiness of a 40-year-old man professing interest in a teenager, perhaps the social stigma would have driven the coach away.

Ugh. The more I think about it, the more icked out I get.

Comments

[aerden.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. Those parents could have and should have absolutely forbidden their daughter from marrying that guy.

My bet is, once she gets too hold to hold his interest, he'll go find another 16 year-old student. :P

Chantal

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I don't know what was going through that girl's head--perhaps her parents were control freaks, and this was her big rebellion against that--but I know that coach is a bastard. Nasty. There is no excuse. He is taking advantage of a mere child, and he ought to know better.

I am shocked the school and police claimed they couldn't do anything. What did the police need: for him to beat the girl up before they'd consider the idea that his attention towards her was inappropriate???

As for her parents, I feel bad for them. I think they shouldn't have signed the consent form, but I also think they should have listened to her reasons for being interested in this old man. (To her age, he is old.) She probably had good reasons for believing this was a good idea, and if they had really listeneded to her, they may have learned what they were not giving to her at home, like freedom and unconditional love, maybe?

But there is no compassion in my heart for him. He is a beast and needs to have his dick cut off and fed to him raw. Ew!

[redheadedfemme]

Very true. I suppose something like this wouldn't happen in a vacuum--certainly the coach started it and is responsible, but perhaps something in the home atmosphere also contributed.

By the way, I love your icon.