Tuesday, December 13, 2005
another ridiculous excuse for child abuse
So I've written below about Debra Lafave, the former Florida teacher who raped one of her students and got a plea deal by arguing she's "too pretty" to go to prison. The plea deal was rejected by a judge last week.
Now in Georgia, there's another woman who got pregnant by a 15-year-old friend of her son. She married the father, even though she "prefers older men."
Here's what the woman, Lisa Clark, had to say:
This aw-shucks mentality is just sickening. Uh, honey, you've got a good 22 years on your young groom. It's not like you couldn't be the adult and tell him no once and for all. I don't care how "worldly" you think a 15-year-old is, there's still a gigantic power dynamic there that you can't just excuse by saying how nice and sweet the kid was.
Clark should go to prison right alongside Lafave. They could be cellmates (you know, except for that whole different states thing). Regardless, they should both be locked up for a very long time. We can not afford to excuse this kind of abuse.
Now in Georgia, there's another woman who got pregnant by a 15-year-old friend of her son. She married the father, even though she "prefers older men."
Here's what the woman, Lisa Clark, had to say:
“They’re making a big deal out of a 15-year-old,” she told WAGA-TV in Atlanta. “And I can assure you that he was no victim.
“It’s not like they are making it out to be. Actually, I’d told him ’no’ several times because I prefer someone older, but he was just so nice and so sweet,” she said.
This aw-shucks mentality is just sickening. Uh, honey, you've got a good 22 years on your young groom. It's not like you couldn't be the adult and tell him no once and for all. I don't care how "worldly" you think a 15-year-old is, there's still a gigantic power dynamic there that you can't just excuse by saying how nice and sweet the kid was.
Clark should go to prison right alongside Lafave. They could be cellmates (you know, except for that whole different states thing). Regardless, they should both be locked up for a very long time. We can not afford to excuse this kind of abuse.







