Saturday, October 6, 2007
20/20 FRIDAY: Sexual Abuse or Harmless Horseplay
So on 20/20 yesterday they did a story about two middle schoolers in Oregon who had participated in a game well known to middle schoolers called slap the butt. this reminded me of the Jessica Lunsford topic because these boys were arrested for slapping girls butts (girls were doing it to them as well) and for jumping up an down while acting goofy and this was compared to dry humping! Were they wrong for touching the girls yes as were the girls. However, they were charged with Felony Sex Abuse to the First Degree. a charge that would warrant young boys to have to register as sex offenders. These boys were strip searched several ties, held from their parent for several days - seems so outrageous. I posted this to show how this JLA could be too extreme. In any case, after about a year and all the girls signing a petition saying they did not feel threatened the judge dropped the case.
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I can't believe that! I can understand that touching a girl's should be punished, cause I don't think it's very appropriate. But charging them for a sexual assault??! That's crazy! Dry Humping just because they were jumping up and down? That just goes to show how much people are so caught up in trying to be politically correct or whatever it is. I think they should have looked at how the girls reacted because, all we know they could have "enjoyed" or been apart of what the boys were doing. I don't...do I think they should have gotten punished for inappropriate behavior yes, but charged with a misdeamenor...no!
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