double-standard for Poin file stars?

[EStreetJoe]

Interesting article on how the courts have a double standard when it comes to teacher-student sex depending on if its a male teacher or a female teacher.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2013/02/sex_crimes_and_teachers_is_sex.html

Excerpt from the middle of the article:

New Jersey law makes no distinction between girls and boys in cases like these. But anyone who is remotely honest concedes that our culture does indeed make a distinction, and that can spill over into the courtroom.

Full disclosure: I have a son and a daughter, both teens, and I make a distinction myself. I’m not proud of that fact, but it comes from some deep reptilian portion of my brain that is not subject to logic.

Yes, I would be furious if a female teacher had sex with my son at age 15, and I’d demand prison time. But if a male teacher had sex with my daughter at age 15, the police might need to analyze his dental records to identify the body.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Time for the Poin matrix, stat!

 

[Armchair_QB]

The "No ****?" article of the week.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I dunno. Our highest-profile case of this type was a woman pushing 50 diddling a teenage friend of the family. She was the wife of the chairman of the county board of supervisors. She got 14 years.

In an amusing twist, her 20-something daughter was charged with diddling the same kid. Don't remember what happened to her, but it wasn't 14 years.

So, yeah, there may be a double-standard in some cases, but not everywhere. She got her ass kicked.

 

[Bubbler]

If a double standard when it comes to Poin Files is wrong, I don't want to be right.

 

[printit]

Punishment in our criminal justice system is largely based on the impact of the crime on the victim. Murder gets you more time than attempted murder, even though morally the murderer and the attempted murder were equally bad. A 16 year old girl who has sex with an older man has a good chance of being stigmatized by the experience (to say nothing of getting pregnant). There is no 16 year old boy who is going to be stigmatized, or in any way traumatized, by having sex with an attractive 20-something year old woman, which about half of these "predators" seem to be. Thus, the discrepancy.