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icon5.gif Not Sure What You All Will Make Of This Mess....  [message #60527] Tue, 12 January 2010 05:33 Go to next message
Brody Levesque is currently offline  Brody Levesque

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Now, given the current uproar regarding Iris Robinson, MP from Ulster, sleeping with a 19 year old at age 60, Consider this article or actually two that graphically illustrate the profound difficulty in curbing certain activities especially by hormonal driven adolescents.

My question is; Who do you blame? Parents? Adults? Society?

Oh, under Canadian law, no crimes were committed BUT...

From my hometown paper in Toronto, The Globe & Mail, comes this story:

Teen found after meeting his 42-year-old online 'soulmate'
On Tuesday evening, 16-year-old Andrew Kane nonchalantly asked his mother and father if they would drive him from their Barrie, Ont., home to a hotel in nearby Midland, where he planned to meet a 42-year-old woman with whom he had been having a secret relationship over the Internet... Story continues here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/teen-found-after-meeting-his-42-year-old-online-soulmate/article1416257/

Now, here's Part 2, the U. S. side of things...

Texas woman arrested in Ontario Internet luring case
42-year-old woman arrested in Houston after allegedly luring 16-year-old boy from his Barrie, Ont., home... Story continues here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/texas-woman-arrested-in-ontario-internet-luring-case/article1420501/
Re: Not Sure What You All Will Make Of This Mess....  [message #60528 is a reply to message #60527] Tue, 12 January 2010 09:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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It gets quite complex, doesn't it? This is defined as "sexual tourism" and one has to beware not only the law where one performs whatever one performs, but the law where one lives.

Who is to blame?

Sorry, Brody, but the popular news media is to blame for creating the illusion in society that there is a sexual predator under every bush. Rational folk will say that the woman has done nothing wrong. Tabloid reading folk will scream "Paedophile", and the police will make arrests.

In the UK this case would probably come under the list of "not in the public interest to prosecute", but she is likely to have been arrested and charged.


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icon3.gif Re: Not Sure What You All Will Make Of This Mess....  [message #60535 is a reply to message #60528] Tue, 12 January 2010 16:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Brody Levesque is currently offline  Brody Levesque

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Tim wrote:> "Sorry, Brody, but the popular news media is to blame for creating the illusion in society that there is a sexual predator under every bush." Yup, you're right. I forgot to add that to my list.
Daily News  [message #60542 is a reply to message #60535] Tue, 12 January 2010 19:57 Go to previous message
Nigel is currently offline  Nigel

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… and does the article continue "…and into the journalists' offices."?

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