I was told 20 times over that no evidence was needed. The only evidence was the teenagers word. Thats what my attorney told me over and over. So is it my understanding that a teenagers word is considered the proof only in sex offense cases??
Very scary the power given to kids. I can only imagine the lives ruined bc a child was convinced to make up a story about Dad so Mom could get revenge and vice versa.

Thank you for your logical approach. It truly gives me hope.
Here’s my issue. If the teenager I exchanged inappropriate text messages with had murdered his parents, the state would have tried him as an adult.
BUT, when it comes to sexting and pursuing his best friends mom “a milf” by his designation..and oral sex, he is considered a child and deemed unable to make these decisions himself.
What I did was WRONG. I got wrapped up in the flattery and selfishly wanted more attention.
Should my life be ruined because of it? Scarlet letter for life painted with the same brush as pedophiles who prey on babies? Considered as scary as people who rape or kidnap? I mean, really?!

Never been in trouble in my life, married to the same man for 25 years, made one stupid, selfish mistake and I went to PRISON!! But the prison was nothing. The real prison started when I came home.

They are adults when it works for the state and children when they need to win a conviction. How can it be both ways??!!

Sometimes we get what we ask for.

The theory that the way a person dresses would be considered enticement, and could be used as a defense for criminal actions of a rapist or assault is reprehensible at best. A person should have self control, even if someone else were walking naked down the street. My initial comment on this wasn’t to say that the woman should have had the book thrown at her either. My point is that she was treated differently simply because she was a woman. This means that people out there, i.e. prosecuters, lawyers, jury members, judges, etc., don’t see a woman doing this to be as bad as a man. They see the woman as a person who made a mistake that was dumb, but didnt necessitate their life to be ruined forever. So THIS is how a man should be treated. I’m not saying 3 years probation for anyone having sex with a minor is the right call, but some sense of basic intelligence should be used.
We all know that 20 or 30 years ago the concept of a early or mid teen boy having sex with his teacher was almost a right of passage. And a girl of the same age seducing her neighbor or teacher was not unusual at all. Hell dozens of movies were made about these same things. But now things have changed. Men are vilified for this, and women are pretty much given a slap on the wrist.

Will, your suggestion to apply the laws equally across the board may seem a bit over the top to some but you are 100% correct. Some citizens are men; some are women; and some just aren’t for sure, but we are all citizens none the least, and laws should apply to all. I’m even a bit in favor of sex offender laws including enticement. The way some men and women dress is downright disgraceful. I see on TV the way some of the students dress in school, and their dress would embarrass a ‘Naples streetwalker’. The Bible tells us that if we look upon a person in an immoral way, then we have the same as committed an immoral act with that person. The more we act as gentlemen and ladies the better our society will get. I don’t know if we will see that in our lifetime.

Dang skippy a man would have been absolutely crucified!! On that principle alone I think she deserved the full monty a man would have gotten: 25 years per victim, lifetime supervision, lifetime GPS and lifetime registration as a child predator.
My view is black-and-white: Either apply these horrific laws to everyone who commits these types of offenses or abolish them across the board.

I remember reading where Supreme Court Justice Kennedy made his famous faux pas, passing along the canard that recidivism in sex offenders was “frightening and high”, but in another opinion I remember him remarking on something that was the truth – we no longer have a system of trial by one’s peers but a system of plea bargains. Prosecutors have forgotten their oaths of office to seek justice before everything. Now the focus is on their own careers and how to get up and over on the government dime. One does it by numbers of convictions – notches on their legal pistols – it’s all about the case you can build and it has nothing to do with guilt or innocence. As they did in my case, they will manufacture evidence if they don’t have any. In the demographic where I was convicted, juries are like sheep and the US attorney or your prosecutor is the absolute Shepherd. This is because that US attorney represents the great and good government that allowed them in from Cuba to start the process of becoming legal citizens. Cuban refugees understand what happens when one’s government can come down hard on you. If you’re on a jury – (doing your duty like a good American citizen) – and you vote the way the government doesn’t want you to, you could wind up on their shit list and then bad things can happen to you from right out of the blue. Most of the Cuban Mariel boat – lift crowd had this principle instilled in them from a very early age. This is the demographic that’s most prevalent in South Florida. Most people going to trial there for anything lose in the courts – unless of course they have bucket loads and boatloads of money to lawyer up properly. Like Geoffrey Epstein – whose guilt was overwhelming, but got just a slap on the wrist, or William Kennedy Smith who was acquitted. The United States criminal justice system needs a complete overhaul and rebuild. We were on the way to that under Carter until Ronald Reagan got in and scotched the whole process.

95% of all guilty verdicts are the direct result of accepting a plea on a state level, 97.5% on the federal level.
Our Justice system thrives on plea bargaining rather than trials.
So yes, the prosecution is more than happy to offer you a plea, regardless of the evidence against you.