patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

curiooftheheart:

libertarirynn:

Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher who had affair with 12-year-old student, said she ‘didn’t know’ it was illegal — Fox News

Mary Kay Letourneau, the Seattle elementary school teacher who was convicted of raping her sixth-grade student before she ultimately married him and had two daughters, said in a new interview she didn’t know the love affair was a crime.

“If someone had told me, if anyone had told me, there is a specific law that says this is a crime,” she said on “Sunday Night” on Australia’s Channel Seven. “I did not know. I’ve said this over and over again. Had I’d known, if anyone knows my personality. Just the idea, this would count as a crime.”

She also said she felt “absolutely” wrongfully convicted.

She added that although Vili Fualaau was 12 years old at the time, 22 years her junior, she claimed he “was the boss” and pursued her, as news.com.au reported

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Why do we let these sick fucks walk the streets again?

I’ll be fully honest, I think news reports like this contribute to it some. You always see words like “affair with a minor” and stuff. It puts out that wording and phrasing that is so slippery. You cannot “have an affair with a minor”, you cannot “hook-up with a minor”, none of that. It’s rape.

Do you know how shady you have to be, to be an authority figure and not immediately tell a child “pursuing you” that no such relationship should or will happen? ESPECIALLY in a professional, academic environment?

She is an adult. It is HER responsibility to direct the kid to healthy understandings of minor-adult interactions. It is not hard nor impossible to report the behavior to school authorities and speak with the parents before moving the child into a different classroom environment. It is not unrealistic to put distance between yourself and a deluded child who thinks that they can romantically pursue an adult in any healthy way (assuming the kid was “““consenting”““ instead of being pursued by her first).

The only kind of person who allows a child to “be the boss” is a rapist pedophile, pure and simple. She knew exactly what she was doing and like a typical narcissistic manipulator is putting blame on her victim.