Things like this really make me wish I was born a female. Again I'll say it, whoever told you it's a man's world is truly an idiot.
Who are the most vulnerable people in our society? Enron investors? The working poor? No, the answer to the question is: Children.
I've known for a long time that there is no such thing as equal justice in this country. Rich people get away with murder (literally), The famous can do basically whatever they want, white people get away with shit that black people could never get away with. Now we know that if you are a female you can get away with rape. Just tell them you are too pretty to go to jail, and that you are in therapy. Because that argument always works when a man has the spotlight on him. This country is filled to the brim with legal double standards.
Is this the kind of place you want to live? What if it was YOUR kid that got raped? When will Americans forget about their own piece of the pie in this matter and become unified against our inequal system of justice?
jason,
I agree with you 100% with you that she is trying to mask her guilt with facade of being bi-polar.
(e:leetee) and I saw bits of a news conference with Lafave and both of us thought what the hell does being bi-polar have to do with having sex with one of your students? Even if she wasn't med compliant, unless she had a psychotic episode, which she isn't claiming AFAIK, her bi-polar disorder is irrelevant.
I also agree with you that she is doing the mentally ill everywhere by linking her sexual predator behaviour with organic mental illness.
Hi Walt,
You raise many good points. I don't blame the judge for rejecting a plea deal that would keep her out of prison. I also don't blame the kid, how could we, for not wanting the spotlight on him. I don't blame either, in fact I think given their options they couldn't do much.
I think it's the system, and our own collective thought on the matter, that fails us, and the children in cases like this. It's not like the facts weren't evident - it wasn't in question whether or not the kid got raped.
Also - it is well known I have depression. I have a mental illness. How dare this fucking bitch, and her piece of shit lawyer, incinuate that if she wasn't bipolar she wouldn't have made the same choice. Fuck everyone who makes that excuse. I, and millions of other people, live with mental illness and never does it cross our minds to fuck a child. It makes me want to go all vigilante justice and put bullets in their heads when they make that excuse, and it actually flies.
jason,
according the story you posted the reason the additional charges were dropped was because the victim didn't want to testify and without his testify the prosecution didn't think it had a case.
The judge in the case refused to accept a plea bargain would have avoided jailtime for Lafave. He wrote in his decision: ""Quite frankly, if the allegations against the defendant are true, the agreed-upon sentence shocks the conscience of this court."
That doesn't sound like he wasn't taking the charges seriously. The judge wanted the case to go to trial.
Given this scenerio, what do you think the prosecution should have done?
Should have they ignored the rights of the victim and forced him to testify at trial?
Should have they gone on with a trial even though they didn't think they had a case?
Should have the judge accepted a plea bargain that kept Lafave out of prison?
What would the right thing to do in this case be?