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[msanthrope]

190. As a criminal defense attorney, I have to disagree....the issue is not rearing a child as

one sees fit. You presume that the mother has a right to expose her child to a "stripper." But that is not what happened here--The sex worker in question did not merely remove clothing, but engaged in contact. This was not accidental contact, either, it was contracted for because "strippers" do not commonly perform lap dances without payment to do so--it is a seperate service.

There is no common law right to procure sex workers for one's minor children. Nor is there a common law right to consent to sexual acts on behalf of one's children. Nor is there a common law right to consent to witnessing sex acts on behalf of one's children. It doesn't matter what she told the other parents. It doesn't matter what she consented to. It doesn't matter what the yound man 'consented' to.

She's charged under 260.10 of the NY Penal code. She's not going to be able to use the affirmative defense of consent, and frankly, she doesn't have much of a defense. She's going to have a tough time avoiding jail because no prosecutor is going to go easy on her unless the other parents agree. To avoid jail, she'd have to agree to serious monitoring, parenting classes, restitution, and possibly rehab. But I will tell you--I used to do Juvy defense. Cases like this, with a parent/child so close in age, and the sexual aspect of it, always gave me shivers.