18 yr old Male with 14 yr old female - DU would be clamoring for jail time

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45. a libelous claim by the mother of the accused is hardly a reliable source

Because the mother of the accused claims in her blog that the victim's parents are homophobic does not make it so.

The mother of the accused also claimed that the victim was 15 and her daughter 17 at the time. The legal documents, however, prove they were 18 and 14 at the time, and show the mother of the accused to be a liar.

I saw those claims making the rounds, but would not expect any reasonable person to consider them a reliable source, especially after the legal documents proved her to be lying with other provable facts. The claim is hearsay at best, libel at worst.

If you do not understand the difference between somebody spreading lies in a misguided attempt to protect their daughter from the legal consequences of her behavior and a reliable source for a quote from the victim's parents (eg an interview by a reporter with the victim's parents), then that is your fault; not mine.