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In reply to the discussion: Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]pacalo
(24,721 posts)you mentioned. Parents of teenagers still go through it, however, & usually it involves teenagers of the same age group. The blaming of the "wrong" type of friends or blaming of "permissive" or "indulgent" parents is generally the reaction of some parents, when they don't have a "law" to lean on.
In this case, the parents used the law to put a stop to it because they could. They chose to destroy another kid's life & future -- a good, well-rounded kid with good grades & a promising future -- to deal with their own daughter.
"Lewd & lascivious acts" shouldn't be assigned lightly. The law should be intended for horrifying sex acts only. These are two kids of the same sex who had feelings for each other. The law is being exploited in this case when common sense has gone out the window. It is a parental issue only, imo. If the narrow-minded parents would not hesitate to go to the extreme of ruining another kid's life to save their own, perhaps they could have found a way to send their daughter away to live with out-of-state relatives.