Let's Be Serious...

[sp1814]

What...the...hell...is...going...on????

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/loren-morris-woman-jailed-having-3258099

Okay, cards on the table (and you can criticise me for this, but I can understand how it can happen) - a woman sleeping with a 15 year old, or a 16 year student in her charge...is understandable.

But...this???

[Old_Geezer]

At 8 I'm surprised he could comply.
She obviously has mental issues not being able to tell right from wrong.

[askyourgran]

I was thinking the same thing OG. "Her parents have stepped in and are now building bridges"!!

[wolf63]

Too eeky to even contemplate. At that age I didn't even understand all about the birds and bees. I wonder what she will be treated like in prison, most adults are naturally protective of children and they will be totally appalled by her actions.

[sunny-dave]

She's obviously not the full shilling and needs help rather than punishment.

I do wonder what the equivalent sentence for a man would have been though (however limited his intellectual understanding was)?

[sp1814]

To me, it just doesn't compute.

Yes, I totally think that he brain is...mis-wired. I don't understand it at all.

I don't want to sound like I'm jumping on the 'Oohh...evil paedophile' bandwagon. It's not that. It just the sheer incomprehension of the crime. It...does...not...compute...

[DTCwordfan]

the link won't open - how long did she get? Under 10 and it's a disgrace, years that is.

[wolf63]

DTC - 2 years!

[hc4361]

She was a juvenile herself at the time she committed the offences, not excusing her at all, but just making clear that it wasn't a woman having sex with a child.

[DTCwordfan]

her age, hc?

[askyourgran]

She is now 21 but she started sleeping with the boy when she just turned 16. She stopped when realised it was wrong. I don't think she is the full shilling.

[hc4361]

21 now, but 16 - 18 at the time.

[hc4361]

Scary thing is that she is now a mother herself.

[DTCwordfan]

Over 16, sexually an adult in the eyes of the law...should have been much more in terms of sentence - with psychological help that is evidently needed - even though I can't see the article.

[hc4361]

But in the eyes of the law she was a juvenile at the time of the offences and would not have been tried in an adult court.