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Juvenile Court to handle sodomy charge

Ledger-Enquirer | 05/18/2006 | Juvenile Court to handle sodomy charge
"She (her daughter) never did say how it first occurred. She came home with a book explaining how to do things, a book she bought. I was cleaning her room and found the book under the bed," the mother said. "I made her get rid of the book. Even a teacher took it away from her in class and returned it to her. I asked why they didn't call me and let me come pick up the book."
The mother said her daughter left the Web site Myspace.com on the home computer and she noticed information about such relationships on the site.
She said her daughter is "angry and confused" and going through therapy but is getting better.

So basically this mother is freaking out that her daughter is either experimenting or is a lesbian. This is exactly the kind of thing that bothers me about statutory rape type laws. Now the "perpetrator" is probably going to labled a sex offender for at least the rest of her teen years. She may even have to register for the rest of her life depending on how the judge feel about monosexuals.

UPDATE: Based on the fact that this is being handled by Juvenile court I suspect that the "perp" is 15 or 16. If she were 17 or definately 18 this would be an issue for the adult courts (from the artical: "Because both were juveniles, Boswell said he can release very little information about the case and that the charges will be handled through Russell County Juvenile Court."). Consentual sodomy was overturned however, sodomy as rape is still alive and good. Many states rape laws are very specific about what constitutes rape and have sodomy laws for things other then vaginal intercourse.