xXLithiumXx
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ORIGINAL: xXLithiumXx I agree that making an example is always a bad way to make a point, but! In this case, I think a very clear message needs to be sent. The least these boys should face is academic suspension and some therapy. I don't know if we need to go as far as therapy and certainly therapy as a form of punishment sends the wrong message about therapy. It's supposed to beneficial and ... well ... therapeutic (Sorry for the pun). Also, I don't know that forced therapy is ever effective. How many people get sent to A.A. meetings, when they're convicted of drunk driving and then, re-offend? I made the point in post #33 or #35 on page 2 that there are plenty of things that could be done, legally, that are not actions of the courts. Publish their names in the paper or school paper. Let their parents know what they've done. Circulate a flier to the female population of the school that these young men have expressed ideas that could put the ladies on campus in danger. I am not saying that punishment is not called for. I am saying that under current laws, they fall short of criminal culpability. I guess your idea of suspension/expulsion is not out of line but, I wouldn't push for it because in the end, this is not a criminal act and I'm not sure that the school wouldn't be exposed to civil action if they took that tack. I'm at a point where I'd like to start limiting peripheral damage as a result of this and start trying to take pro-active steps to let these young men know the gravity of their "just in fun" behavior and to try and make sure that it isn't repeated. I would hazard a guess that some of these young men have already gotten a wake up call to some degree or another. Peace and comfort, Michael Oh, criminally, I have to agree with you. There is nothing that I can think of that can be done, depending on the wording. I mean, yes, a slick ass lawyer could argue it. And I can guess that these boys are having their back grounds peels through like you or I could not imagine. I mean, how many unsolved rape cases? Do we even know? I won't even try to get into the numbers. But consider little Billy is from Santa Fe, and there was a rash of unsolved rapes a few years ago. Get where I am going with this? I wonder if that has crossed anyone's minds? I agree that the flier with their names on it would be great. Let them suffer a little of the public humiliation, even if it is a shame that most women carry internally, that they would so happily offer their would be victims. Sure, call mom and dad. But I made the point when my daughter was in school and got jumped by a group of 6 boys (she was in the second grade...Had they been a few years older, I shudder to think what I may have been dealing with...)-what exactly are they seeing at home that makes them think this kind of thinking/behavior is acceptable? Maybe if they were made to call their mothers, sisters, grandmothers, or female relatives and tell them. Maybe if those women were called in for a face to face sit down where they had to confess that they had these ideas. I dont know. I had never considered the logic that forced therapy wouldn't work. But, I guess I should have. Maybe after having to tell their mom they want to rape the girl next door, they will want some therapy? Maybe if they spend a few months working on a rape crisis hot line, hearing what women go thru every day. Maybe if they work for a survivors clinic...There are a million possibilities. The problem is...what is the realistic feasible outcome?
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