Summer Nelson debate
Summer Nelson is a 28-year old woman from Idaho who had sex with a 14-year old boy at least four times in the last year and a half. She was friends with the boy's mother and was assigned to babysit him and his younger siblings in the summer of 2007. It was at that time that Summer and the boy began to have a love affair which lasted until December 2008, after which time the boy's mother grew suspicious of the couple. Summer has told authorities that she was in love with the boy, asked his mother for her blessing, and even told his brothers that she loved him.
What do you think? Do you agree with Cenk or with Ana?
Cenk's position: if police discover that a 28-year old man and a 14-year old girl are having sexual relations, send him to jail: he's a pedophile. If a 28-year old fat ugly woman and a 14-year old boy are having sexual relations, that's disgusting, too. But if a decently attractive 28-year old woman and a 14-year old boy are having sex, that boy is the luckiest boy in the world and is living every teenage boy's dream.
Ana's position: it's a disgusting double standard to say that when a man does it to a girl it's pedophilia but when a woman does it to a boy that it's the boy getting lucky. (Ana goes on to make perfectly clear that rather than exonerate both adults, she would say that both of them are guilty of statutory rape and should be sent to jail.)
So what's your position?
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Love is a weird thing. I guess we wouldn't know how it would be if we were in their shoes. Age is a weird thing too. I think this case would be different when his 18 and she is 32. If they waited 4 years none of this would be happening.
However, since he is 14 I don't think if they waited until he turned 18 he would still feel the same way about her.
Also I don't think she was a good babysitter. Who was watching the other kids? I would totally not give her $20 for watching them.
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