My husband went to her father not even thinking that she wouldn't want to press charges. It's his friend and both of them are deputies. I think he just assumed that they would do something. But my husband and daughter, as well intentioned as they were, truly didn't understand the depths of fear that come with trying…

It makes me so angry that a girl would be more afraid of our justice system than her rapist. All that this is teaching him is that he can do it again without consequence.

Haha @Albert Brooks

There won't be a trial. She's not telling anyone. She would rather live with it than go through what the victim in this case is.

This afternoon my seventeen year old told me that one of her friends had been forcibly raped in her car after work two months ago. The girl was parked far out in the lot and a coworker followed her.He forced her to take her pants off and raped her in her vehicle.

Exactly this.

I appreciate the comment - and yes, it is awful. I watched my stepdaughter sob recently over her mom's behavior and the realization that she is now a young woman who is still a little girl inside hit me very hard.

Supervised visitation for a while until everyone knows that her mom truly understands the damage she's done. You cannot undo the past but you can work towards a better future and I think that this a case where the needs of the child need to be very carefully, and compassionately, paid attention to.

Wow, thank you for that. You just made my year. I only wish it had been about something much less sad.

As I sit here reading all of the comments about how this kid would be better off without her mom it really hit me that a lot of people aren't realizing that just maybe she wouldn't. Perhaps it's the lack of sleep or just the fact that I'm a mother of four myself (five if we include my stepdaughter who lives with us…

Okay, I'm letting curiosity get the better of my principles. Where does one see these unblurred pics?

If this had been my kid they really would have had a threat on their hands after I found out they were interrogating him without my knowledge. /fuckpolicestates

A lover kissing the hollow of my throat makes me hum. Even thinking about it turns me on.

I wish I could say that I feel badly for her...but I just don't. From the way that they met to the way that she's helped him with his campaigns, I simply don't like what I've learned. More than that, as a politician's wife aren't you signing up in some ways to be a Stepford wife?

Hahaha! I usually refer to my angry turtle ex as having had a starter set. Think this so much more aptly describes things...

Totally agree - when I saw her picture I was like 'damn she looks beautiful!'

Most awesome road trip movie ever! Glenn Beck and a group of his followers find that they are on the no fly list so they have to find another way to cross the ocean. Glenn decides it would be totally hilarious, not to mention oh so Americany, if they all worked their way across on a cruise ship. Seriously, the jokes…

No, this comment from an editor on my local paper is. It was so infuriating I actually copied it and sent it to my sister and mom with a virtual eyeroll. Btw, Michael Goodfellow is a Duke educated journalist. So, yeah.

I have to admit to laughing out loud because I also fit the description - we had a ren wedding. It was seriously fun. My mom made my dress and the bridesmaids were my little girls, also in dresses my mom made. My husband and I had a handfasting ceremony at sunset under a giant oak and then we all ate roasted pork and…

Jealous. I ordered it a while back and it's not arrived yet so I was desperate today. I read the Mermaid Chair instead. (SPOILER ALERT) I wanted to like it, I really did - the lyrical way she put words together truly spoke to me. But come on, you're going to profess your eternal love and swelling, erotic desire for a…