Sorry, I’m just so shockraged by these commenters.

No, the key is that he was 11. She raped an 11 year old.

Or he might surprise us all and just murder her in a drunken rage. That’s a likely scenario.

Are you seriously bragging about hanging out and drinking with a pedophile?

Is there any real proof or evidence he was abusive? She clearly has a personality disorder, and she is a rapist, so???

I think people find 20 + age differences unsettling regardless of sex, but it’s also nice that an 11 year old boy being raped reminds you how unfair that rich white actress has been besmirched by the tabloid press. Awesome.

11, 11 year old student that she started grooming at 7.

I’ve suffered about 32 rage strokes in the last hour of reading these comments. The abject racism, fancy white ladies aren’t rapists, he was asking for it, wow that’s real love; etc, has literally left the right half of my face paralyzed.

The whole “mandingo” “people of color sexually mature earlier” undertones in some of the comments have left me speechless. The fact that it was used to justify sexual abuse of slaves and indigenous people by predatory white colonists for centuries is somehow not relevant because Ms. Latourneau is a fancy white lady is…

He is a depressed alcoholic, raped at age 11, with no family support stuck with the pedophile that raped him? What is working exactly?

Megalomaniac? You mean child rapist, right?

You are a terrible, terrible, terrible judge of character and I pray that your partner / coparent has a better read on people than you do.

Who even knows when that started. Throwing up.

I’m freaked out by the commenters on this and another site I saw, that find the “enduring love” romantic. That say wow, they really love each other, as if it’s a proxy for their own failing relationship. I could just barf.

Oh Gawd, and just imagine if he was black or latino.

Either you are a victim of abuse and are using this as a coping strategy to deal with unresolved feelings about the person that abused you, or because it’s part of some sick needy fantasy you’re carrying around with you because you felt your parents didn’t love you enough. Either way, find a therapist because raping…

Thank you for saying this!

I am freaking out on the verge of tears reading Heidi’s comments. This is just insanity!

Then should have recommended counseling and had him removed from her classroom so that he could be evaluated by professionals. That’s what a responsible adult would do.

Yes it is up to people to decide. That is why we have LAWS against pedophiles. LAWS that explicitly say IT IS NOT OK TO HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN! If you are not a troll, or a member of NAMBLA then something else is very, very, very wrong with you.