Bearing in mind that there is no consent-based comparative-negligence defense in civil suits involving sexual assaults upon minors under CA law, if the school still wanted to try to preserve some sort of (imaginary) comparative negligence defense, why couldn’t the school just say, in paragraph umpty-eleventy-three: “De…

Many, many. :/

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My thoughts are that girls are still disproportionately punished by the educational system at all levels simply for existing, while getting a boy to be punished for anything takes a hell of a lot of work, since you have to push past all the boys-will-be-boys parrots.

I just don’t need kids going to jail for pinching butts.

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I’m reminded of the 16 yr old boy who sent around the nude pictures of his teacher, which he found on her unattended phone. She got fired, and he got “he’s a kid who did something stupid.”

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Your experiences do not invalidate the experiences of everyone else.

When boys actually get in trouble for harassing girls, ask me that question again.

It must be nice to live in a universe where adults don’t call children who happen to have been born with specific anatomical features “whores” on a regular basis.

A game that is popular at school, but one kid gets ARRESTED for it?? Ok, someone’s mom is a nut, and the school needs to have a school wide seminar on bodily autonomy and consent.

Just to be clear: no one should touch anyone without consent: male, female, or in transition. Discipline is definitely called for, and suspension and a mandatory diversion program seems age appropriate, and as the girl realized right away that what she did was both wrong and incredibly stupid, that should be the end…

When was the last time you saw a boy get more than a finger wagging for assault and rape? Almost never. She’s 12. If you honestly thing arresting her and giving her a criminal record over a pinched butt is reasonable, we’re all fucked.

I mean, it’s probably where she got the idea that this was just a jokey game and acceptable behavior in the first place.

Yes, let’s introduce our children to the criminal justice system! Take it one easy step at a time!

Boys touched girls literally *all the time* in my middle school and the worst any of them got was a lecture, maybe detention for repeat offenders. Unless they groped another boy, which was a whole nother ball game.

On the one hand, don’t grab people’s butts unless you definitely have permission to do so. That’s what students should have learned from this - all of them, since it seems like she is not the lone butt-grabber. On the other, it does seem strange that the girl who grabbed the boy is getting in trouble. I wonder how…

and yet if the 12 year old boy Raped a 12 year old girl he probably would get away with it. But one butt pinch done by a girl, send the bitch to jail amirite?

There were countless people right here in the Jezebel comments section that said this woman was a liar as it was impossible for this to have happened, either due to his profession or due to the openness of the E.R.