"Father builds 'child molester' sign to defend daughter"

[TickTockMan]

A father's frustration prompted him to put a controversial sign up outside of his neighborhood.

The Mid-South father learned his 16-year-old daughter was in a relationship with a 22-year-old married man. In Arkansas, the age of consent is 16, so police said their hands were tied.

That's when the girl's father took matters into his own hands.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/35266395/father-builds-child-molester-sign-to-defend-daughter


I was wondering how you guys felt about this?


I am pretty much in the middle.

 

[Cormac135]

I need to see what the "molester" looked like before i made any judgements.

 

[Kahaih]

The age difference isn't much, nor is the 22yo being married – too young for the vows to stick/amount to much.

Are there any snaps of the police with their hands tied, though? Even in Arkansas, the odds of at least one of them being somewhat hot, or cute in cuffs, is pretty good, I'd think.

 

[Kahaih]

OK, this bit seems important, too:

. . . .
Attorneys said the father is within his right to put up the sign in his yard. However, they said it did put him at risk of being sued for defamation of character.

The '. . . outside of his neighborhood.' bit in the opening post is, or could be, misleading.

Seems the sign, or a sign, on his own property is legal/within local ordinance.

 

[unloadonme]

If the 22 year old has not broken the law, I'd have thought that the father's sign (if it can be seen by a third party, thereby publishing an untruth) might easly be held in court to be libellous.

 

[eastofeden]

I hope he is also making an account for all the therapy she is gonna need due to him being as asshole.

 

[rareboy]

The father is wrong.

Period.

He probably is jealous because someone other than him is banging his daughter.

 

[Telstra]

With only limited information,
I think the father is at fault anyway. When you cannot control your teenage kids, you are at fault.
Anyway, that 16 year old woman could molester the 22 year old boy in my opinion.


16 year old female could potentially have afew kids already therefore she is an adult.

 

[Kahaih]

^Actually, if the 22yo guy’s wife wanted to put up a sign telling the neighbourhood the 16yo girl’s name and that the she is a home wrecking adulterous whore it would be more accurate.

The state does not recognize the 16yo as a child. ‘Child molester’ is a lie.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I wonder if he would have made the same sign if it was his son in a relationship with a 16 year old.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I wonder if he would have made the same sign if it was his son in a relationship with a 16 year old.

I'm gonna err on the side of "Yes" cuz most parents I've met think 22 and 16 don't match up maturity wise for dating.

@Telstra,

Just no. 11 and 12 yr olds can have kids too, your reading is faulty for menses equaling an adult's reasoning processes. 16 isn't anywhere near 22 mentally speaking.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Either way, the double standard exists that people generally are -more- upset when the younger person in the relationship is the girl.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Either way, the double standard exists that people generally are -more- upset when the younger person in the relationship is the girl.

Yeah, double standard there. But then, so is declaring that if it bleeds it's an adult and you can fuck 'em, eh, Telly?

 

[Telstra]

because "child molester" is taboo topic especially in the west and America
Accusing someone like this is aggressive and a no no unless you have any proof.

Might leads to violence and death to the parties involved.
Therefore it is better to hit back and say the 16 year WOMAN molest the 22 year old boy.

Just look at Miss Teen USA, they are 100% woman.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Yeah, double standard there. But then, so is declaring that if it bleeds it's an adult and you can fuck 'em, eh, Telly?

I mean, if we're going to bring up sexism and how it affects men in an article that didn't have sexism affecting men in a negative manner, (Unless you agree with a 22yr old fucking the 16yr old and think a parent being both skeeved and pissed is wrong) then I'm hearing echoes of "What about the Men", so let's be clear about it. Perhaps add some information to the commentary, maybe some statistics on age-range and common excuses adults like to use so they can fuck who they'd like with their very own emotional impunity. I'm sure some on the board will pop up any minute now, either declaring they were a special snowflake at sixteen or their lover was a special snowflake at sixteen. Or fourteen, or thirteen, or whatever age their considerably older ass wants to justify at the moment.

For the life of me I can't think of a socially-acceptable snickering mirror concept to the "if it bleeds/hit puberty ya'll can go to town". Possibly because guys are assumed to know their mind and subsequent actions. That's a definite detriment when tossing age into the mix because it's one hell of a false assumption. It's an assumption based on privilege, though, and that kind of "Men know what they want because being a Man is assumed competency" always has its downsides. As opposed to the "women don't know what they want, they need to be shown (by men). Or if you prefer, "They just need a good dick."

And one of those downsides is adults taking advantage of youth.

But again, if that's the topic of the conversation clarity is a virtue. Perhaps if you can beat it into the average skull that men aren't competent by virtue of their very existence and that women weren't some sort of product with an expiration date, you might get somewhere. Me, haven't figured out how to do that on a broad scale.

 

[Kahaih]

because "child molester" is taboo topic especially in the west and America
Accusing someone like this is aggressive and a no no unless you have any proof.

Might leads to violence and death to the parties involved.
Therefore it is better to hit back and say the 16 year WOMAN molest the 22 year old boy.

Just look at Miss Teen USA, they are 100% woman.

I know nothing about Miss Teen USA, but if they are over 16 years of age, then apparently, right or wrong, Arkansas sees it that way, too, in regards to sexual consent. As do many other places around the world.

 

[luckynumbah7]

because "child molester" is taboo topic especially in the west and America
Accusing someone like this is aggressive and a no no unless you have any proof.

Might leads to violence and death to the parties involved.
Therefore it is better to hit back and say the 16 year WOMAN molest the 22 year old boy.

Just look at Miss Teen USA, they are 100% woman.

There's a reason parents put the word "Young" in front of women and men when talking about teenagers. It's because they largely haven't had the experiences necessary to consider them socially or intellectually an adult. Which is why it said Teen in your damn near indescribably stupid 'example'.

'Woman' and 'man' are often used as shorthand for female and male while also being used as shorthand for 'adult'. When one word has many inferences people often fuck up. Or are fuckups, could go either way with some of the things I've heard in my life.

 

[unloadonme]

I know nothing about Miss Teen USA, but if they are over 16 years of age, then apparently, right or wrong, Arkansas sees it that way, too, in regards to sexual consent. As do many other places around the world.

I was just looking at this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

The statutory age of consent in the US varies between 16, 17 and 18 depending on the state. In Europe, it's 16 or less almost everywhere. Perhaps a sexual relationship involving a 16 year old excites stronger feelings in the US for this reason, but in this particular case what has happened appears to have been within the law.

I can understand that there might be moral objections, particularly if the man was in a position of authority such as a school teacher. We don't know the full circumstances though and what the respective levels of emotional maturity of the parties might be. Bottom line, it's not illegal. Give advice certainty, but the father's actions will almost certainly prove counterproductive.

Has anyone read about Emmanuel Macron who may well be the next President of France? He started a relationship with his schoolteacher when he was 15 and she was 39. She's now his wife.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Tho if I'm talkin' just on the article I'd say he can put up the sign in his own yard, provided he lists ages so the nuances are inferred. I can't even call it defamation of character as child molester isn't exactly an inappropriate term, there. The difference between 16 and 22 is usually pretty vast and laws aren't made with the 'miraculous exceptions' in mind. Nor should they be.

I'm also gonna go out on not much of a limb and point that those very few and incredibly far, far between 'miraculous exceptions' also (I'd like to think usually) have the good common sense to not stir the social pot and encourage predation of others' through their actions. Because that's part and parcel of what being a mature adult means.

I, for instance, waited until I had my own place so's to both not offend other's sensibilities and not to encourage the grabby & deliberately inconsiderate to prey on people in my age range. It was also a hell of a wait to find older adults that weren't being either skeevy or outright dangerous, whether they were twenty yrs old or twenty years older.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Has anyone read about Emmanuel Macron who may well be the next President of France? He started a relationship with his schoolteacher when he was 15 and she was 39. She's now his wife.

Then his wife could've used a swift boot to the ass. I'm a firm believer in adults acting like adults; and adults, when they want something that another person is, logically, probably not ready for, they generally don't go "Well, I'm the special snowflake of an exception!". Waiting a few years won't kill people.