Debra Lefave: Too Hot For Hard Time

Convicted rapist, Debra Lafave, the 25 year-old school marm from Florida has finally escaped any possibility of jail time. This is due to the fact that the psychiatrists who were responsible for interviewing the teenaged victim had stated that making the young man testify at a trial would impede his recovery and cause untold trauma to his young psyche.

I know that many people have expressed outrage and have commented upon what they perceive to be a double standard in this case because instead of an older man molesting a young girl we have a hot and horny blonde who seduced a young male. Now I have not personally researched the statistics but shortly after the first trial when Ms. Lafave was given her slap on the wrist and no jail time, many news outlets had mentioned that there was not a double standard and in fact plenty of male rapists had been given similar sentences to Ms. Lafave's.

Personally, I too feel that this is a case of double standards and if anything I have read in plenty of rape cases where the female victim is encouraged to testify against her assailant and no psychiatrist stands up to say she should not. And in fact it has been mentioned in the Lafave case that the primary reason for the young man not testifying was merely to avoid embarrassment.

I can certainly understand the boy feeling awkward and not wanting his friends or schoolmates to poke fun at him but in not testifying against this disturbed woman he and his family have basically told her that it wasn't a big deal. Was it or wasn't it? This has to be a double standard and a complete slap in the face to the justice system because I honestly believe that if this had been a 25 year-old David Lafave, male teacher, who had seduced a teenage student that he would have been looking at some serious prison time and nobody would be arguing whether or not it was the appropriate sentence. Tap, tap?

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