The Michael and Cathryn Borden Memorial Book of the Day.*

From Human Events Online:

Adult females sexually exploiting adolescent boys are malefactors -- not benefactors.

"There is an alarmingly high rate of sexual abuse by females in the backgrounds of rapists, sex offenders, and sexually aggressive men," writes Frederick Mathews, Ph.D., in The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens. Yet the public's perception of adult females who manipulate minor boys into sexual relationships continues to be skewed by late-night comedians and news coverage that treats it as a boy's harmless rite of passage rather than a serious crime.

It's most disturbing when a judge doesn't get it.

On May 22, 2002, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Bruce Gaeta shocked observers during the sentencing hearing of Pamela Diehl-Moore, a 43-year-old teacher who pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault after admitting that she had had sex with a 13-year-old boy many times over a six-month period. Gaeta, who gave Diehl-Moore probation rather than three years in prison, opined:

So I really don't see the harm that was done here. … I don't see anything here that shows that this young man has been psychologically damaged by her actions. And don't forget, this was mutual consent. Now certainly under the law, he is
too young to legally consent, but that's what the law says. Some of the legislators should remember when they were that age. Maybe these ages have to be changed a little bit.

Wowee wow wow wow. Read that last paragraph again, kiddies. That is the sort of judicial "reasoning" that used to get judges lynched in the bad old days. You know, before we became so civilized.

The New Jersey Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Gaeta on May 7, 2003, for comments that evidenced an unethical bias in violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct:

Concerning the sexual nature of young boys, the views implicit in Respondent's comment are fundamentally inconsistent with the meaning and policy of the law that criminalizes the sexual activities between an adult and a minor, boy or girl. That law is strongly based on the understanding that minors, boys as well
as girls, are especially, and presumptively, vulnerable and subject to harm from sexual acts with adults and that they do not have the understanding or maturity to consent to sex, regardless of the strength of their sexual feelings.

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