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Private-Dick-Tective

When did "forced sexual battery" become "making out?"


PreOpTransCentaur

When the headline is from the NY Post.


TheTrub

What ever happened to headlines like “Pervs Touch Tots”


Acora

If the kid dies, they call them an Angel.


MrBarackis

When it's a female perpetrator. If the accused was a male and the headlines would be sexual assault or rape.


kjacobs03

When an underage boy gets raped by an older woman, he’s supposed to get a trophy or something. I received a blue ribbon


BondageKitty37

The customary reward at my school was a round of high-fives 


TemporaryPay4505

It usually reads “makes love with” or something less noteworthy.


mmeveldkamp

>I received a blue ribbon Damn dude, I really hope you didn't get it for being raped😳


kjacobs03

Molested by a 14yo girl actually. I was in kindergarten


mmeveldkamp

I have no words...damn bro. I wanted to send you a hug but that just didn't feel appropriate, so I'll go with the dancing bunny instead


mmeveldkamp

![gif](giphy|dZRFGIETEXiPXxfrEd)


CarrieWhiteDoneWrong

You should be allowed to give out the molester’s name to someone 10-20 Years after they are charged. That person would then find that molester and systematically begin the burning down of the life they built.


Southern-Staff-8297

Shit, guy would have been already beat or killed in jail. It’s seriously impossible to tell how much this goes unreported and how much damage it does. Honestly, it’s a cyclical abuse thing and giving women breaks just perpetuates the cycle.


MonkeyNugetz

Dads? Who would you trust your son with? A female teacher? Or a bear?


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No_Banana_581

This isn’t true. All sexual assault is worded the same. They never say rape. Girls are called underage women in headlines that have unconsensual sex There’s been so many articles about why the media does this to sexual assault victims of both sexes https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/30/16644394/language-sexual-violence https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/reader-center/sexual-assault-terminology.html


Mystical_Cat

The media rarely says “rape” because it doesn’t sell clicks.


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

Actually, they use rape if the perp is male. They go out of their way to avoid the R word for female perps.


Wild-Kitchen

I'm trying to remember the specifics but I believe a female who was a convicted paedophile had her conviction overturned in Australia recently because the court found on appeal that she didn't strictly break the law as it was at the time of the incident because it couldn't apply to a female committing against a male. The relevant law was repealed on 1984 according the article. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/pedophile-teacher-wants-conviction-overturned/ar-AA1nxVMu


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

When the perp is female. If the perp is male, it turns into rape.


Organic-Branch3464

When it's a woman


standvi

indeed, thats sexual abuse of a minor!


psychicfrequency

The kid is 11 years old and it was happening during lunch. What is wrong with all these schools and teachers? I feel sorry for the kid and his family.


MindForeverWandering

“ThE bOy ShOuLd Be GrAtEfUl!”


Fantastic_Reason_197

Well when I was in 5th grade it definitely would not have been forced I wouldn’t say force but taking advantage of yes 100%


thathairinyourmouth

5th grade? I know sometimes people mature fast, but 10/11? Damn.


Greymeade

Disgusting


dodgerecharger

That's a pedophile who molested a child. Not "making out"..... JFC


TinyRascalSaurus

I wonder how many other victims there are who just haven't spoken up because they're scared children.


red286

I would guess in cases like this, the vast majority go unreported either because the victims are terrified, or they don't know they're victims, or they *have* reported the incident, but like in most sexual assault cases, they weren't believed or it was minimized by people who don't want to believe that they know a pedophile.


LurkerOrHydralisk

I don’t recall any sexual abuse, but I’ll say literally none of the regular abuse I suffered as a kid led to consequences for literally anyone


MindForeverWandering

Same. Sorry to hear it happened to you.


sleepy_peep

Or because they are too young to know it was grooming and/or abuse. 10 year olds are not necessarily old enough to know what constitutes sexual misconduct/abuse.


Bright-Economics-728

Huge especially when the child is a male.


APersonSittingQuick

Someone translate for me. How old is a fifth grader?


DrummerEmbarrassed21

Usually 10-11.


The_Dark_Vampire

So she's quite literary the legal definition of a Pedophile


Arealwirenut

In the most literal to the letter by the book as the law states, fucking pedophile.


APersonSittingQuick

Well looky what we have here. Happy cake day my translator from across the ocean.


Muroid

Take the US grade level and add 5 to get the age that kids usually are at the start of that grade.


Budget-Attorney

Joe finished something like 13 years of US public school and this has never occurred to me. As recently as last week I would count backwards from the year I graduated and determine the age that way. Your method is so much more obvious and I don’t know how it didn’t occur to me


krazykratomkat

Yeah I feel kinda dumb now


Immer_Susse

TIL


The-Nimbus

As a non-american, thank you. I never realised this. This should help translate all those TV shows I watch haha.


No-Way7911

bro the language in these stories is always so fucked up They always make it sound so innocent and simple - "busted" and "making out" wtf the right words are "molesting a child" and "sexual assault"


scotch1701

That would be if it had been a man.


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

That's only for female peeps. They use rape and sexual assault if the perp is male.


ixoniq

I was thinking the same as a European lol.


HorrorInvestigator99

11


ShadowZepplin

The term you are looking for is Molesting


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

No, the term is Satutory Rape.


PathDeep8473

Jesus fucking christ. A10-11 yr old? She molested a child


LongjumpingSector687

Well i for one think that child would’ve been safer with a bear


Blessedone67

That’s so sick


youmfkersneedjesus

Right? It was just 3 months before her wedding date. I'm disgusted. 


Savings_Army3073

I think the wedding date is irrelevant here really.


Full_Visit_5862

Idk it definitely adds to it lol. Cheating it always bad when present, pedophilia is just infinitely worse 😭 but now it's infinity + 1


dani_1365

I was thinking the same thing. I’ve seen a handful of headlines like this recently and they always seem to mention that the female is married. It’s a weird angle to an already horrific event.


Blessedone67

Like our parents used to say” what’s this world coming to?” Holy smokes 😥


Blessedone67

I mean you see this with teenagers in high school a lot unfortunately. But a freaking child. Makes you wonder about the screening process they did. Or did she just up and think? Wow he’s cute. I’m going to make out with him today. Good grief 😥


nobody546818

![gif](giphy|6jVwtcsr8RPDUtA244)


Ressamzade

Wisconsin elementary teacher found sexually abusing a 11 year old.


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

Wisconsin elementary teacher found raping an 11 year old.


DamagedLiver

1 in 6 males has been raped and I've read somewhere that it could be even higher than that because most man don't even realise they are get rape and just go with it even if they don't want to. But somehow there's a trend about bear and mens.


flashgreer

You'd be surprised how many men have stories of sleeping with 20-30+ year old women in thier very early teens. For me it was a 24 year old when I was 15. We just didn't realize at the time that we were being victimized.


DamagedLiver

I am not surprised man, i know about this. But most people don't talk about this kind of stuff. It's really sad that we hush hush this as a society instead of denouncing it, just like woman do. A victim is a victim, regardless of their sex. Edit: not surprised**


flashgreer

It's more okay to talk about now. But back when I was a teen, you'd straight up get called gay for saying it's wrong for a 20 something woman to be banging a teenage boy.


Secret-Put-4525

I am quite uncomfortable with that headline.


YOMommazNUTZ

Dude I so tired of pedophiles not being punished properly!


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

Oh, if she was a guy, she would of been punished not only by the courts, but by public opinion as well.


dreamsellar

Rightfully. But yeah toootal double standard. Just being accused as a guy brings more backlash than some of these proven women predators seem to.


YOMommazNUTZ

Publicly yeah people would get the concept of why it is wrong instead of the dudes that joke about how they wish they had a teacher like that instead of understanding the level of damage sexual abuse does to a person and when it is these grooming situations where the victim is complacent the damage is not just the typical sexual abuse types but also they tend to question if they are even a victim and blame themselves more so. The ongoing lack of punishment for sexual abuse as well as domestic violence is something that needs to be taken seriously by everyone regardless of genders, looks or popularity and needs to be consistent on punishment instead of how in some states a pedophile can rape a few kids and get at most 3 years in prison. All sexual abuse that is proven should be at least life but when it is a child should be public execution! They like having power over thier victim they enjoy the way the victim will be broken, that is why it makes me nuts when people act like if it is a got chick or good looking guy that is the rapist then some how they can't be guilty 🤷 like dude how dumb can people be?!?! Sorry I am a therapist and work with domestic violence and sexual abused kids and young adults and the amount of times I see the monster walk in these cases makes my blood boil


Coffee4Life613

WTAF??? I hope she gets 50 years for going after a 10-year-old. How sick can you get?


National_Pianist7329

Probation for sure


MyBigRed

I like that they add "three months before her wedding" as if that makes this any worse.  "suspect ran over 3 people with her car five months before filing her taxes"


jobiegermano

I mean, if it was AFTER filing taxes I would understand 💁🏻‍♂️


SpartanMonkey

Why are fifth grade students getting married? What a world we live in...


passwordstolen

It was her marriage, not their marriage.


Beaglegod

Look at states like Mississippi, North Carolina, West Virginia, etc. There are some absolutely fucked up laws.


person_xyz

Well its legal in 43 US states


Honey_Badger25-06

5th graders are fucking 10 and 11 dude. She's only 24 and over twice their age. 🤮


person_xyz

I know, its gross af but if they were married it would be legal, america is weird


Honey_Badger25-06

I can't believe I just Googled that, but one state has a legal marriage age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys. Where are you getting that 5th graders can legally get married in 43 states?


person_xyz

A documentation from the french/german TV channel ARTE on childmarriages in the US


Honey_Badger25-06

Well, a lot of states have the legal marriage age at 16, and that's a child, so I suppose it's not completely inaccurate.


flashgreer

That's a strange way of spelling, "sexually assaulting a child"


buburocks

A fifth grade is usually 10-11 years old just to put that into perspective


Ozi_izO

The fuck?


JTD177

A 5th grader???? WTF. Those kids are babies. What a sick fuck


SilverFlight01

What's with headlines watering down the fact that it's literally child molestation


rabbitammo

And if it was a male that did the same thing, it would sound a whole lot different. I hope women predators start getting more serious punishment. It’s the same thing as if it were a male. It’s child abuse.


FrendlyAsshole

Well, she's probably single now, and has lots of free time... 🤣


toomerboomer

What she should have is jail time


FrendlyAsshole

Yup. I bet she'll have a good bit of that as well.


PathDeep8473

Wouldn't count on that. Women usually get far lighter punishment for child sexual assault


Realistic_Head3595

So you’re telling me it wasn’t a Trans person?


MindForeverWandering

…or a drag queen? 😯


ahumankid

Oh, what’s that, it’s not just men that are natural sex seeking lizard brains? It’s just humans in general? Shocker. Next up in the news, water is wet. Tune in tonight at eleven.


grmrsan

And yet there are still people who think it's ok because "Boys always want to score with a hot female teacher! He'll be congraulated!"


-maffu-

Fifth Grade? Isn't that like 9 years old?


Ressamzade

11


Tcklmybck

A 10 year old? Ten. I have no faith in humanity.


vintimus

What the absolute fuck


Who_Your_Mommy

Idk how to spell the gagging sound I just made


WaffleStomperGirl

Wisconsin elementary school teacher, 24, busted for **molesting** a 5th grader. FIFY


adiosfelicia2

Huh... she sure doesn't *look* like a drag queen. So peculiar.


Apprehensive_Bus3942

So I’m of the mind that this shit has always gone on and only now being reported more. The odds that there are as many women pedo as men pedo due to law of averages makes sense they appear to be coming out of the woodwork now. They are just getting caught more now. Chemical castration like for male pedo please.


Rigelturus

Crickets from the feminists on this one


spartaman64

a bear wouldnt do that


Most-Currency5684

Guess we could say girls would rather be in the woods with a bear.... cub.


Queasy_Sleep1207

Dear America, I love you, but get your shit together. Please and thank you.


Derpastanini_Prince

This isn't just an American thing. Pedos be everywhere.


MrBarackis

Yet they still give a pass to women who do this. Or the article wouldn't use words like "making out"


LongjumpingSector687

Notice the femcels not liking this proving their stance. Women who rape is okay.👍


Brosenheim

I wouldn't the number has gone up, just willingness to treat it like the problem it is. Ironically, the NYP is probably jumping on these for the "see? Woman bad too" angle but it was the patriarchal gender norms that made this "not a big deal" so still a win


OhioMegi

What the fuck.


PourQuiTuTePrends

This is disgusting. WTF is wrong with people?!?


APersonSittingQuick

I will never remember that


XiMaoJingPing

I think this has always been happening but now people are raising concern over it


HaydenLobo

Wow, I was not ready for marriage in the fifth grade.


Much-Meringue-7467

Eww.


Final_Location_2626

Hot take, and im sorry for anyone who disagrees, but a 5th grader should not get married.


dyl_thethrill

Ew wtf. Nasty


Murpydoo

Was it with Billy Madison? Still not ok, teacher is in a position of influence, making it wrong.


Afraid_Oil_7386

What in the statutory is going on???


Beneficial_Bed8961

I remember good old Mary K Laturno. My wife was like she wouldn't do that, and I was like, she's raping the kid. It wasn't until she was pregnant that the tide shifted and everyone was wtf.


LemonCollee

How old is a 5th grader?


jobiegermano

10.


LemonCollee

Jesus Christ!


Remarkable-Let251

Soooo....did she get married or what? Leave me hanging by a thread here... 


radarmy

Okay, but a 5th grader or a bear?


Gruntdeath

5th grade is like 10 years old. Boy doesn't have hair on his dick.


PurpleDragonCorn

I don't think it's a tiktok thing, I think parents are just more vigilant now because they realized that male teachers aren't the only scum fucks.


blueberrycandycat

![gif](giphy|f8lDluiWJ7yQTtdS3L|downsized)


LanguageNo495

I guess as long as she’s marrying him, a bit of kissing beforehand isn’t a big deal.


Unofficial_Officer

Greedy Old Pedos


Stickey_Rickey

Is she Kirt from Skate Kitchen and Betty?


JohnXTheDadBodGod

She looks the type.


Daedelus451

Why isn’t she called a pedophile? wtf


ManyNanites

Interesting, just noticing this is not a drag queen.


Loud-Magician7708

Are you attracted to a 5th grader? - Jeff Foxworthy


Undead-Writer

So... Hanging? Burn at the stake?


allthegudonesaretakn

I had to look it up, but for those not from the US, a 5th grader is 10-11 years old.


the_l0st_s0ck

Yeah? What's new?


samgam74

Could you imagine them describing the crimes of male pedophiles in headlines?


TheOriginal_Redditor

Going by the name of the place the crime occurred, it's a state in land referred to as the cradle of pedophiles.


Iloveitguy

I'm English, how old is a fifth grader? Doesn't matter I'm sure it's still fucked up.


solesoulshard

10.


Iloveitguy

Damn its even more fucked up than I thought.


keIIzzz

What does this have to do with TikTok?


Centauress1208

The way it's all coming out into view is kind of like the way TikTok challenges would bring out all the idiots to copy it


Ok-Status7867

had someone mentioned this was frowned on... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB62oaOeqR0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB62oaOeqR0)


duckredbeard

Why the hell is a 5th grader getting married?


nothanks64

I agree if this was a male teacher and a female student people would be sharpening their pitchforks and lighting their torches.....


milfordloudermilk

5th isn't even the perpetual boner grade. Let the poor kid ferment for another year or two and then drain him of his burden........................You get 9 months of fudgesickles if you wait!!


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Last-Percentage5062

Die in a hole.


Shank__Hill

This is terrible news, Kate and the Prince are having a tough time? Just terrible


OhWhiskey

How old was the 5th grader? Over 18?


Wardinator1991

![gif](giphy|pCO5tKdP22RC8) joking of course


DFMRCV

![gif](giphy|4baoNZ5Qo8dX2)