Saturday, January 10th, 2009...10:24 am
Shame on you, Sheboygan – In other teen sex hypocrisy news. . .
Norma J. Guthrie
Try to keep up.
A 17-year-old Sheboygan, Wisc., girl was charged this week with misdemeanor sexual assault for allegedly having sex with her 14-year-old boyfriend.
This occurred one day after a 17-year-old Sheboygan boy was charged with a felony for allegedly having sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend.
Norma J. Guthrie, the 17-year-old girl, admitted having sex with the boy between 10 and 15 times (the boy probably admitted having sex 100 times). She faces a maximum of nine months in jail, if convicted.
According to sheboyganpress.com, police began investigating when the boy’s mother reported he might be staying overnight at Norma’s house, the complaint said.
So a mom can call Sheboygan police and say her son may be staying over at his girlfriend’s house and police and police will look into that? That’s got to be a city with a low crime rate.
Norma, by the way, told police the boy said he was 16.
Alan J. Jepsen
Alan J. Jepsen, meanwhile is the 17-year-old unlucky enough to have been male in the Sheboygan courts. He says the 14-year-old girl he slept with also told him she was 16. He’s facing a maximum prison term of 25 years.
It gets worse. Alan’s “girlfriend,” a runaway who was staying with him, may be pregnant.
Assistant District Attorney Jim Haasch, who filed both complaints, tried to explain the different charges by saying Norma had no prior criminal record. The Sheboygan Press, however, found she has a pending charge of misdemeanor battery, filed in October.
Haasch would not say whether Alan has a prior juvenile record. The paper found no adult record.
Okay, so let’s try a different answer.
Haasch said the cases are different because Norma’s “boyfriend” is “almost 15,” with a birthday in February.
Alan’s “girlfriend” turns 15 in . . . April.
Is this joker kidding?
Alan is in jail in lieu of a $1,000 cash bond, while Norma was released on a $1,000 signature bond after her initial court appearance Thursday.
4 Comments
January 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
wow, and women fight for gender equality…
January 11th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Parents need to keep these issues between themselves. Getting the cops and the courts involved is a waste of taxpayer money.
January 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
>So a mom can call Sheboygan police and say her son may be staying over at his girlfriend’s house and police and police will look into that? That’s got to be a city with a low crime rate.
You wouldn’t believe… much of my family was born/lived in Sheboygan. That’s the funny thing about these little Wisconsin cities, since there isn’t much ‘real’ crime going on, the cops have to find something to occupy themselves with, so they end up chasing kids who are breaking their parents’ rules (or in this case, perhaps the church’s rules, which the parent in question clings to for dear life).
Hopefully this silly mother realizes (a little late) that maybe it isn’t worth ruining her son and this girl’s lives by forcing the police into their relationship, just because she’s pissed that her son is dipping his little pilot into her cockpit. (as if somehow one kid or the other was raping the other one… ridiculous)
Foolish parents… I’m willing to bet that this mother may never be forgiven by her son (let alone the girl) for this. What a waste. If one wants to show their child that they are loved, getting them arrested for having sexual contact while they are in the heat of puberty is _not_ the best way to go about it.
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
As it turned out … both the teens, boy and girl, got similar sentences — probation, no jail time.
http://www.intotemptation.net/2009/03/23/teen-sex-and-the-case-of-the-missing-double-standard/
From a news standpoint … it is worth noting that The Daily Beast ran this story days after the sentencing had occurred.
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