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A 19-year old Alabama girl who listed her baby’s father as a 14-year-old boy has been charged with his rape. Expectant mother Mekenzie Leigh Guffey was arrested and charged after she signed up for state assistance for the child she’s set to give birth to.
Not that I condone what she did but arresting her seems way to harsh.
Five years exceeds most states' Romeo & Juliet statutes. However, we go overboard on prosecuting this particular crime and this is likely going to be one of those cases. I doubt this girl is as mature as a typical 19-year old and his parents not only knew about it, but allowed her to move in their home with him. There is amateur porn on a phone in the mix, too.
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The girl’s grandmother, Peggy Thompson, told the press (via Toronto Sun) that Mekenzie had lived through a difficult childhood, moving from “flea bag motels” to at least one mobile home with parents who abused drugs and who abandoned her to raise her younger brother on her own. Things were looking up when the kids finally went to live with their grandparents.
Thompson said that Mekenzie got a job at a rug plant after graduating high school, but fell apart after her grandfather died. Unable to work due to an injury, Mekenzie sought companionship and fell in love with a “boy who looked a lot older than 14.”
The police chief said it was no excuse for what she did, and that she showed no remorse for her actions.
“Apparently she did a lot of bragging,” he said. “She was bragging to everybody that she was pregnant by this boy. She thought it was the greatest thing, and then she found out we were involved and it was like ‘Oh, no.'”
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Five years exceeds most states' Romeo & Juliet statutes. However, we go overboard on prosecuting this particular crime and this is likely going to be one of those cases. I doubt this girl is as mature as a typical 19-year old and his parents not only knew about it, but allowed her to move in their home with him. There is amateur porn on a phone in the mix, too.
Would you really feel the same if the sexes were reversed?
Not that I condone what she did but arresting her seems way to harsh.
He is 14 and a minor, why shouldn't she be arrested and punished? He's too young to even provide for the child yet! Ridiculous!
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