Little to early in the morning for that as you can plainly see by my response to SCYou're good mate, have a drink on me
Explaining to kids the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony.
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It's cool mate! Id buy ya one, for SC, if it was the weekend thenLittle to early in the morning for that as you can plainly see by my response to SC
I am not a felon. Obviously both are bad. But a DUI on a resume is no better than what I explained for many jobs.
The magic 18th birthday when somebody instantly becomes an adult. POOF, you're an adult now.
The magic 16th birthday when somebody instantly can legally drive a car. Poof, your a driver now.
The magic 18th birthday when somebody instantly can join the military or get married without getting parental consent
The magic 21st birthday when somebody instantly becomes a legal drinker, poof, your able to buy alcohol now.
The magic 25th birthday when somebody can instantly rent a car and get a better rate than they did the day before, poof you are no longer as a big of a risk on the roads.
I get what you are saying, but there are dates like this for a million things. There will always be cutoffs, deadlines and thresholds. There is no way to individually measure the readiness of people. So you have to go with generalities.
You forgot the magical 55th birthday when you get the senior discount at Golden Corral.
yep, and the 50th birthday when you can get an AARP card
You forgot to include the damning part of that article..
"She contacted Washington last year via Instagram to congratulate him on receiving a college scholarship. Washington responded by making sexual advances, according to the affidavit. The young woman responded that she was not interested in a romantic relationship.
On March 2, 2018, Washington sent a text message to the young woman that contained a 10-second video of her sexual encounter with two juvenile male peers, with the message, "Remember this hoe." Her stepmother intercepted the message and reported it to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office."
If this is proven to be true, the kid needs to go...immediately.
"Dear daughters,
If you are a worthless sack of shit, at some point you will be charged with a misdemeanor.
If you are a really bad person and a worthless sack of shit, at some point you will be charged with a felony.
The greater your extent of evil, the greater your punishment. If what you're doing causes hurt to other people, it's probably the wrong thing to do."
That's how I'd explain it to my kids.
If you are a worthless sack of shit, at some point you will be charged with a misdemeanor.
If you are a really bad person and a worthless sack of shit, at some point you will be charged with a felony.
The greater your extent of evil, the greater your punishment. If what you're doing causes hurt to other people, it's probably the wrong thing to do."
That's how I'd explain it to my kids.
I wasn't asking if you were a felon. It asks if you were a felon on applications. At least they used to. I don't know if they do anymore.
And you again are leaving out the part where she initiated the messages with "What's up stud?".
And in your whacked out world that somehow gives him the permission to become aggressive and attempt to intimidate and shame her and transmit underage porn, after she shoots him down??
Context IS important. IF you're going to throw in jail every young person that transmits underage porn, we had better build more jails.
I've already agreed with what you're saying on the underage porn. Even thought what he did was against the law, I don't find his offense to be anywhere close to an older male possessing child porn, because they were both minors when he acquired the video, and it is somewhat similar to what kids are doing across the country. If indeed it turns out that it was unconsensual between her and the two other males, the consequences would be more serious of sending the video to her.
I do, however, find him becoming aggressive with her and sending her the video to intimidate and shame her to be offensive and lacking respect for females in general. This is why I don't believe he belongs at our University.
Again, the way he talked to her is not unusual between teenagers and young adults. It makes me sick but that's the society we live in. What you see as intimidation and shaming is in fact normal interaction between kids today. I've heard it. I've seen it first hand. So we as the "moral majority" are condemning him without the context of their reality. JMHO. I am quite sure that her step mother was horrified by the way he talked to her, but one would have to live in a bubble to not realize that kids talk that way to each every minute of every day. I just blush and have to bite my tongue when I'm at a high school football game and hear some of the conversations between boys and girls. The girls get called hoes and bitches. The girls are just as bad with their suggestive talk. Why should we expect any less when they're bombarded with sex all day long on the TV and the internet. I haven't been able to watch TV with my family for years without being uncomfortable about ads for Viagra or some other sex aid.
It was the combination of texting her a message like he did, and then sending the video along with it, is what makes it egregious. If I were a school adminstrator and something like this occurred, he would be expelled immediately.
Part of the issue is that as far as can be determined from the court records, they do not have the video. I'm not sure that they can even prove that he sent the video they are accusing him of sending. So does one expel a student because another kid's mom said he sent a 10 second porn video? Man that's asking for a lawsuit. I understand your concerns. I also understand what takes place every single day in our teenager's lives. Heck, it starts before they're teenagers.
"The young woman responded that she was not interested in a romantic relationship."
This is where the crux of the situation is...if she responded..."Mo, I'm not interested in a romantic relationship"...then Mo probably should be done, but if she responded with a charged comment meant to illicit jealousy or anger then maybe his respond could be viewed with empathy. Remember this is a girl who was video taped having sex with multiple people...not Maurice, and it appears they have history..maybe dated...and may have been dating when the incident occurred years ago. Some of this has to be chalked away as a crime of passion...and not just Mo being a bad person. People do crazy things out of jealousy, especially with people they have strong feeling for...
This is where the crux of the situation is...if she responded..."Mo, I'm not interested in a romantic relationship"...then Mo probably should be done, but if she responded with a charged comment meant to illicit jealousy or anger then maybe his respond could be viewed with empathy. Remember this is a girl who was video taped having sex with multiple people...not Maurice, and it appears they have history..maybe dated...and may have been dating when the incident occurred years ago. Some of this has to be chalked away as a crime of passion...and not just Mo being a bad person. People do crazy things out of jealousy, especially with people they have strong feeling for...
Folks that do digital forensics are pretty good at recovering things. If however there is no evidence of the video being sent, that kind of removes the smoking gun.
For those of us looking in, this certainly looks like a case of a young guy sexually bullying a younger girl. And that is probably the case. But their past relationship, plus the possible lack of a key piece of evidence, are mitigating in terms of any legal matter. If a CA prosecutor wants to bring the whole legal truckload against Maurice, then I would think that on the evidence side all ducks would need to be in a row. As for his status wrt NU football, this is a very ugly incident that occurred before he joined the program. Absent serious legal sanctions in CA that would prevent Washington from being in Lincoln, I suspect he remains with the program.
