I find is very very sad. The young man's life was inalterably changed by her actions. He was a child, she an adult. It also strikes me that if it had been a young girl raped by her teacher at the age of 1 and impregnated, people would have been out for blood more than treating it as a curiosity. The perpetrator might still be in jail, and certainly no one would be condoning her 'getting back together" with her rapist.

The boy in question is now legally an adult with a completely screwed up life. He hasn't graduated high school even - and do you have to wonder why? He has two daughters that are being raised by his mother. He was preyed on by a sick individual, and made into a twisted celebrity because of that. I wonder how much help and counseling he has gotten. I wonder what his plans for the rest of his life are, or if he even has any.

The culture's sexual mores are so messed up in terms of expectations of boys and girls. Everyone pretty much acknowleges that girls "mature" faster than boys. Yet eeryone conversely expects boys to try to be sexually active as early as possible. Girls, on the other hand, get "reputations" and are looked down on for the same behavior.

It is a sad, sad, case and a sad story of sad human beings. I hope at least his daughters escape this legacy somehow.