naturalplastic wrote:
In the US it would be both tabloid AND serious.
It would be of serious concern- which it should be IMHO.
But it would ALSO be exploited as prurient infotainment.
In Poland, sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 15, it's a crime, or so says our Penal Code, the journalist who first publicized the matter, reported the case to the prosecutor's office. The teacher can get from 2 to 12 years in prison if the judge will be merciful may get a suspended sentence.
In comments to the article, some "users", the joke that the age of consent should not apply when the woman is older that a man can not be regarded as a perpetrator of abuse that boy/man has man had different type of sexuality than girl/woman, that teacher has changed boy into man