or 12 year old boys being solicited for sex by an ex-NFL cheerleader.
(CBS) MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Elizabeth Leigh Garner, a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader, was arrested after she was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy, CBS affiliate WTVF reports
Garner was visiting a friend's home when she followed a 12-year-old boy into the bathroom, fondled him, and then tried to seduce him, the station reports.
According to the police report, Garner told detectives that she was drunk that evening and she got the boy confused with a man that was also at the residence.
I posted the following to a message board where they were making comments like:
Men's rule of life # 14, never ever tattle on a hot chick who offers oral Reply
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sex
Re: Ex NFL Cheerleader arrested for grabbing 12 yr old's "junk" Reply
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In about 3 years that kid is going to be thinking "WTF was I thinking!!!"
Re: This was on a radio show (or a similar story involving a 12yo boy)... Reply
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But males get life in prison for it, women get 8 years max, apparently.
That being said, where the hell were these women in our youth
The following was my response:
I ask you to step back for a moment and consider what you are actually saying here. That it's okay for an adult to attempt to have sex with a child because she's an NFL Cheerleader?
So if the pedophiles are "hot" then it's okay that they abuse our children?
This is what a pedophile looks like:
Now, if you have a young boy around the age of 12, take a look at him. Is this really what you want your child's first experience to be? A predator who follows a 12-year-old little boy into the bathroom IN HIS OWN HOME and tries to force herself on him? Grabs and gropes him? Tries to place her mouth on him, against his will? Is that what you're really saying - that it's "okay" for a grown woman to rape a child?
We must change our attitudes about child sexual abuse, particularly when the pedophiles are women. And that change can start today.
From our website:
What is Child Sexual Abuse?
If you are not exactly sure what sexual abuse is, you're not alone. All sexual activity between an adult and a child is sexual abuse. Sexual touching between children can also be sexual abuse.
Sexual abuse between children is often defined as when there is a significant age difference (usually 3 or more years) between the children, or if the children are very different developmentally or size-wise. Sexual abuse does not have to involve penetration, force, pain, or even touching. If an adult engages in any sexual behavior (looking, showing, or touching) with a child to meet the adult's interest or sexual needs, it is sexual abuse.
Child Sexual Abuse Includes Harmful Contact and Non-Contact Behaviors
Abusive Physical Contact or Touching
Touching a child's genitals or private parts for sexual purposes
Making a child touch someone else's genitals or play sexual games
Putting objects or body parts (like fingers, tongue or penis) inside the vagina, in the mouth or in the anus of a child for sexual purposes
Non-Contact Sexual Abuse Includes:
Deliberately exposing an adult's genitals to a child
Photographing a child in sexual poses
Encouraging a child to watch or hear sexual acts
Inappropriately watching a child undress or use the bathroom
Sexually Abusive Pictures of Children and the Internet:
As well as the activities described above, there is also the serious and growing problem of people making and downloading sexual images of children on the Internet. To view sexually abusive images of children is to participate in the abuse of a child, and may cause someone to consider sexual interactions with children as acceptable.
Thank you for your time. I'm really not trying to be a "buzz-kill" here, nor am I pointing fingers, I am simply asking you to consider what you're saying. It's NEVER okay for an adult to have sex with a child. Never.