<p>Creepy as the story is, remember the mother had given the child up at birth, so it’s not as if she had a motherly relationship with him. He literally was a stranger to her.</p>
<p>I also wonder if he strongly physically resembles his father. </p>
<p>I was struck by how genuinely remorseful she sounded in court.</p>
<p>But she sought him out. She knew he was her son. That poor boy is going to need a lot of therapy to get over what she did to him. She was wrong, wrong, wrong. If it was some guy who lured a young girl for sex, would the fact that she reminded him of someone he knew make it any less criminal?</p>
<p>I agree that what she did was wrong and she should be punished by prison and needs to have therapy, and that unfortunate boy will need a lot of therapy.</p>
<p>Just because she sought him out, however, doesn’t mean she planned to have sex with him when she initially sought him out. She certainly deliberately did seek him out for sex later.</p>
<p>I read a book where an older woman falls in love with a younger guy and when she meets his parents she realizes the guy is the son she gave up for adoption as a teen mom. Maybe the author had heard about that sindrome. Wow</p>
<p>Actually, I do recall a CSI episode where a mother paid for “escort” (but not sexual) services from a younger man. She knew he was her son (given up at birth) while he didn’t know it. The night she told him the truth about their relationship, he went berserk and killed her.</p>
<p>I’m never again going to watch “Cougar Town.”</p>
<p>Speaking of strained relations with parents…there was a case in Michigan a few decades ago where an older man got no Father’s Day cards, presents, or calls from his grown-up kids, for whom he had sacrificed much. So he went and shot and killed them. When a policeman asked why he did it, he told them about the zero recognition for Father’s Day. The cop said, “Father’s Day is NEXT week.”</p>
<p>There aren’t any extenuating circumstances here, even if she hadn’t raised him and seen him since he was an infant, she is 36 and he is 16. </p>
<p>Also, that photo looks like a publicity shot. What’s that about?</p>