<p><a href=“Coach, 40, Weds 16-Year-Old Student - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3305652&page=1</a></p>
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<p>I saw a comment about the article on the news about how on the one hand, there is a boy in prison (Genarlow Wilson) for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15 year old girl when he was 17, but the law makes it OK for a 40 year old man to wed a 16 year old girl.</p>
<p>Sheesh. I hope they live handy to Mary Kay Le Tourneau and hubby. Would make a nice double date.</p>
<p>I read the title desperately hoping it was a typo.</p>
<p>Ewewewewewewewwww.</p>
<p>why would the parents sign the consent? what were they thinking, so the girls was moody and crabby so they gave in because she wasn’t talking to them?</p>
<p>and they happy couple kind of looks alike…double ewwww</p>
<p>I agree – why would these people sign the consent? Even if she were pregnant I still wouldn’t have signed something like that for my D. This is a strange story - from every angle.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have signed, either. I would have beaten him with a very large stick. A 16-year old girl has no business being married. Who is going to finish raising her?</p>
<p>The parents are ridiculous. I would have never signed consent and when the principal told me he didn’t see anything wrong, I would have taken my story to the local news. It’s amazing how a district will change their tune when the media is involved.</p>
<p>sorry, but a whole lot of people failed in this situation</p>
<p>after the first suspician of something being just a tad inappropriate, the school should have stepped in, but to go, oh gee, the teacher says he isn’t doing anything bad, yeah, like he is going to tell the truth…</p>
<p>If i was a parent in the district I would be furious at that school for turning a blind eye</p>
<p>And for the parents to give in, sorry, I would never sign that form, I would move first or that girl would have been in a boarding school away from the creep</p>
<p>If the powers that be fail you, you go above their heads and remove your child from the situation, no matter how cranky and moody and whiney she gets</p>
<p>Goes draws eight-year sentence
Daily Press Senior Writer</p>
<p>MONTROSE — A private golf coach is headed for a four-year stint at El Paso County Community Corrections after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl.</p>
<p>At his sentencing hearing Monday, Peter Goes apologized to his victim and her family.</p>
<p>“By my selfish act, I contributed to her (decline). I want the best for her. I pray for all of them,” he said in a halting voice.</p>
<p>Goes also apologized to his wife and the rest of his family, as well as to the court system.</p>
<p>Goes was 42 in 2006, when he began a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl whose parents had hired him to coach her in golf. He was jailed twice for allegedly contacting her after his arrest, in defiance of court orders.</p>
<p>NOW the school superindentent in that district is distraught</p>
<p>Those are some moronic parents…</p>
<p>From the NY Times:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/nyregion/20molest.html?_r=1&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/nyregion/20molest.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a></p>
<p>She threw it all away? They threw HER away.</p>
<p>I agree with b4nnd20. The parents should have gone after this situation, HARD, from the start of the very first 2:00 a.m. text message. Cannot fathom why they would sign the papers…</p>
<p>Well, what do you want the parents to do? They tried…to no avail. There is a Chinese old saying: once rice cooked, it’s cooked. Might as well…</p>
<p>Gross…and disgusting.</p>
<p>No way would I sign the consent. Big deal if the girl is mad at them for a while … what sixteen-year-old child doesn’t go through periods of sullenness? They have enabled their daughter to ruin her life. Their only hope is that she comes to her senses before she gets pregnant. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, though, so coming to her senses may never happen.</p>
<p>I know of a high school senior who was invited by a freshman to a party at her house. It turned out to be just for him, and her friends later provided evidence that she intentionally tricked him. While there, she serviced him, shall we say, and her parents found out. They pressed charges. The young man lost a college scholarship & acceptance, he served jail time, and he will be on the state sex offender registry for 25 years. He paid a very heavy price for what he did …</p>
<p>Yet a creepy old dude can seduce a 16 year old when he is in a position of authority and nothing can be done to stop it!!!</p>
<p>The parents are complete idiots. Parenting is tough sometimes, and we have to stand our ground when necessary. I don’t care how tough it seemed, they needed to insist their daughter stop seeing the coach. Signing the consent was the easy way out for them in the short run … but they will probably pay a heavy price in heartache as time goes on.</p>
<p>The difference between 16 & 40 is NOT the same as the difference between 30 & 54. And how the heck can a school coach who has an affair with a 16 year old girl be seen as anything but a child predator? This child was failed by her parents, the principal, the police … </p>
<p>And might I just add … ICK!!!</p>
<p>The parents didn’t even try to have control from the start. They allowed this man to drive their daughter home when she was just 14, just the two of them in the car - this is not to say there aren’t some situations where it’s maybe appropriate to catch a ride, etc., but, as a standard practice this is NOT a good idea - for either party. The man is at risk for false accusation, and, the young girl is at risk, period. </p>
<p>Mine was in catholic school all years, no bus service of any kind, and I was ALWAYS told of offers of rides from other parents, teachers, coaches, etc., and, I always turned them down flat. For one thing, I didn’t like “mooching” (is that the word???) off other people; more importantly, I actually LIKED having that time alone with my daughter in the car and looked forward to hearing all the things she would chatter at me while I drove, but also, there is no need for older man/young girl in a car alone together on a daily basis. </p>
<p>As to the text messages at all hours, that just blows my mind. I would have taken extraoridinary steps, just on that issue alone. </p>
<p>I think the parents had lots and lots of opportunity to stop this thing in its tracks way early on, and, they either weren’t attentive enough to the warning signs or they did not take a strong enough position from the onset. This situation did NOT go from introduction to marriage over night.</p>
<p>Oh, and not that it matters, but, the guy is ugly as sin, too. I would have refused to sign the papers on the grounds that the guy is a visual disaster, too ugly to be in any family portraits for starters, sorry.</p>