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By the way, Matthew 23:8-10 commands that I not use "father", "rabbi", or "teacher" or "leader" (the equivalents being, I believe-- and I'm still working on my Hebrew-- av or ava, rav or rab, and rosh). Anyway, Bill O'Reilly is wrong about these boys and their now-former educator-- they were 17, well past coming-of-age and bar-mitzvah age, and knew not to go into her house for any illegitimate or illicit purpose, get drunk and high, and have sex with her. Given that they were not raped, they consented to being drunk, drugged, and engaged in statutorily-prohibited sexual activity. Had they been theratened to be forced or been forced onto the premise, forcibly drunk, etc.; that would've been a different story: they could've found a way to get help (e.g., screaming, fighting back, putting a sign reading "HELP!" or something else in the window-- as one woman once did when a former colleague raped her--, or calling 9-1-1).
The same goes for girls and their male educators-- the girls are all banot mitzvah and, in the cases in which I'm describing, aren't being threatened to be forced or being forced to be on their male educators' home premises, drunk, drugged, etc.. The same even for the prostitutes who Lisa Ling was highlighting-- the runaway American girls who call their pimps "daddy". Who is forcing these girls to run away to the streets instead of the police stations, the Departments of Social Services, the abused-and-battered womens' homes, the homeless shelters, the churches, the bayit dinim, etc.?
These bar- and bat-mitzvah-aged ishim and ishot (Yehudim and goyim alike) have to start being treated for the old-enough people that they are, not as boys and girls who are helpless victims-- save the kvetching and utzing about victimization and abuse (including and especially sexual abuse) for those who are under the ages of 12 and 13 and for those (even those who are 12 and older) who legitimately cannot get help and are being forced into situations with educators and others who really do have unchecked power over them.
The same goes for girls and their male educators-- the girls are all banot mitzvah and, in the cases in which I'm describing, aren't being threatened to be forced or being forced to be on their male educators' home premises, drunk, drugged, etc.. The same even for the prostitutes who Lisa Ling was highlighting-- the runaway American girls who call their pimps "daddy". Who is forcing these girls to run away to the streets instead of the police stations, the Departments of Social Services, the abused-and-battered womens' homes, the homeless shelters, the churches, the bayit dinim, etc.?
These bar- and bat-mitzvah-aged ishim and ishot (Yehudim and goyim alike) have to start being treated for the old-enough people that they are, not as boys and girls who are helpless victims-- save the kvetching and utzing about victimization and abuse (including and especially sexual abuse) for those who are under the ages of 12 and 13 and for those (even those who are 12 and older) who legitimately cannot get help and are being forced into situations with educators and others who really do have unchecked power over them.
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