Milton Academy and the Clinton link

Milton Academy has been rocked by a scandal recently and I would be amiss if I did not comment on something happening in my home state. This is a famous school and very tough to get into, and it is a well-known "feeder" school for Harvard. President Bill Clinton gave the commencement address there a couple of years ago.

I am for the purpose of not being boring and being punny going to "blow" things out of proportion.

Basically a 15 year-old girl performed oral sex on five male Milton Academy Hockey players in the boys locker room at the school as a birthday present for one of the boys.

Now the facts, as I understand them. The law in Massachusetts states that the age of consent is 16 and no one under the age of 16 may engage in "sexual intercourse" or "unnatural sexual intercourse" legally. In other words, it is statutory rape for a 15 year old to have any form of sexual intercourse.

The five boys have been expelled, but the girl has received indefinite academic leave. The parents of the sexually active girl have yet to decide whether to advise the MA District Attorney's Office to press charges against the boys. This is where it gets complicated.

Based upon rumor and second hand info from people in the "know" who have called the Howie Carr and Jay Severin radio show in the past few days, I will offer a few other pieces of information. The girl has been rumored to have bragged about her deeds at a party following the locker room romper room. The locker is locked by a keypad that the girl had the code to because the boys gave it to her.

Now it has been suggested that the mere ratio of the incident prevents the girl from having committed these actions willingly.

"No school likes to think it's at the end of its options, [but] the boys should have understood that a five-to-one situation is by definition pressurized and coercive, and you can't assume there's anything mutual about it," she said. ''It was a very long and challenging conversation for the administrators involved, where we tried to be absolutely true to the core principles of the school and at the same time sensitive to the needs of the adolescents we're trying to
educate."

I disagree with this quote, but then again I'm admit I'm a person that believes people are responsible for their own actions and decisions. And if putting someone's privates into your mouth when a gun to your head isn't present isn't a decision, I don't know what is.

If the girl chooses to press charges the one 17 year old boy could be tried as an adult and all the boys could wind up with up to 15-20 years in jail plus being labeled as a known sex offenders.

But of course, the school has kicked out the boys but not the girl based upon the fact the boys broke the law. However, the question becomes if the girl does not press charges or even if oral sex is or isn't "unnatural intercourse," do the boys' parents sue?

Some may scoff at this, but, given the fact a sitting president of the United States has made the same argument, don't you think a defense attorney could pull it off also?

It seems Milton's only choice would be to kick them all out for breaking the school's behavior code, but then will people get up in arms because Milton is punishing the "victim?"

All this from a few blow-jobs and meanwhile in our public schools rainbow parties are all the rage according to Oprah.