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Grocery store employee accused of having sex with teenage baggers

Which Harmons?.

I'll be curious to see how much time this pedophile receives. We all know punishments vary widely (at least in the realm of teacher/student relationships) for men and women that seduce teens. If proven guilty she deserves a lengthy sentence.

Throw the book at this female predator.

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girl's gotta get it from somewhere. Too bad it was an underage teen

I tried to get a job at Harmon's when I was 15 and they told me I had to wait until I was 16. *jerks*

The Harmon's on 13800 South across from Ikea.

There go those heterosexuals again going after the nations' youth!!!!!

I was just out at that particular Harmon's yesterday. Could that have been why "Bob Harmon" was there, walking around the store visiting with the customers?

"Let's see what she looks like?"

"Assuming these teen baggers are male, I'm sure they violently resisted her advances and are traumatized by the whole thing"

If comments like these were made in a forum discussing the rape of two teenage girls by a supervisor, they would surely be deemed too offensive, childish, and dangerously naieve to be posted! Yet here they sit, evidence of the continued stupidity of mankind.

If a handsome (or otherwise) male manager/teacher coerces a minor girl into having sex, it is still labeled for what it is. Rape. The act of a predatory, evil deviant not fit to interact with society and he is rightfully removed from it.

Yet change the pronoun descriptions and the fault is suddenly on the victim? Compulsion is still compulsion, and sex with minors is still illegal. Boys will be boys is not a valid excuse for corruption of the young. Even if those boys were entirely compliant and willing, this woman still commited felonies. She is a rapist, and belongs with the rest of the rapists at the point of the mountain.

From the above comments it would appear that few are taking this crime seriously.

Hope none of them make the jury.

I think they need to go into the neighborhood where she resides and remove all the children. There is obviously a pervasive belief system here that must be addressed.

hypocrisy! | 2:18 p.m. has hit the nail on the head.

If this were about a nearly 40 year old man enticing 14 year old girls nobody would be wondering whether the girls were victims. In fact, consider your own reaction if this were a 40 year old man enticing 14 year old boys? Would anyone wonder if the "boys got exactly what the wanted" or whether "the violently resisted" or were really victims?

Our laws preventing sexual relations between adults and children exist for good reason: to protect children. Adults are presumed able to manipulate children. Children are presumed not to know what might be in their own best interest.

A whole lot of "men" need to grow up, drop their adolescent fantasies of an attractive, older woman "educating" them, and recognize the damage done to developing boys' views of sex, women, and themselves when they are taken advantage of in such ways. Indeed, considering that girls often mature intellectually and emotionally sooner than boys, these incidents may very well be MORE damaging to boys than they they would be to girls, all else being equal.

Harmons doesn't hire 15-year-olds. The paper got it wrong. That doesn't excuse her actions, but let's try harder to get the facts straight.

if point of the mountain is full then send her to Hurricane to live with those predatory incestuous rapists down there

You would be surprised how many female sexual predators there are out there. There are probably more female predators than male predators.

I never saw anything like this when I worked at Harmons.

I just applied at that Harmon's for an after school shift. I hope I'm not too late.

@not 15. I had a friend that was 15 when he got a job at Harmons. Granted, that was like 11 years ago. Maybe they changed their policy? Maybe he was just super qualified?

You're right. It also holds true for abusive spouses. There are more physically and mentally abusive women then there are men. When a woman hits a man there is little done about it but when a man hits a woman, after she gets out of the hospital, she will sue. Therefore, abusive men make the news a lot more then abusive women.