No need to bore you with the details of a Texas 16-year old getting statutorily raped by his 26 year-old teacher and her arrest in this People Magazine article. Not getting into it because we got in a little trouble with readers for being too flippant the one time we picked up a similar story.
It’s in the last few paragraphs their story about the boy’s dad getting cuffed too that are unintentionally hilarious and almost like some dark satire of a 1990s TGIF sitcom’s plot. Verbatim:
“A second witness told investigators that the student’s father had been told by both the Clifton-Carmack and the teen about the relationship, according to a second probable cause statement reviewed by PEOPLE… The teen’s father, whom PEOPLE is not identifying in order to protect the victim’s confidentiality, allegedly told the second witness that he didn’t stop the relationship because he believed they would continue to have the relationship behind his back anyway.”
If only there was something else that he could have done to “stop the relationship” rather than stuff like checking the boy’s phone and making sure he stayed home at night, right? Jesus Christ, lol.