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An honest (and honorable?) gendered sentencing outcome in adult-teen sex case

By Douglas A. Berman

I have blogged in the past about how the sentencing of crimes involving adult-teen sexual relations often seems influenced by the genders of the adult and the teen.  The sentencing case from New Hampshire reported in this AP article, which is headlined "Judge cites boy's 'raging hormones,' reduces woman's sentence for sex with teen," brings this issue into the open in a case that seems notable (and strange) for various reasons.  Here are the basic details: A 38-year-old woman was sentenced to prison Monday for sexually assaulting a teenage boy she initially accused of rape. Robin Mowery of Nashua was convicted in June of four counts of felonious sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault involving a friend of her teenage daughter. Mowery was 35 at the time; the boy was 15...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).