New Hampshire Judge: Boy's "Raging Hormones" at Fault for Sex With Older Woman

While not completely absolving Robin Mowery, 38, of Nashua, New Hampshire of any wrongdoing for having sex (at least four times) three years ago with a boy who was then just 15, Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Robert Lynn handed down a lighter sentence than the prosecution had asked for, mostly because he believed that the "victim" in the case had a nasty case of "raging hormones" that were, in this case, at least partially responsible for Mowery having sex with the boy who was a friend of her daughter's.
Claimed Judge Lynn, "Like it or not, an underage boy having sex with an older-aged girl is viewed differently than the other way around. Young men have raging hormones. It doesn't make him a bad person." So, Judge Lynn, are you saying that if an adult male comes before you, accused of having sex with a hot, hormone enraged 14-year-old girl, that you'll let him off easy as well? And exactly how to we measure these "raging hormones" . . . for legal purposes? Just askin'.
On the plus side, the judge called BS on Mowery's claims that she was raped at knifepoint (four times?) or that the teen claimed he would kill her daugther if she didn't have sex with him. Here's more the Union Leader - the comments at the bottom are priceless!-

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.

Prosecutors wanted her to serve 8 1/2 to 21 years behind bars, but Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Robert Lynn handed down a lesser sentence of two to four years. She will receive credit for 180 days already served.

"Like it or not, an underage boy having sex with an older-aged girl is viewed differently than the other way around," Lynn said at the sentencing hearing.

Lynn said he weighed the extent of the teen's victimization against how aggressively the boy pursued Mowery.

"Young men have raging hormones. It doesn't make him a bad person," said Lynn, who also noted that the teen also tried to use the relationship as a "bargaining chip" to escape penalty for crimes committed as a juvenile.

Lynn also chastised Mowery for falsely testifying that the teen forced her to have sex at knifepoint. She also claimed he threatened to rape and kill her daughter if she spoke about their affair.

"That was complete baloney," the judge said.