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.

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Teacher Sex Scandal Update: Woman Allegedly Asked Teen to Burn Bed Sheet, Used Google to Search for "Sex Laws Between Teachers and Students Under 18"

We've done stories on Michigan teacher Kelly Abdo, 27, a former Monroe High School teacher charged with indecent exposure after being accused of having sex with a male high school student, 18, in a parked vehicle in the past, but there's some new information we thought you might find interesting. Abdo made her first court appearance this week and her trial is schedule for February 19. According to cops, Abdo is now under investigation for ANOTHER incident with a different boy, 17. In that case she allegedly asked the kid to destroy bedding in his home (he didn't and later cops found her, uh, DNA on the sheets) and also used her home computer to search for the terms such as, "DNA evidence and how to remove it from crime scenes and clothing," and "sex laws between teachers and students under 18 in Michigan." If those things are smoking guns, I don't know what is. Then again, maybe she had just seen a CSI: Detroit episode about an older female teacher having sex with an underage boy and just wanted to confirm their analysis of the evidence. At right, a picture of Kelly Abso leaving the courtroom with her lawyer.
Here's more from The Toledo Blade:

The charge stems from an incident in mid-May outside a house party on Riverview Avenue. Two high school boys who attended the party told sheriff investigators they saw Ms. Abdo and an 18-year-old student having intercourse in the teenager's parked car on the public roadway. According to police reports, the student subsequently admitted to having sex with the teacher in the car as well as other times, including at the teenager's home.
The 18-year-old told investigators Ms. Abdo later contacted him and asked him to destroy bedding in the home, reports said. Authorities eventually obtained the teacher's DNA on bedding taken from the home, the reports said. Authorities searched the Luna Pier home of Ms. Abdo in June, seized the former teacher's computer, and analyzed the hardware on the device. According to police reports, the computer was used to search the Internet for information on "DNA evidence and how to remove it from crime scenes and clothing." Searches also were conducted on the following topics: "sex laws between teachers and students under 18 in Michigan," "DNA forensic evidence," "registered sex offender," "sex offender laws," "subpoenaing text message records," and "how long text messages are stored."

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