From Gawker courtesy of my girlfriend on facebook:
Police in Houston have charged a 10-year-old girl with aggravated sexual assault after she was allegedly spotted playing a game of "doctor" with a 4-year-old boy near her house.
According to Fox affiliate KRIV, the incident, which took place back in April, resulted in "Ashley" (not her real name) spending four nights in the Harris County Juvenile Detention after charges were filed against her in June.
Ashley, who was nine years old at the time, had been playing "doctor" with a bunch of children in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives, when a neighbor reportedly saw her touch the private parts of the 4-year-old boy and phoned the child's mother.
More here.
Here's the comment I left on facebook when I saw the article:
I wish I could say I was surprised, but this is yet another piece of evidence indicating that our culture is simply incapable of thinking clearly about sexuality and children. Throw this in the same file with "abstinence based" sex education, purity balls, and the Satanic ritual abuse scandals of the 1990s that never actually happened.
And then there's Miley Cyrus at the VMAs. It's all or nothing these days.
'Nuff said.
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