GAINESVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- A woman who married the 15-year-old friend of one of her sons pleaded guilty Wednesday to statutory rape and was sentenced to nine months in jail.
Lisa Lynnette Clark, 37, was also forbidden to have any contact with her teenage husband -- the alleged father of her 1-month-old son -- until at least his 17th birthday.
After her release, Clark will be on probation until 2010.
Clark was arrested in November on charges of statutory rape, child molestation and enticing a minor.
A few days before her arrest, she married the boy under a 1962 Georgia law that allows children of any age to get married if the bride-to-be is pregnant. Clark gave birth to a boy on February 11.
Clark's lawyer has said the baby is being cared for by "someone else" he would not identify.
The wedding prompted Georgia lawmakers to revisit the state's marriage laws, and last month the House voted to bar teens under 16 from marrying without juvenile court permission. The Senate has not taken up the bill.
The boy's grandmother, Judy Hayles, has said her grandson will seek a divorce and undergo intense counseling.
After Clark's arrest, the boy bolted from a detention center in Georgia and was found in Cleveland. Investigators said Clark contacted him while he was gone.
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) -- Hood College is reviewing its homecoming rules after a lesbian was crowned king, a college official said.
Jennifer Jones, the 21-year-old senior who beat out three men for the honor, said the crowning was a positive step for the private liberal arts college.
"It is cool that Hood allows people to be themselves," Jones told The Frederick News-Post. "If people didn't want me to be king, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted for me."
Jones, of Newark, Delaware, received 64 of 169 votes cast for king last month.
More than two weeks after Jones was crowned, criticism and praise were still rippling through the 2,100-student campus in western Maryland.
"She is not a man," said Singleton Newman, a 22-year-old senior who was nominated for queen. "It is a gender issue, and she is a woman."
Santo Provenzano, 21, who competed for king, said Jones' selection made the event seem like a joke. "It discourages guys from wanting to take part in the future," he said.
Donald Miller, Hood's student activities director, said all homecoming events will be reviewed and possibly changed. "We will look at what students want Hood's homecoming to be," he said.
It was only the second annual homecoming for the school. Men started attending Hood in 1971 but the school didn't become fully coeducational until 2003 when men were permitted to live on campus for the first time.
Jones tried to run for homecoming prince last year, but a student committee wouldn't let her on the ballot even though she had gathered the required number of signatures on nominating petitions.
Miller said a rule change this year abolished the petitions and required that candidates be nominated by student ballots.
See, this is what happens when too many people run on the same general platform... someone (or more than one!) splits the vote enough to let Bill Clinton and a lesbian win an other wise clenched election.
Unless they're in tabloids, because those make everything cool. My favorite story is still the one about Sasquatch entering a NASCAR race. And I didn't think it was scientifically possible to make NASCAR cool.
I think what makes me saddest is that one in five thought owning a pet was protected under the first amendment.
I mean, that's why our forefathers left England, right? Because the royal family was being bitchy and not letting them own pets! So we revolted so we could have our own cute kittens! How could four out of five people not know that?
I wish arcades would come back. Fighting games like samurai shodown and street fighter where always my favorite part of my young life. Just going down to the local egg roll king and playing all day long. Actually, I may save up some money to open an arcade up. Ill whore it around town with tournaments and maybe make it a game store too, that way it doesn’t just droop over and die.
Why not combine the two? Just add in some roleplaying merchandise and you'd have created the most heavily concentrated bastion of nerddom the world has ever seen!
Also, if you do stock RPG merchandise, you should sell fuzzy 10-sided dice for handing on the rearview mirror. That would kick ass.
Why the hell is Germany making fun of the US? Isn't Germany just the perverted step sister of the US, in the first place? You know, the one that let loose her anal virginity way too early in her series of relationships?
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Also: What the hell is John talking about?
Brilliant deductions from a woman with a silly name.
And honestly, men of Amoebaboyville, stop whining and get an guy in tight pants elected queen. Duh.
Ross Perot, I blame you for all of this.
People don't even care about actual royalty.
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I’m German and even I know the first amendment.
Does anyone know what the 15th amendment of the constitution is without looking it up? I sure don't!
Hey, at least I know that abolition and the right to vote (for all citizens) are separate amendments!
Edit: Ooooh, so close! It was the revision of the earlier amendment to ensure voting rights! So close, so close...
13th- Abolishment of Slavery
14th- Civil Rights Amendment
15th- All citizens may vote (actually just men at the time, though)
I mean, that's why our forefathers left England, right? Because the royal family was being bitchy and not letting them own pets! So we revolted so we could have our own cute kittens! How could four out of five people not know that?
Also, if you do stock RPG merchandise, you should sell fuzzy 10-sided dice for handing on the rearview mirror. That would kick ass.