Fans of
MTV's My
Super Sweet 16 are used to tales of outrageous parties being
thrown for American teens, but a New York mother has taken the outrage up a
gear (and to the attention of the NYPD) by hiring strippers for her 16-year-old
son's birthday.
Judy Viger hired two strippers to
entertain her son and his guests, some of whom were as young as 13, in a
private room at the Spare Time Bowling Center.
Pictures of the party found their way on to
Facebook and the mother of a 15-year-old alerted the police, who arrested Viger
and charged her with five counts of endangering the welfare of a child. She now
faces a year in jail.
The age of consent in New York is 17, and
the state's law decrees that any parent or guardian of children under 18 who
"fails or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence" can be
prosecuted.
Do you think jail is appropriate in this
case?
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