Hash (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:43 pm Yikes, what an awful way to be castrated. Fully conscious, it's a wonder he didn't pass out. I can understand this father's anger, a 57 year old man dating a 17 year old kid? I'm sorry, 17 year old girls don't know what they're doing and this man might have been manipulating her. Did he deserve castration, no, a black eye, sure.
Hash, you can't apply the American standard to this situation. The age of majority or consent in Europe is generally lower than it is in the US. As low as 14 or 15 in some eastern European countries. In western Europe it is generally around age 16.
It could be that this was a completely legal, consensual relationship where it occurred.
--LT