Hey, things are and likely will continue to be weird in Lawrence, right?
So it stands to reason that that would extend to the alleged sex lives of some of the denizens there as well.
But in all the years we’ve been covering news in the downstate area, we’ve not seen something quite as repulsive and, well, weird, as the case of Lynn Like, a 42-year-old Sumner woman (almost; tomorrow, July 17, is her 42nd birthday, and she’s spending it locked up, unable to post bond) who’s alleged to have done some bad things with some very young boys.
Add to those allegations the fact that her Facebook page is full of shots of …young boys…displaying their musculature, with no attendant explanation thereof, and the case gets…well, weirder.
Here now is your noontime Read the Lead, Forty-something charged with sexual misconduct with two underage kids, coming at you out of Lawrence County.
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LAWRENCE CO.—A bizarre alleged sexual scenario with teens has resulted in criminal charges being filed against a 40-something Sumner woman.
Lynn A. Like, who will be 42 on July 17, was arrested shortly after the June 2 filing of four counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse of a Minor while being five years or more older than the victim.
The accusations in the case read like a lurid made-for-TV movie designed to appeal to the growing perversion of adults having sexual contact with youth who might be fairly sexually active within their own age group, but when it comes to engaging in it with someone nearly 30 years older than they, it takes on a whole new aura of irresponsibility in a society that’s entirely too permissive about such things.
Fortunately, in Lawrence County, prosecutor Chris Quick doesn’t let such things go uncharged, just as he handled things when prosecutor in Wabash County previously.
Like is charged first with engaging in an act of sexual penetration with a male identified as JP between May and June of 2013 “on oil lease roads in Bridgeport.” JP, like the other alleged victims in the case, is described as being at least 13 years of age but under 17; the specific act of sexual penetration is described as “oral sex with…
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