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Should have gotten her. Sugar Daddy and she wouldn’t be in this kind of trouble. Lawd Lawd Lawd!!!

Goodness Kingfish, is that the sexiest pic you could find of her?

I hope she gets a good attorney and doesn't plea guilty. People always plea and make the prosecutors job too easy.

I understand the law and she’s an adult and he’s a minor child of 17, at the time of the crime. How damn vulnerable can a 17-year-old, competitive swimmer be? If this accuser is not handicapped, he was obviously sheltered enough by his parents, that he didn’t know what was really going on. His parents should teach a class on how to keep your kids from learning about all the bad, immoral things in life.

What sort of evidence does it take to get an indictment and then to convict?

Are we really going to blame the parents of the victim?? 17 is a CHILD. This woman is an ADULT. I wouldn’t have want my child on her team or especially in her elementary school class.

@12:01 WOW! Takes a real special individual to go after the parents of the victim. I will pray for you.

He had to be handicapped to be a real victim?!?! Are you serious? Oh and let’s blame the parents!

if she did it, she’s a pedofile. no if, ands, but’s, or coconuts.

@1:02
DNA from a rape kit and medical testimony is the only slam dunk. It is unlikely that this case will have either. So all they have is the accuser's testimony. The testimony of a virile and athletic young man who was 1 year younger than the age of majority. Will that be enough to convince a jury? Only time will tell.

If she has a good enough attorney then the prosecution will have to prove without a shadow of a doubt that a rape in fact occured while she was in a position of authority over the accuser, and it happened in Rankin county. A good attorney would exploit any holes in the testimony and ensure that the jury must be certain that the crime took place. It is all about perception and convincing the jury.

It is why prosecutors try so hard to get a plea.

She still shoulda gotta sugar daddy. She woulda had all the money she needed and he coulda popped 2 viagra and satisfied her

She should not have done this given her position of trust and authority, but charging her with a crime is a bit much. A seventeen year old competitive male swimmer has been surrounded by beautiful athletic women for years and I doubt he had much innocence to steal.

I don’t think anyone is blaming the parents of the accuser, sorry, victim. Read the damn post and use your narrow minds to realize the poster was saying the parents did a hell of job protecting this child from this world’s evils. That is up until the child predator swim coach came along and took advantage of the vulernable kid. Nor, is anyone saying the coach didn’t break a law. Are you people so naive that you believe a 17 year old did not know what was going on enough to say, No Freakin Way, Coach, we are not going to do this. You people must live under a rock. If a 17 year old is guilty of something, the media gladly labels them as a “17 year old man” or “17 year old woman”.

She should use the Porno Pres playbook. Pay off her victims, then deny the assault, then admit the payoff and deny the assault, then go full moron. It’s fail proof.

I definitely think that the culpability goes both ways. Yes, he is a minor and therefore cannot consent but cannot he also agree to not ruin someone's life by lookin so dang fine in that speedo??

The biggest crime is that dye-job.

Will this scar the child for life when it comes to his love life? Imagine being romantically involved with someone and that same act sends them to jail. Has to affect you mentally.

Why the two counts?

I am well aware, being one, that males act really stupid when that blue-vein-throbber pops up and demands satisfaction. I'm just learning that women have the same issues with self-control. If true (knowing I'll suffer incoming wounds), the accused has shit-canned quite a life, as well as the lives of family members, the proposed victim and others.

Battery operated devices are available via mail, so cheaply.

OK....his D.O.B. is posted. Ain't gonna be hard (no pun intended) from here.

the reason this has been a hot button topic is the way the statute is written....it lists out specific examples....and it does not mention swim coach....and I bet there is a loop hole in what her role actually was....she may not have been a coach at the time.....she will walk if she takes it to the mat.

I don't see a jury convicting her. The women on the jury all know how many men have gotten away with much worse. And the men on the jury will be bug eyed imagining all sorts of kinky stuff. Waste of taxpayer money.

@1:52 i just wonder what sort of evidence is around. Maybe there is a picture or a verbatim message that can prove a case. Other than that, it would generally be a he said, she said. It’s basically “MeToo” with the rolls reversed for male and female. Believe the victim or require some evidence? It’s like Brett Kavanaugh. You can’t prove something never happened. But, if there is some physical evidence, that would change the issue.

Is there any significance that the arrest was made in rankin county? From all indications, it seems she coached in Madison and the kid went to school in Madison. How’d a crime happen in Rankin - unless it was at her home in Rankin?

Her actions while positioned over him were not appropriate.

They are REALLY going to have to prove that she was in a position of authority. He is older than the age of consent. If they met outside the pool and had a sexual liaison then it would simply be grounds for a divorce and possibly an Alienation of Affection suit brought by the husband against the young gun.

@2:21
Still upset that Stormie Daniels failed to unseat El Grande Orange and then she ended up with a judgement against her? Funnier still is that her creepy porn lawyer ended up going bankrupt and ending up arrested as well!

Trump is still your President despite the treasonous media hysterics because he did nothing wrong.

But this post isn't about Trump, despite your continued suffering of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

1. It's a crime (assuming the prosecutor can prove all of the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt) because the act for which she is charged is prohibited by law.
2. The young man - not boy - cannot consent (although we all know here that he was probably a very willing participant) because the statute provides he cannot consent.
3. The alleged victim was probably HAPPY AS HELL that he bedded an older woman (assuming it really happened). This probably came to light because like most young men his age he was bragging about it when it got brought to the attention of his parents.

Except for the rigidness of the statute, the only way I really see this as being a real sexual assault/battery/rape (pick your label) is if the young man was somehow impaired at the time of the act. Who knows. . .

QUESTION FOR YOU SCHOLARLY CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS: Would she have committed a crime, being the young man's coach, if the young man forced himself on her? Remember, (1) he cannot consent; (2) she was his coach; and (3) there was penetration.

The law needs to be applied fairly across the board. Would everyone here saying it isn't a big deal because he was 17 be saying the same thing if it were a 17 year old girl having a sexual relationship with her 34 year old married, male softball coach?

There's a reason for these laws that are specific to those in positions of authority. It is too easy for the perpetrators to use their influence to groom children for sexual abuse and then intimidate them into silence. This case may be perfectly consensual, but I for one hope that she gets appropriate punishment if she did what she is accused of simply to reinforce the message to teachers, counselors, coaches, etc. that sexual contact between themselves and minor who they have influence over will not be tolerated in order to protect all students.

Good golly. When I was 17, I would have moved out of the damn house if my parents had filed a lawsuit against someone that was attracted to me. Grown woman, or not. That is what I preferred and was successful, but they didn't look like this predator. Damn it, son.

I get it. She's probably guilty of more than an affair, because of his age. But, his parents making this public will have more of a negative mental affect, than the act of the crime would have.

Kid, hold your head up. It may take a while to forgive everyone, but just know your folks and the justice system thought they were helping you. Instead, they are using your age to say you are a dumbass and can't handle yourself.

or the kid might have gone to authorities after he turned 18.

You guys just have it all figured out, don't you?

It's probably in Rankin County because he drove his ass over there. Unless, of course, he was only allowed to drive to Cypress Lake and straight back home. Poor 17 Year Old adolescent was seduced by an attractive woman. His parents may have brought this to light in fear that Mr. Reis was going to whip his ass or sue for Alienation of Affection and become an heir to their estate. This is a turble situation for the kid. He is going to hate his parents.

@3:40 - I’d be saying the same thing if the “victim” was a girl. This is NOT 1950. I’d wager a bet that less than 10% of seventeen year old YOUNG ADULTS are very experienced in the sexual arts. Hell, a third or more of them already have at least one child. This 18 year old age threshold is NOT a measure of ANYBODY’s maturity. It is an arbitrary line drawn in the sand by some legislator to appease some angry name who just found out her daughter was sleeping with her boyfriend. Further, I wouldn’t be surprised if this “child” was the one who spilled the beans because his girlfriend got tired of him. “Child”, my ass.

We are trying to figure it out. Don't be a smart ass or I won't post my ideas that were typed before I really thought about it.

If they had matched on Tinder and hooked up in the back of his Tahoe, there would be no crime. Just because she is a school teacher and a swim coach is why this became a criminal case.

Every horny housewife in Madison and Rankin fantasizes about such a rendezvous.

Every middle aged married man wishes he could be 17 again and nail a MILF

Here we go again. Yes, the roles are reversed with the female being the predator, but the rules are the same. My problem with it is the same problem I have when it's a male softball coach and a 17 year old female - the 17 year old is not a child. Period. Male or female, not now, not in the past, not in the future. This should be handled in civil court if the kid thinks he has been damaged, but sex between a 17 year old and someone older than 17 should not be a crime unless it's forced. Children need to be protected, but older teenagers aren't children anymore. I don't know the magic age, but I know it's not 17.

Why is everyone picking on male softball coaches by using them as the example. Why not use a male swim coach as the example instead? I'm feeling bad for all the innocent male softball coaches.

3:18
Pretty sure that 2:21 was talking about Bill Clinton and Paula Jones.

The only thing that has her on the hook is she was in a position of trust. If her attorney can muddy that water she has a chance. If it goes to court it will get ugly. The parents of the 17 year old might not to want to take the chance of putting their child through that. The sands through the hour glass thing.

This woman is facing 30 years in the penitentiary. Also, if convicted, she will be classified as a violent offender, which limits where she can be housed, and whether/when she qualifies for release. Most likely, any visitation with her family will require them to travel to the women's facility in Greenville, Ms., and that's if her husband doesn't divorce her and a chancellor deny in-person visitation with her children.

Here are a few statutes to chew on, and "consent" is nowhere in them:

"A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with a child under the age of eighteen (18) years if the person is in a position of trust or authority over the child including without limitation the child's teacher . . . or coach."

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-95(2).

"Every person who shall be convicted of sexual battery under Section 97-3-95(1). . . or (2) shall be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for a period of not more than thirty (30) years . . . "

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-101(1).

“The following shall be classified as crimes of violence . . . Sexual battery as provided in Section 97-3-95 . . . ” Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-2(K).

3:40, you still want to throw the book at this woman just to send a message to others? It's a very large book, and it carries a great of deal of force.

3:42 x 2

The boy’s mom found text messages. There is electronic evidence of inappropriate relationship.

She needs the same 15 years that Courtney Rainy got in Canton Ms..

@643, if what you say is true, that is certainly something that will have to be dealt with through evidentiary proceedings. There may be a lot of things out there that never make it to the courtroom in front of a jury. This will play out over the next 6 months to a year. I will not be surprised if this gets pled down or dismissed altogether. While the parents may want a pound of flesh, they better be prepared to have their son cross-examined and all of his character laid bare. It may not change whether there is guilty verdict, but very much matters regarding sentencing. Not saying the boy has bad character. I don’t know. But I do know that defense attorney will be trying to do all he or she can to defend their client and have the least amount of jail time, if any. And a 19 year old male at the time of trial will look vastly different in front of a jury than a 17 year old with a baby-face.

Text messages were only about a "mutual fantasy" -- the words were not about reality, and didn't amount to anything more than sexting, so no penetration occurred. Sell that to the jury.

@6:43. That’s been going around town. Who would have gotten that out? Would the accuser have done that or are people just saying that without actually knowing?

What did those messages say? It would have to be very specific and explicit to be enough to prove a physical act.

Accuser and evidence will eventually be public if it moves further along in courts.

Mom is going to ruin this kid's head. This really does need to go away for the kid's sake. Can you imagine the crap he is enduring at school because his parents are trying to send this woman up the river? For sex? Do you really know what 17 year olds are exposed to in these times? Geez. What a non-event.

She shouldn’t have done it. And I don’t condone it. But, having been a red blooded 17 year old not that many years ago, I’d use the word “victim” loosely. When I was in high school my buddies and I would’ve walked across coals to tie up with that for just one night, much less an entire summer. We’d have laughed our asses off if someone called us a “victim.”

Just saying.

If she’s guilty, bar her from teaching and coaching. Make her do community service and go through counseling. But I can’t fathom her getting hard time unless there’s way more to this story.

17? I bet he hit on her constantly until she did the act with him. Was he an adult? There are hundreds of 16 and 17 year olds who have knocked up several girls. I say this to say, she violated the law with a technical minor, who was likely acting like a full adult.

Would he ever admit that?

What 17 year old would? None that I know.

I don’t know any of the parties involved, but I am just posting an alternative “theory” here. Until I recently talked to friends, I had no idea that competitive swim could be so cut-throat. I learned that there can be a lot of drama within/among swim teams. As with anything involving sports and kids, some parents get too involved. Parents will yank their child off one team and join another, bad-mouth coaches, and backstab their children’s teammates. Yes, we all know this can, and does, happen in other sports as well. However, I just wonder if there wasn’t some ill-will between this parent and the coach in question. Maybe her son was pulled from an event, etc. and this is some type of retaliation move. Perhaps mom and dad knew of the closeness between the swimmer and coach, but chose to ignore it until something happened that they didn’t like. Bam. Expose the coach. I am not saying she is innocent for I have no idea. Just something to consider.

Talk about a bunch of dumb asses. Get your heads out of your horny asses and try to understand there was actual harm done even if it’s beyond the scope of your dated frat boy perspectives. Grooming begins years prior to penetration and yes there was penetration, there was more than sexting going on, the abuse was physical and emotional. There are rumors of other boys on the team who were abused as well that may come forward. You may not be able to wrap your neanderthal heads around a sexual predator being female but they exist. It is tragic, not some archaic rite of passage for a young man, try to be respectful of that. It may be difficult to comprehend for the peanut gallery, but she needs to be treated fairly and just as the law would treat a male predator.

My Dad (God rest his soul) would have patted me on the back and then asked for bit by bit details.

I'm amused that so many of the males commenting admit, in effect, that you have no self-control or judgment and are helpless if an attractive female makes sexual advances.
It appears that loss of judgment continues throughout life since you know nothing of the facts in this case beyond the ages and appearance of one of the parties.

The possibility that the male's parents may have seen negative impacts on their son's life never occurred to you. Nor do you have any concerns about ways this relationship could have affected the boy's entire life starting with his schoolwork and STDs including HPV and he could have been a father.

I don't see you excusing ALL teen age boys from running the risk of impregnating girls and women and taking no responsibility. I'll bet you complain about children born out of wedlock to teens.

And, while I suspect most of you are sports fans, "the special attention"to one member of a team by a coach impacting the entire team didn't occur to you either.

Perhaps, males shouldn't be in charge of anything. After all, a woman is at the mercy of her hormones for only short periods while you guys seem to admit your hormones short circuit your brains daily and for some of you, apparently, for your entire lives.

Try to settle down, take a cold shower, drink some coffee and try to imagine being the parent. What bad things could happen to your son if a mature adult with little interest in his long term future had more control and influence over your son than you do? What bad outcome could lead to him revealing that influence years later? Get your "little boy" under control and try to use that other body part, your brain.

sorry. she’s a sexual predator if she’s found guilty.

i don’t care if she’s a woman, goes to church every week, sings in the choir, and loves her parents.

i’ve been reading this blog long enough to know that criminals found guilty don’t get much sympathy. and rightly so

why would she be any different?

What a bunch of know-it-all douches you all are.

And @2:35: EWWW.

Somehow all this reminds me other this.

@12:26 a.m. Throwing out some rank rumor about the possibility of other boys on the team that were abused and may come forward is reckless and does nothing to help the situation. If you have knowledge/evidence that the first alleged crime did in fact happen or if you have actual knowledge/evidence there were others abused, please call Kathryn Newman with the Rankin County DA's office. Otherwise, please refrain from being a person that merely wants to spread gossip and discourse while appearing to be knowledgeable and sanctimonious. Be better.

The double standards for an accused male vs and accused female are just appalling. If this was a 17 year old female accusing a 34 year old male the comments would be different.

NOT GUILTY. That is how this story ends.

Wait a minute...married women cheat???
I thought #metoo told me men are the scumbags out there compromising these upstanding ladies’ virtues..
Surely a happily married mother would never send out flirtatious texts and consider cheating on her man.
Confused

@9:19 am. Very well said. All these posts saying that someone IS a sexual predator seem to be premature. The only way someone would KNOW what actual evidence there is would be the accuser spreading information. Or, the other possibility, is that people are making things up. There is no telling what the evidence is, but spreading things that ultimately may not be true might be considered slanderous.

I will have to co-sign with @7:00/Oct. 8 on this one. IF this was a 17 year old girl, the comments would be much different, including the usual calls for stringing up the alleged abuser.

12:26: We would all like to think you had good intentions and meant well with your post. It’s obvious that we aren’t all dumbasses. If you really believe this is Neanderthal, you have also been sheltered for way too long. While most of us have enough self control over this kind of situation, some don’t and they are eventually exposed. If the 17-year old’s parent wants to exploit their kid over this, the long term affects will be astonishing. It’s done now, however. Reis is probably guilty of breaking the law. But, the parent should have handled their son’s problems more carefully and with a little more thought. Your comment about something actually happening is disgraceful. You probably got off on typing the word penetration, even more when JJ let it through. Please stop spreading rumors. It is disgusting.

You obviously get your feelings hurt when others don’t have the same opinion as you. You exposed yourself as the real peanut gallery.

We’re all human and there exist laws and rules because some humans don’t act the way other humans expect them to act. Rules and laws were invented because humans don’t like making decisions about individual scenarios. You know.... (bang chest) it’s the law, now watch me enforce it???

Humans harm other humans all the time. Lock her up for a while as an example. The kid will probably have emotional setbacks, because his groomed relationship didn’t work out. Guess what, most relationships are groomed by at least one side of the relationship, no matter the age of the individuals. (Toddlers to Adults)

He will have additional setbacks because parents felt violated and exposed their son as victim, to the whole damn world. Just sad.

Now hang on just a doggone minute. IF life begins at conception, then this 17 year 3 month old "victim" was really 18 after all, now wasn't he? "Your Honor, the defense RESTS!"

For all of the "Know it all's" posting about this, word around and about the law enforcement community has it that before the case was presented to the grand jury, this woman was questioned by law enforcement and confessed to the allegations.

Word has it?? That’s your first mistake. Cmon now, is that the best you’ve got??

@2:39, surely you don't think that if someone confessed to law enforcement they had committed two felonies the law enforcement folks would wait on a grand jury to convene, hand down an indictment on September 18th, and then wait another 2 weeks after the indictment was issued before the arrest on October 4th. Really?

Take a deep breath, try to think through that again. And realize that someone fed you bad information. You didn't even stop to consider for a moment whether it was true or even logically could be true before you believed it and then posted it for the world to see.

2:56 and 3:00: You. Will. See.

Eventually.

7:00 AM, don't you have some ironing to do?

Just ask yourself what a 33 year old man would get if he had sex with a female under 17. That should be her punishment.

When I was a young buck in rut, the social norm was that you didn't kiss and tell. Thus protecting the honor of the lady who may or may not have let you do more than kiss her. Used to be a woman's virtue was one if her qualities that made her desirable. These days most women have more body fat, tattoos, and venereal diseases than anything else you would condider desirable.

That is likely why Savannah still appeals to so many men. She appears to be a desirable lady.

Guilty until proven innocent these days all for the clicks and the traffic.

7:00 a.m. said:

"I'm amused that so many of the males commenting admit, in effect, that you have no self-control or judgment and are helpless if an attractive female makes sexual advances."

I'll admit to "impaired self-control," "compromised judgment," and "somewhat powerless" under the circumstances you cite.

"The Graduate II" coming to a theater near you. Filmed in Mississippi.

As of yesterday, the school will not acknowledge the situation. The interim teacher has not been informed of anything. Why won’t the news cover this?