I’m truly horrified how many people here are trying to defend this situation.
It’s sickening and I can only imagine that some people defending Coughlin have possibility done something similar in nature and are now just trying to assuage their guilt.
Guess what folks, it was assault. She never gave him permission to touch her, to kiss her, or to be groped. She wasn’t asking for it and she didn’t deserve it. There was no consent, or implied consent since she was asleep.
Horrified plain and simple.
Ziotic, the fact that you "can only imagine that some people defending Coughlin have possibility done something similar in nature and are now just trying to assuage their guilt" indicates severe lack of imagination (or worldly experience) on your part, nothing more.
For the record, I'm a full blown ball-busting FEMINIST. Mmmkay? Women are just as smart and strong, mentally, intellectually, emotionally, whatever, as men. 100% gender equality, 100% mutual respect, 100% accountability, 100% equal power.
This is why I do NOT give a pass to girls for being "weak" "victims" of a "corrupt system" (stop whimpering and grow some balls, ladies). And similarly, this is why I do NOT give a pass to "just boys" (hey, knuckleheads, educate yourselves on how to behave, before someone snips your peckers off, LOL).
It disgusts me when the knee-jerk reaction is to disbelieve the accusers. Still, I find the opposite extreme ridiculous. Painting girls as shrinking violets, and a misguided moron (who should have known better but stopped when asked) as a nefarious scheming monster of no redemption, is not helping the cause.
"Horrified", "sickening", whatever other emotions this situation evokes in you, still doesn't make it into something it was not. It was not rape. It was not forcible assault. And I have serious doubts that the perpetrator in this case had even fully understood what he was actually doing.