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Opening Arguments

Band trip

A chaperone who is unclear on the concept:

The family of a Frankfort High School student plans to sue after the teen claims a chaperone kissed and groped him on the way home from a band trip.

 

The 16-year-old student said he was sitting next to Brandi Harper, 19, when she began making physical advances toward him, 6News' Joanna Massee reported.

 

"She started rubbing my chest and rubbing my side, and then eventually she just pulled me over on top of her and started kissing me and trying to make out with me," the student said. "Nobody believes that something like that could happen."

The chaperone, who says she is not employed by the school system, tells a slightly different story:

Harper told 6News she and the boy kissed, but that it was consensual and did not happen on the band bus.

 

"He kissed me on the cheek and I kissed him on the cheek back at the school. Nothing happened on the bus," she said. "I didn't ever see a problem with it. I mean, the legal age of consent is 16."

Certainly good to know the law if you're trying to sneak around it. She's in a situation where the students are expected to follow her instructions, which gives her power over them. But the prosecutor is declining to act. Everybody knows 16-year-old boys are not traumatized by this kind of stuff.

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