In 1970, Rena told me about the time the Principle of Grand Island Senior High, brought her into his office and accused her of being too beautiful to be an Islander, and, he would have to expel her if she didn’t do something about that mini-skirt that was driving all her classmates, crazy, especially the girls. No one, but no one wore a mini-skirt like Rena wore a mini-skirt.
“How come she gets to wear her skirt that short, and, we don’t?”
Really! really girls. Was her skirt really that much shorter than yours. There must be another factor at play here.
One afternoon Rena got a note in her last period. The principle wanted to see her in his office. She politely knocked, and was bid to come in. Right away she sensed there was something wrong. The venetian blinds were almost shut. There slivers of sunlight on the walls, and on the principle’s desk where she saw a bunch of photographs spread out.
“Have a seat Miss Christiansen!”
We were sitting around the campfire on our mountain. The sun had set and the stars were coming out.
“Hmmm!” I said while poking the fire sending fire pixies skyward. Pray tell what were in these photos?”
“They were of me, taken from under the bleachers during a football game!”
“Really! And who took these pictures?”
“He did!” Rena spat, she happy she alas had someone to tell this wretched tale to.
When Rena got angry, she became a dragon. Fire shot from her eyes and nostrils as she recalled her complete humiliation coming from her handsome principle with a wonderful and healthy tan.
“Was he married?” I asked, I too now intent on getting more on this voyeur, who raped Rena with a camera lense.
“While we were all watching the game he snuck down below the bleachers with his camera, crept up on me, his target, and took shots of me when I uncrossed, and crossed my legs! I was furious as he showed me his exposures one at a time! Now he is telling me he did this for my own good, and for the good of the whole school. He told me my mini-dress was a great distraction. I told him my dress was no shorter than the other girls. What about the cheers leaders, their high leaps in the air?”
“I poked at a smoking log, pushed it into the center of the hot coals. I let go a nervous cough, that alerted Rena to the truth I had a certain question to ask her. It could be extremely embarrassing, even compromising. I felt Rena’s hot gaze searing into the core of my being.
“Are you about to ask me if I was wearing any panties!” Rena Victoria said, she about the go on the war-path.”
“Heaven’s no. That is none of my business. But, what I want to ask you, has to do with what I heard. You told me you were skipped a grade, and couldn’t wait to get out of there. Rena, how old are you?”
Here she was alone with a twenty-three year old man atop a mountain, camping in a tent. We were in paradise. We took a pledge to be honest with one another. There is something very beautiful about a beautiful woman on the verge of telling the truth, but, Rena was not a woman – in California!
“I’m seventeen!”
I now pondered why she lied to me when she told me she was eighteen. I looked up to see her golden eyes, grilling me, she looking to see what my verdict was, and, what would I do – after I busted her.
Rena was too beautiful to go to school. I think I recall the principle brought out a ruler and wanted to measure the offensive object. This is when Rena pushed the chair back, rose to her feet, turned her back on this creep, and walked out of the office.
When I saw the movie Basic instinct and the scene where Sharon Stone gets grilled by a gaggle of detectives, I wondered how many times Rena told her story that changed the course of her life.
Not only did she find her female peers terribly immature, she found almost every male she met to be an adolescent.
What people could not stand about Rena, was she was extremely more beautiful they were, and three times as smart! How could anyone take their eyes off her. She was a superior human being in every way. She had no equal. She had great power over men! She did not belong in high school. How many of us really did?
“I was a straight A student. I skipped the 9th. grade.”
Two weeks earlier, by a beautiful waterfall, I said this to Rena;
“You are bringing out the worst in me. I give up. I don’t want to seduce you any more. I want to be on your side! I think I understand what you are going through, and it is isolating you.”
And…..me. Till this very day.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
The age of consent in Nebraska is 17.
Section 28-319 Sexual assault; first degree; penalty. (1) Any person who subjects another person to sexual penetration…(c) when the actor is nineteen years of age or older and the victim is at least twelve but less than sixteen years of age is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree.
Debauching a minor; penalty. (1) Any person not a minor commits the offense of debauching a minor if he or she shall debauch or deprave the morals of any boy or girl under the age of seventeen years by: (a) Lewdly inducing such boy or girl carnally to know any other person…
http://www.ageofconsent.us/state-laws/nebraska-age-of-consent-laws/
California
The age of consent is 18, with a misdemeanor if the minor has 3 or fewer years of difference with the major, and potentially a felony if the major is more than 3 years older. It is worth emphasizing that unlike most other states, the close-in-age rule in California (3 years) do not provide an exception nor provide any defense; it merely lowers the crime to a misdemeanor. Under this law, two minors of the exact same age could both be prosecuted. Penalties increase if the minor is under 16 and the major is above 21 or if the minor is more than 3 years younger.
Rape, abduction, carnal abuse of children, and seduction. – Section 261.5.
* (a) Unlawful sexual intercourse is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator, if the person is a minor. For the purposes of this section, a “minor” is a person under the age of 18 years and an “adult” is a person who is at least 18 years of age and older.
* (b) Any person who engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is not more than three years older or three years younger than the perpetrator, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
* (c) Any person who engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is more than three years younger than the perpetrator is guilty of either a misdemeanor or a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison.
* (d) Any person 21 years of age or older who engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is under 16 years of age is guilty of either a misdemeanor or a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
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