#streetlightaurora

@sweetnovember77

Somebody HELP! This dude Liam doesn’t understand boundaries, and doesn’t fully grasp that he is actually committing a crime. My goodness. He actually believes that he is in love, and Saffy puts all her energy into consistently feeding this guys insanity.

Is he committing a crime, though? Under the Crimes Act, it is an offence for an individual to have sexual relations with a person aged 18 or under who is under that individual’s “special care”. In the eyes of the law the victim is taken to be under the special care of the offender if the offender is a school teacher, and the victim is a pupil of the offender. In December last year, the Bridgeport Criminal Court of Appeal ruled that a high school teacher was not guilty of three counts of having sex with a person who was 18 years of age under his “special care”. The defendant teacher successfully argued that because the Act defined “special care” in a school setting as strictly being a teacher-pupil relationship, and because the student was not in any of his classes at the time of the sexual relationship, she could not have been under his “special care”.

Liam could also use this defense, because Saffron is not in any of his classes.

@streetlightaurora

I thought it was a dick pic 😂 Also, Saffy... He probably already wrote that poem... FOR HIS WIFE!

LMBOOOOOO yes that does not seem outside the realms of possibility!

@skyburned

I had to think about this. Naive as all of us are at that age and relentlessly invulnerable (I will never die in a car accident). Adults seem like foreign forms of life-I don’t remember ever even realizing that they felt vulnerable and would probably have considered it weird. He’s giving away too much with the ‘despair’ line. 

No matter how mature, and cynical and jaded and Saffy regards herself as being, there is still a part of her that is thrilled to have had a poem written about her, especially by an older man. Her vanity is immensely flattered, and she is also not immune to the Byronic romance of it all. In just one simple gesture, Liam is no longer a morally corrupt adulterer, but a misunderstood and tortured soul!