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NEWS: Penguindrum Voice Actor Illich Guardiola Arrested in Texas

mdo7 wrote:

I don't even know what to say over this. But I'll say this, what was his mother thinking to allow him to marry a 16 year old girl??

Her mother!

Because I suspect that trying to figure out marriage law is not something I can do, I will just say this: Illich Guardiola is an imbecile.

"Married" and "victims" do not seem to go together.
Does the marriage ceremony end with the priest saying "The criminal may now kiss the victim"?
I don't think so.

I am not clear on what law he was arrested for breaking.
Both of the cited sources say it was "sexual assault of a child" which is rather ambiguous.
Since both of the sources are in Houston they might be assuming that all of their readers know what the age of consent is in Texas, but that seems like a poor assumption for a journalist to make.
It looks to me like the reporters did not know why he was arrested.

Click 2 Houston said "...accused of having sex with a teenager ..."
I am sure that there is no law anywhere in the US against having sex with a "teenager."

KHOU says "... married one of his teenage students was arrested Thursday, and authorities suspect there may be other victims."
"Married" and "victims" do not seem to go together.
Does the marriage ceremony end with the priest saying "The criminal may now kiss the victim"?
I don't think so.

It definitely seems that he was arrested for violating some law concerning sex and age of consent, but I really expect a news story to tell me more than that.

If what did get reported is true then he definitely was having sex with the girl before they were married. That by itself would not be a crime, though I personally would consider it to be wrong due to the girl's age and his position of authority.

Judging by what I've read so far, I'm under the impression that he *tried* to do everything right and legal by the book. He just didn't understand the student/teacher restrictions. So yeah... Kinda dumb on his part.

While something like this wouldn't necessarily make him unemployable as a voice actor (honestly, I suspect a lot of anime fans wouldn't care)

Oh, let's not start this "America is a backwards country" crap. ... The latter is quite possibly what Mr. Guardiola got nailed on

She is his student and they are having sexual relations. That instantly is a crime in Texas (as long as it happened in that state, regardless of where/when/if they were married).

Key wrote:

Oh, let's not start this "America is a backwards country" crap. ... The latter is quite possibly what Mr. Guardiola got nailed on

Nope, that is not how it works, if you want to deny the "backwards country" accusation you need to give us facts that deny it and "quite possibly" is not a fact. So far this indeed looks like a "backwards country" or "backwards state" or maybe just "backwards county".

TheTsunami wrote:

She is his student and they are having sexual relations. That instantly is a crime in Texas (as long as it happened in that state, regardless of where/when/if they were married).

So if I was a teacher and married a 16 year old student in Gretna Green, it would be a bad idea to honeymoon in Texas?

I don't even know what to say over this. But I'll say this, what was her mother thinking to allow him to marry a 16 year old girl??

mangamuscle wrote:

Key wrote: Oh, let's not start this "America is a backwards country" crap. ... The latter is quite possibly what Mr. Guardiola got nailed on Nope, that is not how it works, if you want to deny the "backwards country" accusation you need to give us facts that deny it and "quite possibly" is not a fact. So far this indeed looks like a "backwards country" or "backwards state" or maybe just "backwards county".

Is it backwards because they arrested a guy who broke the law? Or is the law itself broken for trying to prevent teachers and other adults in positions of authority from abusing their power to prey on students?

Just looking for some clarification here.

mdo7 wrote:

I don't even know what to say over this. But I'll say this, what was her mother thinking to allow him to marry a 16 year old girl??

There are two distinct possibilities:

a) Her mother must be some kind of monster.

b) Her mother is a sensible person that knows her daughter and knows and the groom and gave her blessings.

But if you live in puritan amurrrica (b) will never even cross you mind since it is an alien thought, you probably are atm mentally hurling rocks at said voice actor.