Roger Clemens And Mindy McCready In Ten-Year Relationship Of Some Sort - Page 4
Regardless of whether they had sex when she was fifteen or eighteen (or older), they did, by all accounts, have a relationship of some sort beginning when she was fifteen. It may have been legal in the sense that he wasn't having intercourse with her, but big deal...there are many other kinds of relationships that can be just as damaging to a young girl. Having an emotional affair with someone can be just as destructive to a person as actually going ahead and having sex. Roger was married with two children...he had no business beginning any sort of relationship with any female of any age who was not his wife. Period.
However, I will say that if it does emerge that they were having sex when she was underage (and I suspect Mindy is withholding some information that may or may not come out if she is called as a witness...may I remind Mindy that she is still on probation and that perjury is a crime), I hope there is a way to punish him retroactively. I do have to ask where her parents were during all of this, since there is no way I would let my teenage daughter sing in bars and go jetting off to parts unknown with a grown, married man.
Mindy herself, however, isn't innocent in all this...she should have said no, not only because of his age at the time but because of his marital status. But I can see where, to a teenage girl, attention from a famous, wealthy, attractive sports star would be hard to turn down, and that is where her parents should have stepped in.
And what about the effect this had on this young woman? I'm not naive enough to blame Roger for all of Mindy's problems. She's made some poor decisions and definitely screwed up her life because of them. But while I can't lay all the blame at his doorstep, it would be foolhardy to claim that he had no influence on her developing psyche. After all, she was a fifteen-year-old teenager. I keep saying that, but it bears repeating. A girl that age has no business being with an adult man over ten years older than she was. Besides, he was married, although the article does state that when Mindy found this out she wasn't too fazed by the information.
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