The parents of a Utah County high school student who had sex with his girlfriend in the school's parking lot argued their rights to parent him and to practice their religion had been violated. A judge disagreed.
The core argument of the complaint, she wrote, was that since the district gave students free time during the final week of school, it did not do enough “to aid their efforts as parents to prevent [their son] JD from having sex.”
They were disappointed in the decision and are “considering other options for relief,” according to a statement released by their attorneys at Mitchell Barlow & Mansfield in Salt Lake City. On Wednesday of the last week of school, JD’s mother arrived to check him out, but office staff told her students were not in their classrooms. After JD didn’t respond to an announcement to come to the office, his mother went looking for him, the decision said — and she found him in the parking lot only after calling his girlfriend.
She concluded: “Because the Alpine School District did not prevent the Does from making decisions regarding the upbringing of their son, it did not infringe their parental rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.” Parrish disagreed, finding no evidence that the district coerced the family to abandon or act contrary to a religious belief.”The school district did not coerce JD into acting against his religious beliefs,” Parrish wrote. “He freely chose to have premarital sex with his girlfriend, even though this was against the teachings of his religion.”
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