Justice For All?

Via FoxNews:

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida reading teacher charged with having sex with a minor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior as part of a plea deal that does not include any jail time.

I'm no legal scholar, but how does Lefave get away with charges of "lewd and lascivious behavior" when a male teacher almost certainly would have been charged with statutory rape if he had sex with a 14-year-old girl?

And I don't object to a plea that doesn't include jail time if that's what both sides agree to, but I almost can't believe this:

"To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hell hole is like putting a piece of raw meat in with the lions," Lafave's attorney, John Fitzgibbons, said in July of the possibility of jail time. "I'm not sure she would survive."

Well, boo hoo. This guy can't really think criminal punishment should be applied in direct proportion to gene structure. Can he?