A Florida man was arrested for driving his son to a local park so the teen could have sex, The Smoking Gun reports.
To be clear: The father wasn’t having sex with his son; he was acting as his chauffeur. Sorta like a soccer mom driving her kid to practice.
According to police reports, an officer was called to investigate a Toyota that was parked after hours outside the McChesney Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida on September 6.
When the officer approached the vehicle, he found 53-year-old Laurence Mitchell sitting in the driver’s seat. When asked what he was doing there, Mitchell replied that he had just dropped off his son and his friend so they could “do their thang” in the woods.
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When asked to clarify what he meant by that, Mitchell told the officer, “Well, they aren’t out there stealing. They are just having sex.”
The teenagers eventually returned to the car. When the officer asked what they had been up to, Mitchell’s son nonchalantly replied, “We were just smokin’ and f*ckin’.”
When asked if Mitchell knew what the two were doing, the son’s partner shrugged and said, “Well, I mean, he drove us out here. But I don’t know.”
That’s when the officer read Mitchell his Miranda Rights and carted him off to jail, where he was released on $750 bond.
Mitchell was charged a misdemeanor count for contributing in the delinquency of a minor. His arraignment hearing is scheduled for September 25.
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barkomatic
Well, you can’t say the Dad isn’t supportive of his gay son.
Taviis
Why are we even seeing this story here? This story isn’t even about a gay son, according to court records, he was driving his 15-year-old son to a local park for a late-night sexual encounter with his girlfriend, also 15.
barkomatic
Ah, I assumed the son was hooking up with another boy because I’m reading the story on Queerty but if he had a girlfriend I’m also perplexed as to why this is here.
Raphael
They clearly tough it were 2 guys, as straight couples don’t usually need “hookup places”.
KevInSD
You are reading about it because Grahame Gremore sees public sex and promiscuity and being gay as the same thing. That is why almost everything he writes is a promotion of some aspect of promiscuity.
Josh447
It’s that public sex thing that seems to be the issue. What a great dad though. Maybe next time he can take off and let the kids have the house to themselves for a while. Bummer for the dad and kids on the public count.
Craig
Interesting that Queerty used terms like “friend” and “son’s partner” to make it seem like a gay story when in fact if you read any other article about this it was a son and his GIRLFRIEND.
Kangol
Well, at least the dad could answer the question “Do you where your kids are?” I do wonder, though, whether in addition to being supportive did he also encourage them to have safe sex?
Gigi Gee
“Mitchell replied that he had just dropped off his son and his ????friend so they could “do their thang” in the woods.”
You leave out the “????” our of girlfriend so it’d sound like this was a super pro-gay Dad who drove his son and his “friend” out to the park to have sex. Like that’s a good thing. #smh
Gigi Gee
Stupid Queerty!
???friend = girlfriend
“????” = girl
DHT
well…it may not be gay but it certainly is queer.
KevInSD
So they weren’t cruising, it wasn’t a hookup, and the boy is heterosexual and was having sex with his girlfriend. Almost nothing in this post is accurate. Not only does Queerty do no original journalism, it can’t even honestly present the journalism that it rips off from other sources. Why does this site continue to exist?
GayEGO
Minor’s are just that and daddy should have driven his son to a secure place if he wanted to let him have his fun with another boy.
kainneR
It seems there is another point to made here. It is illegal ! for consenting teens (“underage”) to engage in sexual activity, whether with each other (look it up, it’s the law and it’s destructive) or those they choose over the the “legal” age. This article, no matter the perceived flaws, points out how stupid and damaging and ,yes, -deadly- such laws are. How many lives have been sacrificed for the “morality” of the fearful and uneducated? Our children need to be protected, I am not arguing with that, but consenting sexual encounters are not about protection but moral corruption.
Rock-N-RollHS
Yes!
linniejr
KainneR,
As a single father, let me say, Thank You for your response. It’s not about whether Queerty is real journalism or not, it’s about right and wrong.
Rock-N-RollHS
Do wonder: if his son was gay, would he have driven him, or thrown him out of the house.
QueerTruth
Nice journalism again… It’s not even a queer story. Yawn.
The author needs to read his own stories instead of copying and pasting someone else’s.
linniejr
I’m looking at some of the comments here, and I’m somewhat shocked. Reason, it doesn’t matter if this man’s son was hooking up with a girl or a boy, shame on the father. There are somethings that a father just doesn’t do.
I’m a single father who is gay, and I wouldn’t do anything such as this. Not that I would be proud of it, but I would rather they stay home as opposed to being in the streets where they would have been arrested anyway.
One thing I make clear to my son, he is my son and not my friend. My son knows what he can and what he better not ask of me. The father should have been arrested, because clearly he was helping these teens break the law.
Like many if no one is gay in this whole thing, then like others why is it in queerty? I hope if one they editors are reading this, they will respond. But despite that, this father was wrong.