Jamie Lynn: America's Jailbait Sweetie
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
KNOCKED UP, KNOCKED DOWN Spears, Wilson (inset)
Life's pretty sweet when you're teen TV princess Jamie Lynn Spears, even if you get knocked up just after your sweet 16.
It could be a hell of a lot worse, anyway. Just ask Genarlow Wilson, an African American honor student, who, at 17, got a consensual BJ from a 15-year-old during a motel room party. Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation and had to lobby the legislature and courts to avoid a decade in prison and a spot on the national sex offenders registry.
Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn, the youngest sibling of Britney, not only got freak nasty with Casey Aldridge, the 19-year-old son of a Cleveland, Tennessee, paper mill worker she's been dating since she was 14—she got pregnant. The response? A comforting hug from her employer Nickelodeon, the cover of OK! magazine, and a portrayal of the events framed in the soft light of an after-school special.