I'm not sure this particular event would have affected him as greatly had it not been internationally publisized. His sexuality certainly would have been reinforced and he may have looked at women in a slightly more socially objectionable way, but is now being punished for his own sexuality (from his own point of view).
A sixteen year old boy with a fledgling and developing sexuality is being punished by the government for looking at a woman.
This is what he will most likely think is happening and I won't even begin to go into how I believe he will be affected by this, emotionally and intellectually.
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So don't fsck it up for the rest.
-- Sick of It All; Yours Truly
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