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When General Hospital's teen terror, Charlotte Cassadine, told Danny Morgan that the best way to get leverage on Drew was to take incriminating photos of him with someone like...her...we had a sinking feeling in our stomach. GH was clearly about to go somewhere we didn't want it to go, but we are thankful that it didn't go that far, while also teaching a VERY important lesson.
Plans Gone Wrong
Charlotte's (Bluesy Burke) little plan to sneak up behind Drew (Cameron Mathison) in his car and throw her arms around him while her phone recorded it all blew up in her face when Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) took some initiative and texted Rocco (Finn Carr) to stop her. Danny didn't expect Rocco to rat Charlotte out to the grown ups in their lives, but that's exactly what he did. Because he knew that Charlotte was in way, way over her head and he was right.
It was clear from Valentin's (James Patrick Stuart) conversation with his daughter that she had no clue the extend of the danger she had put herself in and he knew that was his fault. He had raised her to be clever, but to also be fearless. With a teenager, that means he raised her to be reckless without really knowing it.
Lulu Gets it Right
Lulu (Alexa Havins) surprised even Valentin when she readily agreed to send Charlotte to boarding school after learning that had happened. Both parents were horrified and terrified that their teenage daughter would use her sexuality to entrap a much older man and accuse him of doing something illegal and amoral that he didn't do.
Drew Cain is not the most savory character in town, but even he wouldn't assault a teenage girl, which Charlotte pointed out. But that wasn't the point, something Lulu had to drive home to her wayward daughter.
Charlotte was about to falsely accuse a man of sexual assault when women are still not believed when they correctly make those accusations.
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"The laws you were going to accuse him of breaking exist for a reason," Lulu told her daughter. "To protect children from real predators. Because children and women, they deserve to be believed when they've been assaulted. But when you throw a lie out there like this, it casts doubt on real victims and survivors. People who deserve justice but can't get it. Because hey, if one person lies, maybe they're all lying."
During a week when seven young fraternity brothers have been accused of sexually assaulting a Cornell University student in a most brutal way, Lulu's message was especially needed...and a powerful one.
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