Uh, what did you say?

If there’s a chutzpah award for attorneys, James Davis ought to win it.

He’s the barrister defending Kelsey Peterson, the 25-year-old middle school teacher in Nebraska who fled with one of her 13-year-old male students to Mexico. Yes, unless you are terminally naïve, it was one of those relationships.

Their little jaunt — the mother of all school trips — was mercifully cut short by men with guns and badges. Now Peterson is facing lots of years behind bars for getting real familiar with a boy who hasn’t been on this earth for lots of years.

If I were James Davis, I’d fall on my knees before the judge and beg for mercy for my client, seeing as how she looks really guilty and all that.

Not Davis. He must have gone to the “best defense is a good offense” school of lawyering.

In his view, Peterson is the innocent one here, not the kid.

“It’s my understanding he was grooming her and she wasn’t grooming him,” Davis said. “I see true victims every day. This young man is no victim. … The kid is sophisticated. He shaves, he has a mustache.”

Wow! Wonder if Davis wants the lad charged with kidnapping.

The boy’s aunt, Laura Rodriguez, said the boy is indeed 13 and not older as Davis suggests.

As for the horny teacher being the “victim” in the relationship, Aunt Laura made a good point: “She started up with him when he was 12. She was 24. How could that happen?”

Heck, maybe I’m being too hard on Davis. He has gone so far as to say about Peterson, “She understands what she did, and that she didn’t exercise the best judgment in leaving.”

Rigghhtt. That’s like saying Britney Spears “didn’t exercise the best judgment” in shaving her head.

We’ll see what a judge or jury in the Cornhusker State has to say about all this.

But from where I sit, calling an adult who seduces a child the “victim” in the relationship is, well, how, shall I put this? … preposterous!