Ty wrote:
mikkel wrote:
Ty wrote:
Mikkel, courts don't apply statutory rape laws if the "offender" is close in age to the "victim". The law takes the purpose of acts in mind, and statutory rape acts are put in place to prevent older people from taking advantage of younger people, not to punish people who are of similar ages who had sex when one was a little underage. In a case such as your 17/18 year old example no-one would be charged.
That's how it should be, but it's not how it is. There have been countless examples of young people being convicted of statutory rape by having consensual sex with a partner less than two years younger than them.
Really? Name three.
Someone being charged in those circumstances would be very rare. The law is not just about the law and the letter, the most important factor is equity.
Well, refer to the case of Genarlow Wilson, and all the other cases that you read an article or two about before the media forgets it, and then all the cases where the "rapist" isn't a high school football star or related to anyone prominent enough to highlight their cases.
Googling this yields a fuckton of irrelevant links, as would be expected, so I'm not going to sift through these to find three cases with enough media coverage to get on even the first ten pages of the results, but to give you an example, the state of Georgia supposedly has over 1100 kids locked up as sex offenders. I'm willing to bet that a not insignificant part of these are in there on statutory rape charges from fully consensual sex.
I'm as well aware of how law should be applied as you are, but I think that we can both agree that these ideals aren't always applied with sentencing by all judges.
[TUF]Catbox wrote:
I bet all the people that are sympathetic to these pedophiles would change their tunes... if they came home and found out their little sister or brother had been fucked or sodomized by some 45 year old down the street... I don't think the molesters should be beaten or abused... and once they have done their time... they are free... But i am very glad they have watchdogs out there to keep an eye on these people...
I just went to the watchdog site that kmarion posted
http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.aspand there are a bunch of offenders living in proximity to my house... one offender of children is 3 streets away... I would kill anyone that messed with my niece or nepwhew... I will not let anyone hurt them...
I bet all the people supportive of these lists would change their tunes if they faced some bullshit charge that landed them on one of them, and consequently found themselves antagonised and fearing violence and death.
Your criminal record is a highly confidential thing. What other crimes plaster the details of it all over public sites? Again, you could have a child -murderer- living next door, but you wouldn't know about it, and people don't seem to be complaining about that. These lists are completely irrational, and while I can understand why some parents would be irrational about this, the law is meant to keep people from doing irrational things.
Amusing sidenote: Certain states actually require convicted sex offenders to pay an annual registration fee of upwards of $250 for the privilege of being on a sex offenders list.