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Originally posted by USCTKE
I thought minors could be charged with statutory rape as well...I wanna say I went to high school with a guy who slept with a 13 year old when he was like 14 or 15 and got arrested and charged with statutory rape...now he is a registered sex offender and listed on SLEDs website.
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It wouldn't be statutory rape, unless the state called it something like that in its code. It wouldn't be what's really known as stautory rape. They may have some sort of offense, PA doesn't have that to my knowledge.
Statutory rape is when an adult has sexual relations with someone under the age of 17. The victim of that, for example, cannot be charged with statutory rape. The crime of statutory rape is designed to protect minors, therefore a minor can't be charged with it. Geekypenguin may be able to reword that differently, i forget how they word in law school that sounds better.