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I understand the "age of consent" stuff and the intent behind it, but sometimes I think it gets carried a bit far.
Do I think that the man in your story should go to prison for 40 years? In a word, no (but then, as a criminal defense attorney, I rarely think that ANYBODY should go to prison for 40 years). However, I would need more facts to be able to say what I think his sentence should be. Was the girl 12 and the guy 50? To me, at least, that is different from a girl being 15 and a guy being 18. I think that it is a waste of state resources to be prosecuting 18 year olds who have sex with 15 year olds.
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