You are absolutely correct. But its an arbitrary time period. Like its legal to have sex with a girl at 16 but not 15 and 11 months.
There was one boy jailed for 8 years because he was 4 years and 10 days older than his GF. He missed the cut off by 10 days. That 10 days got him 8 years in prison and made hima registered sex offender. I guess most of you would think thats cool cause you are sticklers.
The legislators argue that they are trying to decrease teen pregnancy with consent laws, thats why some are being raised to 18 . . . but unless you charge the underage person also, I don't see how that will work.
Maybe we should jail girls under the age of conset that have sex as well? Thats the only way to really deter it.
Its extremely dangerous to pass laws that deal with purely social situations. They often have unintended consequences.
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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
But that's the problem isn't it? Whether he was willing or not, he can't legally consent, and therefore, this teacher has committed a crime (now I am assuming that this boy at 13 can't legally give consent...so correct me if I am wrong because I don't know anything about Tennessee law)
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