How do you trust someone?

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Originally Posted by smiley21

Honestly, if I saw that a guy was on the sex offender list, I would not have to start a thread wondering if I could trust him. Stay away. There are plenty of guys out there. You don't need to get involved with a sex offender.

I wasn't asking how I trust him.... just how do you trust people at all. Any new person you, without having some kind of connection to them, could be anyone. So how to you try to trust people you JUST met?

Originally Posted by James

Well statutory could mean that he was 18 and she was 14. Think Seniors in high school dating freshmen.

So it really depends. Originally, sex offender laws were not meant to cover people like that . . but they do.

This one guy got sentenced to 8 years in prison for having a girlfriend that was 4 years and 10 days younger than him . . senior and freshman again. It was the ten days that did him in.

I have a friend from high school like this. They were I think 3 or 4 years apart and her parents found out they had sex and charged him with statutory. He did quite a long time and it was all over our neighborhood news.

ETA: I asked the website what their policy on sex offenders are and they said they remove their profiles immediately, so obviously I reported him. So he doesn't find out it was me, I'm playing how to lose a guy in 10 minutes with him. I'm gona pretend to be the psycho.