Should this guy go to jail for 50 years ?

_Opi_ · #1 11-03-2005, 05:53 PM

50 years? Harsh punishment

Is he Sick? YESS!!

OneTimeSBX · #2 05-11-2007, 02:15 PM

*sigh...

since i have a daughter, i will say this...if she got knocked up by another 13 year old, it would be less wrong. it would be an unfortunate case of children doing adult things, and i dont even know if i would press charges unless it was a rape or assault.

at 22, you have no business with anyone under the age of 18. Point blank. you fell in love with a 17 year old? you better love her with your hands off until she's legal.

KSig RC · #3 05-11-2007, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

*sigh...

since i have a daughter, i will say this...if she got knocked up by another 13 year old, it would be less wrong. it would be an unfortunate case of children doing adult things, and i dont even know if i would press charges unless it was a rape or assault.

Would you really have any basis to press charges in any other circumstance than rape or assault?

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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

*at 22, you have no business with anyone under the age of 18. Point blank. you fell in love with a 17 year old? you better love her with your hands off until she's legal.

I jive with your sentiment, but doesn't the 18 thing seem kind of . . . arbitrary? What's the difference between 17 and 18? I realize that's a somewhat derivative argument, but nothing really changes on the 18th birthday - so the "hands off until she's legal" makes sense legally, but not when combined with "you have no business with a 17 year old."

I guess, more simply, this would really also mean a 23 year old would have no business with an 18 year old - right?

Drolefille · #4 05-11-2007, 02:44 PM

It's true that the age of majority or consent is arbitrary, but so is every "milestone" age, 16, 18, 21. They're just the best guess that the legislature can make to protect people. Because there ARE some 14 year olds who are incredibly mature, could be allowed to have a beer at dinner and wouldn't get trashed. But there are far more who are not.

Follow the law. If you're old enough to be breaking it by having sex with a minor, you're old enough to keep your pants on until the age of consent.

AlphaFrog · #5 05-11-2007, 02:57 PM

I tend to like the states that have a specific interval instead of a specific age. I can't name them off the top of my head, but I know in some states, as long as you aren't X number of years older than your partner, it's not statutory, even if that person is younger than the "age of consent".

Drolefille · #6 05-11-2007, 04:01 PM

Yeah I've seen that too, though I think some of those states increase the actual age of consent in response.

OneTimeSBX · #7 05-11-2007, 04:53 PM

very true, but i do think that a lot of parents get mad at the guy, no matter what the girl says (it was consensual) and want him to suffer. so unless i knew it wasnt consensual i would probably let it go...

and oh please, tell me if you have a son you wont warn him against messing with younger girls! its not so much the age 18, its the parents that go crazy when they find out your 19 year old a** is screwing their 16 year old lol