Guess the state!

[theweaselking]

Her MySpace says she's 19, divorced, and looking for no-strings sex.

Her 22-year-old lover is going to prison, because she's lying, she's actually 13.

Bonus: He's not the first guy to be fooled. And not the first to go to jail.

Guess the state!

Comments

[reyl.livejournal.com]

The problem is that then the victim goes on trial. Considering how "she asked for it" is such a pervasive mentality in above-age trials, it's nice that underage victims don't have to deal with that. Even if they were the initiators. The whole point is that the underage don't have the legal ability to consent, even if they can and do initiate.

I would rather here about occasional rare cases like this, where a man was "fooled", than have every child have to prove that they didn't "ask for it".

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

If it is a child who lied about their age online, MORE THAN ONCE... the parents are truly at fault for not teaching their children who bad that is, regardless of how the child's photo appears.

And in a case where it is a multiple offense against the same child? C'mon on... I am all for protecting children, but if the parents' can't control their own child after MULTIPLE online procecutions... at what point does it go from rare to commonplace for that child? At what place do we blame the idiot parents from properly teaching online situations to their own (supposedly) beloved children????

A child initiator in such cases either is a legally demanded compliance in an investigation or it clearly indicates a BAD UPBRINGING. I am glad that the adults were caught before any "real" harm came to the subject, but still... this is not an isolated incident in this case!

- James -

[chrisrw109.livejournal.com]

The problem with this is it's a simplistic world view. There are many stops between 'Every time a person under the age of 16 has sex they're being raped' and 'Every time a person under the age of 16 has sex they're whores who asked for it'.

I'd be interested in seeing the number of times the charges of statutory rape are found in cases where there is no other criminal activity. Because my feeling on it is that most of these cases are not cases where a crime was committed against the child.

Since after all if you deceive, pressure, force, blackmail, induce, manipulate or in some other way force an underage person into a sex act, there's generally a lot worst that gets thrown at you.