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

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

I agree with you - still, in the situation presented here, there is a serious sense of entrapment that the *responsible* adults seem unable or unwilling to accept responsibility for at this juncture.

In other senses, I agree with you. In this particular case? The parents should be strung up by their collective private parts for not taking control of their physically-advanced daughter.

Or am I still somehow in the wrong here? ;-)

- Dr. James -

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

Does entrapment also apply to people who are not in law enforcement?

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

Hell yes.

Or would you rather see the "I thought she was legal aged (16 in most States in the US)") argument not fly even when 16 seems to be the legal age of consent in most US states????

I detest child molestation. However, I detest child-impersonation-as-adult-thanks-to-advanced-genetics just about as much.

I detest parents who absolve themselves of responsibility even more. THEY facilitate such exposure to child molestation... these parents do not deserve to live, to be perfectly blunt.

If you have kids, see them through until they are adults... not just until they are "legally capable of selecting sex partners." What the fuck is won't with such parents????

- James -

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Legally, no.

Legally, "entrapment" is what happens when a law enforcement officer entices you to commit a crime that you would not otherwise have committed, for the purpose of arresting you for that crime. There's no such thing as an "entrapment" defense if the person attempting to get you to commit the crime isn't also trying to arrest you for it.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

There are Agent of the State exceptions, though, to the "law enforcement officer". If the government encourages a citizen to go out and perform Act X, they can become an "agent of the state" and thus are required to follow the constitution, including the prohibitions against entrapment and due process.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'd count that as part of the whole "person getting you to commit the crime is trying to arrest you for the crime" thing.

But yes.