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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like someone to answer the fake ID question from a PP. Obviously it is the right, legal, morally necessary thing to make sure the person you're having sex with can and does grant competent consent. However, here we have one partner lying and claiming to be of age to do exactly that. If the young man had taken steps to verify somehow, such as asking for proof of age, how would the law react had the girl presented false identification? At what point has the adult truly done their due diligence to comply with laws protecting our children in good faith, if there are clear incidents where some underage individuals are determined to deceive in an effort to engage in acts they are not legally permitted to consent to?

I'm curious to see if anyone thinks there could be a point at which the underage partner could be the one in the wrong, from either a legal or moral standpoint?[/quote]

There is no due diligence in these cases and it is only the legal standpoint that matters, since we are discussing a legal case. The fact that one person is a legal adult according to the law and the other is an underage minor according to the law makes an act of sex between them statutory rape. It is rape because the statute says it is. The fact that it is statutory rape has no relation to any statement or act of the underage minor, it is the fact that one person is a minor and one an adult according to the parameters of the law of the state involved that makes it rape.

The law recognizes that children are immature and so we protect them from their own immaturity with statutory rape laws. The legal adult in the situation bears the full culpability. Our society places a priority on the protection of children and that is the purpose of statutory rape laws.

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