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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Laws should have some common sense, too.

Let's make the parents of the 14 yr old responsible for the 14 yr old's actions.  They should be  held accountable for not supervising her enough.  Some states hold parents accountable for kids skipping school.  I say we should do the same since 14 yr olds are not capable of knowing right from wrong, apparently, or being held accountable for their actions, which caused a man's life to be ruined.

I'm a woman btw.[/quote]

That's just not the way this type of law works. It is a "statutory offense," which means that the very fact of having sex with a minor makes it rape.

It is not the 14 year old child that ruined this man's life. No one forced him to drive across state lines and meet this child and have sex with her. Those were all voluntary actions on his part and it appears he is being held accountable under the law as it stands.
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[b]FFS he thought she was older.[/b]   I'm not saying he should go scott free, but in these cases, some common sense should apply.

I have a DS and DD.  If this situation happened to either of them, I'd be pissed at both of them.  If I knew that my dd lied about her age and went on a dating app for adults, I'd hold her responsible for her role, too, and that man for his (or my DS).[/quote]

But she wasn't.

And yes, if my children did this, I'd be mad too. But that is a parent-child issue. It is not a legal issue. Here is the legal issue: a 19-year-old having sex with a 14-year-old, which is illegal for the 19-year-old to do.[/quote]

Yea, I know she wasn't, but the point was, he thought she was because she was on an adult-only dating site and told him she was 18.  The law should have some common sense.  How can he be a child predator if he thought he was having sex with an adult?  He wasn't interested in a child; he was interested in an adult.

So, if I unknowingly bought a bag of cocaine because someone else told me it was sugar, I should still be labeled a criminal.. because, it doesn't matter that I didn't know.  It's what the law states?  It's ludicrous.

Again, not saying he should go free, but being labeled a child predator for the rest of his life makes no sense.[/quote]

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