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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't get all the mental gymnastics trying to make this not the young man's fault. It is statutory rape. Trying to make it sound as though it is impossible to ever know how old someone is is just silly. Meeting up with someone you've exchanged messages with online, driving across state lines to meet her and then having sex with her is a bad idea all around. A 19 year old should know better. This situation turned out to not only be a bad idea, but also illegal.

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It is statutory rape.  It is illegal.   But the criminal justice system is rightfully becoming more geared toward true rehabilitation.   He needed to be found guilty and he needed some sort of punishment.  But what was handed down is extremely excessive and doesn't do anyone any good.  It defeats the purpose of trying to integrate convicted individuals back into society as productive, law-abiding people.  At 19, he would have been much better served with therapy and educational programs teaching him why what he did was wrong, who it hurt, and how not to do it again.  But he's not a sex offender in the sense that we all think about.  People who have unnatural sexual attraction to children, or people who violently rape or drug people a la Bill Cosby.   He was not innocent.   But he was not given justice, either.  [/quote]

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