* a note to add, although it is commonly reffered to as statutory rape. In most states the term statutory rape does not exist. The young man was probably charged with unlawful sex with a minor or lude and lascivious. Statutory rape is a term thrown about becaue people watch to much tv, and it sounds better that lude and lascivious acts with a minor.
Once again being charged with a sex crime *statisticley prohibits any young adult from leading a productive lives. They are lumped together with child molestors, and real rapists.
88 percent of girls under the age of 16 who become pregnant the father is 5-8 years older. Only about 8 percent of those cases are tried in court, and that is only the number reported because the girls become pregnant.
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