Hard8s

You're right. As I was posting I went back and re-read the article but it was too late to change the title that went on the board. If you look at the first post, the title is different.

My thoughts on the article seem to be totally different from everyone else's. My major problem with the article is how all that it seems to focus on is the sexual acts committed, and how the state dealt with that. It seems to me that the part about meeting this girl online, drinking with her, and then engaging in the sexual act. It seems to me someone was taking advantage of the situation. Nowhere do they take into account the alchoal situation. It seems someone bought it. So if the guy brought it along, and shared it, wouldn't that be a crime as well. If she brought it along, who bought it for her? Wouldn't that be a crime as well?

As far as the age of consent thing, I can see 16 year olds having sex, but the age difference is the thing that gets me. I can see a 2 yr age difference as being OK, but 6 yrs? I know that with all I knew when I was 22, I could easily have manipulated a 16 year old, and made her think it was her idea. However, to me, 16 year olds may have looked great, and the attraction very well could have been there, but the maturity issue, the moral issues, and my scruples just wouldn't have allowed me to do it. I admit that times have changed ALOT since I was 22 and the girls these days, at 16, do not look or act like girls at 16, 15 years ago. But still... At 22, you should be, attracted to girls of your own age and maturity level. It may very well be that this guy was a victim of a sexual crime at around this age, and is mentally stuck at that age, therefore his tastes will stay at that age. Either way, to me he needs help, not jail.

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