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Originally Posted by stevie667
What i will also say that is in england, having sex with someone 13 or under is a strict liability offence, in that they just have to prove you did the act and you will be convicted. How old you though she was doesn't come into the equation at all. I hope they punish the father severly, stupid prats, both of them.
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I will deal with this first as a curiosity, how does this work if both parties are under 13, or if both parties are regularly engaging in sexual activity and one becomes 14 before the other? Is there any sort of precedent for this kind of thing?
On a second note, I think justice would be much better served by making the father get a job to support his kid. Sending him to jail doesn't do anything but double the burden of the public in this scenario and make the home life for the child that much worse. A 15 year old dad doing his best to give the kid a good life has to be better than no dad at all, even if his best isn't very good. Just because he got a girl pregnant at 15 doesn't make him a total shithead. Some people make a few bad decisions, but the rest of the time they're mature responsible people, it happens every day. Not only that, having a child makes a lot of people who were previously screw ups straighten out in big damn hurry. Who are we to say anything about the father. He might end up being a better dad that a lot of people who planned to be a dad at a much greater age. Of course nobody doing the reporting cares about that, they only care he's 15.