CApital Punishment, Child Rape, and Unintended Consequences

[Shadylookin]

Are you serious?

The sad thing is that so many people get away the latter also. I've known a few girls who were molested when they were young and none of them ever reported it to the authorities (usually because it was a relative or in one case, their mother's boyfriend).

you know the FBI warnings before movies and how they can fine you up to 500,000 dollars and give you 10 years in jail. Well in Indiana at least molesting a child(<14 years old) can get you 2 to 8 years with a max 10,000 fine.

 

[EnlightenmentHK]

When I was 18, I had sex with a 16 year old with whom I went out with for 8 months. It was consensual, but she was below the age of consent. Would I get executed? Does "states' rights" trump individual liberty in this case?

The law isn't as stupid and inflexible as you seem to think it is. There are literally dozens of categories of criminal sexual assault, many of them based upon the ages of the victim and perpetrator in comparison to eachother. And in most states, what you did wouldn't even be illegal. And most certainly would never receive the death penalty.

 

[emzie]

The law isn't as stupid and inflexible as you seem to think it is. There are literally dozens of categories of criminal sexual assault, many of them based upon the ages of the victim and perpetrator in comparison to eachother. And in most states, what you did wouldn't even be illegal. And most certainly would never receive the death penalty.

It would be if her parents threw a fit.