Go to jail for 10 years for getting head?

Masquerouge said:
Yep. This is exactly the issue with these kind of laws. They have to set an age under which you're considered a minor, and when people slightly above that age have sex with people slightly under that age (theorically one of the two could be only one day younger than the other) you have a problem.
I thought the court could show leniency and undestanding is such borderline issues.
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Georgia law was probably specifically crafted to make as much underage sex illegal as possible so as to discourage it, so "leniency and understanding" would be in defiance of the spirit of law as well as the letter. Not that I'm condoning the decision, of course.

The national US law is actually quite reasonable. It says that statutory rape is sex, even consensual sex, between one person below the age of 16 and another person who is both over the age of 16 and at least four years older than the first person. Thus, in most states, this would have been fine, and it still would have been fine if he was 18 (though not if he was 19). However, some states have stricter laws than the national law, mostly in the South. In some cases, the age of consent is raised to 17 or 18; in other cases the four-years exemption is tossed out the window (which, IMO, is absurd). Georgia apparently lacks the 4-year exemption.
 
Cuivienen said:
The national US law is actually quite reasonable. It says that statutory rape is sex, even consensual sex, between one person below the age of 16 and another person who is both over the age of 16 and at least four years older than the first person. Thus, in most states, this would have been fine, and it still would have been fine if he was 18 (though not if he was 19). However, some states have stricter laws than the national law, mostly in the South. In some cases, the age of consent is raised to 17 or 18; in other cases the four-years exemption is tossed out the window (which, IMO, is absurd). Georgia apparently lacks the 4-year exemption.
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Yeah, that 4-year exemption is mandatory IMHO. I hope Georgia will see the reason why, now.
 
17-15=5 bah don't you see it:p
 
Man, that's terrible. Meanwhile violent offenders and rapists are getting less than that.

I wonder what his girlfriend thinks about the sentence.
 
I wish the law would not make this such a bold line.

A 17 year old loving a 15 year old does not make the 17 a paedophile. It's also completely sexist... if the 17 year old was the girl she would almost certainly not have been given a sentence. The system is ridiculous. Teenagers do and will have sex while underage because it's natural. If both consented then there should be no problem at all.
 
StarWorms said:
I wish the law would not make this such a bold line.

A 17 year old loving a 15 year old does not make the 17 a paedophile. It's also completely sexist... if the 17 year old was the girl she would almost certainly not have been given a sentence. The system is ridiculous. Teenagers do and will have sex while underage because it's natural. If both consented then there should be no problem at all.
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We don't know until we see a court case rule the other way. Given that it was probably the girl's parents who pressed charges in the first place, you'd have to find parents of a boy in a similar situation willing to press charges on the issue to test it.
 
Masquerouge said:
His girlfriend. Mmmh. Since she was caught on tape going down on TWO guys, which one are you referring to? :)
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Hmm, I'm not sure, I'd have to first see the video. :mischief:

So, what happened to the other guy? Or was he lucky enough to be born a year or two earlier?
 
Cuivienen said:
We don't know until we see a court case rule the other way. Given that it was probably the girl's parents who pressed charges in the first place, you'd have to find parents of a boy in a similar situation willing to press charges on the issue to test it.
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Can the police actually press charges if they're the one to catch the "offenders"?
 
In Canada Harper,changed the law so when both partners are less than 2 or 3 years of difference the law cannot be applicated. Its clever.
 
edit: harper changed the law for male/female interactions the way you describe. However, homosexual interactions are still under the old law. Homosexual teenagers are sex offenders. Heterosexual teenagers aren't. Of course, it'll never pass a court challenge...

Anyway: Ouch.
I hope the other teenagers in Georgia are more careful ...

... yeah, right. Like this will mean anything to anyone at that age ...
 
warpus said:
linky

This is just ridiculous. Sentenced to 10 years in jail for getting head from your girlfriend, who is 2 years younger than you?

Would the girl have gone to jail instead if she were 17 and her boyfriend was 15? I don't think so :rolleyes:

Who thinks up ******** laws like these?
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America :crazyeye:

Shouldn't they prove that what he did (or what he didn't, actually) is dangerous for the society?

Or do they claim that the 15-year-old wasn't mature enough to understand what was she doing? :crazyeye:
 
People who try to play moral police like this should be shot.
 
Dawgphood001 said:
People who try to play moral police like this should be shot.
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im all for putting the sex limit at 12:groucho:
sorry even in white font im still for it:p
 
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