And how.
One question, where were her (Santangelo's) parents?
"Largest Conspiracy Ever" HOW PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUPPORTS RAPISTS AND CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS
4 Abortions. Where did a girl this age have an abortion? Was it not reported to authorities? As a teacher, I am obligated to report any suspicion of abuse of a child. We need to go after the abortuaries and get those ovens shut down when they comply/assist with statutory rape.
This is a terrifying story. Why was a 13 year old allowed to go to a night club by her parents?
This is the kind of situation statutory rape laws were designed for. I think her parents should be charged with neglect as well.
Problem is that the statutory rape laws of some states are just silly, making it where, theoretically, you could go to jail for having sex with some a year, or even a day, younger than you. Ex. 18 and 17 year olds in a state with no graduated version of the statutory rape law. I like the 2 or 3 year graduated systems, they make more sense.
Something this article touched on that needs to be a topic of discussion is the fact that these perverted women are getting by with this stuff in all jurisdictions. I personally think it is just as damaging for a 13 year-old boy to have a child by a 30 year-old woman as vice-versa, at least as far as the child is concerned.
And how.
This girl's parents were either incredibly naive, stupid, or just incompetant. Maybe all three.
In any event, this girl is NOT a victim. Women her age have been married and boys her age have fought wars. Her parents should have raised her with better sense.
"They come to our attention only when someone is bragging about their relationship or the parents find out about it, or a hospital calls us when a teenager is delivering a baby,"
But if the "hospital" is an abortion clinic, the case is not brought to the attention of the police.....
Need to move to CA.
California Court Overturns Sex Offender Registration for Oral Sex with a Minor
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Wasn't her family just the LEAST bit curious about this guy? If they'd nipped it in the bud at her 8th grade graduation, they'd have saved her a lifetime's worth of heartbreak.
All the refrains of "where were her parents" are fine, but it suggests that somehow this girl got what she deserved because she had neglectful parents. If we believe there is such a thing as statutory rape, is it only applicable when the parents care?
Man acquitted of statutory rape
Thursday, October 1, 2009
LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 2009, 7:10 AM
BY KIBRET MARKOS
THE RECORD
STAFF WRITER
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A Rutherford man was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he had sex with an underage girl, bringing an end to a troubled case that lingered for more than five years through several pitfalls.
Joseph Picolli broke into tears as a jury cleared him of charges that he had a sexual relationship with a Lyndhurst girl from 1998 to 2001, which began when she was 13.
“A great burden has been lifted off the Picolli family,” defense lawyer John Bruno declared. “Like I said before, there are no winners in this case, because so much has been lost, financially, emotionally and in terms of reputation.”
Picolli was arrested and charged in 2004, after the girl told investigators she met him when she was 13 – Picolli was 31 at the time – and had an affair with him for years. She also told investigators that Picolli got her pregnant several times.
FAST FACTS
The age of consent in New Jersey is 16. Anyone under that age is deemed too young under state law to consent to having sex with an adult.
Having intercourse with anyone between the ages of 13 and 16 is considered sexual assault (commonly known as statutory rape) if the adult is more than four years older than the minor. It carries up to 10 years in prison.
Mistaking the age of the victim — such as the often-invoked “I thought she was 18” — is not a legal defense.
Source: New Jersey Criminal Code
Picolli denied the charges and challenged the girl’s credibility, saying she had changed her story several times.
Picolli was indicted in 2005 on charges of sexual assault on an underage girl — more commonly known as statutory rape. The charges carry up to 10 years in prison and come with sex-offender registration requirements under Megan’s Law.
The indictment, however, was dismissed two years later, after it was revealed that Bergen County prosecutors failed to present evidence that could have helped Picolli.
Prosecutors presented the case to another grand jury and obtained a second indictment. When Picolli went to trial in January, however, a prosecutor’s error led to a mistrial on the first day.
The eight women and four men on his second trial jury deliberated for less than three hours before they returned Wednesday with a not-guilty verdict on two counts of sexual assault and one count of child endangerment.
“We are disappointed with the verdict,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. “We believe that he did the offense as charged. But the verdict is like all of them that come down in the justice system. We have to accept them.”
Picolli, now a married father of two, said he turned down several plea offers, including one that came with no jail time.
“I wasn’t taking any plea, because the name has to be cleared,” he said Wednesday. “I am glad it turned out this way.”