Just a minor nitpick... I think it is rather misleading to refer to a 16 year old as a “child”. We should expect 16 year olds to behave more as adults than children. A 16 year old is more like an 18 year old than like a child.
And a thirteen year old is more like a sixteen year old ("adult", to you) than a ten year old. And so pedophilia is made reasonable in twisted minds.
Before painting the 16yo victim as the responsible adult here, how about a thought for the responsibility of the predator. Or are we changing the goalposts on what constitutes rape as well?
Well, congrats! The world has educated you quite well! (And you've been their excellent learner!)
If I was teaching a class on how to spot and respond to cultural liberals, your comment here would be an excellent example for pinpointing subtle craftiness re: cultural liberalism.
What do I mean?
Well, to be "pro choice" is a fine thing in a free country; UNLESS, of course, we're talking about the who & the what's be chosen UPON them (dismemberment within the womb, for example).
And, so, conservatives have to point out, "Well, ya know 'to choose' is a free-floating intransitive verb and by you, oh, cultural liberal, not integrating what's being chosen upon whom, you get away with mass murder with a statement like that!"
So, what's the parallel here with your subtle statement?
You say:
We should expect 16 year olds to behave more as adults than children. A 16 year old is more like an 18 year old than like a child.
Yet you subtly ignore exactly what the context is! Well, of course "We should expect 16 year olds to behave more as adults than children" and of course "A 16 year old is more like an 18 year old than like a child"! Except what's the context here?
Finish the sentence, Nik! Stop leaving us with free-floating intransitive verb-type of sentences which only serve as euphemisms for cultural liberalism!
So YOU are claiming that "We should expect 16 year olds to behave more as adults than children" regarding sex outside of marriage and regarding having people of inherent trust (missionaries) sexually interact with the locals? Really?
(Never mind that we don't know the details of how much force or coercion was used upon the 16 yo)
And you're claiming, Nik, that when it comes to sexual exploitation outside of marriage, that we should simply consider that 16 is "close enough" to adulthood?
Well, hey, Nik, why bother with any of these "arbitrary" laws...
...Why stop at 18 re: drinking laws when 16 is "close enough?" (And hey, if 16, why not 15? 14?)
...And parental consent for abortion & other "medical" procedures? (Hey, we'll just throw that out the window for teens; and, actually, in most states, we already have!...Well, for the 'sacred' act of abortion, that is!)
How old was the missionary? Was the missionary 18? Was the missionary gay?