These things which we must call people want us to get used to the idea of child sex abuse.
They do not understand how despicable they are and that we are not like them.
Exactly. Next they will say if the child victim was consensual it wasn’t a crime.
My son had a friend, 18 years old, that had a girlfriend for quite awhile. When he turned 18 and the girl was 16 or 17, her father filed against him, he spent some jailtime and had to register as a sex offender. In that case I would consider leniency. But most cases aren’t like that.