Agreed.
No doubt that girls of that age are going to experiment with their “wiles” but it stretches credulity that it would be on an adult male who is 38 years old. I would be more understanding if he was 18, maybe 20 years old max.
Let him sit in jail for 15 years and think about his decision.
If fifteen will get you twenty, twelve should get you thirty!
Well, he was an available male in the house, who wasn’t her father.
NO excuse for him though. Just that I was shocked when my daughter was in middle school to see what the 12-year-olds were wearing, and how they would talk about having sex with older men and getting pregnant, and how good that would be for them. Several were in fact pregnant.
Most of this seemed to be among the hispanic population, although blacks were involved as well. I didn’t see it as much among the white population, a lot of whom did not live in the school district but were brought in by bus for specialty programs aimed at raising the schools overall acheivement levels.
A mother has to be extremely careful when allowing a male into her house on a regular basis.
“No doubt that girls of that age are going to experiment with their “wiles” but it stretches credulity that it would be on an adult male who is 38 years old.”
You would be surprised; I’ve seen 13-year-old girls come on to men even older than 38. At that age, I think it’s mostly an ego thing where the girl feels beautiful and/or sexy to know that she can turn a guy on. If this ever happens to you, don’t walk away, RUN. Even if the guy in this story is telling the truth, it’s not a valid excuse for what he did, because an underage girl simply does not have the legal right to consent, ever. This is not only the law, it’s good common sense, because girls this young, even if they’re wild and willing, need laws like this to protect them from themselves.