from April 2016 to October 2017 ... that sounds like it was consensual, unless it was ONE assault lasting 23 months.
Off topic, but he looks like the struggling actor in the Liberty Mutual commercial.
On topic, the problem with all of this is that we can’t have it both ways. If a 16yo supposedly isn’t doing anything wrong when having sex with another 16yo, then it is difficult to argue that it is wrong if one of the partners is older. Either it is wrong because teenage sex is wrong, or not.
Since as a society we have given up on the idea of sex being a benefit of marriage and replaced that with the idea of sex as a right to be exercised after puberty, it becomes difficult to thread the needle between the 16yo who wants to have sex with a classmate and the 16yo who wants to have sex with an aide. Put more simply, he acted wrongly, not because his partner was 16, but because his partner wasn’t his wife.
We will find public school children having been abused by staff far into the future. They have crossed the line and are grooming children for sex.
Who needs a house out in Hackensack...