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To: ping jockey
I'm not telling the state of GA what to do. I'm just giving my personal opinion which is ten years for teen sex is harsh. If they had waited three more months then it would have been legal sex. What's the difference between 15.75 and 16 yearss of age?
21 posted on 03/01/2004 1:40:45 PM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg
When I was in high school in California some 40 years ago, the saying went 15 will get you 20, which reminded us all that sleeping with a girl under 16 or a guy under 18 (by a girl over 18) was statutory rape, then punishable by up to 20 years in San Quentin.

Penalties like this have always been out there and seldom are enforced. In my day, they were mostly used if the girl's father was prominent and the boy was from the wrong side of town, as it were. Although, I do remember a case where a girl with a bad reputation seduced and (some said on purpose) became pregant by, a younger boy from wealthy and prominent family. She was an 18 year old senior and he was a 15 year old sophomore when it happened. She was arrested and, until an accomodation was reached in which she went to a home for unwed mothers and gave the child up for adoption, there was pretty serious talk about prosecuting her for statutory rape.

28 posted on 03/01/2004 1:52:50 PM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
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To: cyborg
If they had waited three more months then it would have been legal sex.

Then they should have waited three more months.

40 posted on 03/01/2004 2:16:09 PM PST by judgeandjury
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To: cyborg
What's the difference between 15.75 and 16 yearss of age?

So the age of consent should be 15.75 years then?

What happens in the next case when the girl is 15 years six months. She's only three months short of the new standard... What's the harm?

Do we keep on pushing the age lower and lower as we get new cases?

61 posted on 03/01/2004 2:46:09 PM PST by bondjamesbond (Never ascribe to evil intent that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: cyborg
What's the difference between 15.75 and 16 yearss of age?

Apparently 10 years.

126 posted on 03/02/2004 9:04:44 AM PST by wattsmag2
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