[cyborg]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/13/findlaw.analysis.colb.statutory.rape/

[BlueNgold]

From your link:
In the Dixon case, for example, the 15-year-old victim claimed that the defendant "tracked her down in a classroom trailer that she was cleaning as part of her duties in an after-school job, asked if she was a virgin, grabbed her arms, unbuttoned her pants and raped her on a table." This description renders the statutory rape and aggravated child molestation prosecution something other than the state targeting consensual activity for unduly harsh punishment.

Though Dixon was acquitted on the rape charge, that fact does not rule out the possibility of sexual assault. It means only that the jury was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Dixon forced the 15-year-old girl to have sex against her will.

This states my position exactly...

The jury convicted him of the charge of assualt as part of the larger prosecution for rape. The mandatory min is 10 years on that charge. This is not a case of consensual sex in the minds of anyone except the defendandt and his legal team. I still have yet to see evidence that the victim reversed her story.