The message should be: "Leave children alone." And it should apply to the football hero as well as to an old man. Let the football hero pick on someone his own age.
Didn't date an older guy in high school, I take it? I dated a sophomore when I was a senior. No sex. But still, in today's climate, I could have been falsely accused and railroaded quite easily. A senior in high school is not an adult, and a sophomore in high school is not a child. If we are going to have these "one size fits all" Orwellian punishments, then perhaps we need to rewrite some of the laws.