Does it include seniors who had sex with their sophomore girlfriends? If so, I don't support it. Sex offenses, like any offense, have to be taken on a case by case basis. What may be appropriate for the local old man who molests children isn't appropriate for Johnny football hero who had a girlfriend two grades behind him.
It does say "felony."
I'm wondering the same thing. I'd love to see some specific statistics about our resident offenders that would be subject to this.
Would a Mary Kay LaTourneau be required to wear a GPS device (and the state incur the cost to monitor her every move)?
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Many child molestation charges are brought by vindictive wives in divorce cases, against innocent men. Prosecuters love to have scalps on their belts, especially rapist/molester scalps. These innocent men have already had their lives destroyed, these provisions would make their unwarranted misery that much deeper.
The above examples happen A LOT and in my opinion do NOT merit the provisions of this bill and for the examples above and ones like them ... I am against this proposition
I agree. My son turned 18, while his girlfriend he had for a year was still 2 months shy of her 16th birthday.
He was arrested for 'interfering with child custody' and 'statutory rape' (her mother ASSUMED they were having sex, probably were, but still...). Luckily the DA said the case was ridiculous and dropped it, but it could have went another way. I had to force him to stop seeing her and it is sad. This girl's mother was a loon and she spent alot of time at our house (to get some normalcy I'd reckon given that her mother was a nutcase that spent more time at the bars than at home and left most of the housekeeping/mothering of her little brothers to her 15 year old daughter). But my son not spending life as a sex offender was more important to me.
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.