I'm a conservative with some (not many) libertarian tendencies. But I'm being sincere here. What do you think is an appropriate sentence for a 17 year old who has consensual sex with a 15 year old?
I'm having a bit of trouble with this "consensual" label. At age 15, the girl in question cannot legally give "consent", so it isn't "consensual". And having read the *entire* article I discover that others were convicted of sexual battery on the the other girl. That implies coercion rather than consent. All these facts indicate that whatever occurred in the incident in question, "consent", as I understand the term, is questionable at best, and may have been the product of intimidation...
the infowarrior
Although your question was not addressed to me, I feel called upon to tell you that teen-agers always experiment with sex, and that it would be quite abnormal if they didn’t. Since both of the participants involved were under their legal majority, and consent was given on both sides, the people of Georgia should have used some common sense. Even if the boy involved was a ‘punk,’ whatever that means, there was no crime here, except as set forth by the state of Georgia, in it’s sick and pathetic effort to control even the private, consentual activity of it’s citizens.