” Why is our age requirement better than their age requirement?”
The subject of this thread is fornication, and child sexual abuse.
I guess you think, if someone has been bar mitzvah’d, and then an adult has sex with him, it is no longer criminal or predatory, since the boy in question has bar mitzvah’d.
No, not everyone over 13 was considered an adult in biblical times, or according to Scripture. Men married lawfully when they were able to support a wife and children. Women married them upon consent of their parents. Parents considered their age as well as every other factor when agreeing, or not, to a match.
I am not opposed to boys or girls marrying if they are under 18, with parental permission, as our laws currently allow. It is biblical, it can be very right, it is fine.
I am opposed to adults molesting children.
If this teacher wanted a husband, she could have tried to marry him. She wanted a f*** toy. He is not a f*** toy. He is a human being with innocence and a soul who was exploited and degraded. Regardless of whether he “enjoyed” it or not.
I think what she did, as a person of reasonsibility, was reprehensible. I think the argument based solely on age is weak. It wasn’t a little boy, it was a person who in many cultures would be considered a man. She was stupid and betrayed a trust. She should go to jail. It wasn’t pedophillia and to call it such lessens the true horror of that crime.