Girl, 13, her boyfriend, 12, ordered to register as sex offenders [truncated title]

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[expat1000]

..In this ironic case, the 13-year-old unidentified girl, and the 12-year-old boy, are both on the sex offender list and are the victims in the case, because they had consensual sex with each other.

The two violated a Utah state law that criminalizes having sex with a person under 14 years of age. Although they were both children, Utah State officials found them guilty of sexual abuse of a child....

[Therapsid]

Why are the courts wasting time on this stupidity?

I have a really good story from when I was 12 and she was 18 but....

I started drinkin and partyn when I was 9....at 12 I was a very busy kid...

Yes Im white....

Oh ok she weighed about 90 lbs. I threw her on the floor because I thought she peed on me..............:)

I know a Drs. son who was 14 neighbor was 24...he was paying child support at 15...true...Ive seen the paperwork.

I realize that early breeding is detrimental to societies in general but....shouldnt there be a group of lawyers slated with stopping legal quandary b-sht like this....?

They could run around the country injecting logic into the system wher-ever its needed?

Wait was this Satire?....I didnt check....sh-t

Oh well too late now I already wrote it G.T.G.
Have a good day All.

[MortMan]

Again, we do not disagree.

Consent is the legal term for being able to choose to have sex.

Voluntary is simply a description of their choice to engage in a prohibited activity. That the act was voluntary does not remove the legal prohibition against them having undertaken to participate.

Have a great day.

[Vigilanteman]

Very difficult to argue with what you said from a legal point of view.

So, under the circumstances, I'd have to agree that the judicial ruling was proper.

Carrying the sexual offender label for life is, however, an entirely different matter. A juvenile generally gets far more serious convictions than statutory rape expunged from their records when they reach the age of majority.

[sickoflibs]

RE :Why not shoot their parents, castrate the boy, give the girl a hysterectomy, and put the baby in an orphanage? If you going to hide behind idiocy and call it conservatism you might as well go all the way.... "

LOL

[Carry_Okie]

Carrying the sexual offender label for life is, however, an entirely different matter.

Some States effectively clear the record at the age of maturity.

[Lakeshark]

I think they have it wrong, from what I’ve seen, the age of adolescence seems to have extended beyond thirty these days........

[sickoflibs]

RE :”So if two kids get in a fight and punch each other, they are both guilty of child abuse. “

LOL

[autumnraine]

By the logic of this law, it would seem so.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”So, what about the mentally handicapped. If two of them date each other, and wind up having sex, do we send them both to jail for being rapists?”

BOOM!

[TheBattman]

But again - the slippery slope and inconsistency as already mentioned by another -

Either children can or they cannot give “consent”. If a 12 year old or 13 year old is not competent to give consent to sexual contact (which I fully believe), it doesn’t matter if the other party is 13 or 30 or 90... They are NOT able to consent.

[TheBattman]

Regardless of the laws passed or on the books, boys and girls are going to be doing stuff that boys and girls do together.

Particularly so if they have not been raised in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Far too many parents simply let the public schools do the "sex education" part, and either don't worry about the spiritual wellbeing of their children, or pawn all responsibility off to the "professionals" at church.

[submarinerswife]

If you going to hide behind idiocy and call it conservatism you might as well go all the way...

I agree.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Let’s go all the way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpHR3lDoyog

[submarinerswife]

Regardless of the laws passed or on the books, boys and girls are going to be doing stuff that boys and girls do together.

No matter if you are being the best parent you can be, you still have to save some kids from themselves. They're not good at seeing around corners and only live for the next 5 minutes, not knowing or caring about consequences.

[Hugin]

Things are always so much better when the legal system gets involved. /s

[AppyPappy]

I would think that everything should be discarded when they turn 18.

[GeronL]

where boys/men practiced homosexuality until they reached their 20s or older

I really doubt that was common, nor do I think the child would have much choice in the matter.

[grania]

Honestly, your view's not real conservative. The child should be raised by one of the families, preferably the girls. One shouldn't dismiss the possibility of the boy and girl becoming a loving couple as adults. Kids will be kids, and I hate it that they have sexual encounters so young. But it's not a crime when they're both that age, it's a response to the sexuality surrounding them in our culture when not being old enough to make responsible decisions.

How old were Romeo and Juliet, anyway? Hormones aren't something new. Christians deal with a situation such as this in a way that leads ALL children around to lead good lives.

[Will we know the moment]

If this is child abuse, even if the kids consented, then masturbation is also child abuse.

[zeugma]

or running out into the yard without a diaper (public nudity).

damn. From what i hear, I'm guilty of that one. I was apparently quite the toddling nudist back in the day. Who do I report to for the branding?