[servantboy777]

>>This photo tells me that Miss Thomas was a willing participant<<

Of coarse she was, but I will lay odds, she will have relational issues, trust issues, substance abuse issues as time goes on.

Pedophiles groom their victims for many months before making their move. They are manipulators, liars. They play on the young person's emotions, fears, anxieties.

This young lady is in for a lifetime of emotional distress.

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The man is many things, certainly a criminal, probably an adulterer, legally a kidnapper, possibly a sex offender, but pedophile?

Pedophiles are sexually aroused by preadolescents, which she was not.

She is 15, which, not that long ago, was not uncommon as a marriageable age for young women. It is socially unacceptable across most of the country now, and illegal in many places, but it is not pedophilia.

Given what I have read so far (broken home, restraining order against an abusive mother), Miss Thomas was already in emotional distress. There is more going on here than we know, or frankly, we have a right to know, given her age.

I hope she gets any help she needs.