IMO, the parents should have decided that their kids “freely made decisions” should not be a matter of law enforcement, and certainly not vigilante action, but a parental disciplinary and moral question for each set of parents to take up with their kids, and maybe together.
If both were under 16, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. When the 17 year old boy "freely decided" to have intercourse with a girl under the age of consent, he crossed a significant line for all the reasons I mentioned before. He must freely accept the consequences of his free choice.
“When the 17 year old boy “freely decided” to have intercourse with a girl under the age of consent, he crossed a significant line for all the reasons I mentioned before. He must freely accept the consequences of his free choice.”
Can’t agree with that. Law out of touch with reality. What if we have a couple, with the boy one or two years older, having sex before the boy is sixteen. Nothing illegal, both are under age. Then the boy turns sixteen and the girl is still fourteen or fifteen. Sex continues. Should the boy be prosecuted for statutory rape?
I think the age difference among teens is the only sensible guideline, not the age of consent.
And, with the age of consent wisdom, a sixteen year-old can suddenly have sex with a sixty year-old.