Is this “minor” offense actually a minor offense? If it’s involving a young woman unmistakably past puberty, we have a problem that is as much a factor of our modern attitudes towards prolonging childhood, as it is of “pedophilia.” Go easy on the guy if that’s his sole incident of vice. He might even be trying to make it up by benefiting the girls’ school. Sometimes we can get as badly underfoot with God as cats can get under our feet.
Or Epstein and Clinton were paying first to obtain sweet little benefits.
And what of serial fornication?
I do oppose the artificial prolongation of childhood. I also oppose promiscuity and exploitation. And then there is the issue of statutory law.
This is not about a single, older man marrying a single, younger woman, and remaining faithful to her.