In the US, 18 is the age at which individuals are considered to be adults. In some states, if a 17-year-old has sex with a 17-year-old, it's against old laws they don't enforce. But if he's 18 or older, they can get them for child molestation, statutory rape, etc. He was 28, and the sex wasn't legal. A lot of states have fornication statues on the books that the states don't enforce. I'm not sure if judges struck down the laws.Cornfed wrote: ↑May 1st, 2023, 2:03 pmBut the thing is you have men getting life for taking pictures of their 17yo girlfriends that they have been legally having sex with. All this crazy stuff does is effectively reserve the females for negros and degenerates.MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑May 1st, 2023, 1:49 pmIn an ideal society a man would not take such pictures or even talk to such a young girl without first getting permission from her father and getting her hand in marriage, as he should. Creeping around without the intention of marriage and child-rearing makes him just another creep out to ruin yet another young female... If he's not going to marry her, he's just a degenerate as any other American male and undeserving of sympathy.
I suspect 'life in prison' was bad journalism. My guess is that journalists aren't usually specialists in much other than journalism, which means they usually don't know that much about what they are reporting about.