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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous on the case of lesbian girl charged with statutory rape. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,062 posts)9. No - you are thinking of age of consent laws.
These laws were designed to make it easier to convict older individuals (or people in power) who raped children without so much trauma to the survivor.
They are no fault laws. If an older person has sex with a younger one (including daddy, for that matter), all that had to be proven was that intercourse (or in this case a lesser engagement) occurred. Force or coercion did not have to be proven.
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I think you have at least two overgeneralisations and an implicit error there.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
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