Kentucky trooper wants job back because raping that girl was just a ‘moral mistake’

[Comrade Grumpy]

35. Someone needs to tell the Department of Health and Human Services

HHS has something called Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws, which suggests that the term "statutory rape" is still in use. And there's this from the executive summary:

"Criminal laws deal with the legality of sexual acts. Statutory rape laws assume that all sexual activities involving individuals below a certain age are coercive. This is true even if both parties believe their participation is voluntary. Generally, statutory rape laws define the age below which an individual is legally incapable of consenting to sexual activity. To complicate matters, few states use the term “statutory rape” in their criminal codes. More often, a state’s code will address legality of different sexual activities involving minors (e.g., sexual contact versus penetration). Sometimes it is difficult to identify the applicable laws because they are often embedded in the section of the code dealing with other sexual offenses (e.g., sexual assault, forcible rape)."

I do note that the summary says that few states use the term in their criminal codes.