Apparently ignorance is a crime in the United States.
A 22-year-old Florida man saw a picture of a female wearing a halter top and blue jean shorts on her MySpace page. Her profile proclaimed her to be a 19-year-old divorced woman.
The man then met the "woman" and they had sex. It was only after that she revealed to him that she was just 13-years-old.
Now here's the evidence of no criminal intent. The man then went to the girl's father to tell him what she had done. And was subsequently arrested. Charged. And convicted.
Here's the kicker. He's the second man to be convicted for raping this girl. A 24-year-old man who previously had sex with her was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Now, none of us would condone a 22-year-old man having sex with a 13-year-old girl. But this is not the same as an adult man chatting with a police detective masquerading as an underage girl on the Internet and then showing up for sex. This is, actually, quite the opposite.
One wonders whether the authorities are taking notice of the parents of this child. Raped once by a 24-year-old man, she still puts herself out there on the Internet as a 19-year-old woman. And the life of an unsuspecting 22-year-old man, who then did the right thing by going to her father, is ruined.
3 comments:
This isn't right. The girl put herself forward as being of the age of majority. Only after did she express her real age. I suppose "keep your pecker in your pocket" is wise council nowdays, guys! Either that, or ask for ID before hooking up.
As a woman I think the crime of rape ought to be a capital offense. This was certainly not rape. False advertizing, maybe, but not rape.
My parent's generation had a saying for this: If you are big enough you are old enough. Apparently this girl is big enough and now she can ensnare unsuspecting men on the internet!
The question has to be how do we get these YOUNG innocent men out of jail?
Sylvia_Lovejoy
It sounds like entrapment to me.
Someone ought to be taking this girl into some sort of restrictive care and making sure she has psychological counselling.
The man's a fool and an opportunist, but at least he's not an elective child molester. IMHO
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