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Law being an ass

vendredi 5 juin 2015 à 14:00

The law is an ass again: a woman who invited a teenage boy to have sex (and he did, 4 times) has been sentenced to years in prison for "sexual abuse".

He did not live in her household. Evidently he repeatedly made arrangements to suffer this "abuse". The code word "grooming" probably means, in this case, what we normally call "asking for a date". While I can only guess the specifics, I speculate that he never complained about this "abuse", and the relationship was discovered in some other way.

I wish an attractive woman had "abused" me that way when I was 14. I would have learned many important things and had a much happier life.

The one truly bad accusation against her is that she tried to protect herself by claiming he had raped her. Nothing can excuse that betrayal; but if the law were not an ass about the other things, she would not have faced the temptation to do that.