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In reply to the discussion: Four CT Football Players Charged In Rape Of 13-Year-Olds [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)A case of teenage boys having sex with teenage girls. Yes, older teenage boys (17 and 18) with younger teenage girls (13), but still teenagers. If the boys had been 16, there would have been no crime. Does the boy magically transmute from horny teenager to society-threatening sex criminal by virtue of having had a birthday?
I realize we have to draw lines somewhere, but let's also realize those lines are necessarily arbitrary.
I can't claim to have followed the reporting exhaustively, but what I've read says the precise allegations are sealed. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen any allegations of forceable rape. There seems to have been some talk of drunkenness. If the facts were a la Steubenville, that would be one thing, where the victim was so intoxicated she could not consent. I don't know that the facts are similar here.
Barring evidence of coercion or lack of ability to consent because of intoxication, I would dare to suggest that this might possibly be better handled outside the criminal justice system.