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Originally Posted by WSSix
Put your pitchforks away guys. You don't know the circumstances surrounding his "child abuse" or statutory rape charge. There are a lot of people on sex offender registries for "child abuse" and statutory rape that did nothing but have consensual sex with their legally underage yet socially acceptably aged partner at the time. Meaning they got thrown in jail and had their lives ruined for doing the exact same thing you yourself most likely did while a teenager or young adult. It's sickening the extent to which government and prosecutors have ruined the lives of people by getting convictions for normal behavior. It's only compounded by the use of blanket, ambiguous terms like sex offender. I'll get off my soapbox now.
The guy still sucks for stealing someone's car and wrecking it though.
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Trey,
I understand what your saying however, in the past 5 to 10 years in Illinois and most other states consensual sex as minors or High School has changed. I know this first hand as my cousin is a County Prosecutor and this is exactly what she does and we have had many discussions about it and she explained the new laws. It's very rare that kids get prosecuted any more.