Posted on 04/09/2013 4:29:41 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
In recent months, there seems to have been an explosion of reported child sexual assaults committed by Mexican nationals, in this country illegally.
Examiner
The most troubling and telling reason behind the growing epidemic of child molestation at the hands of illegal aliens, may lie in the fact the age of sexual consent throughout the majority of Mexico is 12 years of age.
Article 261 of Mexico's Federal Criminal Code states: ”Whoever, without the purpose of reaching copulation, performs a sexual act on a person under 12 or on a person that has no capacity of understanding the meaning of the act or that for any reason cannot resist, or demands that the act is performed, will be punished with a term of 2 to 5 years in prison.”
In addition to Mexico City, the age of consent is 12 in the following Mexican state
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The Catholic Church should have taken care of this a long time ago.
But, don’t you know, that is just another law that doesn’t apply to them.
You said “Not really; the age of [about] 12 has been, in many places and times, the time where one participates in a “coming of age” ritual (Bar- and Bat-mitzvah for modern-day [religious] counterparts) — such rituals/rites are very good in the sense that there is a definite “line” for being an adult. “You said 12 and you did not add may.Implying a 12 year old girl is an adult.
> You said “Not really; the age of [about] 12 has been, in many places and times, the time where one participates in a “coming of age” ritual (Bar- and Bat-mitzvah for modern-day [religious] counterparts) — such rituals/rites are very good in the sense that there is a definite “line” for being an adult.
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> You said 12 and you did not add may.Implying a 12 year old girl is an adult.
I also put ‘about’ meaning that age-group — 13-15 would probably be a lot more common, and 12 being the low end... and insofar as I know the common marker is “the first period”* which is what marks a girl’s transition to woman. (Men have no such marker, and thus the coming-of-age ritual/rite is far more significant for them.)
Further, I was talking about both boys and girls (assuming that the lower-bound was in question); yet apparently you have no problem with considering 12 year old males men.
* That generally happens at “about 12” no?
Hello,The title of the article is “Age of sexual consent in Mexico is 12!””The most troubling and telling reason behind the growing epidemic of child molestation at the hands of illegal aliens, may lie in the fact the age of sexual consent throughout the majority of Mexico is 12 years of age.”You never said 13 to 15.If you misspoke just say it and get it over with.If you stand by your words I have reported you.
oddly enough if you google “edad de consentimiento sexual en mexico” everything that comes up tells you the age of consent is 18. even the wikipedia site that says its 12 in english says its 18 on the spanish version.
I was commenting that young ages such as 12 aren't uncommon for the coming-of-age in a historical context of all cultures.
”The most troubling and telling reason behind the growing epidemic of child molestation at the hands of illegal aliens, may lie in the fact the age of sexual consent throughout the majority of Mexico is 12 years of age.”
And I have said nothing on the matter of child molestation on this thread, only commenting on what differentiates a child from and adult.
You never said 13 to 15.If you misspoke just say it and get it over with.If you stand by your words I have reported you.
Hm, so you already reported me? For what?
I said it was regrettable that our society doesn't have a well-defined coming-of-age rite/ritual -- I didn't say anything about when it should be.
Are you the sort of person who cannot read what is being said but has to bring in all emotional attachments to words?
PS and the Bar-mizfah, which I explicitly listed, is at 13; so while I didn't say "thirteen" or "13" explicitly I certainly did mention it implicitly.
Goodbye.
Back in the Late Pliocene when I was a kid, part of maturity involved being seen as responsible enough to look after children (babysitting). How many teens these days babysit for money (and as training for responsible adulthood)?
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