Teens have right to have sex, lawyer argues (Huh?!?)

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 8.21.03 | JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM

[ninenot]

no statutory rape since it was thought about but not permitted to occur

Details here are missing. If he had his hands, ah, welll...and she the same...then there's no question about the statutory violation.

[ninenot]

to the level of a sex crime.

It doesn't?

They aren't married, are they? So what makes it LEGAL?

[Warren_Piece]

Now I don't condone their behavior, but I realize this does go on, it's inevitable.

There is no justice in the world. Why does everybody say this? It doesn't fit in with my experience at all. Hell, I couldn't even get a girl to KISS me till after high school graduation. (This was the 70's and 80's).

I'm not homely either. Now that I'm (sorta) old and married, I can't get the women to stop flirting with me.

But when I was 14, if a female came within 2 miles of me I became a blithering sweat machine. I think sex would have actually killed me.

[TRY ONE]

"We are overlooking the most important thing in this case."

Were those kids smoking again?

[ninenot]

If the law forbids that kind of reaction, and the law says that the parent cannot interfere or even call the police, then society unravels. Imagine a man and wife both working all day, going home, and hearing an orgy in one of the rooms, particularly gross if the orgy is boy-with-boy, boy-with-man, or female-with-female. And the parent has no rights, a court order to not interfere, even.

Here's where the discretion of the police officer (and later, if necessary, the DA) comes into play.

In most jurisdictions, the beating would be dismissed as "Oh,---you say he fell down the staircase? Too bad." Case closed.

[jimt]

It is different because two people cannot "prey" upon each other.

The two 14 year olds can certainly prey upon us when we're forced to subsidize their irresponsible actions.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

My main gripe is what will be done to them AFTER the legal proceedings.

[MEGoody]

14 year old consider themselves olde enough for the priviledges of adulthood, but they don't want the responsibilities that go along with them.

I say it's a package deal. You think you're old enough to have sex, choose an abortion, etc, etc? Then move out and pay your own bills.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Just wait a few weeks; this is going to be on Jerry Springer!"

Not unless the mom was involved with the boyfriend!

[Lorianne]

Yes, criminally prosecuting children for having consensual sex with each other IMO is not the way to discourage kids from having sex. Furthermore, it gives fuel to the Liberal assault on Statuatory Rape laws (they claim SR laws are criminalizing sex (the act) rather than sexual exploitation of children. In Wisconsin their argument would be correct.)

This is not a crime like a property crime or assault, for which legal action should be taken.

[ninenot]

We disagree. And at some point in time, the SCOTUS gang will realize that States DO HAVE powers not subject to over-ride by the Feds.

When it dawns on them, the little tin gods, I hope it's not in a blaze of gunfire.

[BlindedByTruth]

ah, yes! more kids screweing kids then copulation turs to teen pregnancy then leads to the welfare line with her little child and no daddy round for her child, ah, gotta love Children 1st!

[ninenot]

Evidently you are either a troller from DU, or your maturation process stopped at about the age of 15.

Try this trick with one of my daughters and you'll see the business end of some interesting hardware I keep.

In the meantime, spread your Planned Parenthood propaganda someplace else.

[ninenot]

Obviously you are a teenager. Some day you will grow up.

BTW, as you may learn in a few years: it ain't what 'hardware' you got--it's knowing how to use it what counts.

Drop by, try something cute with one of my daughters--and I'll be happy to give you a few lessons.