[Lorianne]

...the statute is intended to prevent older teenagers or adults from abusing or exploiting younger, more vulnerable children, not to prohibit consensual sex among teenagers.

Exactly right. The INTENT of the law is to criminalize adults who sexually prey upon and exploit children. Criminally prosecuting two children for sex (which is not by force) is ridiculous.

This kind of action is why Statutory Rape laws and age-of-consent limits are under assault by some Liberals.

[patton]

The whole idea of charging kids with felonies for this is evil, beyond redemption.

My grandparents married at 15 and 14 - now, kids in the same circumstances are disabled of their voting rights, their rights to own guns, forever, why?

I get really angry about our societies bipolar disorder on this issue.

At seventeen, I was a machinegunner in the dreaded 82nd Airborne Division.

At 20, I got sent to CA - Still had my machine gun, but unable to buy a beer. WTF????

[Richard Kimball]

I think you're correct, and I also wouldn't be surprised to find out later that this was another ACLU setup, where they create a case to generate a new "constitutional right".

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"The boy is being held in secure detention on a charge of attempted second-degree sexual assault, a felony that carries a possible juvenile prison term."

Complete abuse of power. This is tyrannical. The fact that nothing even happened between them is all the more alarming.

To treat two 14 year olds experiencing natural emotions as felons is sick.

The legal system is totally corrupt. There is no doubt.

[Publius6961]

The INTENT of the law is to criminalize adults who sexually prey upon and exploit children.

If that is true then the law is a ass.
Explain to me how being preyed upon and exploited by someone your own age is different?

[ninenot]

Criminally prosecuting two children for sex (which is not by force) is ridiculous.

Of course in Wisconsin the hearings will be held in Children's Court, closed, and any adjudication and sentences will be expunged from their records when they reach 18 years of age.

Are you trying to say that children caught in flagrante delicto are NOT deserving of prosecution, if a complaint is filed?