Age of Consent

[Kallie Thomas]

Originally posted by BDSM_Tourguide
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Incidentally, the case was dropped and all charges dismissed when it was found out that the girl had misrepresented herself in an adult personal ad and had pretended to be 18 years old until the very day I was arrested.
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You lucked out, my friend. Sad fact is that, in many states, their misrepresentation would not have saved you, had their families chosen to push it. And that is my biggest complaint about statutory rape laws--a girl can misrepresent her age, meet her victim (yep, that's what I said) in a place where any reasonable person would believe her to be of legal age, and the poor sod who fucks her is STILL going to go down, legally speaking, should she or her family decide to press the statutory rape issue. When I was managing a local club, we had a case unfold that nearly brought the bar down. 14 year old girl, fake ID. GOOD fake ID--this girl hadn't just peeled the laminate and stuck in her own picture or ordered some tacky fake kit from the back of Seventeen magazine. She'd taken her older sister's social security card, birth certificate, and a credit card bill and headed down to the DMV. Told them she'd lost her license, could she have a duplicate created? And sure enough, they took HER picture, slapped it on a new license with her sister's information. It was absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing. 24 year guy picks her up--again, reasonable man argument--she was in a bar, she had ID that no one could have pegged as fake, and she claimed to be legal.

He took a fall. Hard. And her family, after they were done raping him, came after us for serving her liquor and allowing her into the place, thus faciliating the "emotional anguish" her "devastating abuse" had brought about.

My ass. I remember the girl. I checked her ID. I remember hanging out with girls just like her when I was 14. And they were out to get laid. And so was she.

Sad reality is, there are 13-14-15+ year old girls out there who like to fuck. And they'll bullshit egregiously to get fucked. And their parents will fuck YOU if they catch you dipping into that particular well. And legally speaking, the girls' lies count for naught--the law doesn't care if you were bullshat. I find that to be a horrendous violation of the SPIRIT of the law. You were lucky, and I'm very glad you were.

Oh, and on the issue of "Fuck" standing for "for unlawful carnal knowledge." That's an urban myth--the word existed long before English was spoken in anything resembling the form we use today: http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm

Kallie