Quote:It's hard to imagine why some people do what they do.  I'm going to use a qualifier and I hope that people won't take this the wrong way.  At least this involved minors that were close to the age of being adults.  I'm not saying that it makes it right, but when I see the charge of "child p" I often think of very young children.  I'm not saying that one is worse than the other (exploiting children is despicable in my mind), but in all fairness, his victims had a pretty good idea of what they were doing and played a role in it.  At least that's how I see it in the news reports.

 

Again, I'm not defending him in any way, but I'm willing to bet that a 16 or 17 year old girl has a pretty good idea of what they are doing for money.

Law is what the law is, and it doesn't always make sense. And the above notion is why they took out all of your factors as a defense years ago-because having a pretty good idea cannot equal consent. It does kind of sound like you are defending him, at the end.


I imagine a lot of this has to do with the oddities and strange twists in the law,much as:


One day you, a 23 year, 364 day old guy are living with and have "relations" with the 17 year old mother of your child. What happens?


Nothing, not a crime.


The day after next you turn 24 (and obviously, to make the point, she gets older as well....) still having "relations" what happens?


Guilty of committing a felony.


Such is the law in Florida anyway.

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