raeann
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What I'm saying is that it is a social problem that is lumped together with genuine criminal activity because "we don't like it". Chances are she was neither exploited nor assaulted, but we apply those labels because "we don't like it" and it gives us a bat to hit someone on the head with. But those are just labels, it doesn't mean those things actually happened. Sometimes those things DO happen though, and that is where you need to apply a criminal hammer, other than that it is a SOCIAL issue.
If it turns out that she was killed because of the consequences a consensual relationship, then part of her blood is on the hands of those who put those rules in place. Sorry if you don't like that, but that is how I see it. If you impose rules you have to accept partial responsibility for what stems from them. In this situation those rules don't protect anyone and only serve to hurt people. That is where the shame is, this is a social problem, not a criminal one, and there has to be a better way of dealing with it.
Anyway, she is dead and it just makes me sad and mad, because it is looking like this was one of those stupid pointless situations.
BBM
I can't see the logic in this, since it would then follow (using the same logic) that when someone murders a victim after they rob them, so that they will not be identified, it is fault of those who made the laws saying robbery was illegal. This logic would presume, therefore, that had robbery just been a legal act, there would have been no need to murder the victim.
There is really no excuse basis here, regardless, because all teenagers know very well what the laws are regarding this type of intimate relationship with anyone underage. Such a relationship with a PRETEEN was a choice made by a young man who knew it was wrong. A choice to break the law.
jmoo