I happened to be in the same room when an aquaintance got on the phone to the RCMP to get them to bust this 24 year old drug dealer for having sex with his troublesome 14 year old daughter. The man was beside himself. Apparently he just learned of this from co-workers. I left the room to provide him some privacy, but several days later I inquired of him as to how the situation was developing with the cops, and he informed me that the cops could do nothing. Sex with a 14 year old is perfectly legal in Canada. I was certain that he was misled, so I got on the net to provide him with a printout of the law in this regard only to find out that he was correct. apparently they changed the law in the 80’s and I hadn’t paid attention.
However here’s what really frustrating about Canada’s laws regarding consent. If the 24 year old was a teacher, or a girl guide leader or a priest, then the 14 year old is deemed not able to give consent. In other words, a 14 year old girl is capable of consenting to sex with a drug dealer, but not with a teacher ?
What I’m saying Tengu, is that drug dealers are in a position of power far in excess of any power that a parent/teacher/pastor/or scout leader could excercise over a rebellious 14 year old lured into the world of turning on. Sadly these drug pushers turn out the young street prostitutes that no one wants to talk about. The fact that a drug dealer is exempt irks me no end.
If he was her drug dealer doesn’t he have some power over her?
Most drug dealers are scummy pieces of shit. Maybe he is over-sensationalizing it thought. I mean what 24 year old who screws 14 year olds isn’t a scummy piece of shit?
Yeah–because once you sell those first few bags of pot, your soul shrivels up and turns black. Hell–sometimes you even grow horns and a tail. Disgusting, really.
Hmm. I know a girl who has more sex in a week than I am liable to get in my entire life. She started at age 13, and about 95% of her partners are over 18. (She is sixteen now). Aside from the whole sex thing, she is normal.
robert, that isn’t a popular opinion around here. Just fair warning. I’ve been told that I didn’t know what I was doing when I had sex at 14. :rolleyes:
Drug dealer = bad person… uh
14 = unable to have meaningful sex… uh
Well, I think I’ll step right back out of this thread.
Sogrienspace do you assume by the time he was 18 **erislover[b/] would only have sex after the blood test? Pegging a specific age to maturity/responsibility level is tough to decide and enforce. It’s not like you need a licence (or current plate stickers).
It sounds scummy to me but I also know parents will throw the word “drugdealer” around pretty quickly when they don’t like a boyfriend. If he was her dealer and had her hooked on crack or something then I’m sure the parents have a valid case if they follow through. I think that would qualify as a situation of dependancy.
In the tort case of Norberg v. Wynrib, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 226, a power dependancy was found when drugs were traded to an addict for sex in circumstances in which there was proof of exploitation.
Norberg v. Wynrib has not been excluded from criminal matters, such as R. v. Audet, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 171.
Therefore, if the Crown could prove that the girl was putting out for the man because she needed his drugs, then in my opinion the Crown could make a case. If, however, the drugs were not the reason for the sex, and that instead she simply wanted to have sex, then I doubt if a case could be made, for there would be no provable power imbalance.
And all these years later you still don’t know what you’re doing. So you had darn well better get out there and keep doing it until you get it right, young man.
So let’s say the cops nab the drug dealer (assuming he is a drug dealer). What will the girl then do? Clean up her act, or find another older bad dude? If she is a troublesome teen (as she has been described), then the solution won’t be found in the criminal courts.