# Mild Pitting - posters asking for advice and then ignoring it

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**Created:** [November 27, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-posters-asking-for-advice-and-then-ignoring-it/474735 "2008-11-27T20:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-posters-asking-for-advice-and-then-ignoring-it/474735/57 "2008-11-28T23:27:14Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> Why? We convict innocent people who are seeing a girl with the consent of her parents? I don’t know what was up with Sailboat’s cousin - but its possible that he was actually engaging in statutory rape - which Freejooky is apparently NOT.

I don’t know what the consent of her parents has to do with it. The state prosecutes and convicts on behalf of the people in society.

As to what they might charge, it’s already been established in this thread that she’s underage in his state. Depending on the laws in his state, all he would have to do would be to (if the laws are similar in his state):

> [@Can I date a High Schooler?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-date-a-high-schooler/474389/209):
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> Don’t know if this has been covered (have only read parts of the thread).  
> I read she’s under age of consent in your area. I also read folks make a distiction between ‘dating’ and having sex. I cannot stress more strongly that you check out the law in your area before you do so much as hold hands. In Michigan, for example, phyisical contact of ‘breasts, buttocks, thigh or groin’ of uner age person (over or under clothes is not a factor \*\* nor is who \*\* is making contact) = 2nd degree criminal sexual contact. She cannot give consent. All it would take is her claim you touched her or had her touch you **or** any one else claiming they saw it.
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> But, of course, you weren’t really looking for advice.

If he did any of these things, if these laws apply in his state, he is no longer innocent as to the laws of his state.

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