I’m thinking one count for rape, and one count for a sex act against someone who CANNOT give consent?
I also wondered why the disclaimer - “The following story has a picture of an Aboriginal person who died” - and did a little sleuthing. Some people in these cultures consider it disrespectful to display a picture of a person who has died, but her relatives did give permission to publish her photograph.
Entitled POS hopefully will get criminal charges.
“I don’t care. Fine me. I’m rich.”
Actual quote from the article by the way.
Very douchewaffly.
How 'bout some jail time, then bro? Hope your income streams don’t suffer from inattendance.
We could switch to the German system.
AIUI, and I bet it’s more limited and more complicated than I think, fines are levied as a percentage of your annual income, not as a fixed dollar amount. Make $5K/yr? It’s a $500 fine. Make $500K/yr? It’s a $50,000 fine.
If the goal is equal deterrence through threat of equally felt pain, that seems a reasonable approach to me.
As long as they calculate actual income, not just what the tax code uses.
I think the German style of fine AND some jail time to get his attention is called for. Those seals are endangered~entitled rich jerks are not. The world won’t miss him for 30 days. He should have to reimburse room, board and other expenses of his incarceration also.
If I looked it up correctly, this is State Senator Brenton Awa asking (seriously, I believe) for airlines to show the video of locals beating the guy up to tourists on the way into Hawaii.
https://i.imgur.com/u8LnA39.mp4
(If it doesn’t play, here’s a link to the imgur page.)
That’s often how lawsuits work; they’re called “punitive damages” and are meant to dissuade someone from repeating the offense that caused damage. A rich entity might get a huge penalty because the courts want it to matter.
Criminal statutes don’t work that way though, AFAIK.
I hope the judge uses that in his sentencing !
Excellent.
So it’s child marrying time, evidently.
But, hey, it’s not like they rushed into this.
I’m not sure where the “evil” comes into play here. 16 is age of consent in 30 states (including mine), and her husband is only two years older than herself. Young people rushing into marriage might be irresponsible at best, but it’s hardly 12-year-olds being married off to 70-year-old schismatic Mormon elders.
The age for marriage with parental consent in England and Wales was 16 until 2023. It is still 16 in the Isle of Man.
~Max
Agreed. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but it’s not what I’d call “evil”.
Compare, from 2021:
At the time, up to 30% of marriage applications involved age disparities that triggered statutory rape laws. The law passed.
~Max
Awww, no man - you got it all wrong. He was just trying to defend the wee sea turtles from the vicious, out of control seal. He wasn’t trying to hurrrrrt it, he just wanted to oh, so gently steer it in another direction. Like any good Samaritan would. Will no one think of the wee sea turtles?!?! But, hey he now knows he made a mistake and is, like, really, really sorry and stuff.
ETA: Corrected link.
I just realized that guy lives in Covington. That town is like 10 minutes away from me. 
What a sweet, romantic story! (Barf)
Let’s come back in 5 years and see where they all are, and that includes her parents and their 7 bizarrely named kids. When I saw the headline, I thought they were married IN Venezuela, but no, Noah MARRIED Venezuela.
Dad’s net worth is $260 million. They’ll be fine.
oh my goodness no!
(he’s hopping mad!)
from Newsweek article:
Funny (“but not in a ‘ha-ha’ funny kinda way” as Grandma Hopie used to say) the dipshit, at the time, would say something along lines of “I’m rich, go ahead and sue me”, instead of, oh, I dunno, maybe explaining about warding if off from nearby turtles. Not that that would let him off the hook for such an outright shitty action - just, oh, funny, that he blew it off the way he did.
EDIT: apparently buddy got good and tuned up by someone at the time.