I don’t give a damn where you live (which is in la-la land as far as I can tell). And I need cites for district attorneys in your state prosecuting teenagers for fucking.
I’ll wait. I have a feeling I’ll be waiting a while.
What did the attorney licensed to practice in the state you now live in give you as legal advice for this situation?
(Answer: yes.)
The attorney said file before the girl’s parents do.
It isn’t actually illegal in 19 states. According to your own link, many states where the age of consent is older than 16 have exemptions for people who are close in age. There are indeed a few states where two 16 year olds who had sex with each other would be violating the law, but this is not the case in every US state where the age of consent is 17+.
I’d say just mind your own business and leave it alone. But you clearly won’t do that.
Plus the girl might be a vampire or werewolf. You can never be too careful.
Oh, I know. I just wonder why it hasn’t been addressed yet.
That is a lie. Or you lied to the attorney. Or the attorney is a part of your whackjob “culture” that believes in destroying human beings for normal human behavior, especially sexual behavior.
The fact that you have responsibility for impressionable young people who are just starting to form their understanding of themselves and their natural desires is appalling to me.
File what?
You’ve been given plenty of cites as to a “who cares?” attitude for teenage sex.
I have no idea about the credibility of this paritcular poster.
But I will say that it’s entirely plausible to hear that a person is in a state that criminalizes sexual intercourse with persons under 16 and does not allow a “Romeo and Juliet” defense based on the claim that both participants were underage.
Therefore, the OP’s claim of possible criminal liability is accurate. Technically.
As a general proposition, though, it strikes me as highly unlikely that this is the sort of conduct would attract prosecutorial attention.
The OP has done the prudent thing by contacting an attorney licensed to practice in her area, and she should follow that attorney’s advice.
ETA: Either there’s more to the story that the attorney heard and we didn’t, or … there’s more to the story, period.
Yes, (actually I miscounted, it’s 20, not 19) I know there are different considerations in many of the states, but the point I was trying to make was that it wasn’t a stretch that she lives in one of those states and that trying to force her to name her state to “prove” she lived there was pointless.
And if this girl’s parents decide they don’t like it and have my nephew arrested, should I leave it alone then? You think I should just leave it alone when it means a 16 year old boy could find himself branded a sex offender. Seriously, do you know anyone with teenage sons or relatives, this is a serious matter. It’s not just two kids having sex. It’s a girl who is underage having sex in a country that is hyper sensitive about that.
So, she should ruin a young girl’s life by having that girl labeled as a sex offender FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE, because she’s paranoid that the girl’s parents MIGHT POSSIBLY be upset that the girl in question was having consensual sex with ZPG’s nephew. With no inkling that the girl’s parents even know, must less are upset. Because a raving lunatic can’t deal with teenagers’ sexual behavior.
Is it possible, EVER, in your world, that attorneys might be wrong? Is it possible, ever, that attorneys might be incompetent? Or might be making recommendations based on their own biases and not on the reality of a situation?
Have you contacted either parent to see what they want done?
By that rationale, should they be accusing your nephew of rape so that you don’t get their daughter in trouble?
Oh, bullshit. In order to know the laws of her state in this situation, we need to know the state in which she lives. It’s as simple as that.
Am I the only irreligious person here praying to Og this kid isn’t going to be super fucked up and need decades of therapy after all this?
Only one?
I’m not trying to force her to name her state to prove she (and her “nephew”) live there; I’m trying to force her to name her state so that her suppositions can be shown to be reasonable. Or not, as the case may be.
Illinois and Yugoslavia appear to be passe. Well, where we at?
This part is all fantasy in your head though. You’re fabricating this urgency that is not there based on this presumption that everybody out there is trying to cry rape on someone else, and because everybody else has a hair trigger, you better beat them to the punch. It’s fucking ridiculous, and everyone has told you so.
Well, I’m not irreligious, but I’m doing the same thing. There’s NO WAY these nieces and nephews that are so open to sharing their thoughts with ZPG are going to be normal productive citizens. Of course, she’s not either, so maybe that’s her goal.