US government statistics indicate the most common age of sex offenders is 14, thought to be due chiefly to the vigorously pursued policy of arresting sexually active teenagers and labelling couples as “victim” and “perpetrator.”
The US government’s published report make no bones about the youthful nature of those being locked up for sex crimes, as evidenced below:
“In general, the detailed age profile of offenders in indecent assault crimes shows that the single age with the greatest number of offenders from the perspective of law enforcement was age 14.
The single age with the greatest proportion of indecent assault victims reported to law enforcement was age 14.”
Teenagers “raping” other teenagers apparently make up the most common sex crimes in the US.
What the report does not mention is the fact that these offences are said to be predominantly statutory ones, where both parties consented but one party happened to be older than the other, which inevitably results in a “victim” and a “perpetrator.”
Since these offences result in heinous sounding convictions forthe violation and sodomy of minors, and the offenders are subsequently forced onto a public registry of criminals, effectively ruining their lives, some are calling into question the climate of hysteria regarding adolescent sexuality.
Indeed, there are cases where offenders forced onto such registers for having consensual sex as teenagers have been murdered by vigilantes, to say nothing of the brutal treatment inevitably received at the “correctional” facilities more often responsible for instilling deviancy and recidivism in their inmates.
It seems America’s prison industry, already the most extensive in history, will be well supplied with new inmates as the budding sexuality of the nation’s youth is criminalised and any suggestion of under-age sexuality results in imprisonment and eternal sex offender status…
That just shows that even 14 y.o. have common sense.
if 12 year olds want to have sex let them. research even show that 11 or 12 is when most kids lose their virginty to each other
Blame politics for this. I’m sure most of the lawmakers realize something is wrong with this, but one side is too afraid to be seen as encouraging immoral behavior, while the other WANTS it this way so they can bust out a new victim and sympathy ploy to stigmatize their “religious” opponents.
Makes one glad to live in a country where two (or more) individuals from the ages of 14-17 can legally have sex.
This is just one of America’s horrid laws. Kids are always charged worse than adults. Think about kids who commit or try to commit bank robberies. They can be sentenced to life in prison without parole, yet adults only come close to that if they kill someone.
…what, really?! How is that supposed to make any kind of weird sense?