I wasnt directly addressing the 13 year old with the 37 year old, i was responding to Eddy's comment that a 13 year old can not consent to sex due to her age.
He is correct. :shrug:
I wasnt directly addressing the 13 year old with the 37 year old, i was responding to Eddy's comment that a 13 year old can not consent to sex due to her age.
Don't even try to explain it to him. You will need pictures, diagrams, and people who work with the mentally challenged to be able to get it through.He is correct. :shrug:
He is at fault. She is young and stupid.
Second degree still means he forced her, as far as I'm aware. It just means he had no weapon and didn't beat her up in the process. I think.
Also, if a 13 year old (for the sake of discussion) willingly has sex (not against her will, not forced), shouldn't the 13 year old at least be required to go to counseling? Realistically, young girls do this stuff every day. They get caught, then cry rape, and they've ruined someone's life (and I'm not talking about just a 37 year old).
It's not just consent, it's the use of force or threat of force. The age of consent in Maryland is 16, however a fifteen year old could have consentual sex with an eighteen year old if they were three years apart. A person could be four years older than a 15 year old, but still not 21, and the crime would be a misdemeanor. It becomes a felony when the person is over 21 and the person is under 16, or the person is over 18 and the victim is under 14.
I wasnt directly addressing the 13 year old with the 37 year old, i was responding to Eddy's comment that a 13 year old can not consent to sex due to her age.
He is correct. :shrug:
Second degree still means he forced her, as far as I'm aware. It just means he had no weapon and didn't beat her up in the process. I think.
If she's under 14, and he's at least 4 years older - vaginal intercourse - it's second degree rape. She coulda wooed him with roses and serenaded him with Conway Twitty tunes, and it wouldn't matter.
I thought that was Jerry Lee LewisSurely not Conway Twitty tunes....
Surely not Conway Twitty tunes....
I thought that was Jerry Lee Lewis
I thought that was Jerry Lee Lewis
Per § 3-304, if a person engages in vaginal intercourse with someone who is under 14, and they themselves are at least 4 years older than the victim, then they have committed the felony of second degree rape, correct? The law makes no requirement that they be over 18, in order to be 'guilty of the felony of rape in the second degree', is that not correct?
That is correct.
With regard to what distinguishes first degree rape from second degree rape, I was listing various conditions which could distinguish them and I wasn't being particularly comprehensive in the technical description of those things. But, you are correct, technically I should have said 'Sometimes the distinction has to do with whether or not the act was committed 'by force, or the threat of force, without the consent' of the victim,'. Just as I condensed some of the other descriptions, I condensed that description to 'consent'. And people wonder why I'm so verbose and go to such lengths to be technically precise - see what happens when I cheat a little?
That said, there are circumstances where the presence or absence of that particular condition, as I've just described it, might distinguish first degree rape from second degree rape, per § 3-303 et seq.
Well who are you talking about then?This has never been clear to me, how it's determined. First degree, second degree, third degree...
Also, if a 13 year old (for the sake of discussion) willingly has sex (not against her will, not forced), shouldn't the 13 year old at least be required to go to counseling? Realistically, young girls do this stuff every day. They get caught, then cry rape, and they've ruined someone's life (and I'm not talking about just a 37 year old).
Even if the 13 year old is built like a brick ####house and sticks her hooha right in his face, a 37 year old man is supposed to decline her invitation.
If the 13 year old is a prostitute, the man is supposed to decline.
Doesn't matter who she is or what she does.
Even if the 13 year old is built like a brick ####house and sticks her hooha right in his face, a 37 year old man is supposed to decline her invitation.
If the 13 year old is a prostitute, the man is supposed to decline.
Doesn't matter who she is or what she does.
I agree, but my question is, when the little 13 year old tart is shoving it in someone's face, should she get a free pass to do it again? I mean, that's the lesson she's getting. Right?
What if it's a 17 year old girl, and a 20 year old guy?