This situation transcends the contours of the law of statutory
rape. That's why your arguments regarding 12 and 15 year olds
do not cut it.
The situation here is much more clear cut than simply
applying the statutory rape laws. Aside from the rather
fantastic creations of highly unlikely scenarios
(such as threats of suicide if the child does not get his way),
let's just look at their respective positions.
She was a teacher, aged 33.
He was her student, aged 12.
He was a child, no matter how informed, articulate,
or mature for his age.
Sure, some children are tried as adults where particularly
egregious crimes have been committed, though not typically
when the perp is as young as 12.
Regardless of such a person's relative maturity,
the fact remains that he is immature compared to a
woman, in a position of authority, who is nearly three
times his age.
A woman who would, for whatever reason, involve herself
sexually with a child of 12, and go to the lengths
this woman did, has something very wrong with her. If nothing else, this supplies a valid reason to proscribe the conduct.
I mean, really, there are plenty of very immature men who
are in their 20's, and many would supply little interest
for a woman in her 30's outside the confines of her bedroom.
How much more so in the case of a 12 year old child.
In sum, there is simply no credible basis on which to justify
this set of circumstances. It's curious that you seem to have
taken up the mantle of attempting to do so<g> |
