First, let me preface this by saying I yet have no children.HighVelocity wrote:Don't assume this "13 year old girl" is innocent. She could have easily claimed to be 18 or older and "lured" this person in.
All parties involved will have to come clean and disclose the FACTS before any judgements can be made on those left alive.
What scares me, is that I could totally see myself reacting the same way. I see some weird older man doing something I don't approve of to my daughter, and i'd react that way.
I'd argue that he's raping her, and as far as the law is concerned, it IS statutory rape.
That leads me to a good question. I realise it's a HUGE strech, but the law allows defense of 3rd parties from rape, does that include statutory rape as well? Does Texas look at both the same, or are they different crimes?