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Sarah Huckabee Sanders appoints man who had sex with a minor to top state post
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"Sexual affairs with a 17yo" aka Statutory Rape.
Nope. Age of consent is 16 in Arkansas.
Doesn't matter if you have a position of power over the minor. If you're a cop for example
In Sweden too. I think. Or is it 15 still? Nån färsk torsk som vet?
Anyway, I think this is the first time Sweden and Arkansas have ever had anything in common. I don't know if I should laud them for being so progressive and enlightened as us Europeans, or if I should make me more suspicious of Swedes.
More suspicious of the Swedes.
Sounds like you want to fuck a kid.
We don't say shit like thay around here, bud. Go somewhere else.
I run into you everywhere! Hard agree, we’re better than that here.
See you around, friend!
Then let me rephrase, the only people who bring up the age of consent in this context are incredibly suspicious.
The top level comment is literally accusing him of breaking a law that is dependent on the minor's age. Pointing to the fact that he didn't actually violate the law because the person was old enough to legally consent as suspicious says more about your insecurities than the person who lives in reality.
He did break the law by having sex with a minor while being a police officer. That is a crime, and he was fired for it and lying about it to internal affairs. He just wasn't prosecuted because reasons.
Fair enough, I did not read the whole article, hypocritically. I decided to read the rest and see if is a violation of state law, but I would be curious if that it's statutory rape.
I'm so glad lemmy is different like this. Here's hoping we can keep it that way.
Stating a fact is not agreeing with the fact. If they brought it up randomly at a dinner party after talking about kids, yes that’s suspicious. But, this is a conversation about a person who had sex with a minor, and naturally the question of “what came of that?” could be considered. The answer would be “nothing,” but only because the age of consent law was not broken in that state. If the age of consent law was broken, it’s likely the person would have a Felony. States have different laws, and they need to be considered for everyone to understand the situation.
Someone insisted it should be called statutory rape. I fact checked. If you find fact checking suspicious, that's a you problem.
statute is a nebulous term with no legal definition UNDER THE LAW
Dude, dudette, they/them stop playing the fool
You know your arguments are frivolous and made in bad faith
You just want to be the troll because thats what you enjoy doing
It's like an addiction for you because you get your dopamine hit from it
Amogus
Do you know what the word "statutory" means? They were making a factual correction.
Incorrect.