sex abuse victims to be quiet ‘for the good of diversity’

[Mortblanc]

SS your passion is overwhelming, which is exactly what law makers desire from the public. Blind passion that allows passage and enforcement of arbitrary laws.

The issues that concern me are not the punishments dealt to serious repeat offenders in real situations of criminal acts against infants, but the misuse of the laws that get passed by knee jerk reaction so someone can claim their passion to "save the children".

I have lived long enough, and worked with teens and young adults long enough to see the system and its laws intended to "save the children" fully exploited and abused. Consider the association with "age of consent" and "child sexual abuse". They are very closely linked although neither of them is a steadfast age or well defined action.

I have seen 19 year old men sent to prison charged with Sex Trafficking for taking their 17 year old girl friend across state lines to a rock concert.

I have also seen an 18 year old woman sent to prison because she was pregnant with her 16 year old boyfriend's baby. The pregnancy was prima facia evidence of statutory rape. The age of consent in that location was 18 and any contact with a "minor" was rape according to the law.

In the U.S. the "possession" of child porn is a severe crime. Possession of "inappropriate" pictures of anyone under 18 is considered child porn. It is up to the court to define each individual picture and its nature, so pictures of the local secondary school swim team can be defined as child pornography with the local news announcing there were 5,000 "indecent pictures" on the swim team coaches school computer going back for 20 years. Even if it gets thrown out of court he is ruined.

Crimes against infants are one thing, but most of the "sex offense" actions brought to court are parents operating against boyfriends/girlfriends they do not like, consorting at an age that would be considered "age of consent" in many areas, or at ages when they would have been married just a century ago.

Even Europe can not agree on a uniform "age of consent" and the U.S. laws are just as sparotic.

And some nations have decided that their laws follow the citizen to other nations. 16 is age of consent in most of the EU. Germany is still 14. No state in the U.S. has age of consent below 17. By present law an 18 year old man could have an affair in Germany with a 15 Year old woman, return to the U.S. and be charged with rape even if the woman or her family had no objection to the relationship.

What each nation does with clearly defined and deviant predators is up to those nations, but I feel that the laws should be written precisely and clearly to avoid misuse and arbitrary application.