Community of the Wrongly Accused: A 16-year-old boy had consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl. She told her parents, who objected to the boy, and they had him taken into state custody and charged with statutory rape. He's out on bail, awaiting another court date. She was never taken into custody, because under the applicable law, she did not commit a crime.
It happened in Ireland where the age of consent for both males and females is 17, and boys under that age can be prosecuted for statutory rape, girls can't. The applicable statute provides: "A female child under the age of 17 years shall not be guilty of an offence under this Act by reason only of her engaging in an act of sexual intercourse."
The judge said this about the young male "criminal": "Someone has to guide him and be firm, someone has to give him love. His parents have let him down."
Notice that no one has to "guide" the girl, or be "firm" with her - and her parents did not let her down. Only the boy requires such assistance, and he did exactly what she did. He is guilty by reason of penis.
Throughout the civilized world, laws that favor males - either as written or as applied - are condemned as grossly unjust. But when the genders are reversed, we often hear little outcry.
For example, in the U.S., do you know the penalties when teenage men fail to register with selective service? Nothing to see here, the feminists tell us, move along! You see, males can't be victims even when they are.
This Irish case is reminiscent of the awful Milton Academy case out of Massachusetts several years ago. A 15-year-old girl engaged in group sex with five teenage boys in the boys’ locker room. They were 16. The boys, and only the boys, were expelled and charged with statutory rape, and the court ordered the boys to publicly apologize to the girl and her family, and to do community service.
Alan M. Dershowitz, the famous Harvard law professor and criminal defense lawyer, had a daughter who attended Milton Academy. Prof. Dershowitz said it plainly: "This represents the most senseless use of prosecutorial discretion I’ve seen in a long time.” He added: ”The idea that these youngsters should be branded rapists and the girl should be labeled a victim is preposterous.”
Read on only if you want to get your blood boiling.
The 16-year-old boys read their sickening apologies to the girl and her family, in open court, as part of their plea bargain. One boy read this: "Not a day has passed since the incident that I don’t wish I had shown more respect for you, myself, and everyone involved. I understand that by taking part I put myself in a very dangerous situation with consequences none of us had dreamed of.”
Another boy read this: ”Every day I am sorry, so sorry, for what happened. And every day I think of how hurt you must be and how upset your family must be. More than anything in the world I wish that I could turn back the clock. . . . All I can do at this point is truly and sincerely apologize for my actions and wish you happiness.”
The girl's family sat there stony-faced as the boys were publicly humiliated. They got what they deserved . . . because they were born male.
http://www.thejournal.ie/statutory-rape-boy-concern-2643527-Mar2016/
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/06/boy-16-faces-rape-charge-despite-sex-being-consensual-5736113/
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2006/a1506.pdf
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/02/deal_okd_in_milton_academy_sex_case/
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It happened in Ireland where the age of consent for both males and females is 17, and boys under that age can be prosecuted for statutory rape, girls can't. The applicable statute provides: "A female child under the age of 17 years shall not be guilty of an offence under this Act by reason only of her engaging in an act of sexual intercourse."The judge said this about the young male "criminal": "Someone has to guide him and be firm, someone has to give him love. His parents have let him down."
Notice that no one has to "guide" the girl, or be "firm" with her - and her parents did not let her down. Only the boy requires such assistance, and he did exactly what she did. He is guilty by reason of penis.
Throughout the civilized world, laws that favor males - either as written or as applied - are condemned as grossly unjust. But when the genders are reversed, we often hear little outcry.
For example, in the U.S., do you know the penalties when teenage men fail to register with selective service? Nothing to see here, the feminists tell us, move along! You see, males can't be victims even when they are.
This Irish case is reminiscent of the awful Milton Academy case out of Massachusetts several years ago. A 15-year-old girl engaged in group sex with five teenage boys in the boys’ locker room. They were 16. The boys, and only the boys, were expelled and charged with statutory rape, and the court ordered the boys to publicly apologize to the girl and her family, and to do community service.
Alan M. Dershowitz, the famous Harvard law professor and criminal defense lawyer, had a daughter who attended Milton Academy. Prof. Dershowitz said it plainly: "This represents the most senseless use of prosecutorial discretion I’ve seen in a long time.” He added: ”The idea that these youngsters should be branded rapists and the girl should be labeled a victim is preposterous.”
Read on only if you want to get your blood boiling.
The 16-year-old boys read their sickening apologies to the girl and her family, in open court, as part of their plea bargain. One boy read this: "Not a day has passed since the incident that I don’t wish I had shown more respect for you, myself, and everyone involved. I understand that by taking part I put myself in a very dangerous situation with consequences none of us had dreamed of.”
Another boy read this: ”Every day I am sorry, so sorry, for what happened. And every day I think of how hurt you must be and how upset your family must be. More than anything in the world I wish that I could turn back the clock. . . . All I can do at this point is truly and sincerely apologize for my actions and wish you happiness.”
The girl's family sat there stony-faced as the boys were publicly humiliated. They got what they deserved . . . because they were born male.
http://www.thejournal.ie/statutory-rape-boy-concern-2643527-Mar2016/
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/06/boy-16-faces-rape-charge-despite-sex-being-consensual-5736113/
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2006/a1506.pdf
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/02/deal_okd_in_milton_academy_sex_case/
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