By: chuck_c123 on 12/10/11
I'm sure he will get 11-29 probation w/fines... He needs to be put UNDER the jail!! Good job to the officer!

By: cvs2c_mtsu_f11 on 12/13/11
It raises my hackles that rape gets defined as sex in these reports because statutory is put in front of it. Statutory rape, or the rape of a child under the age of consent, is a crime because the child is too young to consent. If the child is too young to consent, regardless what he or she said, he or she is therefore incapable of giving consent, at least with an adult party. And if someone is incapable of giving consent, the consent cannot exist. And “sex” without consent is exactly what rape is.

I truly believe the category of “statutory” should be done away with completely. I think that rape is rape, and rape is sexual penetration (of any kind) without consent. Far too many people associate the category of “statutory” rape with actually consensual, sexual relationships between two teenagers very close in age (say, 16 and 18). And I think much more importantly, far too many people associate the term with sex that is consensual except for with regards to the age of the victim.
Too often, they don’t get the fact that the 13-year-old, in this case, cannot consent to sex with an adult, period, and that any said “sex” under such circumstances is therefore rape. And in large part because of the “statutory” tacked onto the beginning, they don’t get that rape even when the 12-year-old victim “goes along” with it is always violent.

Because statutory or not, what I’ve discussed and what has happened to this poor girl, rape is still rape. No matter what.

By: postlooker22 on 12/14/11
What is sad is that when a 13 year old is hanging out with a 26 year old, the parent of the 13 year old girl is failing. Now i know that the man is at fault. But how does this girl's parents not know where she was? The sad thing is this girl probably has a mom who has men over all the time and the girl does not know what is correct and what it means to be taken advantage of.

Noone wants to ask these questions, we always ask what is wrong with the man. Now there is something wrong with him, but he did not forcibly rape this child. At least remember that.

Watch your kids!!!