@Intrepid,
The 13 year old was identified in several news stories as being a neighbor of the man who was arrested. There is no reason to assume she was engaged in prostitution. Why the immediate need for Hawkeye to trash
her reputation? 13 year olds can do a lot of things (vandalism, stealing, fighting, possession of drugs etc.) to wind up on probation. And they can have a lot of reasons for not wanting people (like mothers, probation officers) to have their Facebook password.
I agree with BillRM on this particular issue too.
Isn't it also amazing how his posts on this are suddenly more coherent and better written?
Hawkeye has said that the age of consent for sexual activity should be as low as 12. That's one reason he defended Polanski on the rape charge with a 13 year old. So, that he feels a 15 year old should be able to engage in prostitution really should surprise no one.
But BillRM fails to realize that adult women are often in states, such as extreme intoxication, that render them quite vulnerable to sexual assault, certainly as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable, than a child would be. That the law protects people in such states is not to treat them as children, but rather to realistically acknowledge their vulnerability to a predator.
Similarly, elderly women are more vulnerable to sexual assault, which is why many places have increased penalties for attacking such individuals over the age of 65--they merit more protection in the form of stronger deterrents. Harsher penalties also keep those who sexually attack the elderly off the streets for longer periods.
And sexual assaults against the elderly are clear examples that rape is not a crime of sexual passion. It is an opportunistic sexual assault of a vulnerable female. Like this one...
Quote:
Illegal alien pleads guilty to raping 94-year-old woman in California
October 19th, 2010
On Friday, Roberto Recendes, 42, pleaded guilty to the 2002 brutal rape of a 94-year-old woman at an assisted living facility in Palo Alto, California. Because of the plea agreement, the Mexican national faces a 17-year prison sentence.
According to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Recendes admitted to one count of sexual penetration by force and to one count of elder abuse. SC District Attorney’s spokeswoman Amy Cornell said that the illegal alien also admitted to an allegation that he inflicted great bodily injury upon the victim.
Around 3:00 a.m., on May 10, 2002, Recendes entered the elderly woman’s apartment at Palo Alto Commons, through an unlocked patio door. She tried to fend-off the rapist, scratching her attacker and ripping off his gold chain and watch, which he left at the scene and were later instrumental in his conviction.
In December 2007, Recendes was arrested in Mexico and after several months, he was extradited to the U.S.
The woman, has since died, never having seen her attacker brought to justice.
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/illegal-alien-pleads-guilty-to-raping-94-year-old-woman-california
The man in the above case had been deported back to Mexico after a domestic abuse case. At that time his DNA was taken and entered into a database. Unfortunately, it still took several years to match the DNA to this rape and return him to the U.S. But, in the end, he was brought back, and justice was served.
