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RE: Hollywood Actor Kevin Spacey Accused Of Raping A 14 Year Old Actor; Media Downplays Allegations
The title is "rape" but it the body of the article doesn't contain forced sexual intercourse. I hate to go against the angry mob but let us be accurate. It comes down to him touching sexually an adolescent boy. I am not going to argue that's okay, though.
Now there are many straight couples where one is a minor and the other is not. It is legal to marry at the age of 14 in the province of Quebec in Canada given consent of the parents. There must of been some sexual advances before such marriages in most of those cases. It's not quite pedophilia and not quite rape.
There is a lot of legal precedent for this kind of thing but between consenting parties. These were not consenting parties!
The charge he would be facing if statute of limitations wasn't up would be statutory rape of a minor.
Any real lawyers here?
@leprechaun In a nutshell, forcible rape is a violent act of sexual brutality against the will of another person, whereas statutory rape of a minor is merely a legal construct that is entirely predicated upon the statutory age of consent in a given state jurisdiction and how much older the perpetrator has to be than the minor with whom he or she has sexual intercourse. In light of that I agree with your posts, leprechaun, my conclusion is that the two said offenses may carry the same name in their legal wording, but they are worlds apart in terms of what actually takes place whenever either one of these offenses is committed.