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13-year-olds cannot vote.
13-year-olds cannot drink.
13-year-olds cannot drive.
13-year-olds cannot be employed in full time work.
13-year-olds cannot serve in the military.
13-year-olds cannot enter into legally binding contracts without parental or guardian consent.
13-year-olds cannot be tried as adults (except in specific capital offense cases).
Considering all of these things, in what reality, Hollywood, does a 13-year-old being drugged and raped (because when a person says "no", it's rape, plus the drugging immediately takes away consent, not even to mention her age) count as consensual?
There's a reason it's illegal: the age, the drugging and the whole "I said no" part. Thank god for the justice system.
(I feel sorry for the victim, who really shouldn't have to be dragged through this again. But the justice system does not let CONVICTED criminals go free. We can't. If we do, the system has failed her and all other victims.)
13-year-olds cannot drink.
13-year-olds cannot drive.
13-year-olds cannot be employed in full time work.
13-year-olds cannot serve in the military.
13-year-olds cannot enter into legally binding contracts without parental or guardian consent.
13-year-olds cannot be tried as adults (except in specific capital offense cases).
Considering all of these things, in what reality, Hollywood, does a 13-year-old being drugged and raped (because when a person says "no", it's rape, plus the drugging immediately takes away consent, not even to mention her age) count as consensual?
There's a reason it's illegal: the age, the drugging and the whole "I said no" part. Thank god for the justice system.
(I feel sorry for the victim, who really shouldn't have to be dragged through this again. But the justice system does not let CONVICTED criminals go free. We can't. If we do, the system has failed her and all other victims.)
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