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12 year olds Statutory Rape Conviction overturned by Ohio Supreme Court - June 21st 2011, 07:41 PM

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...t-a-crime.html

I found this piece of new to be incredibly interesting, heres the jist of what it is.

In 2007, two boys, aged 12 and 11, engaged in exploratory sex. The 12 year old was arrested and convicted of multiple counts of deliquent Statutory Rape and was sentenced to be committed to the Ohio Department of Youth Services until his 21st birthday. The sentence was suspended, but he has still been in Sex Offender Therapy for 3 years.

Arguments heared in the High Court in February, caused the Justices to question why authorities charged the boy in the first place. The Justices unanimously voted that the Statutory Rape laws were extremely vague and violated the right of Equal Protection of Law. The Justices decided there was no crime, because both children were under 13 and the sex was consensual.


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