• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    16 hours ago

    Let me tell you about Wisconsin: We regularly bump 17-year-old offenders into adult court. So, yes, we have had cases of 17-year-old couples tried as adults for having sex with a minor after they had sex with each other.

    If the implication of that fact hasn’t sunk in I’ll make it explicit: We treat them as adults for the purposes of being a criminal, and a minor for the purposes of being a victim.

    • newDayRocks@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Ok that one is on me. I don’t know why I expected Romeo and Juliet clauses to have some level of consistency in all states.