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14 and 15 year olds now most frequently arrested sex offenders

Source: FriendFeed thePuck

Oct 18, 2009

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If one of the primary purposes of sex crime laws is to protect minors against violent ADULT sexual predators then why are 14 and 15 year olds the demographic with the highest incidence of sex crime arrests?

Diary of a Nudist reports

America is turning its children into sex offenders. The chart above, from the US Department of Justice, illustrates how we are criminalizing what was once a normal part of adolescence - experimenting with sex. Via Andrew Sullivan's blog comes this essay. In
our new bizarre world of sexual offender legislation each child is a
victim and a perpetrator. As the victim, they get no help, of course.
The victim status is the excuse needed so that the sledgehammer may be
used on the other child. So each becomes a perpetrator. They will be
arrested; they will be forced into court. They are likely to be
convicted and sentenced. They may be placed into the various prisons
for children that have been established--places where they will learn
what unwilling, sexual attacks are really like. They will be tortured
by therapists and eventually released--may ...Read the full article

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