This story illuminates how the government has helped destroy standards of sexual morality. By bowing to religious & pharmaceutical interests and making the consent, motivation, choices and financial well-being of anyone under age X completely nil, ignored & unspoken in a legal context, they have actually abolished, legally, the qualitative difference between a violent rape and consensual sex. The "real" crime, according to our society and current law, is that this evil screwjob touched a 15 year old woman who is the property of her father or her parents or (of course) of the State. The facts that he traumatized & tortured her, that she didn't want to do it & was threatened with her death...are secondary.
In fact it may be argued that our society now wishes to punish sex as the most heinous and evil of all wrongs. Read the comments about a murderer, sentenced to life in prison, or a violent rape/killer of an adult woman on death row. People generally seem to find these sentences adequate & fair. But read the comments about any guy who, consensually & peacefully, runs away with the head JV cheerleader from a white/wealthy high school and the comments are more disturbing. "Send the bastard to jail forever, rape him every day and tear out his eyes and dump vinegar in the sockets, then execute him!" Very rarely do people point out the cruelty or hypocrisy of such statements, and sex criminals who are in prison for nonviolent acts *are* raped, tortured, and killed, far more often than murderers are. And how many of us harbor such pure hatred and bloodlust against warmongering, genocidal politicians? Sex has become a greater crime than killing, or starting wars.
Persons gulity of these sick, cruel, horrible rapes such as our buddy in this thread are aided in their escape through laws that make my first date with my girlfriend, who was under 18 at the time, qualitatively the same crime as the violent rape of a minor. Despite all the hatred, fear & taboo we are still compelled to keep some fairness, some common sense in our laws, but even that becomes perverted. Raping an orphan is "safer" for the violent/coercive rapist than raping the aforementioned property-of-her-father. Raping a black girl is also less likely to bring about severe punishment. Because our laws have to bend SO much to allow for exceptions to be made for common sense -- and for racist/religious superstition -- it's now possible for the violent rapist of a minor to get off with probation. he is seen legally much the same as a guy who dated a 15 year old orphan. And that's wrong. If we made *violence* our worst possible crime, instead of sex, our friend would be in prison for a very long time, for his cruel violence and forcible rape of an innocent girl. No violent sex offender should benefit from laws designed to keep R. Kelly out of prison while appeasing our legions of superstitious hypocrites in charge.
