srothstein wrote:This is a commonly cited example and might be valid in some states. But it is not valid in Texas, with the ages given. Texas law says it is a defense if the couple are within three years of age of each other, as long as they are over 15.03Lightningrocks wrote:How about the 18 year old boy who is charged and labeled a sex offender for being caught with his 16 year old girl friend in a compromising situation? A two year difference in age means nothing if she is 17 but at 16 it matters??? He then spends his life explaining why he is a registered sex offender. Regardless of my opinion, it is what it is.
A real example would be the kids who are both 13 (no defense then and both can be charged) or the 15 year old with the 13 year old.
SR, actually it is an affirmative defense to prosucution, the prosucution of the felony charge of statutory rape happens. convictions are infact returned and prison time and sex offender registration is required right here in good old texas. I know of a young man personally who was charged, tried, and convicted on this very charge in Harris County. The young lady's mother didn't like the young man, she waited till he was 18, 5 months older than the GF, mother put a hidden camera in the GF's room when she found evidence of the young man and the girl having sex she called the HPD and had the young man arrested, he was tried convicted and spent somthing like 18 months in prison and had register as a sex offender as well as a no contact order from the court. This conviction was bogus and the ruination of the young mans life is criminal, he can't get a good job nor CHL, he can't even vote.