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Don't Be A victim

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I asked student how old this girl looked and about 85% of them said 16 or older

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According to Kathy, Alan's girlfriend told him she was 16. The criminal complaint against Alan confirms this, and reveals that his girlfriend lied to the police, as well. She was at Alan and Kathy’s apartment at the time of the arrest, and told the officers twice that she was 16. One of them “then advised [his girlfriend] that if she was not truthful with the officer, she possibly would be arrested for obstructing if she lied about her age, at which point [his

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Scientists at Newcastle University in the UK have discovered that girls tend to optimize brain connections earlier than boys. The researchers conclude that this may explain why females generally mature faster in certain cognitiveand emotional areas than males during childhood and adolescence. The new study(link is external) was published December 19, 2013 in Cerebral Cortex.

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In Nebraska, as in many other states, intercourse between someone who is 19 and someone younger than 16 is classified as statutory rape. It is illegal here even if the couple is married at the time.

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Asked if she believes young men deserve harsher punishment, she responded: “No, I don’t believe that; we should all take responsibility for what we do, whether you’re a boy or girl. We are all human, but where the law is concerned we are not equal. They should change that.”

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Alan’s 19 year-old sister, Kathy Jepsen, has a simple explanation for the charges. “It’s bullshit [is] what it really comes to… our court system is messed up in Sheboygan.”

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Teens are victims of statutory rape, both in the sense that they are the victims of the crime itself, and they are victims of unjust sex laws.

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92% of the people that took this survey know what Raape is!

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77% of people either did not know or was not solid on the defintion of Statutory Rape

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This bar graph shows that out of all the people that took the survey that 65% pf people who took this survey is between 13-15

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Statutory rape refers to sexual relations involving someone below the "age of consent." People below the age of consent cannot legally consent to having sex. This means that sex with them, by definition, violates the law.

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“These are kids,” said Purnell. “It’s ridiculous. Lawmakers criminalize common behavior among children, and it’s frustrating, really.”