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• msprout@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah in my high school, a girl I knew got into serious trouble for trying to bring her 25 year old boyfriend to junior prom, when she was 16. 😩 For some reason, the district allowed it. 😭😭

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cause the men in charge could relate

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  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    16 is the Age of Consent in most places, that doesn’t make it right, but I can only guess the district thought “Well if it’s legal…” without thinking if it was appropiate.

    It definitely wasn’t and it endangered the other students

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    • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      16 is the Age of Consent in most places, that doesn’t make it right, but I can only guess the district thought “Well if it’s legal…” without thinking if it was appropiate.

      That’s not how age of consent works you uninformed denizen softening the ground for pedos.

      Educate first, then loud blab on the internet.

      Ref: lemmy.world/comment/18382947

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      • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m sorry, I don’t understand what’s going on here.

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In the US, age of consent varies by state. In most US states the age of consent to sex with someone who is not in a position of authority is 16. Often with a close in age exception. 18 gets used in US media so much because that’s what it is in CA and NY, and that’s where most media is made.

        18 is also federal age of consent, but that only applies when an incident involves crossing state lines.

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Your reference is your own comment? Shouldn’t somewhere down the chain there be a link explaining this? It would be nice for you to be right, but I don’t think you are.

        If it were only about activities with other shouldn’t be of age people, then it makes no sense. Either they are allowed and it’s legal or it’s illegal for both of them but neither can be considered criminally responsible because neither can legally consent either.

        There are stories constantly about someone older having relations with someone way too young but the jurisdiction has age of consent to make it ok.

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