Age of consent
Age of Consent
My position on the age of consent is that I’m for it. I believe that the age of consent should be and always be age of 16, because once have turned 16 you should be mature enough to make your own decision on who you want to have sex with because you are now in high school and you’re old enough to know right from wrong. The legal age of consent is Washington State is 16. Age of consent is the age when the law considers a person mature enough to agree to have sex. In the United states the federal government age of consent is 18. States have ages between 16 and 18.This law should apply to any action that takes place between different states or on a federal property. It makes it a crime to use any sort of form of communication between the states to try to get a minor to have sex with an adult. Sex with someone under the age of (16) is known as a strict liability crime which is Statutory Rape in most states. A individual can and may have sex with whomever they wish and please just as long as that person is the same age or older. In the Jones v. Florida court case there was two men age 19 and 20 that were prosecuted for having sex with their 14 year old girlfriends. The girls both had declared that their consented in the courtroom , while holding hands with the accused throughout the trials. The court had found that the statute constitutional , precluding that the application of the privacy rights of minors given the state’s compelling interest in “preventing sexual exploitation early in life”.
(http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=wmjowl)
When a person is caught having sex or any other sexual activity, with someone that is below the age of consent (16) the person may be charged or punished as a sex offender. When there is a sexual misconduct with a minor in the first degree it is a class C felony. In all states , dating , hugging , holding hands and or kissing are not illegal , but in some states fondling ,
My position on the age of consent is that I’m for it. I believe that the age of consent should be and always be age of 16, because once have turned 16 you should be mature enough to make your own decision on who you want to have sex with because you are now in high school and you’re old enough to know right from wrong. The legal age of consent is Washington State is 16. Age of consent is the age when the law considers a person mature enough to agree to have sex. In the United states the federal government age of consent is 18. States have ages between 16 and 18.This law should apply to any action that takes place between different states or on a federal property. It makes it a crime to use any sort of form of communication between the states to try to get a minor to have sex with an adult. Sex with someone under the age of (16) is known as a strict liability crime which is Statutory Rape in most states. A individual can and may have sex with whomever they wish and please just as long as that person is the same age or older. In the Jones v. Florida court case there was two men age 19 and 20 that were prosecuted for having sex with their 14 year old girlfriends. The girls both had declared that their consented in the courtroom , while holding hands with the accused throughout the trials. The court had found that the statute constitutional , precluding that the application of the privacy rights of minors given the state’s compelling interest in “preventing sexual exploitation early in life”.
(http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=wmjowl)
When a person is caught having sex or any other sexual activity, with someone that is below the age of consent (16) the person may be charged or punished as a sex offender. When there is a sexual misconduct with a minor in the first degree it is a class C felony. In all states , dating , hugging , holding hands and or kissing are not illegal , but in some states fondling ,