“Love this informative law (case study) breakdown kind of podcast. On that note, while this podcast, host presentation, & all topics are 100% superb, the host & some of his legal guests seem to loose objectivity regarding cases involving high school aged minors & improper relations w an adult or teacher. The host stated on a podcast about female teacher having sex with a male student that predators come in all genders & those males are traumatized victims. Imo, this is an example of how emotional, media hysteria since the late 90s has killed ‘objective reason. It has put these kinds of laws on steroids to such a degree that a true victim of violent or coerced SA shld feel slapped in the face; bc sentences now tie the hands of judges to MMS w/o regard to ‘harm done’, or ‘intent’: but only if you haven’t blown out 18 candles, so a victim who is 18 + who has permanent injuries from a violent assault, torture, or SA can’t be assured their assailant will receive anything close if they had been coerced (threatened), manipulated, or an violent SA’d, no punishment similar to those under the age, who simply had a relationship that wld be completely legal with someone more than 3 or 4 yrs older, some states only one or two years older, & in a relationship that was completely normal had she not been 14-17. Secondly, D.C. Activist group-lobbyist funded research is tainted intentionally to cont conditioning the public that if you haven’t blown out 18 candles you’re a ignorant sheep in mind & a perpetual victim. Actually, research shows only 5% of male teen minors who slept w a female teacher or adult later feel any trauma towards it. Also, surely there’s a standard deviation lowering that 5%, knowing we all constantly hear ‘no, you are a victim too’. Really..? So, this fantasy of most every H.S. Aged teen Male, that gets em high fives in the locker room if they brag about it, should be considered the same as what a woman or male goes thru getting violently beaten & forcibly SA’d? I believe the harshest penalties should be reserved for that & all violent bodily injury crimes that leave permanent wounds. How is a victim of getting locked up & tortured gonna feel ‘justice’ when her perpetrator has NO mandatory minimum which a judge has to give, no consecutive mandatory sentence..simply bc the victim has blown out 18 candles on a birthday cake..as if the same pain can’t be as great as if he or she were 17? Sentencing should be based on sadistic intent, reckless indifference to endangerment & harm done to a victim, not this ageist philosophy. This is the logic I’m not hearing from the lawyer host of 27 yrs, & literally that’s kinda scary, no offense to him, bc it’s wide spread among many in the legal field. I wanna hear disgust from the host an legal guest as to how & why Gis Maxwell can’t face her accusers according to the constitution..seriously…simply bc they were teens? These same teens can and are tried as adults in many cases. This ‘mature minor’ philosophy is what’s called ‘rule of 7s’..going back to law prior to our constitution. Such a philosophy was always in place in all 50 states until the late 90s. 14 yr olds have always been considered different than little kids..until recent times when one can’t consent & even a bare picture of them is considered worse than murder itself..but totally normal in a relationship if she were 18. So its until the spell is lifted by simply blowing out 18 candles then? Yes, at which point, all in one day one goes from not being able to consent to a normal one on one relationship to being able to do that, plus you can strip in a gang infested dangerous club & somehow you are immune to all that REAL DANGER, plus an ‘only fans’ account, meeting up with real perverts online simply bc you’re 18, it’s all good? I’m not advocating that under age & adults should at all be legal, but all statutory offenses (but this particular one) start from minimal penalties & increase by intent, endangerment or abuse..Certainly, pre teens should be in a different catagory than teens, which is where I’m drawing lines. One must remember, the father of IQ testing said that 14 year olds tested on adult levels. However, this doesn’t support the emotional based laws & sensationalized narrative, does it”
Savannah riddell via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/06/24