American Sex Laws Pertaining To Juveniles Need To Be Cleaned Up
Isn't it funny how the United States of America is likely the only nation where a teenage minor can be tried as an adult, locked up in an adult correctional facility with hardened adult criminals, and even charged with a sexual offense for failing to report their friend to the police if that friend is a minor involved with an adult sex partner or vice versa? On the other hand, most everywhere in our nation, if a teenage minor's adult sex partner gets arrested for statutory rape, that teenage minor becomes legally voiceless to stop it.
To add insult to injury, if the prosecution wishes to place a teenage minor on the witness stand to testify against their adult sex partner in a statutory-rape trial and that teenage minor refuses to do so, then that teenage minor can be indicted for contempt of court. Moreover, the prosecutor could try that teenage minor as an adult for that same action. In his video below, Norman Michael Achin explains these same double standards.
Norman Michael Achin Explains How American Sex Laws And The Likes Need To Be Cleaned Up
The Commonwealth of Virginia and Maryland are not the only state jurisdictions in our nation that have the same inconsistencies in their laws pertaining to juveniles. In New York, a minor automatically gets treated as an adult in a criminal indictment at the age of 16, but, at the same time, 16-year-olds cannot legally get married there under any circumstances.
Mr. Achin is not the first person to notice these double standards within our law system here in the United States. He only had to compare American sex laws pertaining to teenage minors with those of Europe to make his point about it.
The criminal justice system here in our nation clearly wants to have its cake and eat it too. However, to most of us, that same school of thought is not criminal justice. It's a whole host of kangaroo courts waiting to happen.
The Commonwealth of Virginia made the mistake of electing a former cop to the governorship in the form of Abigail Spanberger, and now she's allowing the police and prosecutors to take every advantage they can of average citizens. You only get what you vote for. The sad part of it all is that people in that state that did not vote for her to be governor are stuck with her agenda for another four years.
If the Commonwealth of Virginia were to allow for the voters to decide the laws pertaining to juvenile justice in the form of a referendum on the November ballot, it would be a step in the right direction. The sex laws pertaining to juveniles need to be consistent with the other laws pertaining to them in that state and in every state of the Union.
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