Quote (Plaguefear @ Aug 10 2023 05:25pm)
Half of the victims were 15 though.
Covered that in the main discussion-
Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 9 2023 07:20pm)
What if someone was charged with murder, robbery, arson and blasphemy against the prophet mohammed?
Even if he's a firebug robbing murderer, if you prosecute him for blasphemy you set the precedent you can lock people up for dissing on the world's most famous pedophile
When you set the precedent that 'gift buying with the implicit quid pro quo of sex' is prostitution, you've opened that door for normal people and that's how you wind up with Jack Johnson being charged with trafficking a woman he later married.
That, and the issue that if they might have created cause for him to win on appeal and wind up setting a pedo free