12 yo Gets 13 yo Pregnant After Consensual Sex, Registered as sex offenders
A 13-year-old girl and her 12-year-old boyfriend had sex with each other.
The result?
A Supreme Court justice in Utah decided that they are both victims… and sex offenders. Each child was found guilty of having sex with someone under 14 years old.
The pair got caught after the girl got pregnant.
The incident happened back in 2003, and the girl involved is 23 now. She wants the court to overturn the conviction, and argues that since the sex was with someone in her own age group, it is not really a crime.
The girl’s lawyer said, “A child (victim) cannot also be a perpetrator in the exact same act.”
As reported by the Daily Mail:
Children aged 14 or 15 can be charged with unlawful conduct with a minor if they have sex with a peer, but mitigation renders the offense a misdemeanor.
But for juveniles under 14, there is no mitigation as the law deems them incapable of consenting to sex.
A juvenile court judge denied the motion brought by the girl and the Utah Court of Appeals last December upheld the judge’s refusal to dismiss the allegation, saying the law had to protect minors from each other as well as from older teens and adults.
The girl then appealed to the state Supreme Court.
The woman, who remains unnamed, also vocalized how ridiculous it is that she was found guilty of being both a victim AND an offender from one sex act.
Chief Justice Christine Durham called this outcome of the situation a “peculiar consequence.”
Still, it seems unlikely that the conviction will be overturned. The law was specifically created so that children under 13 would not have sex, regardless if the partner is in their own age group.
