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Originally Posted by Zee
I'm sure if she did willing choose to perform sex acts on this man, she will look back on this when she's older and realise how immature she was - but at the time I'd imagine she knew what she wanted to do (if that is what happened - there's still every possibility that the prosecutor was wrong and this girl was victimised against her will.) I don't think it's neglect of her well being if that was the situation at hand though; handing down a harsh jail sentence to a criminal when his victim did not feel like she was a victim could just as easily let girls think they can get away with anything, in the same way you get girls who blackmail boys into having sex with them because if they don't, they'll claim that the boy raped them...
It works both ways - this was clearly an exceptional circumstance in any event, I've never heard of a case like this before so I doubt this will suddenly become a defense for paedophiles everywhere.
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..the accused was a paedophile and took a 13yr old girl in school uniform back to his house..I'm not sure how a school uniform could give anyone the impression she could be older or what she did was in anyway responsible for his actions
'He admitted two counts of making extreme pornographic images and one count of sexual activity with a child.
Judge Peters told Wilson: "Allowing her to visit your home is something we have to clamp down on and in normal circumstances that would mean a significant term in prison'