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In reply to the discussion: Marriage tips from a rapist, on ABC [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)to be in a relationship with her and when she raped him when he was 12. You seem to think the fact he married her makes the rape go away. Do you realize laws were written precisely that way in the past? That if a man married a girl, he could get out of legal charges for rape? Seemingly, you would prefer those laws to modern-day efforts to stop child rape.
Since you find laws prohibiting sexual assault of minors to be akin to slavery, at what age do you think children should be fair game? Evidently you have no problem with 12. Should it be legal for an adult to have sex with a 10 year old? 8 or 4? Is any age too young?
People who were abused as children behave in all kinds of fucked up ways. That they do doesn't mitigate the abuse they faced as children.