Yes this is rape culture

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6. feelings and actions are very different things.

A person may not be able to control completely his urges, but acting on them and involving an innocent and powerless third person is another matter entirely. Our society decided that, unfortunately, the harm caused by child sexual abuse is so traumatic to the victim that nothing but harsh punishment is the only legal response to it. By the time they are adults, pedophiles cannot be cured even though they are victims themselves. So, all we can do is make the penalty for acting on those impulses so severe that they will think it is just not worth it. Yet enough of them commit sex crimes against children to keep cops, assistant DAs, and child psychologists employed around the country.

One of the worst child rape cases I ever prosecuted was a 65 year old man who raped his 5-yr.-old grand daughter. Fortunately for the D.A. (but not for him) he made photographs for his activities. Plea deal was that we would take mandatory life imprisonment off the table if he plead to the indictment, saving the kid from having to testify. The judge gave him maximum consecutive sentences on each count, 85 years in prison. It was very gratifying when the appellate court sustained the sentence. During oral argument the judges were squirming in their chairs in discomfort. Fortunately, the kid healed and received psychiatric help.

By the way, if a kid tells you something that sounds like sexual abuse, don't ignore it or shrug it off. For Christ sake, call the fucking police and let them decide if the kid is telling the truth, because if they are not idiots, they will know that kids just don't make that kind of shit up.