1. Harsh Sentences Connected With Witch Hunts
You can always find videos on YouTube and on other social-media platforms that feature online sex-sting operations. You don't always find as many videos featuring trials connected with these same online sex-sting operations.
I recently viewed this one video in which a 22-year-old man had pleaded guilty after getting caught in an online sex-sting operation. The alleged victim was not a 10-year-old girl. She wasn't even a 12-year-old girl. The alleged victim was a 15-year-old girl that didn't even exist. In other words, this young man had communicated with a police decoy over the Internet and agreed to meet up with what he had thought to be a 15-year-old girl for sex.
Now, I realize that it's not legal for a 22-year-old man to have sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in any jurisdiction of the United States, even though I am not a fan of American statutory-rape laws. In any event, there was no true victim in this matter. This young man was not a serial child rapist waiting to happen. To many 22-year-old men, a 15-year-old girl would not even look like a child. A YouTube video of the sentencing hearing can be found below.
Judge Boyd Goes Harshly On A 22-Year-Old Man For Something That Would Be Completely Legal For A 16-Year-Old Boy To Do
Call this man a predator if you wish, but, at the end of the day, no minor got harmed. Let's say he had actually met up with a real 15-year-old girl and had sexual intercourse with her. Would that necessarily make him a predator? If she had sex with him on her own volition and had some experience at this sort of thing, I would have to say no; but that's just me.
Nevertheless, Judge Boyd sentenced him to 3 years in prison. All of his family members and friends that testified for him as character witnesses were able to demonstrate that he was no threat to society. However, the judge didn't seem to care about it. She periodically gets a report card for how many sex-related convictions she can grant, and, therefore, this was her golden opportunity to score some brownie points for herself on the bench in that respect.
This young man's life was basically ruined as a result of this witch hunt to which he fell prey. Judge Boyd said that he could have disengaged, but I don't believe that it would have been that easy for him to do so. Typically, law-enforcement officials continue to hound someone online in a sex-sting operation until that person agrees to meet up with them at a specified location.
In a comments section to a video that Ahmad Jamal Blakemore posted, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @parishjackson4029 posted:
I go back to court in 3 weeks I got my plea for probation and 10 year registration. My police report says my victim is society lol I don't have a victim it's a dumbass sting operation
Well, the elephant in the room here is if a 16-year-old boy had pressured his 15-year-old girlfriend into letting him come over to her house while her parents weren't home and got her pregnant, nobody would ensure that she would get any justice in the event that he were to go sour on her. Society and the law would never do anything for that same girl, if this young boy were to bail on her, use the unborn baby as a license to bully and abuse her, and even go as far as to start false rumors about her moral compass at school.
For one reason or another, deadbeat teenage fathers who are too young to vote have it made in the shade and have it way too easy. Child-support institutions seldom ever enforce the laws that do exist; and when they do, that deadbeat teenage father and his parents always find loopholes to get out of paying to support the baby.
Meanwhile, the above-described 22-year-old man will spend three years of his life behind bars for harming nobody. If one can argue that he poses a danger to 15-year-old girls, he does so less than an underage deadbeat teenage father does. There's your American justice system for you.
Why is it that a 15-year-old girl that's pregnant with a 16-year-old boy's baby somehow gets ostracized by everyone and slut-shamed? Nobody calls her a child that was incapable of consent. Everyone will judge her and say that she should have had morals. Then they'll turn around and ask, "Why is it always the boy's fault?" Why? It's because he gets to walk away from the situation and go on living the same way he did before.
I personally know a woman whose baby daddy put her through such degradation when she was in high school. Luckily, she was able to pull her life back together after she graduated from high school, but she should never have had to be put through such madness in the first place.
In the comments section to the video above, a YouTuber who goes by user name of @FelineDesperado posted:
22 and 15..... oh no, two young people possibly hooking up and the only issue is the arbitrary and imaginary borderline of 18... what a joke 🤣 It was never an issue throughout all of history, but now suddenly it is because of this legal fiction. 🤣 He needs to be rehabilitated for what? For being a guy with normal attractions? GTFO 🤣 ...and then based on this, somehow he loses his right to own weapons for self defense? What a crock.
YouTuber @FelineDesperado? You took the words right out of my mouth. I could not have said it better.
When I was 18 years old, I once had a friend back in college whom I suspected was a love child. He was the oldest of his siblings in his family. His parents got married when his father was 22 years old and his mother was 15 years old. You're probably starting to get the picture by now.
I'm glad that my friend's father never confronted the indignities of being arrested for statutory rape and spending time behind bars, because if he had so, my friend would not have had the quality of life that he did. Whenever someone goes to prison on a frivolous and malicious statutory-rape conviction, many of their loved ones needlessly get caught in the line of fire.
2. Final Thoughts
Criminal justice used to be about ensuring the public safety. Now it's about who can make the most money in the system, including the prison-industrial complex.
Americans need to stop seeing these issues with tunnel vision and assess all the facts about them. Our nation is digging itself further and further into a puritanical black hole with fewer and fewer chances of ever getting out of it. We don't want to go back to the times of the Red Scare.
I wasn't alive back in the 1950s, but I have read enough history books to know that Senator Joe McCarthy was a troublemaker and a wacko when he created a list of suspected communists. Now we have the sex-offender registry and a number of other mechanisms in our laws that are creating an environment of fear and hostility. In the long run, it will not end very well for any of us.
I say that we end all these witch hunts that law enforcement has named online sex-sting operations. They are draining our tax dollars and needlessly ruining people's lives. No minor is getting saved because of them. Meanwhile, our nation has an epidemic of deadbeat teenage fathers.
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