So many years ago my sister had this one friend of hers whose daughter was 15 years old. The girl's name was Amy. Amy had met a boy at her high school who misled her to believe that he was going to be the love of her life. He was one year older than her. However, he turned out to be another punk that was only looking for sex. For the purpose of this article, I will refer to him as Ralph.
Most unfortunately, Amy became pregnant with Ralph's baby. Once she told him about it, he turned on her like a betraying angel and made it clear to her that he wanted nothing to do with being a father. He broke her heart and ruined her life. Classmates of hers began teasing and making fun of her once they discovered that she was going to be a teenage mother.
Amy temporarily dropped out of high school to have the baby. It was a girl. She gave the baby girl up for adoption, because she realized that she could not take on the challenge of being a single mother during her teenage years.
Amy eventually returned to high school. Her classmates continued to bully, harass, and make fun of her inasmuch as they knew what had happened with her. On the other hand, nobody at that same school even as so much questioned Ralph's moral demeanor. It was as though he got a free pass to behave like the scumbag that he was. His new girlfriend even spread malicious gossip about Amy everywhere.
All the torment and mockery took a psychological toll on Amy's self-esteem. Before she was even 18 years old, she became involved with a married man in his mid-twenties. I personally met this same man at Amy's mother's wedding. Her parents had split up, and her mother got remarried. Her father was violent and abusive. Of course, that's another article for another time.
Norman Michael Achin recently posted a video on his YouTube channel about a man in North Carolina who got caught in an online sex-sting operation and the police shot and killed him. Here is the video below.
Norman Michael Achin Reports A News Story Out Of North Carolina About An Online Sex-Sting Operation That Led To A Suspect's Death
Now, notice in the news clip that Mr. Achin shows in his video above that before they reveal the age of the make-believe minor that this man whose name is Lamar Young was pursuing, the news media refers to the late Mr. Young as a child predator. You then get this horrible image in your head that perhaps the late Mr. Young was going somewhere to kidnap, rape, and murder a toddler. However, it turns out that he thought that he was going to meet up with a 15-year-old girl to have sexual intercourse, and it turned out to be a detective instead.
Nonetheless, the news media refers to the investigation as a "child sex sting" despite that the late Mr. Young was not going to the site of the online sex-sting operation to access a prepubescent child for unspeakable purposes. He was going there to do something that would have been perfectly legal for a 15- or 16-year-old boy to do, and he was going there to do something that would have been completely legal for a man his age to do with a 15-year-old girl in most European nations.
Let's not forget that a 15-year-old girl is above the statutory age of consent in most European nations. In any event, we need to address the elephant in the room here.
If I were to accuse Ralph of being a child predator for doing what he did to Amy, what do you think would happen? His parents and even self-proclaimed child advocates would accuse me of being politically incorrect merely for the fact that Ralph was 16 years old at the time that he got Amy pregnant and then bailed on her.
Now, let's take this argument one step further. What if the police had discovered that the late Mr. Young was only 16 or 17 years old after they had shot and killed him? You know as well as I do what would have happened. That event would likely have marked the end of those police officials' careers in law enforcement, and lawsuits would be flying from every direction against those police officials and their precinct.
Moreover, such a tragedy would likely have marked the beginning of the end of online sex-sting operations throughout the United States, because then courts across the nation would see the dangers and the deadly threats that are involved in them. Our society would develop a whole new point of view about these online sex-sting operations, and it would not be a favorable one.
In that same event, social-media platforms like YouTube and Rumble would start permanently suspending accounts that contained videos of online sex-sting operations by independent "predator" catchers. Videos of online sex-sting operations by police here in our nation would vanish from the Internet left and right. The American people as a whole would finally be waking up and smelling the coffee for a change.
I'm glad that the attorney (Khalif J. Rhodes, Esquire) that the news media interviewed in the news clip above questioned the professional integrity of online sex-sting operations that the authorities performed, but there are a lot more issues with them than what meets the eye. People get needlessly harmed in them, and innocent individuals get caught in their line of fire.
I find it really bizarre that if a 14- or 15-year-old boy brutally rapes a 13-year-old girl, nobody in the news media or in law enforcement or among the public at large will ever accuse him of being a child predator. Some of those same people will even go as far as disgracefully using the excuse that boys will be boys to justify his heinous actions.
On the other hand, an adult man could be as young as 19 or 20 years old; and if he goes to meet a 15- or even 16-year-old girl he met online and he is entrapped in an online sex-sting operation as a result, the news media and the police will treat him as though he is some kind of serial child molester. Where does this double standard come from?
If someone were to accuse a 14-year-old boy of being a child predator for violently raping a 13-year-old girl, that boy's parents could even go as far as suing that person for defamation of character. They could even do so even if that person were the 13-year-old victim's mother or father.
On the other hand, if a 20-year-old man were to sue a television news agency for calling him a pedophile merely for attempting to meet up with a 15-year-old girl that doesn't even exist and getting caught in an online sex-sting operation, chances are that the case would get thrown out of civil court despite that there may be statutes on the law books that allow him to pursue such a case. Our court system doesn't appear to be about justice anymore when it comes to our sex laws.
It could likely explain why the majority of European nations have set their respective statutory ages of consent at 15 or 14 years of age or even at 13 years of age. They don't want the same problems that the United States has.
Why does everything in our nation have to be an afterthought? Our sex laws could be changed so easily to be placed into sync with today's societal standards. Unfortunately, there will always be hotheads that want our nation to continue on with its same miserable ways.
Well, before anyone goes accusing anybody of being a pedophile, they first need to get the definition of pedophilia right. Otherwise, they are only showing that they are products of the 21-percent illiteracy rate that haunts our nation.
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