1. Sex Scandal Or Sensationalistic News Piece?
Recently a YouTube influencer named Norman Michael Achin posted a video in which he highlighted a news story about a 24-year-old man who was convicted of a number of sex crimes against 41 girls between 12 and 17 years of age. The man's name was Malachi Morgan Thomas. The news article attached the word "child" to every sexual offense that he was convicted of, even though none of his alleged victims were prepubescent children. Below is the video about it.
Norman Michael Achin Describes A Sex Scandal From His Local Community
I found the news story so interesting that I decided to read it myself. I, therefore, clicked on the link that Mr. Achin included in the description below his video. Supposedly this Mr. Thomas had hacked into a minor's account and had assumed this minor's identity so that he could obtain sexual access to pubescent and adolescent girls.
Now, because I don't really trust the mainstream media and the press, even small ones, here in the United States, I was still left with questions about this Malachi Morgan Thomas. When the word "child" gets thrown around as a misnomer, I begin to develop skepticisms about such news stories.
Is Mr. Thomas monogamous? Hardly so. Did Mr. Thomas engage in hedonism? Well, he most certainly did so. Did he hook up with teenage minors of the female gender online for sex? Yes, he did. Did he really sexually exploit these girls? If everything in that same article holds as true, then, yes, he did, because the news story begins to resemble the tragedy of the late Amanda Todd quite strongly.
No, these 41 alleged victims were not little girls but rather adolescents. However, if Mr. Thomas cornered them and used coercion and trickery to deceive them into having sexual intercourse with him, then I can no longer chalk his behavior off as mere sexual promiscuity. Also, even though his victims were not little girls and the sexual images of them were not really child pornography, at least not in a conventional sense, what he did was considered to be contraband.
What Mr. Thomas did was definitely an atrocity in that event rather than a mere situation in which he was indicted for doing something that would have been perfectly legal for a 15- or 16-year-old boy to do. He clearly violated these young women, and, therefore, it was only right that he had to face the music.
Where I still have a problem with this same news story is that radical feminists will preach about how our authorities should take men like Mr. Thomas, lock them up, and throw away the key; but if their own 15-year-old son goes running around the neighborhood, getting every underage girl pregnant, and then turning on each one of them, these women will insist that their sons can do no wrong. It doesn't stop there.
Perhaps that same 15-year-old boy may become bored ruining the lives of every middle-school and high-school girl he impregnates. So then he phones his friends to plot the gang rape of an older woman, and you know that the criminal justice system is not going to go down as harshly on this young man and his friends as it should.
Moreover, if that same boy and his friends lie and claim that their adult victim enticed them into group sex, the authorities are likely going to take their words over that of their female victim and then arrest her for statutory rape. Our criminal justice system is that broken.
Furthermore, if Mr. Thomas had been a 15- or 16-year-old boy when he committed his crimes, nobody would have likely heard about his brush with the law; and if anyone did, he probably would not have been punished as severely as he was. Somehow a predator being the same age as his underage victim magically makes him less culpable, if not infallible altogether, in the eyes of our criminal justice system in most cases.
I can appreciate the argument that a juvenile court is not going to go as harsh on a minor convicted of these crimes as an adult court will do so on an adult for the same thing. However, there is still the prospect that a case of this nature would have merited a juvenile being tried as an adult.
2. The Faulty Punishment Of Juvenile Sex Offenders In The United States
Norman Michael Achin has criticized the sex-offender registry for keeping people on it forever after they were first placed on it when they were only 9 years old. I'm not here to discredit his argument, because I'm sure that what he claims is true.
Nonetheless, whenever an underage boy commits a heinous sex crime against a teenage minor, you know that he will seldom ever be treated like a child predator inasmuch as even the most diehard of child advocates will find such a practice to be politically incorrect here in the so-called land of milk and honey.
Over a year ago two underage Pennsylvania boys targeted over 50 female students at their school with pornography generated by artificial intelligence ("AI porn") depicting their victims as being sexually explicit. Yes, these boys were arrested, but the court gave them a slap on the wrist. Below is a video with the news story.
Two Teenage Boys Humiliated Their Female Classmates By Using AI To Make Them Appear To Be Nude In Online Pictures
The two underage perpetrators were convicted and sentenced to a modest amount of probation and a modest number of hours of community service. Sure, the court also ordered them to pay restitution to their victims, but you know that the criminal justice system would not have gone as leniently on them if they had been at least 18 years of age back when they first committed their crimes.
3. American Society's Ignorance About Teenage Hedonism
American society has a naive perspective of teenage sexuality and how sexually active teenagers usually operate. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not going to water down Malachi Morgan Thomas's crimes as his simple desire to seek out a belated teenage-girlfriend experience beyond his high-school years. He clearly did something way out of line, if we are to assume that the news story that Norman Michael Achin reiterated to us is true.
Nonetheless, we should also stop pretending that teenage minors cannot and do not take wrongful advantage of the statutory-rape laws here in the United States. Many of us have not forgotten what Alisha Dean did to ruin the lives of adult men so many years ago when she was 13 years old. I always wonder what ever became of that girl's life.
Mr. Achin is a much more compassionate individual than I am whenever it comes to his perspective of sexually active teenage girls that are still minors. In his video above, he even goes as far as claiming that teenage minors can fall into dangerous situations in which their own bodies betray them while engaging in sexual activity that may not be in their best interest.
I did see a movie titled Things Behind The Sun in which that same point was brought up in a scene in which a group of teenage boys had coerced a 14-year-old boy into sexually assaulting his own 14-year-old girlfriend after they had gang-raped her. Therefore, I'm not claiming that incidents like those don't happen at all.
Nevertheless, I'm from the school of thought that each underage adolescent girl deserves to be judged on an individual basis rather than being wrongfully decorated as the Virgin Mary every time there is an incident in which an adult man gets caught in bed with one of them. I am well aware that teenage minors of the female gender can fall into toxic situations with adult men, and I am not here to downplay any of those same situations.
At the same time, American society needs to realize that there are teenage girls in middle school and high school who like to flirt with taboos in a way that is detrimental to others. For that reason, I do not believe that "statutory rape" should be a strict-liability offense anywhere here in the United States.
When I was 12 years old, I first met this 11-year-old girl named Elsie. She was giggly and flirtatious. My mother was close friends with her aunt.
I came across Elsie once again two years later when she was 13 years old and I was 14 years old at a ceramics class that her mother and my mother brought us both to. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, she was attending my same high school as a freshman. I cannot deny that this girl already had big breasts on her by the time she hit her early teenage years, and she got the attention from boys that she wanted because of it.
Throughout those entire three years that I observed Elsie's behavior, I found that she liked to take advantage of young boys and lure them into her male harem with the deception that she would be their one and only true love. Some of the tactics that she used were reprehensible, and she left many of these boys psychologically damaged. For example, she would ask a boy to meet her at the skating rink so that they could get together for a date. Then she'd show up with another boy as her date to make fun of the boy she had initially told to meet up with her there.
Elsie liked to sexually harass teenage boys that got sick and tired of her shenanigans. She would walk up to them and fondle them. She would write things on the chalkboard about being in love with them by the time that they wanted nothing to do with her after she had led them on so many times and made fun of them in front of her friends.
I had always suspected that Elsie behaved the way she did because she was in the gay closet. Some of the girls that she kept company with seemed to be more than merely friends with her; and if that was the case, then that was her private business. In any event, it still didn't give her the right to abuse young boys the way that she did. Whether or not she swung both ways, there was no debate over the fact that she was sexually promiscuous and had the morals of a Siamese cat in heat.
When I was 16 years old and I had first attended a driver's education class that my sister had paid for as a birthday present for me, I was waiting in the parking lot for one of my family members to pick me up after the class had ended. Then suddenly I saw Elsie running to a car with a man that looked as though he could have been in either his late twenties or early thirties. By then Elsie was 15 years old.
Elsie looked my way and saw me. She made a facial expression as though she was concerned that I would tell her parents about her being with an older man. She knew that I had no use for her. In fact, I found her to be very revolting insofar as I would have done anything to get her into trouble. I had my own personal bone to pick with her.
No, I did not tell Elsie's parents about her secret rendezvous with an older man, but I did tell her aunt about it in hopes that she would, in turn, inform Elsie's parents about it. I don't know what ever became of that conversation between me and her aunt afterwards. Sometimes I got the distinct impression that Elsie's parents didn't really care what their daughter did as long as she stayed out of their hair.
The point I'm trying to make here is that from that point in time to this very day, I never saw Elsie as being a victim of exploitation merely because she was sexually involved with an older man when she was 15 years old. I never saw her as a victim of any kind of molestation or sexual abuse.
If Elsie was screwing around with this older man back then, it was because she chose to do so. It's not because he groomed her into doing so or anything of the sort. I can be rest assured that she didn't suffer any psychological abuse from her sexual intercourse with this older man, and she doesn't have any psychological scars from it either.
After seeing Elsie with that older man, I did not pity her, but rather I pitied him. I would not have wanted to see a man throw his life and his future away because of her simply because she was underage in the event that the authorities had caught him having sexual relations with her. Then again, police didn't seem to be as aggressive back in those days about making statutory-rape arrests as they are now. In any event, it's probably better that Elsie's parents never found out about that older man for that older man's sake.
Elsie screwed over a number of young boys when she was a teenage minor herself. She never got punished for sexually harassing any of them either. Therefore, I could never have viewed her as being any kind of victim for something that she entered into on her own free will. She probably pursued this older man when she was 15 years old inasmuch as she got bored playing mind games with boys her own age. She had indeed earned her reputation as the class prostitute back in high school.
Since high school Elsie's life has been a train wreck in the form of failed marriages, severe health problems, and questionable activities in her so-called profession. According to her Linkedin page, her job title is Protocol Officer at her place of employment. However, when I have read her job description, it appears to me that she is some kind of high-paid escort, which is really a legalized prostitute.
Elsie's job title makes me think of someone being hired as the Director of Cultural Affairs whenever someone high up wants to give them a high-paying job inasmuch as they're a close relative but doesn't know what to do with them inasmuch as that new hire doesn't even know how to answer an office telephone. I used my AI feature on my Google search engine to look up the definition of a Protocol Officer, and the skills it entailed were hardly anything that Elsie could have ever pulled off in the real world.
Elsie obviously slept her way up the career ladder. She still believes that she has a smoking hot body, but she really now looks like a cross between an elephant and a cow. No offense to big people. She still brags about her looks on social media. I can't help but to laugh at her. She went as far as lying about her past in an online article. Why anyone would pay to have sex with her is beyond my comprehension.
I recall back in high school when a close friend of mine told me that a boy whose name he could not remember once commented that he thought that Elsie was an ugly dog. If he could see recent pictures of her, he would have a good laugh at her. She is now like a regular swine.
4. Final Thoughts
When that one father that Norman Michael Achin mentioned in his video went to confront Malachi Morgan Thomas at a shopping mall, I hope that that same father either had a black belt in karate or was at least carrying a bottle of pepper spray. After seeing a picture of Mr. Thomas, he didn't look to me like someone whom anyone would want to anger.
Many of you will state that times have changed with the teenage way of life since the last time that you were in high school. However, there is a number of things that will always remain the same.
Middle schools and high schools will always have their sex scandals and cover-ups. Teenage promiscuity will likely never go away. Class prostitutes like Elsie will always exist no matter how hard conservatives try to push abstinence-only education on teenage minors. Steer clear of her kind whenever you attend high-school reunions. They only get worse with time.
As we all move through life, we need to continue to keep an open mind about everything and base our viewpoints about situations involving teenage sex upon the facts rather than upon public hysteria. Eventually, our laws and societal norms will catch up with today's standards. Meanwhile, all we can do is gather facts and enlighten others who may be clueless about the realities of today's teenagers.
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