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Topic started on 13-1-2012 @ 05:55 AM by Hellas

Court acquits teacher who seduced teen


www.thelocal.de
A teacher who seduced a 14-year-old schoolgirl and had sex with her at least 22 times has escaped punishment after a German court ruled that as he did not teach her class, he had not abused his position.

Generally people over 21 can have sex with 14-year-olds unless they abuse the younger partner's "lack of capacity for sexual self-determination" or are in position of power over them.
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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 06:00 AM by JakiusFogg
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Don't forget the laws on age of consent in countries like Germany may be different from the US. if this is the case then unless there is an abuse of power, then it is not, as the subject has the ability to consent.

it does vary from country to country for example in the Netherlands I think the age limit is 12. although it may be "legal" I do agree that in this case. (with such an age difference) it is very distasteful, even, I would say, very suspect as to the motivation..
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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 06:02 AM by Hellas
Originally posted by JakiusFogg
reply to post by Hellas


Don't forget the laws on age of consent in countries like Germany may be different from the US. if this is the case then unless there is an abuse of power, then it is not, as the subject has the ability to consent.

it does vary from country to country for example in the Netherlands I think the age limit is 12.


Are you serious?? 12??

either 12 or 14, they're still Children.


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 06:20 AM by NeoVain
reply to post by Hellas


What about what SHE wants? Ever considered that?

Maybe she didnt want to have sex with guys her age, maybe she was attracted to this guy.

Why does age have to matter to you if two people want each other? And why do you have to try to prevent other people to get what their heart desire?


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 08:03 AM by AgentSmith
In the interests of accuracy as I DO NOT condone this in any way and find it astonishing that somehow no law was broken, he is not a 'pedophile' and nor is anyone that doesn't have a preference for PRE-pubescent children.
In the interests of accuracy I find it annoying that this term is thrown around by people who generally seem to have no knowledge of what it means.

Some definitions so people can educate themselves:

Pedophilia

Hebephilia

Ephebophilia

The teacher is either a hebephile or ephebophile depending on her physical maturity and NOT a pedophile based on this case. A pedophile is the lowest of the lows.

In any case, I think it is disgusting that in a civilised country however that this can go unpunished and is 'technically' 'OK'.
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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 08:17 AM by thisguyrighthere
Every time this happens I cant help but wonder what the outrage is based on.

She wasnt raped. At her age I was sexually active with older women. I knew what I was doing. I had a blast. At her age people are given life sentences for crimes. What swings the perception pendulum?

Media likes to selectively pick its descriptions. Depending on the action involved it can be an 18 year old boy, a 16 year old man, a 15 year old teenager or a 16 year old young adult. It all depends on what the media wants you to see. Those 18 year old soldiers are all "boys" but the 16 year old mugger is a "young adult" or even more blatantly an "adult."

I wonder the same when somebody gets caught with porn and commentators go nuts with threats of death and castration. Well, that Urban Outfitters shirt with a crotch shot of a 15 year old girl on it is pretty outrageous. Clearly there is a difference between a bunch of 15 year old crotch shots or even nude shots and the raping of a toddler. But what is the image that most minds in the public immediately jump to? The toddler raping sicko. Unless they honestly want to castrate somebody wearing an Urban Outfitters t-shirt.

It just occurred to me that given the popular treatment of women in the world that much of this outrage could be rooted in a common belief that women are stupid. All of this daughter protection and the unequal treatment of male and female perpetrators can, to me at least, be boiled down to "women are too stupid to take care of themselves." They go from "maturing before boys" to "being taken advantage of by boys." Because they are stupid? Is every heroic rise to protect a poor taken advantage of female really an proclamation of female stupidity? And is someone like me just giving them more credit than they deserve since I'm not jumping on the "protection" bandwagon?
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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 08:58 AM by Rockpuck
reply to post by Hellas


A lot of countries have different age of consent laws.. it's not 18 everywhere, in fact, in most US states it's not even 18. Where I grew up the age of consent was 16. Same states have lower age of consents like 17 or 16 with a certain time frame (like you cannot be more than 6yrs older)

But in the USA most states it's 16, not 18. Only a few countries is it 18.. 18 is simply the international standard for pornography.


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 10:01 AM by snowspirit
Looking at the map, the age of consent is 13, 14, and 15 across much of Europe, she was probably of age, or very close to it.

en.wikipedia.org...

In Canada, it's 16 everywhere.

In the article it states that it's been 5 years and she's still in therapy. If she's still in therapy at 19, she clearly wasn't mature enough, and he should have stayed away.

5 years is a really long time for therapy over something like this, there must be other issues too. Our teen years are the time we bounce back unaffected by most things.

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