Begone with your high fallutin “facts”! Only torches and pitchforks allowed!

No, not bummer for him. Bummer for all of us. Maybe you derive some pleasure from this, but the fact that this bright young man now very likely will be a drain on society (try and get a job with that on your record) instead of contributing to it for the rest of his productive life should be of concern to all of us. As…

At 3/01/16 9:39pm you write: “it is rape because of the state’s consent laws.” and in the next paragraph quote from a Slate article (why not quote the actual NH criminal code, which you claim you told me - but whatever) “If you have penetrative consensual sex with an individual between ages 13 and 16 but are within…

Having to register as a sex offender effectively ruins a person’s life. Nothing is comparable to it. To do this to a young man for communicating using current technology in order to engage in non-forcible conduct with a person less than 365 days shy of an arbitrary date has nothing to do with protecting anyone.

So according to the NH Criminal Code it is NOT rape. Do you even read what you write?

Stating facts is ‘whining’? Was he or was he not acquitted of Rape? Is a 15 year old or is a 15 year old not old enough to be treated as an adult in criminal court?

He was not convicted of Rape. This very ‘child’ could easily be prosecuted and sentenced as an adult, to life in adult prison.

Yea, except that he isn’t. Since he was not convicted of rape.

Jesus are you serious? None of those are rape. Misdemeanor sexual assault is not rape. C’mon.

Wow, all the first comments are in favor of permanent, lifetime punishment. Murderers don’t receive this kind of treatment after their release from jail. What he did was horrible and he deserves to serve some time in jail and lose his college acceptance to Harvard. However, I have to believe in the possibility of…