When i was growing up, most kids in my class were having sex by age 11... Dunno why 18 is suddenly the special age or its just that people dont talk about it but I ASSURE YOU, that most kids around age 12-14 have sex consensually just fine.

Probably because they’re 16? Why is it up to teenage boys to plot all the psychological circumstances that might be contributing to a person giving consent? If they obtain and maintain enthusiastic consent, then they’ve fulfilled their responsibility. I’m not going to ask a fucking kid to consider complex psychology…

Maybe because what you just said is incredibly stupid, patronizing, and misogynist?

Do you think I’m a rapist because I had sex with a 15 yr old when I was 14?

Gang rape is horrible, violating and illegal. Gang bangs are often loving, empowering, and consensual sexual acts. If all the participants were under age, and the girl was a willing participant, this was a gang bang. Coercion, and this was a gang rape.

Um, they’re 15 and 16. Not saying what happened isn’t disgusting and disturbing and beyond fucked up, but the girl consented and the boys were her age or a year older. Charging them with rape seems like authorities grasping to hold someone - anyone - accountable for what happened to this girl. And as horrible as what…

The fact one was trafficked at 13 doesn’t mean that anyone else that subsequently has sex with them raped them, which is what y0ur comment implies.

What leads you to believe that they knew about her history? She was new to the school. This is tragic AF, but you need to leave your prejudices aside and look at the facts as they are presented

If she said she wants to and they want to why would they choose not to? Why should society expect them to choose not to?

They are the same age and it’s a 99.99999999% probability he knows nothing of her experiences, and if he did, he has little clue of the mental effects. Be reasonable.

Rape.

can you tell me what the next powerball numbers will be?? Because I sure as fuck don’t know if anyone knew about her history. The story doesn’t mention it but you seem so positive. If she had only been in the school for two weeks who would know. How many people had cameras? You speak in plurals but the story speaks of…

They’re all children. They all need help after this.

why do they need to do jail time? If it was consensual and all the boys are under 18. Or do you think all sex by people under 18 is rape?

So do you think all sex that happens among minors is rape? Genuinely asking,

...“The sex has been broadly described as consensual”...

again, he is 16 years old...so he can’t consent either. Is every sexual encounter among minors rape?

He’s 16, she’s 15, and by all accounts it was consensual.

That’s about all I have to say about this. And I’m concerned about the charges the 16 yr old is being brought up on.