From Detroit comes a story about a 19-year-old man fathering a child by an 11-year-old girl (12 when she recently gave birth). What is perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that both his and the girl's mothers were fully aware of what was going on and allowed it to continue.
2 Moms Charged In Role In Impregnated Girl RelationshipECORSE, Mich. -- A 19-year-old has been charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct after having a relationship with an 11-year-old girl, police said.
Blake Blythe of Ecorse is accused of having a relationship with the girl and getting her pregnant last summer.
Blythe's mother and the girl's mother are also charged because they knew about the relationship. Police said both mothers consented to the two having sex.
It's stories like this that make me think the conceptual basis for the movie Idiocracy is actually non-fiction.
Why is this so horrible if it was concentual? Girls many years ago used to get married at 11 and pregnant by 13. We as a society have this mentality that kids can't grow up till they hit that magic age of 18. So one day, at 17, your a child, but the next day 18, you can consent to sex? Makes no sense.
Spoken like a true pedophile, John.
As a child of 11 is not able to understand all the implications of having sex with a fully grown adult (e.g., pain, possible injury, risk of pregnancy, risk of STDs, etc.), he/she cannot possibly "consent" (notice the 's' in that word) to the act in any valid way.
As for the historical precedent, previous generations also used to think it was a good idea to cure disease with leeches, hang/behead tax evaders, and own slaves. Society's past ignorance isn't a very solid platform from which to defend what is today considered a reprehensible act.