Molly Shattuck: Former Ravens Cheerleader Sentenced to 48 Weekends in Jail for Child Sex Abuse
Shattuck on Friday was also ordered to pay the victim's family $10,650 and register as a sex offender.
She pleaded guilty to rape in June, saying she performed oral sex on a 15-year-old boy in 2014.
I would save the registered sex offender program for people with a real medical criminal illness.
If this was an indiscretion and bad judgment, and not a regular obsession or sexual addiction/abuse
this woman practices because she has uncontrollable impulses, I would say that is a different category of violation.
Although she may not be the chronic, terminal sick type requiring loss of liberty to be detained and supervised
for public safety,
It is still considered statutory rape in states where the age of consent is higher. So that is a violation regardless
if she is sick and preying on underage youth to take advantage,
or just broke the law one time because of a personal attraction in one specific instance
(look up
Mary Kay Letourneau who married and has a family with the young man she broke the law with since he was underaged at the time they began their relations)
In fact, I even think cases of adults of consenting age can still constitute "relationship abuse" if people are coerced or
aren't fully able to defend their true will and are going along emotionally.Abuse is independent of age, but younger people are especially vulnerable to be coerced by social pressure because their minds aren't fully developed. Instead of the legal age being 18, many experts argue the adult brain is not fully developed and mature until 21-25.
If people want to change the standards, I would recommend deciding per community what the rules and process are for addressing sensitive personal issues like this. I would not recommend it for higher govt, but think this is best handled on a local level where the people affected by the policy decide and agree, so the enforcement comes from the people participating, and then the state can review their policies as valid and safe to make sure there are no conflicts skewing laws to try to abuse anyone.
If people disagree on marijuana laws and age of consent for that, or for abortions, or sex changes, the same thing -- I would recommend local policies such as how School Districts have their own ordinances, where the local community takes OWNERSHIP and agrees what the rules are. The compliance and enforcement would follow more readily
if people are directly involved in the democratic process. The state can still review policies for approval for public safety.
