Texting Suicide Case

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(07-12-2019, 12:04 PM)Au165 Wrote: We actually already do this with statutory rape and children. Because we don't believe that a child has the emotional maturity to make that decision for themselves we criminalize the action performed by the other person whether the act was consensual or not. 

Of course. But in this scenario the victim and the accused are both children, so you can't really say one has more or less emotional maturity than the other here.