05-01-2022, 04:28 PM
(05-01-2022, 03:59 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Perhaps Statutory rapist is the better term. In South Carolina, they have Romeo and Juliet laws that say a person 18 years old or younger can sleep with a person 14 years old or older and it does not qualify as statutory rape. So if he were 1 year older, it would have been statutory and her consent would not have been relevant.
But yes, in my high school (granted, I graduated 15 years ago now), it was honestly kind of unusual if you dated even 2 years away from your grade. My now wife had a boyfriend who was a year younger than her and her friends teased her about "robbing the cradle" so maybe my high school was the weird one, I don't know.
It was very common in my high school to for the freshman girls to date the seniors. They also seemed to continue to date them once the boyfriends went on to college. I don't consider that part of it a red flag, but I usually believe the woman over the man when it comes to rape. So that part of it is a red flag for me regardless if he was charged, I still think there is at least a 50% chance that it happened unless he somehow proved his innocence (for example he had a witness or facts that could prove otherwise). I would still prefer to draft someone with a clean background if they were equal talent. Based on his talent and injury history, I find it hard to believe that we couldn't have drafted someone of equal talent with a cleaner background and injury history.
