The opposition further makes a claim that the court ignored the age of the girls and the difference with the boy’s age. The difference is only 2 and three year for the younger girl. The …show more content…
When it is between an older mature person and a child below the legal age, this requires protection. However, when it is between two children below the age of 16, there should be a consideration that both did not have the right capability of making sexual decisions. Thus, when the court is considering such, it should not sue the boy alone while they had consensual sex.
During the research, I encountered several problems especially with finding relevant sources for information. Most scholarly articles addressed statutory laws without considering discrimination of boys. Therefore, finding the relation between statutory rape and discrimination of boys was challenging. Additionally it was hard to find materials relating to young boys since most statutory rape cases focused on older mature offenders with