Sexual assault.. Someone who had sex with a minor has been charged now considered as a child molester.?

Question

Is the word molest the correct term? The act between the two was conscentual, though one of the two ovobously were under age. The word molest means:1. to annoy, disturb or persecute with hostile intent or injurious effect
2. To make annoying sexual advances especially to force physical & usually sexual contact on.

Are they really a child molster? How about a sexual preditor? Should they for the rest of their lives be registered a sexual preditor because there was sexual contact between two people who agreed and/or were aware, in no danger, who did not force in any way the act apon one or the other, both or all parties were in their right minds? How do they fall with in the description of molester or preditor? What do you think? What to you would be a better term?

Answer 1

Depends on what country some is okay as long as you man and molest young boys like in Arab country is okay.

Answer 2

How "minor" was the minor? The actual ages are extremely important. If a 21 year old had consensual sex with a 15 year old, that would be statutory rape, not child molestation. Molestation, as you state, implies lack of consent. However, yes, under the law, such a person is a sexual predator.

Answer 3

Oh yes they are a child molester and should be labeled a sexual predator and have to register with the police for the rest of their lives. There is generally a lot of room for leniency with someone who is involved with an underage individual if they are close in age, usually five years or less. The fact that the age difference is greater than that and that there are going to be consequences should be enough to deter someone from becoming sexually involved with a minor. If they can't control themselves knowing that there will be consequences than they will never be able to control themselves. Remember it can't be consensual because a minor can't give consent

Answer 4

Even if the child was only a year or two below the legal age and it was consensual, molest is still appropriate in most cases. Even a 12/13 year old will have sexual feelings and may fancy their teacher. In strict terms if the teacher acted on this it would be consensual, but that doesn't make it right.

Answer 5

Its the way the law reads. My son has a friend who dated a girl a year and a half younger than him. Her parents didn't like him so when he turned 18, when they were sure they had AGAIN had sexual relations, they called the cops. Even though they had sex before, now that he was 18 he became a child molester and he is registered as a sex offender. He has difficulty getting a job, and yes, this will follow him the rest of his life. NOT FAIR. I know the law is there to protect, but in this case, I think there should be a "loop hole" as it were. He can't even get into the military, he tried all branches. (He lives in Illinois.)

Answer 6

You get into a area of statutory rape. This covers people who are older, but are not of a legal age that they may consent to the sex. Although 18 in most areas, not it ALL areas.

Below a certain age, it is molestation, but the wording gets rather vague. My feeling is if you have sex with a minor, you are a preditor/molester

Answer 7

Children are suppose to be able to trust adults. If an adult is taking advantage of a childs flying hormones then yes sexual preditor is correct and so is seeing the adults personal choice as is... it is molestation of a minor. Adults know that teens are vunerable due to a confusing time in their lives and have the right to be safe during that time.

Answer 8

The term is really not the point. The fact that some adult didn't have enough brains to stay away from a minor(which means CHILD) is the point. I would say that "prettying it up because it was supposedly consentual is wrong. Child molester is the right label for this person. After all, should we leave it up to the child to refuse the advances of an adult? People need to be responsible for their mistakes, not make excuses for them.

Answer 9

I don't believe the person is truly a child molester nor a child predator. If the sex was consentual, then neither of those terms fit the "offender". However, laws are laws and in order to protect our children some things are rightfully blown out of proportion. It's not fair that a young adult has their whole life ruined because they have to register as a sex offender now.
I don't know what a better term would be but I think the issue needs to be addressed.

Answer 10

Anyone who is different from me must be the Devil's spawn and capable of any atrocity, so there aren't words powerful enough to describe them. Besides, the more it's OK to beat them down, the better I feel about myself! We apparently all need someone to whom we can feel superior.

We used to be afraid of Communists lurking around every corner. Now we see "pedophiles" everywhere.

Funny, I thought the literal translation of pedophile was "lover of children". How did that come to be interpreted today as "ax-murdering monster"?

"Predator" implies deliberate stalking of "prey" to be devoured. What are they if, like the case last year in Michigan, parents stick an older teenage brother in the same bedroom with his 11 year old sister and are "shocked" that the girl wound up pregnant?

Strangely enough, the issue is much less important to countries outside the US (unless the US badgers them into agreeing with our Puritanical stands on this, abortion, birth control and marijuana use by imposing economic sanctions or withholding foreign aid).

Answer 11

If a person is under the legal age, they are not legally able to give consent and the word Molestation still applies.
What I "think" isn't important, what the Law says is important.