I was scrolling down the comments left by the public in the news article and while I am not surprised, I am nonetheless sickened by the belief that males (regardless of age) cannot be sexually assaulted on the adage of "you can't rape the willing" which is premised on the argument that if the male gets an erection he isn't / wasn't a victim. A erroneous belief predominately claimed by males.

Truth is, it wasn't until the whole priest molests boy thing that society even began to start contemplating that males can be victims too - that sex crimes are not exclusive to the female gender. Problem is, courts have yet to catch up because they commonly impose far lesser sentences on females than they do with males. And if females think reporting a sex crime to a male police officer is embarrassing or degrading, try being a male because it is even worse due to the male attitudes towards male victims

I believe that if a female commits a sex crime she should be punished absolutely no different than a male would be for the same crime. Maybe if females were we would start seeing some positive changes in sex laws because its' always another story when the shoe is on the other foot. Suddenly these women groups that pushed for sex crime laws would realize the monster they created by doing so.

I agree with you 100%! Thank you for sharing!

AMEN! Women wanted equality...well that's what they should get! If I committed a sex crime, I should expect to be treated the same as my male counterparts...isn't that the way it is with any other crime?

Wow, the last paragraph really hit me. While I never pushed for any laws, I do admit to being blissfully unaware of them before they struck my family. Good point!

Its been like that for a long time and being black in america we already knew about the courts locking all our blackmen up with life no porole unjust laws life registery

To me it is not just about the laws, it is about how we raise our children - what lessons do we teach. I watched an interview about a woman who was a CEO. She said that when men raise to that level the viewpoint is he is a go getter and is encouraged all the way. When women raise to that level, she is seen to be hard and someone who will step over others to get where they want to go. An example was used with t-shirts for babies. The boy t-shirt was "smart like daddy", the girl's t-shirt said "pretty like mommy". So we start and encourage the inequitable practices at birth.

As far as the comment related to the black men. I have had described to me that they are considered an endangered species. A couple of reasons - the first is predominately in the poor sections the black man (even though they consider the other black man as his brother) will put the other down to make himself look better. It was described to me as the crab in the barrel attitude, climbing over the other to get out. The second reason is that most every black man killed is done by another black man.

In summary, I believe the justice system is warped by two things 1. what has been taught to others as children (no compassion, boys can do things girls can't, etc.) and 2. the politicians that will do whatever (mandatory minimums) to continue their political careers.

If you think about history, for a very long time women were no better than a slave in many respects. They had no rights, they had not stature, they couldn't even OWN property, and they couldn't vote to change anything. For those of you that have been abused know the feeling of always fighting for everything, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and when the threat is removed the actions are still the same even to people that aren't going to do you in or screw you over. Over reacting many times. The feminist movement is much the same, oppressed for a very long time, abused, and when they got a little momentum they just ran with it. So just like in abuse cases, they were so busy 'moving forward' they weren't critically thinking about the repercussions and true scope of what the laws they were pushing for could really do to ANY citizen, but mostly male citizens.

They also didn't seem to consider how loosely the law could be applied and used to persecute and falsely accuse someone that another feels needs to be 'punished' in some way. It is just too easy now.

I agree, if all things were applied equally there would be more justice in the world than there is now. Although I am not sure if that is possible due to human nature and the opportunistic nature of humans.

I think people are confused because they are mixing two separate issues together. The first issue is the law, which is suppose to define what is a crime and what is not. Laws are meant to be applied to all citizens equally. The law does not differentiate between male or female predators, the law refers to any person regardless of gender. The second issue is male and female sexuality. Enough said about that. If a law states that it is illegal to have sexual contact with an a person under the age of consent, then it is an illegal act to do so. Period. It is the responsibility of our justice system to enforce the laws equally and administer punishment equally. That is justice. If people were robots rather than flesh and blood beings, then the laws would probably be enforced more justly, maybe. But people everywhere are prejudice and carry many beliefs and emotions that motivate and drive their actions, even those who are suppose to be neutral and fair. As long as people have emotions and prejudices, there will be injustice. Agendas are built on these. Our criminal justice system is filled with people and therefore it is filled with prejudices and agendas. I do hope that some day we will wake up and see that we as a society have tilted so far in the direction of "poor victim" and "trash the predator" that we are no longer a just society in regards to sex offender laws. We have lost track of why we have these laws in the first place. The intent is not to ID and trash every sexual offender, the intent is to prevent sexual abuse. To add insult to injury we wink at adult female promiscuity toward under age teen boys and then turn around and lash our teeth at adult male promiscuity toward under age teen girls. A crime is a crime. Either punish these crimes equally or change the laws to specify that it's OK for women but not for men. That would not be just or sane, so hey, it's time to administer justice (or "injustice" in the case of sex offender laws) fairly. Can't have it both ways.

While a judge is to be impartial it is not the judge who files the charges but the prosecutor who has no duty to be impartial and therein lays the problem with sex crimes.

The attitude is that if a older woman finds a younger male attractive the male is suppose to feel special, to feel appreciated, and to want to have sex with her - if he does not feel such, then obviously he is gay. It is a mentality that presupposes if male cannot be sexually assaulted by a female because they are supposed to want to have sex with them.

Now, judges do have the authority to go against the recommendations of a prosecutor, in sentencing and they should if it is a female defendant and the recommendation is not what the prosecutor would want and advocate for the same exact crime committed by a male. But like society, our judicial system also has double standards in the application of law and it is not solely confined to sex crimes.

Granted years ago, female victims were treated very bad in our judicial system, but we have a tendency in this country to go from one extreme to another the overwhelmingly vast majority of times in the application of laws.

It is contradicting for women to demand one thing but not want it applied to themselves equally and thus, suggests that sex crime laws are not necessarily meant to target sex crimes themselves but rather they are meant to target men instead and that is discrimination based on sex in the application of the law.

@legalgaurdian - what you describe is exactly what I'm currently researching when it comes to sting operations and trafficking investigations. So far with 30 operations and 700+ cases entered only 3 defendants were women even though it is known there are female predators and and an even larger percentage of women are involved in trafficking. One of the women had all of her charges dropped in return for testifying against her boyfriend. I don't know all of the details about the second woman but the sting scenario was a father looking to have someone "teach" his teenage son and the third case has not been disposed yet but I do know she arrived at the sting location with her boyfriend.