re: Volunteer at Little Rock’s Immanuel Baptist Church charged with sexual assault

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Sounds to me like you’re excusing a pedophile

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Is it really pedophilia when they do it with a 16-year old? The 16-year old is extremely close to adulthood, knows exactly what they’re doing, and wants it to happen. People were married by 16 years old for thousands of years and that only stopped in recent modern times.

I think of pedophiles more as someone who is attracted to children younger than their teen years. Those kids don’t even understand what’s happening to them and are having their innocence taken away from them.