re: Reese Witherspoon Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted By A Director At Age 16

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1. No one should ever be off the hook for exploiting, touching, or manipulating teenagers. Throw the book at those people.

2. No one should be prosecuted for engaging in consensual sex as an adult.

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It's really tricky in this territory I think. People doubt accounts from kids, and that has covered for creeps and criminals forever. I'm not saying I doubt the stories of adolescents, but I do somewhat question the stories of 50 year old women who aren't stars anymore recounting things like "he danced with me and I could feel him rub up against me."

It has less to do with doubting the recollection of a child/teen as it does being suspicious that past-prime celebrities might be looking for ways to be involved in a "thing."