i dunno what law he is liable to, but seeing as he's a florida resident, he probably made at least one of these e-males from state ground. here, the age of consent is 18 and i really doubt that the state law says you can seduce but not actually fuck a minor.
washington dc local law says the age of consent is 16. but, we're not talking about sex, we're talking about the internet. internet solicitation of a minor is a felony. we all know that minors (federally) are those under 18 (or 21 or 25...).
he's not just hitting on the boy. it's much simpler than that. he used the internet which changes the way the law looks at it.
it doesn't matter how "mature" one of these pages is. the nature of our laws of consent are that minors are not legally able to give consent or make contracts. this is the line that breaks the slippery slope argument my mother makes from "can gays get married" to "can nambla members do what they wish". if you equivocate over what makes a minor a minor, then we have serious issues. it's not a matter of maturity or intelligence. it is a matter of experience and it's a matter of contract law. we have determined that individuals under the age of 18 are not legal contract bearers. if we change this, we have fundamentally changed our ideas of contract law. if we change this to a more subjective scale, we have opened the gates for child molestation.
he is a criminal. that is why he is being "pestered".
moreover, he is in such a position as to control federal child protection laws and dared to defy them. he has no excuse. if we cannot hold our lawmakers to the highest standards possible, who can we? they're the ones who are supposed to know how this works.
Edited by brennakimi, : No reason given.