Topic: The world is so screwed up...

[Pugnate]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/11/19/child.rape/index.html

[Quemaqua]

Sociopathy or misunderstanding?  In either case, you're right, the world is fucking screwed up.

[WindAndConfusion]

Cobb County, north of Atlanta

Natch.

But Wilkie said children that young cannot legally consent to sex, "so we have to go with the charges we have."

This is the most creatively stupid interpretation of statutory rape laws I've ever heard.

[Cobra951]

Under Georgia law, juvenile defendants must be at least 13 before a case can be transferred to the adult system.

Oh, thank God for that enlightenment.  It's bad enough we have to let 8- and 9-year-olds get off with reduced time in jail.  We wouldn't want to let any misguided 13-year-olds walk around free.  Let's call them felons and put them in cages.