I meant that what if 2 15-year olds had sex. According to the US law it would be up to the parents what to do with it. And 6 months later the 2 still have sex, but one is now 16 and the other still 15, so a new "crime". Would it then suddenly become rape because of Websters' definition: "if a person over the legal age of consent has intercourse with someone under the legal age of consent, it is by default, statutory rape"? Or is this a law that is commonly put aside in normal cases (teens just having sex) but to have something to fall back on when foul play is suspected as you wrote?It wouldn't matter if the two kids were 15, and then one turned 16 say a week later, because at the date of the crime, the person would still have been 15.
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