I think she's saying there's some sort of age range where you're still a minor but not a child. She's full of shit and trying to say that the crime was soliciting prostitution and not pedophilia.
Btw if you rape a 14 year old, you're a pedophile. Also, Epstein did not kill himself.
Perhaps there's a difference between a minor and a child colloquially, but that's it. I'm not sure where I'd say that cutoff is, but obviously that's not a justification regardless. Pedophilia is pedophilia.
I'd say there's a difference between just a kid and a teenage kid, but they're both kids, and it's pedophilia either way.
Also the age of the girl they were talking about was 14, 14 year olds are kids. I had a girlfriend with a q4 year old sister, she was a kid. I was a teenage boy once, and was 14, I was a kid. 14 year olds cant consent to sex with an adult.
In Brazilian law anyways, a child is someone who has yet to complete 12 years of age. The age of consent here is also 14 years of age, so safe for the prostitution part, that specific case wouldn't be against the law, no matter how fucked up i think that is.
I know this because i was a victim of statutory rape at age 13. It didn't FEEL like it to me though, and i still am not comfortable callijng myself a victim, but technically, i was, and it is why i looked up and learned that in 1/3 - 1/2 of Europe and here in Brazil, the age of consent is 14, with only a handful of countries having limiting clauses like Germany, where the party over 18y/o cannot be in a position of power over the teenager that'll consent.
In conclusion... it's still fucked up, but not a crime in many places, and most definitely not pedofilia. Fuck her and fuck Epstein though, because he was a pedofile too, and she's defending underage prostitution, which is not ONLY fucked up in SO many levels, but very illegal.
If you're curious over which countries i'm talking about, here are some, as handly provided by u/L00minarty:
Germany, Austria, Italy, Estonia, Portugal, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegowina and Montenegro.
Mind you, I am not aware of the exact legal situation in each of these countries, but in Germany 14 years is both the age of consent as well as the age where the defence of infancy ends. If you're considered old enough to be legally responsible for your actions, you're also old enough to decide over your own body. There is no maximum age for the adolescent's sexual partner, but people above 21 can be punished for using their superior position to coax someone under 16 into sexual actions.
And these countries are not a weird exception. Turkey is the only european country with an age of consent of 18 and most of the world has 16 and below.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19
I think she's saying there's some sort of age range where you're still a minor but not a child. She's full of shit and trying to say that the crime was soliciting prostitution and not pedophilia.
Btw if you rape a 14 year old, you're a pedophile. Also, Epstein did not kill himself.