Contributing to Delinquency of A Minor

[Volokh, Eugene]

	I appreciate the concern behind this argument, but I wonder how
far it goes.  Would it suggest that a marriage with a seemingly
consenting 18-year-old in such a community (or some other insular
community) is likewise statutory rape?  A 21-year-old?

	Eugene

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> Subject: RE: Contributing to Delinquency of A Minor
> 
> I think in the Texas cases it is also important to understand 
> that "consent" is not possible when the girl/young woman -- 
> victim -- has been cut off from the rest of the world for 
> almost all her life and has no chance to learn she has the 
> option to say no; and has no choice to exercise other 
> options.  Even in these circumstances it is pretty clear that 
> some of the young women did say no.  It seems pretty clear 
> here that there is a significant amount of statutory rape and 
> forcible rape in these cases.  
> 
> Paul Finkelman