More Ludicrous Statutory Rape Prosecutions–and This Time the Victim Is a 14-Year-Old Girl

From Sumner County Teen Says She's The Rape Victim (KWCH, 6/29/07):

A Sumner County teenager wants her identity hidden, but she wants everybody to know what's happening to her. She's charged with rape and criminal sodomy after a gathering with three friends.

"It was Saturday night and we were all just sitting around watching a movie, just talking and stuff like that," she says.

Then the girl says two friends left the room, leaving her alone with the boy who she says had been her friend up until then. She says he forced himself on her. The girl says she told her school counselor about it a month later.

"I wanted help because it was my first time and I was scared," she says.

The counselor went to police and before long this girl who was 14 at the time, was being charged with raping the boy who was a few months younger and still 13 years old. Kansas law says sex with anyone under 14, even if it's consensual, is rape. Deciding to actually prosecute a child in this situation is another matter.

Deputy Sumner County Attorney Evan Watson simply says, "I am not in a position to discuss the facts or issues involved in any pending juvenile offender cases."

Attorney Sean Shores says he is so outraged that he is defending the girl free of charge.

"She went to her counselor, she asked for help, reached out for help and the message they sent her was--she should have kept her mouth shut," says Shores.

The trial is scheduled to begin in five weeks.

Lovely--she's 14, he's only a few months younger at age 13, and she's charged with charged with "rape and criminal sodomy." Absurd beyond belief.

I don't know that I believe the girl when she says the boy "forced himself" on her--this ludicrous prosecution has given her plenty of reason to lie, since she could be jailed otherwise.

This story is from last year--does anybody have any idea what happened in this case?

Thanks to Chris, a reader, for sending it.

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