Statutory Rape Quotes
Thiese were children under 18, the minimum legal age to marry. See the Related Quotes for more insight into the American Child Marriage Problem.
The foreign, mostly communist country, officials when they were visiting the United States would be secretly photographed with Claudia and other young “agents” who would be “procured” by CIA agents who were secretly developing a relationship with the officials. Many adult women were also used. The CIA would then blackmail the officials and get them to spy for us. The documentation on Ms. Mullins statement is not from any government or official sources. So we cannot be certain that it is authentic. However, the documents on all the CIA activities of the period have not been declassified yet, and the CIA will not deny that they trained and used young children as sexual bait. So we have decided to include the quotation with this caution.
She had urged that the age of consent be raised from 13 to 18 when one of the Lords responded that it should be LOWERED to 10.
The Mormon Church did not in condone the practice, but as there were a number of Mormons who led offshoot sects and cults where they claimed that the sexual relations with multiple young girls was divinely inspired, she and other Mormons believed that the Church should be more explicit about prohibiting the practice. There are a number of Mormon offshoot sects where civil authorities charged clerics with statutory rape and other sex crimes. One delicate area of history is that the Prophet and founder of the Morman Religion was a polygamist whose wives included a 14 year old girl and Money and other Mormons wanted the Chruch to declare the the Prophet had erred in this respect.
The 15 year old Italian immigrant who spoke no English killed the man who raped or seduced her. The case became a New York cause celebre regarding age of consent laws, women on juries, and general female suffrage.
At the time in most of the United States there was no age of consent and no laws against statutory rape.
Responding to a proposed bill that would raise the minimum age of marriage to 18. Underage marriage was then a serious problem in the United States. Many children, even under 12, were forced into marriage by their parents--usually to older men. At the time, 27 states set no true minimum age for marriage, and nine states set age limits below 16.
The register was originally created so that people could be warned about the pedophiles who had served their prison time and were now living in a community. They are also banned from living close to schools, parks and other locations where children might gather. Then rapists were added. This in turn covered statutory rape. And that covered an 18 year old having consensual sex with a 15 year old who may have lied about his/her age.
This early New England law illustrates some interesting aspects of Colonial law enforcement and philosophy. Massachusetts was perhaps the most religiously rigid and orthodox of the colonies. Yet in the case of rape, they did not always follow the Mosaic Law as some other colonies did. Instead, they had the concept of judicial discretion built into their sentencing. The other point of interest is that there was an “age of consent” albeit, for a female it was 10 years old.
The age of consent for statutory rape was in some states only 10 years at the time. Blackwell was one of the many who lobbied to elevate it.
