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A JUDGE has refused to immediately jail a young man for having sex with a 13-year-old girl saying today’s youth do not realise underage sex is a serious crime.
District Court Judge Rosemary Davey says Sasha Pierre Huerta, 21, was not a predator and his teenage victim “was looking for” a sexual encounter.
In transcripts viewed by The Advertiser, Judge Davey says teens living in our “overtly sexualised” world are ignorant of the maximum seven-year jail term for underage sex.
“Regrettably — and I don’t live in an ivory tower — that kind of criminal conduct is happening day in, day out,” she says.
“In fact, if you ask most 17-year-olds or 16-year-olds whether they know (underage sex) was an offence carrying seven years’ imprisonment, they would die with their leg in the air.
What else can they think, when condoms are doled out freely at school and abortions are carried out willy nilly in secret?
A JUDGE has refused to immediately jail a young man for having sex with a 13-year-old girl saying todays youth do not realise underage sex is a serious crime.
District Court Judge Rosemary Davey says Sasha Pierre Huerta, 21, was not a predator and his teenage victim was looking for a sexual encounter.
In transcripts viewed by The Advertiser, Judge Davey says teens living in our overtly sexualised world are ignorant of the maximum seven-year jail term for underage sex.
Regrettably and I dont live in an ivory tower that kind of criminal conduct is happening day in, day out, she says.
In fact, if you ask most 17-year-olds or 16-year-olds whether they know (underage sex) was an offence carrying seven years imprisonment, they would die with their leg in the air.