German Sex Laws Differ Diametrically From American Ones
Germany Has Lenient Sex Laws As Opposed To Those Of The United States
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The Misconception Of American Sex Laws
Self-proclaimed child advocates will boast that the United States is better at protecting its children than other nations are. However, this same nation continues to be permissive about bullying in its public schools and even private schools insofar as suicide among kids has become a major problem.
Also, these same self-proclaimed child advocates appear to have no problem with parental testamentary freedom, even when it involves the disinheritance of kids who have suffered severe abuse at the hands of their parents. They merely don't want teenage girls having older boyfriends.
There are so many things wrong with American sex laws and the American criminal justice system in general. However, many self-proclaimed child advocates (e.g. Chris Hansen, Julie Posey, John Walsh, etc) wish to hide it from the public. Over a decade ago, there was a situation in Florida in which an 18-year-old woman named Kaitlyn Hunt was arrested for being involved in a Romeo-and-Juliet relationship at her high school.
Even though Hunt and her significant other were not that far apart in age difference back when they were intimately involved with each other, the authorities still treated Hunt like a common sex criminal after they zeroed in on the matter. Below is a video about it
American Statutory-Rape Laws Have Their Fair Share Of Flaws
The topic of underage sex among adolescents is a very touchy subject in the United States, especially when it involves a forbidden relationship between an adult and a teenager. You may or may not be familiar with the Darrell-Brooks-Junior murder trial that took place in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Below is a video clip from that same trial in which Darrell Brooks, Jr. goes into a fit of rage after one of the prosecutors reveal that he had a confrontation with the statutory-age-of-consent laws in Nevada.
Darrell Brooks, Jr. Flies Off The Handle After A Prosecutor Exposes Him For A Sexual Offense
Brooks was already agitated enough over whether or not the judge was going to admit an item that he wished to introduce into evidence. Once one of the prosecutors reported to the court that Brooks had been convicted of statutory sexual seduction in Nevada for getting a minor pregnant, emotions ran high and sparks of rage flew all over the courtroom mainly from Brooks as he got on the defensive about it.
During the victim impact statements, the family members of Brooks' murder victims did not allow him to forget that he had a police record for crossing the legal age line with a young girl and getting her pregnant before she had time to graduate from high school. Below is a video of one of them shaming Brooks for being a registered sex offender.
Victim's Son Rips Into Darrell Brooks, Jr. For His Crimes And Labels Him A Sexual Deviant
It is true that toxic and abusive relationships between adult men and teenage girls do exist. However, has the United States gone too far with its sex laws? The answer to that question becomes obvious once you observe how both the mainstream media and the criminal justice system have capitalized on forbidden sexual encounters involving teenagers.
The Multiple Branches Of The Victims Industry
Chris Hansen And "To Catch A Predator"
Most Americans know who Chris Hansen is. He is the failed journalist from the series "To Catch A Predator" on Dateline NBC. In spite of his legal troubles and confrontations with the law, an entire T.C.A.P. ("To Catch A Predator") community thrives in honor of his so-called mission.
Even though I discount Hansen's online sex-sting operations as nothing more than crusades to lessen the number of teenage pregnancies in the United States, there are people who are ignorant enough to believe that Hansen has actually been waging a genuine war against pedophilia. These people are severely misguided.
The Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) defines pedophilia as the sexual attraction of someone 16 years of age or older to a prepubescent child five years their junior and in Tanner Stage 1 of their bodily development. The cutoff point for it is generally 13 years old, but it can also be 11 years old under certain circumstances.
In a nutshell, Hansen has provided extensive assistance to the authorities in enforcing the statutory-age-of-consent laws throughout the United States. However, he has done nothing to capture monsters who are similar or identical to Donald James Smith, Joseph Duncan III, and Jesse K. Timmendequas.
Believe it or not, Hansen's ethnic lineage hails from Denmark where not only the statutory age of consent is 15, but no stigma gets attached to a 15-year-old girl having a 23-year-old boyfriend. It makes you wonder why Hansen is so dead set on believing that such a relationship could not be anything but exploitative and wrong.
Nevertheless, below is a video of an interview between Jesse Weber of the Law & Crime channel on YouTube and none other than Hansen himself. Upon talking about sex crimes against minors, both of these men make the major mistake of not differentiating between small children under 11 years old and adolescents in both middle school and high school.
Whether Hansen and Weber wish to admit it or not, adolescents have become more sexually active than they have been in years past; and part of that trend has caused them to become less and less discriminate about the ages of their sex partners. For that reason, one cannot categorize a tryst between an adult and a teenager as the same thing as some maniac abducting a toddler from a playground and sexually assaulting her.
Jesse Weber Interviews Chris Hansen Regarding Sexual Offenses Against Minors
In his video above, Hansen claims to have broken down five scenarios in which alleged predators have targeted kids. However, the elephant in the room here is that Hansen attempts to equate liaisons between adults and teenagers to actual incidents in which an adult has sexually victimized a child. In that sense, his narrative quickly changes to misleading propaganda.
I do not completely disagree with everything that Hansen and Weber opine in the video above. Nonetheless, I take this opportunity to address each scenario upon which Hansen and Weber comment.
Regan Anthony Beresford
The first scenario that Hansen discusses with Weber comes out of Cape Coral, Florida concerning a 51-year-old man named Regan Anthony Beresford. During the recording of the telephone call between the complainant and the police, the complainant actually does refer to her kid as being a young adult. Hansen later refers to that complainant's kid as being a child.
Which is it? The complainant's kid cannot be a young adult and a child at the same time. It's either one or the other. Anyhow, Beresford wanted to meet up with this same minor. A police officer took over the online conversation between Beresford and the minor, and he pretended to be that same minor.
Notice that throughout this same news piece, the gender and the age of the minor are never revealed. I surfed around on the Internet to find an article that would provide these two pieces of information, but I had no luck in tracking down such information from what limited amount of information each article reported.
One online article did report that Beresford purchased condoms before arranging to meet with the minor who turned out to be a police officer posing as the minor. That fact alone would indicate that the minor was likely a teenage girl in that Beresford didn't want to get her pregnant. She could have been 17 years old and about to turn 18 for all we know.
Now, I’m not making Beresford out to be a poster child for wholesome perfection. He’s definitely not someone who cares about societal norms or family values. However, the minor he was trying to meet up with had the prerogative of simply walking away from this same situation any time that she wanted to do so. Beresford never forced her into anything that she didn't want to do.
I don’t see how the minor would rightfully qualify to be a victim regardless of anything that Hansen and Weber state in that regard. Therefore, Beresford doesn’t truly qualify to be a child molester or even a child predator.
Andrew Hakeem Jewell
The second story that Hansen describes in the interview above comes out of Sandusky, Michigan. The name of the suspect in that scenario is Andrew Hakeem Jewell, who was 19 years old at the time of his arrest.
Jewell is clearly a bully who should have been disciplined for his bad behavior back when he was a little kid. For this reason, society and the law both need to get tougher in cracking down on bullying.
I agree with Hansen and Weber that Jewell should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He should not have been allowed to take matters as far as he did. When bullies face no retribution for their actions, they grow up to be dangerous people. Let’s be glad that he pleaded guilty to certain criminal charges related to the incident.
For the full story about Jewell, you can read my article titled "Society's Permissiveness Toward Bullying Leads To Tragic Events." You'll learn that he has a pattern of targeting kids that are younger and smaller than he is and are vulnerable to his aggressive behavior. At the same time, he fears authority.
Hansen handles this same story beautifully in his interview with Weber. However, where he goes off the rails is when he talks about a young girl texting a potential predator, because the little girl in the above scenario was only 8 years old at the time of the incident and would not likely have owned a cell phone.
In other words, Hansen makes the mistake of taking stories about teenage girls hooking up with adult men and lumping them in together with situations in which teenage boys terrorize little girls. That's poor journalism on his part. Then again, Hansen has always been in the business of blaming all of teenage girls' problems on older men.
I do agree with Hansen that these vigilante predator-catcher groups are doing more harm than good to society. As far as I'm concerned, the majority of them are nothing more than domestic terrorists. I’m glad that he condemned them in his interview, even though I never liked his “To Catch A Predator” series.
In his interview with Weber, Hansen does bring up the point that he and his crew receive criticism from the public for showing a male "predator" that is 18 or 19 years old "going after" a girl who is 14 or 15 years old. He notes that such sexual trysts are still illegal.
My counterpoint to Hansen's school of thought is this. I did view Hansen show an 18-year-old male suspect trying to hook with a 15-year-old girl for sex. In fact, Hansen did receive a lot of push-back in the comments section for the video of that same online sex-sting operation that he posted on YouTube.
Even though Hansen is correct that it would be illegal in some jurisdictions, I still beg to differ with his school of thought per se inasmuch as American statutory-rape laws expose teenagers to danger and violence. He actually believes that the status quo in this respect is infallible and can do no wrong, when nothing could be any further from the truth.
Hansen's argument really has nothing to do with Jewell. If Hansen feels this way, he has a right to his opinion. However, under that same self-defined principle of his, he should also be going after deadbeat teenage fathers under 18 years old.
Levi Johnston did a substantial amount of damage to Bristol Palin upon getting her pregnant as a teenager in high school and then misusing their child as a bargaining chip. Also, let's not forget that he allegedly raped her when she was 16 years old. Yet merely because he was the same age as she was, somehow most of the American Court Of Public Opinion had no problem with his actions.
Pseudo-feminists who were strong supporters of the MeToo movement even invited Johnston onto their television talk shows and praised him as though he were some kind of Greek god after this same shocking scandal broke, which makes no sense. Hansen should have been covering stories like those back when he was still on the National Broadcasting Company's payroll. He was apparently more interested in sensationalism than actual facts. He only has himself to blame for his failures.
Ashlee Marie Cheatham
The third story that Hansen describes in the interview above comes out of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The perpetrator's name is Ashlee Marie Cheatham. There can be no question that Ashlee Marie Cheatham committed heinous crimes against a 3-year-old toddler. Her actions were unconscionable.
I agree with Hansen and Weber that Cheatham deserves to feel the full wrath of the law. She reprehensibly treated her toddler victim like a sex object.
Unlike Hansen, I distrust mental-health professionals who get involved in these criminal cases, because they usually have dollar signs in their eyes and there is a great amount of professional misconduct in the mental-health profession. Currently, the approval rating for psychiatrists sits at 38 percent in the United States. In any event, Cheatham is an abomination and should be kept away from children.
Lavon Glenn
The fourth story that Hansen describes in the interview above comes out of Port Orange, Florida. The perpetrator's name is Lavon Glenn. Exhibitionists are always a thorn in everyone's side no matter where they appear in public.
You may or may not be old enough to remember the Fernwood Flasher from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Well, Glenn's case brings that character to mind. If you weren't alive that far back in time when that soap opera comedy was airing on television, here is a clip from it below.
Mary Hartman Learns That Her Grandfather Is The Fernwood Flasher
Glenn exposed himself to minors in a public place. Of course, Glenn's particular situation should not be compared with the scenario that Hansen presents of an adult man trying to hook up with a teenage girl on the Internet. Both scenarios are two completely different animals from each other.
Glenn is definitely a danger to society and to those around him. It is no secret that this man is a career criminal. Jail is definitely where he belongs.
Jeremy Jay Guthrie
The last story that Hansen describes in the interview above comes out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The suspect's name is Jeremy Jay Guthrie. Guthrie had teenagers in his vehicle with him when the police stopped him on the highway, but those teenagers were there with him in the car by choice. One of them was 18 years old. Therefore, I must ask Hansen one question. Should the 18-year-old be charged with a crime for legally being an adult in the presence of minors?
I'm not making Guthrie out to be a goody two-shoes. However, I must remind everyone reading my article here that "statutory rape" is merely a legal construct, whereas forcible rape involves the sexual brutalization of an individual.
If these teenage minors willingly accompanied Guthrie in his vehicle, it could very well be that the law and reality may both disagree on whether he actually sexually assaulted any minors. In other words, the law may say that he “raped” the 12-year-old girl he got pregnant and her twin sister, but reality may say differently.
Some people reading my article may not differentiate between a middle-aged man having non-violent, non-forcible sex with a girl barely in her adolescence and a middle-aged man actually forcing himself upon a girl that young sexually. The blurring of the line between both scenarios is what enables master manipulators like Matthew William Buck to become licensed to practice law and to get off the sex-offender registry more quickly than others who have less serious offenses do.
Some people could argue the point with me and ask, "What if Mr. Guthrie groomed both girls?" As far as I'm concerned, "grooming" is something that is often open to arbitrary and subjective interpretation. Its inclusion in underage sex cases involving teenagers, therefore, does more harm than good to court proceedings.
Would I ever encourage any 12-year-old girl to seek out a middle-aged man to have his baby? Of course not. I wouldn't even encourage a girl that young to seek out a boyfriend of any age. Girls that age have better things to do than to get involved in complicated situations involving intimacy.
Would any parent feel comfortable about a middle-aged man getting involved with their teenage or preteenage daughter? Lenore Skenazy wouldn't seem to have a problem with it if an underage kid of hers decided to take a middle-aged man up on such an offer. Then again, she's not your everyday mother, although she is highly intelligent.
Do I think a 12-year-old girl should be having sex? No, I don't. However I also realize that it is a reality of this day and age and that many girls start this young on their own volition rather than as a result of exploitation.
The problem that Hansen and Weber as well as those like them have is that they view these situations in black and white rather than in shades of gray. For example, there was a pregnancy pact that occurred among teenage high-school girls in Gloucester, Massachusetts back in 2008. One of the underage girls that was trying to get pregnant was 15 years old and she hooked up with a 24-year-old homeless man who agreed to father a baby with her.
This homeless man had to have known that he was breaking the law, because the girl he got pregnant was below the Massachusetts statutory age of consent of 16. However, he didn't care, because he knew that the worst that could happen to him would be that he would get a roof over his head and three square meals a day if he were ever to be arrested and incarcerated for his unlawful actions.
Anything horrendous that might have been awaiting this homeless man in jail or in prison were things that he likely had already experienced on the streets. Going on the sex-offender registry would not have hurt him in any manner, because he had already lost everything before he had even met this 15-year-old girl.
Hansen is a drama queen in that he insists that Guthrie's actions involved human trafficking. Everything that the teenagers in his vehicle had done with him up to that point in time when the police had stopped him was voluntary.
Guthrie would not have been punished as severely in Germany for his sexual conduct as he was in the United States. He falls short of being a predator, because every underage person that the police found in his vehicle could have walked away from him any time they wanted to do so. From what I have gathered, the police were quite rude with the teenagers in Guthrie's vehicle while they were questioning them.
Spaceship Captain's article provides all the details regarding Guthrie's initial encounter with the police on the highway. The press and the media went above and beyond to sensationalize this story rather than merely report the facts themselves.
A Formal Introduction To The Reverse-Chris Hansen
When I was a little kid, I loved reading comic books about superheroes. One comic book series I really liked was The Flash. The Flash was a superhero who had the ability to run at extremely fast speeds. He could vibrate through walls like a ghost passing through one. He had a costume that was red with a white circle and a lightning bolt on his chest area.
The Flash had an arch-villain named The Reverse-Flash. The Reverse-Flash had an identical costume to his except that it was yellow and it had a white circle with a red lightning bolt on it on his chest area.
Well, there is a gentleman named Steven Robert Whitsett who can be best described as the Reverse-Chris Hansen. No, he is not an evil villain like The Reverse-Flash is.
Whereas Hansen has a blind faith in the American criminal justice system and the status quo concerning American sex laws, Whitsett constantly questions both entities and has sniped at them for being unconstitutional.
Whitsett is originally from Florida, which is the most punitive state jurisdiction in the Union for sex offenses. He is currently exiled in Germany. If you want to know the reasons behind his decision to flee to Germany to seek sanctuary, you can watch a number of his videos on his YouTube channel named Common Sense Laws.
Anyhow, in his video below, Whitsett explains how German sex laws differ from those of the United States insofar as the German ones are more reasonable than the American ones. He also highlights the fact that Louisiana has a bill pending legislation that aims to make it legal for the court system in that same state jurisdiction to order to have individuals subjected to genital mutilation for certain sex crimes. The bill refers to this punitive procedure as castration.
Whitsett takes concern over how such a bill might slip under the radar of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution if it were to pass. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) would have every right to intervene in that event.
Steven Robert Whitsett And Lenny Denounce Legalized Forced Genital Mutilation
In their video, Lenny and Whitsett basically explain that any kind of illegal sex that is consensual would not be punished so harshly in Germany as it would in the United States. Whitsett stresses that American elected officials are out of control in pushing for such Draconian laws. He notes that the death penalty in Florida for certain sex offenses continues to remain in defiance of SCOTUS rulings.
Whitsett does not condone anarchy, and he does believe that a nation needs some kind of sex laws to protect its vulnerable ones from harm. He merely doesn't like the fact that American lawmakers have gotten so out of control in legislating harsher and harsher sex laws in the United States insofar as their criminal justice system has evolved into another Gestapo. To him, austerity is not the answer.
Lenny is a 17-year-old German boy, and he acts shocked that American lawmakers have allowed for its criminal justice system to overpower American civilians by enacting sex laws that are oppressive and even vile. He questions why the American courts have failed to protect basic human rights in dealing with these same sex laws. He points out that Germany would never treat its inhabitants so disgracefully.
In the video above, Whitsett pokes fun at the term "grooming" in a way that suggests that it is a political agenda rather than a real psychiatric term pertaining to sexual victimization. Come to think of it, that term does get used excessively and indiscriminately.
Whitsett takes concern that the above-described bill pending legislation in Louisiana will be ratified, and he urges any men who come face to face with it to explore other options that they may have abroad. American legislators and courts are simply mishandling juvenile-justice-related matters.
A Judicial System Is Supposed To Protect People Rather Than Persecute Them
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Final Thoughts
Back in 1984, John Walsh founded the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Upon doing so, he intended to make the United States a safer place for juveniles. This marked the beginning of the victims industry. As time progressed, the victims industry took on a life of its own, and Americans were being locked up for some of the most ridiculous things as a result.
Now the United States has arrived to the point in which foreigners have become too afraid to travel to it inasmuch as they fear going to prison for inadvertently violating some of the most ludicrous sex laws ever. This madness is harming the quality of life in this same nation. Meanwhile, this nation's tourism suffers as a result.
More people are on the sex-offender registries throughout the United States than there have ever been in the history of this same nation. If other countries can get their sex laws right, there is no reason that the United States cannot do so.
Steven Robert Whitsett contends that this madness originates from Republicans pushing a social conservative agenda in the United States. However, my response to him is that there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle.
Currently, there is a domestic terrorist organization named QAnon that is fueling much of this same madness in the United States. It became obvious back in 2016 after some wacko named Edgar Maddison Welch walked into a restaurant with a semi-automatic rifle in Washington, D.C. and fired three rounds inside the building before being arrested.
It is time for elected officials, lawmakers, and law-enforcement officials to take responsibility for protecting the human rights of each and every person in the United States, even if they disagree with their school of thought regarding juvenile-justice-related issues. The United States cannot continue going in the same direction that it has, or it will eventually destroy itself and nobody will ever be able to revive the American dream from that point on. The choice is now in the hands of all Americans.
A Poll For Americans Who Are Concerned About The Sex Laws In The United States
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