In the wake of the recent tragedy resulting from a teenage sexual encounter in Huron Township, legal experts are saying that Michigan’s criminal sexual conduct laws should be reconsidered. Using felony offenses to punish an older teenage boy against a younger teenage girl (and vice versa) makes bad public policy.…
According to the Detroit News, a Wayne County jury has found a Detroit minister not guilty of all charges stemming from an arrest for alleged statutory rape. A 16-year-old boy alleged that the minister had sex with him no less than three times when he was only 15. Michigan’s age…
According to the Detroit News, a 19-year-old was charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on Facebook. Third degree sexual conduct is sometimes referred to as “statutory rape.” Here, the 19-year-old boy had been hiding in the girl’s bedroom for up…