[quote=sdrealtor]To add to BG’s point. I know someone who is registered as a sex offender. He’s in his mid 40’s and slept with his underage girlfriend when he was 17. The dad made her file charges. That was over 25 years ago and he has never had a mark against him other than traffic violations. He has to register for life now.[/quote]
This is exactly why there should be a separate category for cases where there is an age difference of five years or less, and the relationship was consensual.
That should never be classified as “rape,” and it’s a shame that people are having to deal with the registration requirements decades later when all they were doing was having normal, teenage relationships with their boyfriends/girlfriends.
