It is terrible here to Mama. People steal dogs right and left to use for dog fighting. Drugs are terrible. I was reading in the paper a few days ago about a principal and teacher at a vocational school buying and smoking meth in the principals office. My sis lets her kids play out in their yard by themselves and that worries me to death. They live up a dirt road in the middle of no where and have had countless drug busts and meth labs on their road.
I was reading yesterday that they arrested a 25 year old waiter at a mexican restaurant here in town for rape and terroristic threatening of a 12 year old girl. He was mexican and she is white so it is getting heated. People are saying she is pregnant from the assault. His friends keep saying the age of consent in Mexico is 12 years old. They don't seem to take into consideration they are not in Mexico. Mexican and white relations can get a bit strained here at times. People take me for Mexican occasionally because I am dark skinned and have black hair and dark eyes.

The age of consent should never be 12 in any country and if they are able to use the age of consent in another country for a defense in Kentucky you need another District Attorney in town.

Janie - there is so much hatred in this world - everyone wants to play the role of a god or something - everyone is right - and I am so sick of it all.
I agree with JP - 12 years old is not a consentable age for anything other than picking out school clothes, books, music and what they want on their whoppers from BK.
Something needs to be done - and it is getting worse instead of better.
And I don't understand this rape thing at all - there are so many women out there sitting on bar stools waiting for some man to have sex with and prostitutes are all over. Why rape anyone - and especially a child!
His body part should be hacked off while he is wide awake.
Sorry fellas for the bluntness - but anyone who rapes a person - regardless of age - should have it whacked off - 1/4 inch at a time - with a dull serrated knife.
And if it is a child under the age of 18 - after that they should be hung in a public square and have their skin ripped off their bodies - one layer at a time - s-l-o-w-l-y for all to see. Pedophiles don't need to be registered - they need to be given the electric chair immediately - save us lots of tax dollars! And no trial - just pick a pedophile-hating judge and stand the perv in front of him - that chair would get used within 10 minutes of the crime! No last meal - no cell - nothing. And no last rites. Last rites are for the just only. No casket - bodybag and in a hole somewhere - unmarked. Better yet - a perv-designated cemetery - no one would visit anyone there anyway.

I agree Mama. I cannot believe the people posting on a local website here taking up for this looser. They are his friends and family plus a bunch of dumb hillbilly jerks who think it is ok to marry your sister or brother. The other half are demanding the guy be lynched.

I agree. Sex crimes are the lowest of the low. Maybe I watch too much Law & Order SVU... But I'm for capital punishment for 75% of murders*, and 99.9% of sex crimes. Only time I even raise an eyebrow regarding so-called "sex crimes" is in a case where maybe a few weeks or months separate a pair of kids in love who connect consensually- and due to one being under the technical legal age, the parents who may not approve of their princess' (or prince's) love-choice decides to call the cops and have the book thrown at them. I think people who use their power- physical/mental/emotional or otherwise to victimize others sexually deserve the worst of the worst of outcomes.

*Murders I would "approve" of? Oh... someone stealing the last piece of apple pie- or someone swipin' the very first sweet peas off my Spring-time vines, or the first summer 'mater outta the garden!