thronedfire2 posted...
I feel like this is probably a more important detail?
if you want to be duckbear you gotta put some effort into it
Is it really that important of a detail, though? Regardless of age, rape should be punished worse, period. Whether that means the defamation laws need updated, rape laws need updated, or the ruling was bunk to begin with, whatever, but... We shouldn't really be going "Oh, it's okay they didn't get any real punishment for rape because of their age."
EDIT: Yeah, per the post above, the judge literally even lamented, presumably, that they couldn't be punished further, since they didn't show any regret.