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I have a dear friend who is a 'sex offender' because she and a boy her age were arrested for having sex in a stall in their college dorm bathroom, which was leg

I have a dear friend who is a 'sex offender' because she and a boy her age were arrested for having sex in a stall in their college dorm bathroom, which was legally a 'public place.' Is there any point that she deserved to be locked up in a cage for that?

__derek__ 10y ago
Situations like that were the first thing that I thought about when reading this news. The New Yorker had an excellent piece on juvenile sex offenders and the horror that that status inflicts on their lives.[1] [1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-a...