When I was in law school I worked on a Florida legislative project to bring forward a version of Romeo & Juliet laws to Florida [1]. For example there are case

When I was in law school I worked on a Florida legislative project to bring forward a version of Romeo & Juliet laws to Florida [1]. For example there are cases where 17 year old girls become registered sex offenders for life due to relationships with their 16 year old boyfriends (whom they have married in some cases). These types of cases have made it to the SCOTUS. Challenging on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy, and upheld by the court. It goes without saying civil and criminal child abuse, neglect, and abondonment cases are as difficult as any to stomach. But there are famous case of parents with "bathtub" framed photos of their kids on their hallway walls and grandfathers with pictures of their grandchilds running through sprinklers, and as you might imagine they were painted as the devil incarnate. Our law clinic was very aware the issues of text messaging even then, 2006. At the time we used the Socratic method to debate the logic and human aspects of charging the young children guilty of originating "sext messages" of themselves. My position was always that such a law would chill the indemnity a victim needs to come forward. One of the major issues is that many of these crimes are under the strict liability [2] standard meaning if the pictures exist, the defendant is guilty, notwithstanding their intent. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape#Romeo_and_Juliet_laws https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape#Romeo_and_Jul... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability