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Holding Medical Professionals Accountable for Child (Sexual) Abuse









  1. Larry Esser
    December 10th, 2012 at 21:33 | #1

    You, as many others do also, sling the words “child” and “children” around in legal discussions without saying what a “child” is. When a fifteen or sixteen-year-old guy is having relations with someone in their twenties or thirties, so what? If a teenager feels, truly feels, that they are being molested or coerced, why the hell don’t they speak up? Because a lot of them are enjoying the sex or the attention or both. It’s only when a hue and cry is raised that they suddenly become “victims.” Come on, now. Instead of putting an age on all this, how about anyone past puberty should be well-educated enough on sexual matters to know when they are being taken advantage of. Adolescents are not stupid, many of them are the instigators of such relationships. It’s kind of amazing to have adolescents of both sexes flirting with you–they know what they’re doing. Putting someone in jail for a consensual relationship is simply inhuman. Let’s get real about the age of consent laws, educate our young people, and stop the witchhunts.

  2. December 11th, 2012 at 09:54 | #2

    Larry Esser: The article specifically mentions small children and infants in the medical care context. This has nothing to do with the more complex issues of teenagers and young adults in what look like consensual relations. I think age of consent laws supply the right compromise there, although of course one can argue with whatever age is selected.

  3. Larry Esser
    December 11th, 2012 at 11:52 | #3

    @John Culhane
    Thanks, John, it was your referring to the Sandusky case that was the real kernel of the first message–he was crucified and so was Paterno, and for what? How bad was whatever Sandusky “did” to these boys? It’s not easy to say, but the real problems are age of consent laws and also a criminal lack of sexual education for younger people. How young men or women can be “molested” from a very young age well into their teens without saying something says something about our society’s close-minded and close-mouthed view of sex and sexuality. Re the Delaware doctor case, that was another matter altogether and seems to be a pretty clear case of outright molestation, something that cannot be allowed no matter what age or gender is involved. Your points on that are well taken.

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