A naive 15-year-old girl who mistook a manipulative sexual predator for a caring mentor and was then groomed and exploited wasn't out there trading sex for fame. She was groomed and then statutorily raped by someone she trusted, which can have devastating emotional and physical consequences that she, as a child, would not have anticipated. That's why we have statutory rape laws, to protect children who may be sexually developed but are not yet full adults.
A naive 15-year-old girl who mistook a manipulative sexual predator for a caring mentor and was then groomed and exploited wasn't out there trading sex for fame. She was groomed and then statutorily raped by someone she trusted, which can have devastating emotional and physical consequences that she, as a child, would not have anticipated. That's why we have statutory rape laws, to protect children who may be sexually developed but are not yet full adults.
amen.