1. Are Statutory Rape Laws Discriminatory to Boys?
... to the boys. It is very rare to find a woman being prosecuted after sexually engaging in sexual intercourse with a minor boy. According to (Russell 507), the statutory rape laws does not hold similar penalty for both sexes. Russell further asserts that the statutory laws only favour females while are discriminatory to the boys. His claim rests on his assumption that very few ... in the background of this research, all the parties could have been held responsible. This implies that charging the boy alone was itself discriminatory. This assumption is guided by the Russell assertion that s...
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