Do you consider a 19 year old who goes out with a 14 year old as a paedophile?

Question

Re that young man who enrolled in a school as a 16 year old, the family of the family welcomed him but when they discovered he was 19 the father complained.

Answer 1

totally

Answer 2

Yes i do.

Answer 3

Yes, if I had a daughter who was 14, I would never allow them to date and vice versa.

Answer 4

by british law: YES

Answer 5

According to the law in Britain, he is a paedophile, since he is an adult and she is a minor. That is why the family of the child complained when the "boy's" true age was discovered.

I'm also very shocked to learn that this "boy" was allowed to enrol at all - was there no way that the school could have checked his details first, so that this deception could have been discovered earlier?

Answer 6

Regardless of circumstances.  Its illegal, so Yes.

Answer 7

no, a boy should be a little older thasn a girl.

Answer 8

Yes.  The girl was 13 when they met and the family thought her boyfriend was 16 - I still feel this is unacceptable as well.  I would not be happy if I had a 13 year old and she was seeing a 16 year old.  

Answer 9

That's the new word for the modern day world..so of course we do...lol everything has to have a special name or it's not trendy.......

Answer 10

I have a 19 year old son and i would not be happy if he went out with a 14 year old girl

i would tell him to leave her for a couple of years and just be friends till she is a bit older and wiser  

Answer 11

Yes he is a paedophile! Let me tell you this a b*****d just like that got me pregnant at 14.The young men need to be taught that once they are of age they should stop looking at the younger girls because they are children! I lost my education and future because I had my baby so young and fell so far behind in school there was no catching up.I had to get a job at 15.He would not pay child support even though he was in the navy because he said i would spend it on clothes and makeup.As a result my family helped me immensely and we all had to sacrifice.Its rape when you lie to a 14 year old girl to get in her pants .She is a child.

Answer 12

Yep--live by the law of the land--if you want to get away with that ,go to Turkey or another Islamic country --they worship a person who would have thought that 14 was too old!!

Answer 13

Only if s*x has taken place.  An under age person is not considered capable of making a clear decision regarding s*x.  Thus the age of consent here in UK is 16.

The 19 year old by all accounts is probably a paedophile considering the trouble he went to to convince everyone he is 16.

What young man of 19 would normally do such a thing?  None that I have ever heard of - most 19 year old young men are off on some adventure or other.

Answer 14

Yes. She is way too young!

Answer 15

yes  

Answer 16

Seeing as he calculated it, and did that in order to have s*x with girls under 16 then YES - He's a sicko.

I guess he has some sort of social disorders and is unable to manipulate girls his own age as easily.

Anyone who grooms an underage person with the intention of having s*x with them is a PAEDOPHILE.

Answer 17

yes i sure do,!!

Answer 18

If at age 19, he was able to lie about his age and enroll in a school as a 16 year old, one wonders what was going on in the admittance office? Was someone asleep? How did the fact that this student enrolled without a parent's signature escape them? Parents enroll students, students do not enroll themselves. This should not have happened in the first place.

IF the 19 year old is considered a legal adult, then yes, he can be charged with statutory rape of a minor. Pedophile is a bit strong, but could apply here.

IF at age 19, the young man is considered a minor, not of legal age, he may be charged with statutory rape, though the girl in question was a willing participant, thinking that she was 'dating' a teen closer to her own age.

Answer 19

he would be classed that way...14 for a girl is underage to be having sexual contact, he should know that, so you can see why he would be classed this way.

Answer 20

I suppose it depends on what they are getting up to. If there is any form of s*x between them then he is certainly a sexual offender but I an not sure if he would be a paedo. It depends on whether he is interested in her for herself (regardless of age) or because she is 14.

If he was 16 and she was 15 it would still be a sexual offence but i don't think anyone would regard him as a paedo so it's all about where you draw the line.

Answer 21

Kindof..but it's not too much of a gap, however its 14 and 19 - no something like 19 and 24 which would have been okay.

They are not allowed to have s*x though, because it'd be illegal.