Former Jackson police officer sentenced to prison over involvement with 16-year-old

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2. when you use a cellphone to commit a crime

that pretty much gives the Feds the hook to say it involves interstate transit, same with the internet.

I agree it's curious why it rose to the level of a federal prosecution. There must be something that got the feds interested and involved other than what's reported.

Age of consent for feds is 18 so you play with 16-18 at your peril.

Case in point, let's say you have sex with a 16 year old in a state where the age of consent is 16. OK, that's legal, gross but legal.

Now, say she sends you a naked pic of her breasts, or you take a pic of her while you are having sex.
Welp, that's child pornography and that's a federal crime since 18 is the minimum age.

I think we do need to standardized age of consent. Make it all 18 everywhere. Have the three year rule so that a high school senior isn't a registered sex offender because his birthday comes a few days before his girlfriend's birthday (although I'd be fine if it were only 1 or 2 years).

But right now, we have too much variation in what is and isn't a crime in dealing with 16 and 17 year old's. We can do it with alcohol, voting, and whatnot, we should be able to do it with sexual consent.