It sounds like Britain is a decade or so behind the US in this issue. I recall one time in the late 80s my very kind male neighbor found a little girl left alone. He brought her to my house saying there was no way he could take her into his home. I remember times when the kids were playing at the park, swinging, and I had to give them all a push, because the dads were not about to touch another parent’s child.
So let me tell you where we are at now, so that you can be prepared for what could be coming.
Let us say a male college student has a brief relationship with a teen whom he assumed to be of legal age. In the state where I live he will not only be charged as a sex offender and face substantial prisons time, but he must remain on the sex offender registry for the rest of his life. Depending on the local laws, he may not be allowed to live within 1000 feet to ½ mile of a school, day care center or any other location where children congregate. Ever. I’m not even sure they would bury him in a cemetery that was too close to a school.
Politicians keep expanding the definition of a sex offender. In our current environment, I think a man would be crazy to take any job where he must work around children. He will immediately become a suspect.
