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| | Teepen: Politics taint sex-crime laws (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Many sexual crimes are especially repellent, and that's always so when children are the victims, but a legitimate social concern has been turned into just one more political hustle, as candidates bid up the issue election after election. |
 | | Those are the sex crimes that rightly come with the highest fear factors, but many sex crimes, in some states requiring lifelong registration and the harassment that comes with it, pose no public menace. |
 | | We've got young men serving prison terms, even as long as 10 years, for high school sex — the senior, say, who had just turned 18 at the time and is convicted of statutory rape or child molestation for having had consensual sex with a girlfriend just shy of the official age of consent. |
| www.statesman.com /opinion/content/editorial/stories/11/4/4teepen_edit.html (530 words) |
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