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> Being ³on the road again,² I¹ve misplaced a Times legal report of a court
> decision of some relevance to the Lolita-innocence debate. From memory: Seems
> a 12-year old English girl, posing initially as a 20-year old, initiated email
> correspondence that led to carnal relations with a 40-year old paedophile.
> The latter lost his appeal against a jail-sentence in spite of the judges
> AGREEING that the girl was, as it were, the ³prime mover² and fully
> consenting. The gist of the ruling was that UK law included the element of
> ³protecting the under-aged even if they consented, aided and abetted the
> offences.² Few would argue with that principle.
>
> As we know (though many non-readers don¹t!) HH plans to tell the jury ³I was
> not even her first lover.² Some claim that HH¹s reports of Lol¹s sordid past
> may be exaggerated the old male defense ploy in all cases of rape yet here
> in UK 2008 we have at least one real-life paedophile¹s dream: the ³randy
> consenting nymphet.²
>
> BTW: the intriguing thought of a latter-day HH conducting his ³grooming
> machinations² by email.
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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> decision of some relevance to the Lolita-innocence debate. From memory: Seems
> a 12-year old English girl, posing initially as a 20-year old, initiated email
> correspondence that led to carnal relations with a 40-year old paedophile.
> The latter lost his appeal against a jail-sentence in spite of the judges
> AGREEING that the girl was, as it were, the ³prime mover² and fully
> consenting. The gist of the ruling was that UK law included the element of
> ³protecting the under-aged even if they consented, aided and abetted the
> offences.² Few would argue with that principle.
>
> As we know (though many non-readers don¹t!) HH plans to tell the jury ³I was
> not even her first lover.² Some claim that HH¹s reports of Lol¹s sordid past
> may be exaggerated the old male defense ploy in all cases of rape yet here
> in UK 2008 we have at least one real-life paedophile¹s dream: the ³randy
> consenting nymphet.²
>
> BTW: the intriguing thought of a latter-day HH conducting his ³grooming
> machinations² by email.
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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