This is a complaint I often have with news articles having to do with pedophilia adjacent crimes. You never get any details. Say you read an article about a teacher sexually molesting a 15 year old student. That could mean so many different things. It could mean that a teacher and an ex-student had a consensual one night stand, something that could be perfectly legal depending on the jurisdiction. Or it could mean the teacher told the kid to give him a blow job or fail the class. Even if it was something non-consensual, you still don't know the extent of the act. It could mean the teacher groped a kid in the hall (which I'm definitely not encouraging, but doesn't seem like a capital offense). Or it could mean the teacher repeatedly violent raped the kid (which seems much worse). You usually can't tell at all from the article. In a sense CP is one of the worst offenders with regards to this information opacity because the very thing that is the key piece of evidence (the CP) is illegal for anyone else to view. So no third party can review the central thing that they are caused of doing. |