Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24447558-20140701205038/@comment-6383956-20140702110155

Paul.rea wrote: You are correct that California has a high consent age - but that only applies to "statutory" - there are exceptions built into the law for marriage - and there must be a 10 year difference in age for intercourse to warrent automatic state agency reporting and criminal charges.

http://www.hhs.gov/opa/pdfs/statutory-rape-state-laws.pdf Uhm, and yet, there is a five year age difference and Derek was not at the age of consent. Which means, Kate did commit statutory rape even if no one reported it or pressed charges.

Like, you just spelled it out.