leniency since the girl admitted she lied

If a girl says she's of legal age, what's a person suppose to do? Ask to see her ID for proof? Smh


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>http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/07/teen-cant-live-with-his-family-anymore-because-a-girl-he-slept-with-lied-about-her-age-5331850/#ixzz3iKeS5jjl
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>Teen can’t live with his family anymore because a girl he
>slept with ‘lied about her age’
>Harry Readhead for Metro.co.ukFriday 7 Aug 2015 2:07 pm
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>Zach Anderson is no longer allowed to live at home with his
>family.
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>He can’t use the internet, take a walk in the park or go
>shopping.
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>In his words, he’s an ‘outcast from society’.
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>Why? Because he had sex with a 14-year-old who claimed she was
>17 and is now a registered sex offender.
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>The 19-year-old, from Indiana, met the girl via a dating app
>called Hot or Not, on which she told him she was over the
>legal age of consent. But Zach was arrested after the pair
>slept together. Then he was convicted. He now finds himself on
>the Elkhart County sex offender register alongside child
>molesters and rapists.
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>Even the girl’s mother testified in court that she didn’t
>want Zach labelled as a sex offender because ‘he really is
>not.’
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>In a letter written by the girl to Zach’s family, she said
>she was ‘sorry I didn’t tell you my age. I really don’t
>want you to hate me.
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>‘It kills me everyday knowing that you are going through
>hell and I’m not. I want to be in trouble and not you.’
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>But Judge Dennis Wiley was far from sympathetic. Sentencing
>Zach, he said: ‘That seems to be part of our culture now.
>Meet, have sex, sayonara.
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>‘Totally inappropriate behaviour. There is no excuse for
>this, whatsoever.’
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