Ohio's Age of Consent Laws

[Anesthesiologist]

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Ohio

Here is an official legal reference: http://www.oaesv.org/wp-content/uplo...Fact-Sheet.pdf

My question is this: If a male over the age of 18 is having any type of relationship with a female who is 16, I understand that although absolutely no sexual crime occurred or can be charged as such, as per the aforementioned document, the parents can obviously intervene. However, that being said, let's say the couple have been fooling around for a few months. If the parents find out later on, let's say, after they stopped seeing each other, can they still take legal action? What I'm saying is, since the parents didn't catch them while they were in the relationship, but found out later, solely by the words of the female, is there a case?

Worse case scenario, the mother and father go to the police. They claim that the male had sex with their daughter. The police then visit the male, the male subsequently denies everything and asks for a lawyer. Keep in mind, there's no evidence of a sexual encounter. The police go into discovery and pull texts, phone records, and chat records, all of which have absolutely no evidence of sexual deviance. At best, hypothetically, they find discussions of places in which the couple have met.

The link that I posted does indicate that the parents can take action and push the prosecutor to charge as follows: contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child (ORC§2919.24) or the charge of interference with custody(ORC§2919.23).

Even if the prosecutor moved forward, I would imagine they'd have a very difficult time proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the adult contributed to the unruliness or delinquency of that child if that child didn't act out of the ordinary or, more importantly, did not become pregnant.

In fact, after their relationship ends, I think the prosecution would have a very difficult time trying to piece things together given the circumstances or lack thereof.

Thoughts?

[cbg]

My thoughts are that the rules of this site expressly and in so many words warn you that no one here is going to give any adult permission to have sex with a child, regardless.