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It depends on the age of consent law where you live. In some states the age of consent is 16. But even if the sex is consensual, if you're under the legal consent age, the guy can get charged with rape.
Depending on the state, statutory rape may be completely off the table.


Basically, the state determines at what age you are mature enough to know what sex is, know if its a good idea, etc. So if the legal age for example is 18, if the girl got pregnant at 16, the state would consider it rape even if she said yes, because the state believes she is too young to really know what she is agreeing to, while the 24 year old knows exactly what he's doing, so they would try to say he took advantage of her.
And that's not quite accurate either.