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    Default Sexual Gratification as an Element of a Sexual Assault

    Apprently if one violates a young person of 14 with a broomstick handle in Pa. It is not a sex crime if it was part of a school team hazing at a local high school and lacks motive of sexual gratification and it is not a hazing crime as that law applies to college hazing not high school hazing.? ( The Morning Call newspaper re 3 17 year old teens at Conestoga HS )
    I wonder what " firm but fair consequences " the Superintendent has in mind ?

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    Default Re: Sexual Gratification as an Element of a Sexual Assault

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/sp...ults.html?_r=0

    I suspect that the prosecutor was primarily motivated by not wanting to have the hazers bound over to adult court, or have to register as sex offenders; but in juvenile court, other than for sex offender registration, the charges are not likely to affect the disposition. Whether or not that's the correct call, obviously people will differ in opinion. If I'm correct, perhaps the problem is that there is not enough discretion as to when collateral consequences attach to sex offenses, as but for the collateral consequences it wouldn't much matter whether the charge were a sex assault or common assault.

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