Blaming the victim.

[LastPoet]

In our examples, and my ancedote, the 'perp' took reasonable measures in a responsible manner. Inquire about age. Evaluate the answer as best he could. Asked to see I.D.
If he took all reasonable precautions and still got duped he should be held culpable? Any punishment for being taken by a scam artist shouldn't be anything more than a slap on the wrist.

I never said the 'perp' as you say should get prosecuted to the fullest extent, if you read what I said in previous posts, the presentation of mitigating circunstances can help him with that. And yeah, a slap on the wrist is definately in order in that case. If people aren't at least scared of what might happen, you create a loophole to all those that knew it was a child and wanted some young pussy. All they needed to argue was that they didn't know or were tricked and BAM, no prosecution. If an adult is dumb enough to get fooled by a teenager into sex he should get accused and then the burden of proof its on their hands to prove they were effectively fooled, and in that case if he does prove he was tricked then just a slap on the wrist by the judge is in order.

Where the fuck you get that from? Who the hell said anyone was desperate for sex?
One need not be desperate to fall victim to scam artists.

Mabe its just me, but if someone goes to sex with someone he barely knows, it seems a bit desperate to me. But don't digress Dotard, we are talking about kids, and they aren't really seasoned scam artists, I would stick my foot on a pile of dog shit if I ever got fooled by a kid. Specially into sex.