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Brunswick County detectives looking for teen wanted for statutory rape

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Brunswick County detectives need your help finding a wanted man.

Seventeen-year-old Noel Velasquez is wanted for statutory rape. He is about 5’2” and 140 pounds.

If you have seen him, or know where he is, call the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office at 253-2777.

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Un-just

I feel the laws are very un-just for the simple fact two highschool students cant concentually have sex without one being charged with stat. rape ex. a 15 year old sophmore female and a 16 or 17 year old junoir male. In certain cases it just shouldnt be possible for parents to find out there daughter is having sex with someone they dont approve and mess that kids life up. After all he didnt take it. It shouldnt be any charge as long as the two are in a sinceable age group. After all he cant get it if she dont give it too him people should just instill better morals into there children.

If an AlQuida prisoner was

If an AlQuida prisoner was treated as mentioned on this forum, our government would be outraged and ready to prosecute those responsible. Note I said the Government, not American citizens. Yet, Americans are subjected to barberic treatments to surpress what is natural and normal in many cases. I am not referring to rapists and child molestors here. Unfortunately, our society has been encouraged to follow guidelines set by the religious industry that teaches the human body, sex before marriage (after is fine) is all ugly and vulgar. Maybe someday, the US will wake up and realize that this is only natural and normal, like many other countries already have.

Age of Consent

Unfortunately for this guy he wasn’t smart enough to know about “age of consent.” And for the others who don’t know the minimum age for consensual sex is 16 years of age with the age difference being no more than four years. So it doesn’t matter the number of years that is between them, it’s the fact that in the law view she was too young to make the decision in the first place. And I agree with the law.

under the board walk

Hey, does anyone here remember the '60s and '70s and living at the beach ?

17 is not a "Man" - Stop the Stat Rape Insanity

At 17 he is kid himself not an adult - the trend in our nation to prosecute consensual sexual relationships between consenting kids and teens under statutory rape laws is insane and unjust.

No offense intended to the victims and families of violent and sexually dangerous persons, but there is a rapidly growing tragedy in our nation as increasingly reported in local and national articles such as this one, where otherwise innocent and non-criminal kids/teens/young adults potentially end up with a life of ruin in the aftermath as a registered sex offender for consensual peer sex and sexual activity (see Economist Aug 6 2009 - America’s Unjust Sex Laws).

I am not condoning sexual promiscuity, and I agree that we want our children; and teens and adults for that matter, to be protected from violent and sexually dangerous persons. But current and pending sex offender legislation and laws must be changed so that they can only be used to prosecute violent and sexually dangerous persons; not consensual underage and young adult consensual sexual activity.

You may find this difficult to believe, I did at first, but there are kids as young as 8 on the sex offender registry for “playing doctor”; no violence involved, kids as young as 12 for pinching another kid on the butt just joking around, and a long list of teens and young adults for “consensual sexual activity” with a boyfriend/girlfriend, and men for public urination on the golf course.

Again, I am not condoning sexual promiscuity, but what was once sexual exploration between consenting teens left to parenting is now grounds for potential incarceration followed by “life time registration as a sex offender” as young as 14; both boys and girls. And Government sanctioned Sex Offender "Treatment" Programs, including treatment for juveniles as young as 12; and including cases of consensual sexual activity among peers, are barbaric and abusive!! These programs include the use of:

Plethysmographs - a metalized ring is strapped around a “male” juvenile’s genitals (there is no such devise for females) and they are forced to listen to/watch pornography including deviant sexual activity such as violent rape! This barbaric and abusive device and recordings are designed to measure any signs of arousal and the juvenile is then forced to try and masturbate afterwards.

Masturbatory Satiation – juvenile males as young as 12 are forced to masturbate over and over and over while listening to/viewing pornographic images/recordings, including deviant sexual activity such as violent rape.

Arousal Reconditioning – Originally developed in the early to mid-1900s to convert homosexuals to heterosexuals. Attempts to eliminate sexual feelings by pairing them with boredom, pain, or unpleasantness. In effect, assumes that sexuality can be changed through “punishment” such as electric shock therapy.

This reminiscent “witch hunt” insanity must be stopped before an entire generation of kids/teens/young adults are prosecuted and registered as sex offenders the rest of their lives!

The current legislation, although very well intended, has seriously failed the true victims of violent sexual assault crimes and their families! And, it has resulted in what unintended consequences for potentially >95% of all youth and young adults who statistically could be prosecuted and convicted as sex offenders.

Please, join in the growing effort to immediately bring an end to this insanity before an entire generation is lost and registered as sex offenders.

Readers, please petition your elected officials and government for the provisions regarding juveniles to be amended and taken out.

Legislators, please begin immediate changes to sex offender legislation to stop this insanity!

Let this punk sleep with

Let this punk sleep with your 14 or 15 year old daughter and i bet you wouldn't be leaving a idiotic reply like that...he should due his time behind bars with all those other child molestors

THE LAW SAIS

AGE OF CONCENT IS 16. WITH A 4 YEAR AGE GAP. WHAT WAS THE AGE GAP IN THIS CASE.
AND I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. I HAVE 4 LITTLE GIRLS.3 OF THEM TURND OUR TO BE NOTHEN BUT WHORES. AND ONE IS JUST 12 AND DONT EVEN THINK ABOUGHT GUYES LIKE THAT, THANK GOD.
THE STATE LET THE OTHER 3 LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER AND BY AGE 11 THEY HAD SEX.
THE 12 YEAR OLD I HAVE NOW HAS A DIFFRENT MOTHER.
AND SHE IS PERFECT. GOOD IN SCOOL, SHOWS RESPECT, AND DONT THINK ABOUGHT BOYS. AND THINKS THE FRIENDS THAT HAVE BOY FRIENDS SO YOUNG ARE STUPID.
JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT IM A BETTER PARENT THEN MY EX. THE STATE MESSED UP MY KIDS AND MY LIFE. THE STATE KNOWS NOTHEN ABOUGHT RAISING A CHILD. ALL WEMAN ARE NOT GOOD . BUT MOST TIMES THEY TREAT THE FATHER AS IF HE IS TRASH. AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR EVERY THING. WHILE THE WOMAN TEACHES HER KIDS TO BE A LOOSE WHORES. AND TO USE MEN.

LOL

SERIOUSLY? I have a girl...and like I said I would be mad as fire...BOTH would get a beating...but to have a guy charged with RAPE when she opened her legs and allowed it to happen of her own free will....THAT is a problem I need to deal with on my end...at 14 the girl would be THREE YEARS younger...hardly a big difference. MOST of the people I know are at LEAST three years older than their spouses. NOW if this was a 14 year old and a 20 year old...that is ENTIRELY different...but we are talking about TWO KIDS that are within the same age range where they interact together...

Again...this article is VAGUE and for all I know it could be a 5 year old...in which case...bring on the lynch mob.

Hmmm...

Does the 14 or 15 year old have ANY culpability here? Did she not allow herself to not only be in the position to have sexual contact, but ALLOW the act? For all we know this could be a very young individual for this case...because we don't have the facts...but I don't think ANYONE should be charged for rape within a 2-3 year age difference...PERIOD. As long as it was consensual on both sides.....

Too

bad we don't have more details here...anything between 14-15....and well...I'd be ill about it but it takes two to tango!....Statutory rape for anyone over 14 is just plain STUPID with a 17 year old...like I said...I might go to jail for whoopin his butt...but that would be the end of it.

I somewhat agree with

I somewhat agree with 7969.....if he is 17, he is underage and I don't see where any crime was committed. It is very possible that the female initiated the whole incident. She apparently went along with it and is as guilty as he is. Kids will be kids.

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