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NEWS: San Diego Police Arrest 29-Year-Old Male in Alleged Assault on Comic-Con Cosplayer

Jeez. Then ANN should have cropped her out of the picture entirely, not just blurred her face. Linking an innocent third party to this situation (given how easy reverse image search is) is not good form.

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It's kind of funny, if she didn't fall off a fence none of this would have happened... And I could go randomly kill someone and it would be a lesser crime in many states.

i agreed with you up to this point..i don't think MURDER is a lesser crime than rape in any state. it sucks for the photographer, because he seems to be forthcoming and doing the right thing; he was even concerned about the girl on his facebook page and asked any witnesses that knew what happened to help the police's investigation.

his jailbait girlfriend's reckless actions sorta threw him under the bus. that's the risk you run when you date immature, underage girls, though.

it does sound like they broke up, she got really drunk and hurt herself by accident.

They've charged Justin Kaillor with "sexual contact with a minor" not "sexual assault".

KPhilipsen wrote:

I'll have to look into California's legal codes more specifically but how consent and alcohol work in Canadian/common law court, that I'm familiar with, there is a very clear differentiation between being tipsy and passed out.

Canada != California

You are a fool for trying to argue on the laws of one, while only understanding the laws of the other.

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By all means a rape claim is not needed but I would think that if one had been made, as claimed, that the police should charge the individual in question. I'm actually kind of shocked that this isn't the case. If anyone has a screen shot of this claim it should be as cut and dried as copying and sending it to the police. Somebody should do this! Absolutely the individual in question would and should go to jail if proven guilty for any offence. I do however think the differences between statutory rape and sexual assault do matter both for legal implications for the individuals and ramifications and changes that should be made by convention organizers. Whether or not a SDCC con goer was raped or whether they had consensual, if underaged, sex at the convention has legal, regulatory and safety ramifications. Absolutely, providing alcohol to a minor is illegal and would show intent.

Since a minor cannot give consent in any form, any sexual contact is rape. It is also statutory rape, since she is a minor.

The police can charge him with both, if they want too. Also, if there isn't an actual rape charge against him now, they can always add it on later if they want to. This is nothing new. This is done alot, lesser charges that are easier to prove are made first, and then more serious charges added when the evidence and witnesses come in.

Really, don't see what the convention should do. It is like saying McDonalds needs armed security guards, just in case, one customer assaults another customer. As it stands now, lots of public consumer centric businesses fire their employees for trying to help their patrons.

But hey, if the American public wants armed security guards in every room, every hallway, every bathroom, and every patio, who am I to say different. Just be willing to pay for it when your average convention ticket jumps over the hundred dollar mark.

Where were they in all this? Were they aware that their daughter was dating a much older man? If not, why not? And if they did know about the relationship, did they think that it was acceptable? The minor has stated that they had a sexual relationship. Why wasn't he prosecuted prior to this?

Why can't people have sexual relationships only depending on their age? If person knows what sexual relationship is then what's the problem? All these words about any contact with minor being rape are no more than a hypocrisy.

I'm rather curious that a minor's parents allowed her to date an adult, and not just a guy that just turned 18, but a 29 year old adult. Where were they in all this? Were they aware that their daughter was dating a much older man? If not, why not? And if they did know about the relationship, did they think that it was acceptable? The minor has stated that they had a sexual relationship. Why wasn't he prosecuted prior to this?

I do think the parents of this minor need to take responsibility here. Obviously, it's not your fault that your daughter was raped, but it is your fault as a parent if you knew about this relationship and did nothing to stop it. While decade + age differences aren't so detrimental when both parties are consenting adults, they are when one person is a minor.

I agree and I'm going to use my executive privileges to have her picture removed from the articles already posted, as well as subsequent articles. It will take a few hours though as I am ethically barred from making that kind of edit myself.

There was a legitimate reason to include a semi-recognizable image in the first article as, at that time, the police were asking people with information to come forward. Showing a picture of the costume would help potential witnesses realize that they had seen a person in that costume that night (describing it as a "Female Roger the Rabbit costume" would not have been as effective as the picture.

That said, the teen herself has already publicly stated that she is the person involved in several very public forums, and her parents have released a statement about the issue. For all intents and purposes, it is my opinions that she and her legal guardians may waived any right to privacy. Therefore the legal and ethical requirement to avoid identifying her is vastly diminished. While we won't name her, we most likely wouldn't get in trouble legally if we did.

-t