re: #37 moderatelyradicalliberal

I agree that it’s skeevy, I’m just trying to figure out what legal trouble he might be in. Then again the age of consent in Delaware is 16 and 17 in New York, so while it’s gross, icky and predatory even if the tweets were sexual, what would be the legal ramifications that would involve the police? You can screw ‘em, but you can’t talk dirty to them on the internet? We need to make up our minds about when kids are kids and when they aren’t. I say 18 across the board.

I assumed you knew he allegedly met the alleged girl heh

It’s a bright shiny new world when it comes to net communications. I was talking on the other thread about Mark Foley which kind of was in a similar situation, although he worked with the pages and they were young men, some? one? was 16.

I’m not clear what is state statute and what is federal when it comes to inappropriate communications. I found theinvestigative file on Foley here (PDF)

fdle.state.fl.us

Top of page 2 discusses inappropriate communications. Somewhere in that article, it also lists specific law with regard to members of Congress.