Irish Travelers (Gypsies)

South Carolina - Age of Consent Laws
The following information was taken directly from the South Carolina legislative website at http://www.scstatehouse.net/code/statmast.htm



SC CONSTITUTION SECTION 33. Age of consent. -- No unmarried woman shall legally consent to sexual intercourse who shall not have attained the age of fourteen years. (1999 Act No. 3, Section 1, eff. February 16, 1999)
Editors Note: Although the AOC in South Carolina is hard coded into the constitution, state statutes specify criminality for sexual conduct under the age of 16.

SECTION 16-15-140. Committing or attempting lewd act upon child under sixteen.

It is unlawful for a person over the age of fourteen years to willfully and lewdly commit or attempt a lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body, or its parts, of a child under the age of sixteen years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of the person or of the child.

A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than fifteen years, or both.
Yet, only a few miles up the road it is common practice for 13 year old girls to have babies. These same girls are then taken by their parents to the department that issues food stamps, Medicaid, monetary assistance and what ever else there is to get and no one says a word or reports to authorities that these 13 yr olds, who had to be around 12 at the time of conception, have given birth which, under any law is sexual child abuse and statutory rape. To top that, which I admit is hard to do, when these families go to these departments they drive up in new Mercedes, Cadillacs or Range Rovers dripping in diamonds, Gucci shoes and designer clothes obtained on their last shopping trip to New York. The newborns have mink coats, diamonds, designer baby clothes and yes, baby Gucci heels. After obtaining what ever assistance they can scam out of the South Carolina and U.S. government, which is ultimately paid by you and me, they drive home to multi-million dollar houses. What is wrong with this picture?
Always a week late on events these days but I wanted to comment on the Christmas parade. The band was great, the horses, as always, are one of my favorites, Santa in the ladder bucket was ingenious but I had one question; if all the fire trucks were in the parade and piled with people, what would happen if there was a fire?