But it could certainly do more to try to verify ages. Grindr’s terms of service state that users must be 18 or older, and the app requires everyone to enter a birth date to join. Only 25 percent use condoms consistently. Sixty-nine percent of them have had sex with someone they met through these apps.
They have failed to protect minors, who simply have to subtract a few years from their birth date to create a profile.ĭata from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a new study in The Journal of Adolescent Health together suggest that roughly one in four gay and bisexual boys aged 14 to 17 in the United States are on gay hookup apps designed for adults (Grindr, Scruff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam). But most online social networks for gay men are geared toward adults and focused on sex. It’s normal for these kids to want to explore intimacy. It’s common for gay, bisexual or questioning minors to go online to meet other gay people. The victim’s father broke down in court, saying, “The man sitting here, he destroyed my life, my kid’s life, my family life.” Gross on the gay hookup app Grindr and that they had met for sex before. positive, in a nearby backyard.Īuthorities later learned that the teenager had met Mr. A police officer apprehended Eugene Gross, who was 51 years old and H.I.V. He yelled that a man had broken into the house and raped him. The woman was found guilty by a jury in September 2017, and the sentencing judge noted that this conviction “has been and will continue to be devastating” to the woman “in many ways”.Last summer in Wisconsin, a mother came home to find her 15-year-old son running up the stairs from their basement. The woman will be on probation for two years. Taking all of the evidence and circumstances of this “unique and exceptional case into consideration”, Murray ruled that “incarceration would not serve in the public interest”. Chen’s moral culpability is reduced as a result of her troubled upbringing and her mental health issues,” Murray stated. The woman has been on bail since November 2015, and there had been “no issues”. In the woman’s favour, the judge believes that she “poses little to no risk of reoffending sexually”. “This is a particularly challenging sentencing that involves unusual facts and a constellation of unique factors,” Murray noted. “She has been abused by almost all of her male partners,” according to Murray. “She has trouble managing her emotions and is extremely immature.”īecause of this, she has been “unable to have healthy sexual relationships in her adult life”. “According to the psychologists, this abuse, particularly at the hands of her father, has had a profound impact on her,” Murray noted.
When the woman and her husband visited her family in China in 2010, her father, “then very ill, sexually assaulted her”.Ī neighbor also sexually abused her when she was nine by fondling her “through her underpants”. She immigrated to Canada, where she married. The sexual assaults became less frequent when she got older but did not stop. “She decided to be compliant so her mother and brother would not be hurt,” Murray related. When she stood up to her father, he “responded by beating her and threatening to hurt her young brother and her mother if she complained”. At one point she told her mother but she refused to believe her.” He assaulted her regularly until she was 15 and went away to university. “The sexual assaults included sexual intercourse. “Soon after he began sexually assaulting her,” according to Murray.
“While it does not decrease the seriousness of the offence it makes her less morally blameworthy.”Īccording to Murray, the woman was the “victim of serious childhood abuse at the hands of her father for most of her life”.īeginning when she was about six years old, her father made her watch him sexually assault her mother. “After much consideration I have concluded that it significantly impacts it,” Murray stated in her oral reasons for sentence. Supreme Court struggled with the question of how the woman’s “tragic upbringing” affected her “moral blameworthiness”. In coming up with a suspended sentence for the offender, judge Catherine Murray of the B.C. She was having troubles at the time with her marriage. The woman and her child were also staying at the same house. The boy and his siblings and their mother were staying there. Having sex with person under the age of 16 is a serious criminal offence. Her two-year-old child was sleeping at the other bed. She was 28 and he was 13 when they had sexual intercourse in her room. A judge has decided not to send a woman to jail for having sex with a young boy.