All to easy to get the pitchforks out and start a witch hunt, and without any real details.
TMWNN called a paedo sympathiser and Sophia a Paedo? Beyond ignorant. A paedophile is a person with a sexual attraction to a child, as in a pre-pubescent child. A paedo is not interested generally in young people who have reached puberty.
Age of consent across the world varies a lot, even just within the EU. It was, until Spain changed it a few months ago in a range of 13 to 18, but there's clauses within each country where teens can still engage in sex under certain circumstances much younger than the advertised age of that country. Some of the circumstances seem very weird.
External Link/Members OnlyIf a 22 year old were to interrail around Europe and legally have sex in each country they could be breaking no laws, having a good time and come home to the UK and be socially labelled a beast here for life, for say having sex in Croatia with a 15 year old, near their 16th birthday. Or, he could have had sex with a 16 year old nearing their 17th in Cyprus after getting confused, get the jail, and have sex offender put on his passport. Is either just?
No idea why it varies so much, other than that despite our bodies being, according to nature "old enough to seed/bleed, old enough to breed" at different stages and at varying ages, each nation puts a social maturity cap on sex, but even that as justification is warped as people mentally mature differently.
Mental age aside, some at my school had a full face growth and needed to shave and others looked about 12 at 14. And how many times have you seen a teenage girl , thought she was about 20 to learn she was 14? Humans never grow and change as much in their lifetime as they do between 13 and 21, and it varies massively.
How they come to the decision on what is the right age I haven't a clue, but it's definitely something that could be argued is wrong and that many cases should be dealt with case by case. The law is the law and it's not only often unfair, but often stupid and outdated.
She could well have taken him at face value that he was 18. He might even have looked older than that.
Under Florida Law it seems if she gets convicted she's going to get a minimum of 5 3/4 years, but they allow for mitigating circumstances. If her lawyer can prove the boy was the instigator and she was of the belief he was of age, she might not go to jail for this.
As for greed. How do any of us know if this trip was a success, she might have hit a loss, and can't imagine it was cheap to go there. A quick look can show she was charging the going rate in the area. Stupid of her granted, if its illegal there to whore. She might be paying off thousands in debt for all we know. Business loans, student loans, credit cards, a sinking business. Calling her greedy is as ignorant as calling her a paedo.
No one but her knows the full truth and shell need to carry this with her the rest of her days. Any new person she meets will find out about her past with a quick search online. That's a jail sentence in it's own right