consent.

Simple math.

It can be 3 years and 1 day.

Lets say today is someone's birthday and that someone turned 15. Lets say another person turned 18 years old yesterday.
So that's one year and 1 day difference between these two people. So what are you talking about?

18 years old but not yet 19 years old.

If someone is celebrating her 15th birthday, then a person who is 3 years and 1 day older, celebrated his 18th birthday one day earlier.

even though person A would be loosely said to be 18 now, and person B would be loosely said to be 15 now.

That appears to be 3 year difference, which should qualify for statutory rape (if barely).

This exchange cracked me up.

This is true in fact and mathematically speaking.

Apparently the CT law must have some its own special math.

Fortunately, someone else was able to provide a better answer.

Curious about this. She's a minor.

difference, but I haven't seen the issue addressed anywhere and I was wondering if anyone else had.

The law seems clear that if he is 3+ years older then he'd be guilty of at least statutory rape.

Anything more than exactly 3 years would be more than 3 years. So 3 years and 1 day is more than 3 years.

and person B was born on January 2, 2005, then person A is three years and 1 day older. Even though, roughly speaking, person A is 13 and person B is 10.

Are you saying the law isn't mathematically precise?

I don't know their exact birthdays, but she could have been 15 years and 1 months and he could have been 18 years and 2 months (for example). Which would make their age difference 3 years and 1 month (which is more than 3 years).

by the normal calendar.

You acknowledge that there could be LESS than 3 years between them but insist there couldn't be more than three years.

Why? Does the law use some special calendar?

If Person A is 3.5 years old, we'd say he was '3', right? So if Person B is born when A is 3.5, we'd call their ages 3 and 0. One year later, Person A will be 4.5 (i.e., '4') and B will be 1. Three years different in typical useage, but really more than three on the dot.

The state couldn't charge him with those if they were not alleging the 15 year old didn't consent.

The so-called "romeo and Juliet" exemption to statutory rape law in NH is as long as one party is older than 13, the second party can be up to 5 years older.

If this occurred at the school, then NH law would apply. This would make consent relevant to the defense's case.


18-15=3 < 5 therefore, not illegal (if consentual)

This is what I was hoping for and look how many posts it took to get a sensible answer.

Somehow, I saw CT in some article or other and it stuck in my mind. Incorrectly.