Learning about exploitation from teacher/student sex part 2

When boyfriends/husbands are convicted of rape, stalking, or kidnapping, there were no real relationships, but adult intimate sexual exploitation. Simply victims and victimizers. Encounters which lead to criminal charges are no more "relationships" than the teacher and the 17 year old student or the pedophile and the 7 year old boy. If a 20 year marriage ends in rape charges and a rape conviction against the husband, there was no romance, but two decades of grooming, manipulation, deceit, and intimate sexual exploitation. Adult, married status does not change this fact in the least.

When sexual assault charges occur, there is a victim and a perp. Any "relationship" the parties had pre-assault was simply an opportunity for the offender to groom, then violate his victim. Any sex the couple had before the criminal act was exploitative. Whether it's a teacher and a student, a doctor and a patient, or "partners" and spouses, the offender scouted out, obtained access to, groomed, then violated his victim(s). Criminal charges are only brought to court when they are founded.

When a conviction is obtained, the courts are saying that there was a sexual victim and a sexual offender. It doesn't matter whether it's the teacher and 17 year old student, the boss and the employee, or even the husband and the wife. It matters to the courts that a law was broken, that the victim needed justice, and that society needs to be protected from that person.

When a teacher has illegal sex with a student, it doesn't matter whether a student is under 18 or over 18, whether the student was in "love" or not when charges are filed. When a therapist has sex with a patient, or a prison guard has sex with an inmate, it doesn't matter to the law what "consent" if any the victim and perp had before the sexual assault charges. It only matters within the court system that a sex offense occured, and how to punish the perp and heal the victim.

A predatory teacher and a predatory husband is subject to the same SO listing and same SO restrictions if they occur in the same jurisdictions. They may be in the same SO groups and have the same restrictions on the Internet and contact with kids. In Michigan, they will be charged with the same crime - CSC 3. This is why status before victimization does not matter.