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mile high escapades and the age of consent?
On a commercial flight from Detroit to Florida, after the passengers had disembarked, a member of the cabin crew found evidence that two passengers had engaged in activity of a sexual nature. Collected in the row where the event took place was a condom wrapper, several Kleenex, a used condom and a blanket. The alleged act would have taken place during the cruise segment at 30,000 + altitude. The passenger manifest identifies the Male as a twenty five year old from the state of Georgia, and the Female as a 16 year old from the state of Michigan. The senior cabin attendant requested the Captain file a report with authorities, However the Captain maintains that the evidence was circumstantial at best and further that without knowledge of what state the aircraft was over during the alleged act that laws pertaining to the age of consent may not have been broken. This enraged the flight attendant who now has reported the Captains actions to the company. What say you all in regards to appropriate or inappropriate actions/decisions taken by the Captain.
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- MuttLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's a "smoking gun". If a man is holding a smoking gun and standing over the body of a dead man, you assume he is the one that killed him. But it's only circumstantial evidence, and will not hold up in a court. You will need hard evidence for this. Maybe someone else shot the dead man, and the other man fired at him to try to defend himself. But, if the bullet in the dead man can be matched to the gun the other man is holding, and he has GSR on him, that would be very hard evidence that he is the one that shot him.
Same in this case. How do you know that sexual activity between the two actually took place? Maybe the the 25 year old masturbated under the blanket and used a condom so it wouldn't be such a mess. Maybe the 16 year old changed seats with a 21 year old female that was traveling with the 25 year old male.
Too many "what if's" to conclusively prove that the 25 year old had sex with the 16 year old. I side with the Captain in this case.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
HAHA well I guess it would depend on what state you were flying over for the age of consent, generally it's 16. The captain was right to stay out of this, especially because it was consensual and probably legal sex.
For example in Mich, the age of consent is 16 with no age cap for their partner as long as it's not a teacher or coach, basically anybody in a professional school capacity would have to wait until she was 18, anyone else could have at it.
Daring lads huh? I thought everyone did it in the bathroom, they didn't right in the seats haha.