Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4839682-20130126013341/@comment-201.230.106.110-20130211183454

Utter solitude wrote: '''Alright, I looked it up. The age of consent in Oregon is 18 (assuming Henry was conceived there; we know Emma and Neal moved around a lot) with a three year rule. That means, since Emma was likely 17 at the time of conception, if Neal was older than 20, he would be charged with "sexual abuse". NOT "rape". Good try, though. :)''' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#Oregon

Oh for the love of God... I'll try to explain it to you so you don't make this same mistake again, Sexual abuse is kind of a general term, it comprises different types of actions towards an unwilling or illegal subject. One of this is rape which is well the act itself. I could explain this better but I don't want to make people uncomfortable here by using the terms I'd have to.

And actually what happened here has a name in the legal system which is STATUTORY RAPE, it's a crime for which you can spend around 10 years in prison and pay thousands of dollars in fines.

By the way Neal was 24, way over the 3 years for the Romeo and Juliet clauses to apply.

On a side note, it did happen in Oregon, when they changed locations they mentioned it at the bottom of the screen, at the beginning of the episode they put Portland, Oregon, when they showed August and Neal it said Vancouver, Canada and when Emma received the keys it said Phoenix, Arizona.

Good try though :)