COPARTNERS IN THE OFFENSE: HETEROSEXUAL OFFENSES VS. MINORS
The eighteen-year-old defendant and three friends took a fourteen-year-old girl out in a car and got her drunk. Two of them had coitus with her.
A nineteen-year-old male, married and separated from his wife, was involved in a party with three other males, two aged seventeen and one nineteen, which progressed from the home of one to the apartment of another. Two of the males had coitus with a fifteen-year-old girl who was included, and to whom they had furnished whiskey.
3 and 4. These two offenses deal with the same event as reported by two of the participants. One offender was nineteen, married and separated, the other eighteen and single. The two of them, accompanied by six other male friends, picked up two girls, aged sixteen and twenty-two, at a drive-in restaurant and took them for a “joy ride.” The older girl insisted shortly on being let out in spite of her friend’s attempts to persuade her to stay. The car was then driven to a field where four of the males had coitus with the sixteen-year-old and then took her home. The eighteen-year-old male offender denied having coitus, but pleaded guilty to statutory rape in order to avoid charges of kidnapping and rape. Both males claimed no force was used and that the sixteen-year-old girl was willing, but since the older girl who had left the party called the police, the sixteen-year-old girl was pushed into bringing charges
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