A 14-year-old boy in Texas could be labeled a sex offender after he was arrested for having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend.
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The 7th-grader faces charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, the Houston Chronicle reports. If he is convicted the state would register him as a sex offender.
The teen’s mother said the sex was “consensual and he loved her,” the Chronicle reports.
Texas has what is known as the “Romeo and Juliet” law, which allows an underage person to have consensual sex with someone aged three years apart. But this does not apply to someone who is younger than 14-years-old.
A public defender told the Chronicle that most judges have has similar cases but “have generally not forced the suspect to register as a sex offender, as long as both sides agree the act was consensual.”
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