On Courts Ordering Boys to Pay Child Support to Women Who Statutorily Raped Them (Part II)

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Glenn Sacks

On Courts Ordering Boys to Pay Child Support to Women Who Statutorily Raped
Them (Part II)
2008-08-22

In my recent blog post Court Rules Boy Must Pay Child Support to His Rapist,
I discussed a new Ohio case where a 15-year-old boy who was statutorily
raped is being forced to pay child support to his rapist.

There are other, similar cases, such as County of San Luis Obispo v.
Nathaniel J detailed below. In it, a rape victim must pay to finance the
public benefits the statutory rapist mother received. He was 15 and she was
34.

From Tim Murray, Esq.:

In the case of County of San Luis Obispo v. Nathaniel J., 57 Cal. Rptr. 2d
843 (Ct. App. 1996), a thirty-four-year-old woman had sex with a
fifteen-year-old boy and became pregnant. The woman was convicted of
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor -- commonly called statutory rape.

She decided to have the child, and after she gave birth to her daughter,
she received Aid for Families with Dependent Children -- and the county
sought reimbursement for the AFDC payments from the father, the 15-year-old
boy.

The court held that the boy, a statutory rape victim, was financially
liable for the child that resulted from his victimization.

This case is not alone--"Two state supreme courts and several state
appellate courts have ruled that male statutory rape victims can be
financially liable for supporting a child resulting from their criminal
victimization." Source: R. Jones, ARTICLE: INEQUALITY FROM GENDER-NEUTRAL
LAWS: WHY MUST MALE VICTIMS OF STATUTORY RAPE PAY CHILD SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN
RESULTING FROM THEIR VICTIMIZATION? 36 Ga. L. Rev. 411 (2002).