Girl Lies About Her Age and a Boy Will Pay The Price

By: Laura Meyers

In Indiana, a 19-year-old college student met a 17-year-old girl on a dating app. They got together. They hooked up. Turns out she’s actually 14. Now, he is serving 90 days in jail, sentenced to 25 years on the Sex Offender Registry, is forbidden from living in a household with internet access and smart phones (which will most likely require him to drop his computer science degree), and is prohibited from speaking to anyone under the age of 17 besides his brothers.

Because that’s fair.

The student, Zach Anderson, and the girl both admit that the sex was consensual.

The only reason authorities became involved is because the girl suffers from epilepsy, and when she was late coming home, her mom called the police for help.

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The mother of the girl said in an interview that Anderson, “didn’t do anything my daughter didn’t do.”

Everyone involved is fine and dandy. Except the judge; who is out to make a morally motivated statement about this generation’s hookup culture.

The Berrien County District Court Judge, Dennis Wiley, told Anderson, “You went online, to use a fisherman’s expression, trolling for women to meet and have sex with. That seems to be part of our culture now: meet, hook up, have sex, sayonara. Totally inappropriate behavior. There is no excuse for this whatsoever.”

This is not the first time the self-righteous judge acted vigilantly instead of objectively. In 2012, Wiley was publicly censured after he threw a woman in jail for 10 days because she muttered a cuss word in the clerk’s office while paying a traffic ticket.

Douchebag.

Anderson’s parents asked the judge to drop the case, and of course he refused.

For now, Anderson and his defense lawyer plan on appealing the sentence because Michigan has a leniency provision for first-time offenders under age 21 that keeps them off the registry.

But when the sentence was ordered, the prosecutor reminded the judge that he had denied leniency in similar cases twice before, and to Scott Grabel, the defense lawyer, was not seen as neutral.

“He did us a favor,” says Grabel, “because now we have a basis to withdraw the plea.”

But after everything, the poor kid is still stuck with 90 days in jail, no internet, no phone, is forbidden from talking to kids under the age of 17 other than his brothers, and the potential sentence on 25 years on the Sex Offender Registry.

Don’t believe everything you read on dating apps, kiddos.