When the police came and accused me of statutory r**e I couldn't figure out what they were talking about. The name and age didn't make sense, I hadn't talked to anyone with that name nor had I talked or been with anyone in the ninth grade. But I had, the girl from the ballpark had lied, amount her name and her age. Her friends had told on her about leaving with me and I drove a zooped up Road Runner. I wasn't hard to find.
Ignorance is no excuse, I got seven years. I was released after four years for good behavior, but the record has never gone away. My college education was washed away, I worked labor because I could not get a license in any trade. I married much too old to a woman passed her fertility so I never had children. The young woman's apology years after I was out didn't really help. I do believe she never initiated the conversation with her parents, tat was her friends.
Maybe she had to figure it out, but I doubt it. She didn't and doesn't have remorse and I am convinced I was that afternoon's target for her. She was not new to any of it.
Don't believe what you hear, that is what I learned. Liars are good at it.


