If one personis under 19 here, but over 16,. and the other is over 19, it's statutory rape, and can result (at least in the past) in a long time, or even life, on a sex-offender registry.i'm not sure what the law is exactly here, don't care. but i know how the police & the courts deal with it. if the female involved is 16 or older & it is consensual (regardless of the legal age), nothing is going to happen unless mom or dad walks in on the couple in the act. no witness, no prosecution unless it is forcible rape. face it folks, when they get a drivers license all bets are off.
And if you serve time on that beef, you go into the joint as a 'sex-offender', with all the bells and whistles, unless someone stops their presumtions long enough to hear details. But even then...
The idea was that, yeah, teens are going to have sex, that's a given, buy it shouldn't be a matter of opportunism or predatory behavior by someone twice their age.