Why do you think "the boy was acquitted on charges of sexual assault" in the case involving the St. Paul fifteen-year-old girl (page 255)? Explain. (Do not search for any reports: just approach this based on the few details we have been given.)

Like this alcohol-related case, I also found cases where sober girls or young women seemingly consented, but actually didn't want to have sex. The case at St. Paul of a fifteen-year-old girl who went along with sex with an eighteen-year-old boy because she was afraid, as she said later at the trial. In this case, consent is colored by the significant fact that she was under the age of legal con- sent while the boy was of age. But, at the trial, the issue became not her age, but whether or not she resisted. She said she didn't resist, although she was crying (which should have been a sign to the boy that she didn't want sex), because she was scared. The boy was acquitted on charges of sexual assault, even though, at one time, this would have been considered statutory rape