Sexual Assault Inappropriate Behavior: Teen and Older Man Online Interaction

[Lola234]

Hi, I want to know your opinion on this. It's related to someone I know and I want to help them.
One person I know (I won't say their true name for their privacy), let's call her Mary, met a 60-years old man on internet, in support group, when she was only 15. He offered her support and comfort while promising he would never do anything sexual to her.
However, in time, he started to have sexually explicit conversations with Mary. He told her how he's attracted to her, how he loves her more than anything, asked her questions about masturbation and said other stuff. I think this is really disgusting, he was an old man and Mary was just a teenager.
He was very kind to her and helped her a lot with her problems, but he also had sexually explicit conversations. Mary was convinced he loves her so she didn't do anything against it.
But that man was from country where the age of consent is 16. He knew it very well. According to law in his country, he was sexually abusing her the whole time. However, Mary was from another country where the age of consent is 15, so in her country, it wouldn't be a crime.
Mary is no longer in contact with this person and she's safe now, just for information.
I want to know your opinions on this. I myself think that regardless of specific laws, it was highly unhealthy and inappropriate relationship...

 

[Friday]

I’ve found using the “bank robbery analogy” the most effective in -record screeeeech- challenging the “my fault” business.

It doesn’t matter how tempting a target a bank is.

It doesn’t matter how lax its security, how near it is to freeways/ports/airports/borders, or how much untraceable money/jewels/cryptokeys it’s got, etc.

In order for a bank to be robbed? A bank robber has to actively & actually rob it.

The bank robber? Is NOT let go by police/courts because the robber says the bank was begging for it. The person DOING the assault, is the person to blame.