July 17,2007
Calling the case “absurd”, The Utah Supreme Court tossed out a case against a 13-year-old girl, who was found guilty of sexual abuse after engaging in consensual sex with a 12-year-old boy. The girl became pregnant afterwards.

In 2004, the Weber County girl pleaded guilty to what is the equivalent of a second-degree felony for an adult. Judge J. Mark Andrus ordered her to obey her parents, provide a DNA sample and pay the processing fee, and write an essay about the effect of her actions on her newborn.

The Supreme Court decided that authorities had no power to
prosecute the youngsters as ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators’ over the same “reckless act.” They also stated that although the punishment was “relatively light,” that “no amount of judicial
lenity to compensate for the absurd application of the law changes the fact that the application of the law was absurd to
begin with. “