17 Is An Adult In Texas, But Only When It Comes to Sex and Crime?
The definition of “Age of Consent” in Texas is when a person may legally consent to engage in sexual activity with another person. Texas Penal Code states that once a person becomes 17 years of age they are capable to give consent for sexual activity with another person.
17 is also the age that individuals are automatically charged as an adult for committing a crime.
Texas is one of only three states to automatically treat 17-year-olds as adults when they are arrested
But an individual is not considered legally an adult until they are 18 for other legal reasons, like the freedom to move out of their family home. To legally move out before without a parent s permission requires legal emancipation. Why is there this discrepancy?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Supports Texas Election Audit
You can listen to the full interview with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton above.
Earlier this week Republican State Representative Steve Toth announced that he would file legislation that would require Texas Governor Greg Abbott along with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan to hire an outside expert to conduct what is called a forensic audit of counties with populations greater than 415,000.
The legislation that Toth has filed would order an audit of each precinct in the large counties. Texas leadership would have to submit a report next year outlining any type of balloting or counting process.
He told KPRC-TV:
“There will be no mask mandate imposed, and the reasons for that are very clear, there are so many people who have immunities to COVID, whether it be through the vaccination, whether it be through their own exposure and their recovery from it, which would be acquired immunity.”
It would be “inappropriate to require people who already have immunity to wear a mask,” Abbott said.
In my opinion, this doesn t make any sense.
If you notice that the cases are going up, shouldn t you want your state to take precautionary measures to further stop the spread?
According to The Bell County Health District, as of yesterday, here in Central Texas there are 512 active cases. Over the weekend there were almost 400 new cases.
Ok, Who Left Their Hand Grenade at West Temple Community Park?
You know what s cool? Finding a weirdly shaped rock or a pretty flower at the park. Know what s not cool? Finding a freakin hand grenade.
Not only did someone find one at a park in Temple Wednesday, but they picked it up and took it home with them.
Yeesh.
Alejandra Arreguin with the Temple Police Department reports that officers responded to a call in the 7700 block of Honeysuckle Drive. The caller told police they found a grenade at a West Temple Community Park, 8420 W Adams Ave. They decided to take it home with them before calling authorities, and police determined that it was the real deal.
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