Question about my past

[ChevySSP]

I must say that a 16 yo getting jiggy with a 12 year old is NOT cool.

Don't be a police officer. Out of respect for the profession don't even try.

[sgtbear111]

Out here:

State of Washington
RCW 9A.44.076
Rape of a child in the second degree.

(1) A person is guilty of rape of a child in the second degree when the person has sexual intercourse with another who is at least twelve years old but less than fourteen years old and not married to the perpetrator and the perpetrator is at least thirty-six months older than the victim.
(2) Rape of a child in the second degree is a class A felony.

Class A felony - means up to life imprisonment.
Registration - as a sex offender
9A.44.076 can be prosecuted up to victim's 28th birthday.

Most states are similar, based on 'model statutes'.
You decide when you need a lawyer..................

[viperphi]

You can judge all you want. I feel that I deserve it. I know nothing will replace the realization when having a child of my own, but with a sister of my own who is now around that age, I feel that I grasp much more of the reality.

Its so hard these days to realize people change. I'm guilty of being skeptical also, but I really just look at myself and know that I have changed.

You deserve it? I love entitled people.

[Adrenolize]

Look at it from the agencies point of view:

1) you are a representative the city/county/state

2) how are you expected to enforce the laws that you so easily broke? That ain't jaywalking we are talking about here!

3) if you do get on somewhere, you are a defense lawyers wet dream. You would be presented as morally compromised to any jury/ judge. It would be way to easy to question anything else you did!

4) there would be the chance that the victim (and that is what she was) came forward down the road and embarrass the department and fellow officers.

I believe all people can change. I even believe you when you say you are sorry. Last, I believe you don't have a chance for the above reasons and a ton more.

[ChaosXIW]

I've got a friend I went to college with. He was a drug dealer in Boston for a couple years. He cleaned up his act and got into ministry. He's now a pastor and has been clean for a decade. Yes, I believe people can change, but unfortunately, serious mistakes in the past can haunt you. He doesn't want to be a cop, but I can tell you despite the fact that he has changed so dramatically, he could never be a cop if he wanted to because of his past. The reality is you had a physical relationship with a child. I doubt there will be any explaining of that one. Only way you'll know is if you ask a background investigator. I would not be jumping at your app though...