Derec
Contributor
Underage marriage has nothing to do with the "with consent" clause. It is there to differentiate what probably happened here, consensual sex with somebody just under the legal line and the more serious crime of rape that the woman is alleging 10 years after the fact.Louisiana allows child marriage, and the exception refers to spouses.
Again, this has nothing to do with marriage.Even you can understand the difference between two kids who get married and a 30 year old man who offers a 16 year old a ride home and instead takes her to his own home and rapes her.
I guess even you can understand the difference between having consensual sex with somebody below the legal line, and actually raping a person. She is alleging the latter, but there is no evidence for it, so you cannot assume it happened the way she is alleging.