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Originally Posted by FireFly
One is more mentally equipped to handle it. The other will likely be scarred for life and the action will have an adverse affect on them growing to their potential.
*Edited to add*
IMO, the rape of a child may very well deprive that child of their life. They certainly won't lead the life they might have otherwise.
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That's rather presumptuous. One of my ex-girlfriends was sexually abused as a child by her uncle (not raped however), but now she's a perfectly well-adjusted adult.
Anytime I hear someone say that crimes committed against children are worse than the same crimes committed against adult victims, I roll my eyes and imagine Maude Flanders screaming, "Won't someone please think of the children!!!11" If someone walks into the palliative care unit at Foothills Hospital and smothers all the patients there with a pillow, is that a lesser crime than murdering everyone in the physiotherapy and rehab wing? Is killing all the newborns in the nursery worse?