Blurred Boundaries

In the last couple of days I have spoken to many people with various different opinions on the Kaitlyn Hunt case.  Coming into this case, my first thought was that this young girl's life was ruined, as it may very well be.  If she is convicted she will forever be labeled as a sexual predator, one the most heinous and looked down upon crimes in our society. She will never be able to go to her kids school.  Her future children are the ones that pay the ultimate sacrifice. The Kaitlyn Hunt's of our society simply do not belong on the sex offender registry.  There is no dispute, however, that she did break the law.
In looking into this I noticed that this in not the first time that this same exact situation has happened.  So how do we separate the criminals from the kids that make mistakes??  While the law was broken and I am not arguing that in any way, I do believe that there needs to be some kind of boundary that lets us protect our children.  This is not about sexual orientation.  This is about our kids being expected to act like adults yet putting them with children.  It just doesn't make sense.
An eighteen year old in our country is considered an 'adult'.  They can vote and be sent off to war.  But a vast majority of eighteen year olds are still in high school.  How can we expect to put these kids together, same buildings and even classrooms sometimes, and expect them to not socialize and mingle with younger students?  When I was eighteen, there was no way anyone was telling me to stay away from someone that I believed I was in love with.  At eighteen, most people don't have the life experience or the willpower that are needed to control our emotions.  I don't think that an eighteen year old high school student who falls for someone younger is a danger to society.  They shouldn't have to pay for it with their lives.  And isn't that what we are doing here?  If Kaitlyn is found guilty it IS her life...and future generations that are ruined.  Does that sound fair???
Adultery happens every day in our society...they aren't breaking the law!!!  Millions of married men and women have affairs with co workers in this country every day.  They spend a majority of their time together and boundaries blur...feelings are confused.  But we don't prosecute them and they are adults.  Where do we draw the line?  
The only solution that I could come up with  is to raise the legal age to nineteen. You don't walk into many high schools and find nineteen year old students.  They could give a maximum age for high school students.  If someone over the age of eighteen does not complete high school and wants to, we have GED classes..  Why are we putting adults in social circles with kids?  We need to put a stop to this.  We may not be able to control our kids actions or feelings but why can't we control who they are forced  to be in contact with?  Why are we putting these kids together in a way that could be illegal?  Its doomed for failure.
I am including the link for the US Justice Department.  You can also contact your stare legislature. We do need laws but we need the right laws.  We need to make sure our kids are safe, not only from sexual predators but also from the traps set up against them in our society.

  http://www.nij.gov/about/contact.htm

Being that this is not the case, we have got to find a way to know the difference between people who are a real danger to society from kids that experiment in natural ways.  Below is a link to a petition asking for them to be clearly separated from each other.  Please take a moment to sign for our kids sake.  Thank you.

http://www.change.org/petitions/usdoj-color-code-the-sex-offender-registry 

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/45597467.html?lc=Smart