State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. White

I disagree with the majority and, therefore, dissent.

Numerous state courts have been confronted with the task of interpreting statutes which apply to individuals of a designated age “or younger.” In Knott v. Rawlings, 250 Iowa 892, 96 NW2d 900 (1959), the defendant was charged with committing lascivious acts with a child who was sixteen years, six months and three days old. The relevant statute prohibited such acts in the presence or with the body “of a child of the age of sixteen years, or under.” Knott v. Rawlings, supra, 96 NW2d at 900. In response to the argument that a child who is…