Fenris Frost said:
You people are utterly wrong about this, and I speak from experience. I was abused by a boy who was eleven at the time, myself a couple of years younger and I can tell you it has scarred me for life. The memories of the incident will stay with me forever, It was accompanied by threats, violence and force over several months. For you to dismiss it as 'playng doctor' only demonstrates your ignorance. It is deeply offensive to see you all act so dismissively without any of the facts and personally, I think she deserves to be punished. If you think her crying is some tragedy, you have no idea of the impact this episode could have on the boy. Don't presume to know the lasting effect because I assure you, it has the potential to be very damaging. To a certain extent I would say that what happened to me will hurt me for the rest of my life.
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Oh and as a final note te whole thing was sustained by severe threats to keep quiet and to allow it to continue. Because he was fully aware of what he was doing. As I imagine this girl was. This whole thread has been triggering not because of the original content but because of the responses that this girl is somehow blameless. Be glad it never happened to you, and don't dismiss someone else's experience because you assume all children are innocent. Following my own experience I tried to kill myself. An experience that was not unique but which has repeated itself along with other long term psychological problems. I saw someone related to that time (but not the abuser himself) and it gave me a panic attack. I couldn't leave the house for days after.
Nice to know that every case is just like yours, and not like the majority of cases where there is no lasting trauma.
My first (french) kiss was with a girl several years older than me (about 5 and 8 years old, me and her), and I'm not bothered by it in the slightest. I also fooled around with a neighbor and a relative, including getting a blowjob, seriously, at probably 6 years old. And all of us grew out of it pretty damn normally.
Is there evidence of threats or force or violence here? Maybe, maybe not. Is there evidence of lasting damage to the boy? There doesn't appear to be, though getting the police involved is DEFINITELY going to harm him worse than just keeping it among neighborhood adults.
It could very well be (and, statistically-speaking, probably was) just playing doctor, which by itself is part of normal development of kids.
Don't be hypocritical by saying that we don't know how the kid feels and then immediately assert that he must feel like you do. He could end up lamenting that she got caught for all we know.
Without evidence of force/coercion, it's wrong to assume that there was either.