EXACTLY.
Oh, except he
ASSAULTED (not hit on)
a !4-YEAR-OLD (not 16)
when he was in his THIRTIES (not 20s).
Let's try to be factual, instead of minimizing pedophilia and sexual assault.
Who are you to judge a culture that isn't yours? It was the South in a different, vanished time. The girl was of marrying age and apparently the girl's parents knew about the courting.
I didn't know you were such a cultural bigot, Lotus. I thought all cultures are co-equal?