Roman Polanski

That's because most people are ignorant or stupid about these things and don't realize a child is a prepubescent and pedophilia involves prepubescents, so they use the word wrongly.

They also have no sense of the difference between a child and an adult and what those two things mean in the real world and what those two words mean in a courtroom, which is often considerably different.

However to the best of my knowledge even if the average 13 year old, even 12 for many females, is a post pubescent age, generally they are considered a child up to and including the age of 13, at least in the USA, even if at 13 most people are past pubescence.

That's also why I think they use a "13 year old" and not a 15 or 16 year old on "To Catch a Predator" because then it wouldn't be what they are trying to nail guys for and use the youngest looking woman they can find who would be legal to be involved in such a setup, which would be 18, training them to act childlike who will look 13 after dressing them up and have them stand 25 feet away. They would likely be severely challenged to find an adult that looks 7 or 8 so 13 being the oldest they can pretend to go and 18 being the youngest they can use to play the part is the most suitable gap to serve their agenda.

That's why until recently 14 was legal and considered acceptable in the state of Hawaii. 16 is also legal and considered a young adult or similar term in most states in the USA for sexual activity even though it's a "minor" for other activities and under 18.

This probably wouldn't even be a statutory rape case before the invention of "adolescence" or at least 150 or 200 years ago. It would either be the rape of a "woman" or it wouldn't be.