got it bad, so bad

Pamela Turner, age 27, has just been sentenced to 270 days in jail for having sex with one of her 13 year-old students, a crime which, if the genders were reversed would probably bring ten to fifteen years of hard time for a male teacher. The male jury members apparently felt that sex with Ms. Rogers, an extremely hot little blonde, was not that bad as they remember at that age it would have been an ultimate fantasy and rite of passage for them. The local court spokesman indicated that the decision to exchange a plea of guilty for a very lenient sentence was the best thing for the "victim" as he would not have to testify in open court about the biggest score of his young life.

Seems to me if sex between a 27 year-old and a 13 year-old is the stuff of such fantasy, and is so without harmful effects as to engender any more than a slap on the wrist, they should have just let the kid keep fucking the kinky little blonde hottie. Why did they even prosecute this in the first place?