sentences:  Sex with young adolescents aged 12–13, although under the age of statutory rape, were then also prosecutable only by parents (Art.225), while sex with those younger than 12 was prosecuted by the state based on the legal definition of a child in the Code of Minors.As an exception, the state could prosecute the offender when the minor was at any age below 18 but only when the family of the minor was so poor that they couldn't afford a lawsuit, or when the offender was the father, mother, stepfather, stepmother or legal guardian of the minor (Penal Code, ).