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Statutory rape in Mississippi is a strict liability crime.  Intent (the defendant’s state of mind) is not an element of the crime and does not need to be proved in order to convict.  All the state has to prove is the defendant’s age, the victim’s age, and that sexual intercourse took place.  That you thought the…