Article: Age of consent law and the making of modern childhood in New York City, 1886-1921.

On the morning of January 4th, 1916, Rosa Colletti, a fifteen year old factory operative, and eighteen year old Anna Belsito, Colletti's friend and co-worker, seeking to escape beatings at the hands of their mothers, ran away their parents' homes in the Bronx. Two nights later, as the young women ate dinner in a restaurant, they were approached by twenty year old Louis Morelli. Morelli talked with them for a while, and then took them to his furnished room. Later that evening, he told Anna to leave but invited Rosa to stay. Rosa and Morelli then had sexual intercourse. Some time after that Morelli's roommate, James Torcello, arrived home and joined Rosa and Morelli in the ...

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